It could be argued that almost every single one of our eleven positions could be improved on..
GK - Onana - calamity keeper
RB - AWB - just not good enough unless chasing his own mistake
CB - Varane - decent but leaving and was also injury prone
CB - Martinez - probably one of our best players but is he on a downward spiral of injuries now?
LB - Shaw - A bonafide crock in Ten Hags own words
CM - Mainoo. Promising but perhaps played too much for the age he is.
CM - Casemiro. Had a shocking drop in quality and may be leaving anyway.
AM - Bruno. Our best player but for every two good things he does he loses the ball and has a shocking attitude.
LW - Rashford - Is his head elsewhere? Was our best player for a while in Ole’s time but looks past his best. Probably needs a move for his own sake.
Striker - Hojlund - Shown flashes of being decent but very raw.
RW - Garnacho. One of the safer positions as he’s done well and is a promising talent.
Of all the above positions I’m being somewhat jokey OTT in their descriptions but which positions would people say need fixing in terms of priority?
Which position is a priority to fix?
posted on 22/6/24
I really hope we don't waste 35m on this Zirkzee guy. His goal record is really poor and even Weghorst is preferred to him off the bench for the Dutch which says it all.
ETH should get absolutely no say whatsoever on transfers going forwards and if he doesn't like that he shouldn't sign his new deal.
posted on 22/6/24
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
Ah, so your angle on recruitment is a subset of your ETA-out stance?!
Is it fair to say that most of the Arsenal PL buys have been at the later stage of squad building - first getting a more coherent, competitive squad and then setting sights on challenging for titles? I can't think of many PL or experienced players bought between Arteta's appointment and the summer of 2022.
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Not to mention the five players listed cost Arsenal £250m plus.
posted on 22/6/24
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
I really hope we don't waste 35m on this Zirkzee guy. His goal record is really poor and even Weghorst is preferred to him off the bench for the Dutch which says it all.
ETH should get absolutely no say whatsoever on transfers going forwards and if he doesn't like that he shouldn't sign his new deal.
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Doesn't seem like Ten Hag made the decision here. People seeing Dutch and think this. Anything other than both being Dutch actually making this a Ten Hag signing?
And Weghorst has always been a sort of go to target man for the Dutch (either starts or off the bench). He reminds me of a few strikers who do well for country but aren't much at club level (you have Milan Barons and that Northern Ireland Striker a few years ago).
He's young, good price range, a different set of skills and scored more this season than Weghorst did at United.
posted on 22/6/24
comment by CurrentlyInPoland (U11181)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
I really hope we don't waste 35m on this Zirkzee guy. His goal record is really poor and even Weghorst is preferred to him off the bench for the Dutch which says it all.
ETH should get absolutely no say whatsoever on transfers going forwards and if he doesn't like that he shouldn't sign his new deal.
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Doesn't seem like Ten Hag made the decision here. People seeing Dutch and think this. Anything other than both being Dutch actually making this a Ten Hag signing?
And Weghorst has always been a sort of go to target man for the Dutch (either starts or off the bench). He reminds me of a few strikers who do well for country but aren't much at club level (you have Milan Barons and that Northern Ireland Striker a few years ago).
He's young, good price range, a different set of skills and scored more this season than Weghorst did at United.
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He's not only Dutch but also a former Bayern reserves player. ETH managed the Bayern reserves when Pep was there as head coach didn't he?
I think it's incredibly likely this is a ETH led target. I hope it falls through personally.
posted on 22/6/24
We finished bottom half of the PL for goals scored and some of our fans are getting excited about somebody who averages 1 in 4.5 games for his current club.
We are sleep walking into becoming an absolute nothing club. We need far better players than him to close the gap on the big clubs.
Just been reading that he only made the Dutch Euro squad because of a few late injuries too. He wasn't expected to be called up at all.
Have higher standards reds.
posted on 22/6/24
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 55 minutes ago
comment by CurrentlyInPoland (U11181)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
I really hope we don't waste 35m on this Zirkzee guy. His goal record is really poor and even Weghorst is preferred to him off the bench for the Dutch which says it all.
ETH should get absolutely no say whatsoever on transfers going forwards and if he doesn't like that he shouldn't sign his new deal.
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Doesn't seem like Ten Hag made the decision here. People seeing Dutch and think this. Anything other than both being Dutch actually making this a Ten Hag signing?
And Weghorst has always been a sort of go to target man for the Dutch (either starts or off the bench). He reminds me of a few strikers who do well for country but aren't much at club level (you have Milan Barons and that Northern Ireland Striker a few years ago).
He's young, good price range, a different set of skills and scored more this season than Weghorst did at United.
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He's not only Dutch but also a former Bayern reserves player. ETH managed the Bayern reserves when Pep was there as head coach didn't he?
I think it's incredibly likely this is a ETH led target. I hope it falls through personally.
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Ten Hag left Bayern in 2015.
Facking hell, talk about trying to engineer a narrative
posted on 22/6/24
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 55 minutes ago
comment by CurrentlyInPoland (U11181)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
I really hope we don't waste 35m on this Zirkzee guy. His goal record is really poor and even Weghorst is preferred to him off the bench for the Dutch which says it all.
ETH should get absolutely no say whatsoever on transfers going forwards and if he doesn't like that he shouldn't sign his new deal.
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Doesn't seem like Ten Hag made the decision here. People seeing Dutch and think this. Anything other than both being Dutch actually making this a Ten Hag signing?
And Weghorst has always been a sort of go to target man for the Dutch (either starts or off the bench). He reminds me of a few strikers who do well for country but aren't much at club level (you have Milan Barons and that Northern Ireland Striker a few years ago).
He's young, good price range, a different set of skills and scored more this season than Weghorst did at United.
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He's not only Dutch but also a former Bayern reserves player. ETH managed the Bayern reserves when Pep was there as head coach didn't he?
I think it's incredibly likely this is a ETH led target. I hope it falls through personally.
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Ten Hag left Bayern in 2015.
Facking hell, talk about trying to engineer a narrative
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posted on 22/6/24
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 20 minutes ago
Starting CB, starting DM, backup/rotation striker are all required.
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And a left back
Anything else is a bonus
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Yeah a LB is absolutely essential imo. In terms of players moving on, Shaw really should be towards or at the very top of the list, he's totally unreliable. And Malacia passed away over a year ago
posted on 22/6/24
CB, CM, CF & FB (LB ideally) I think are absolutely essential. If we don't address each of those positions adequately then we'll have problems next season.
In reality we need two CB's given that we needed another one last season and our best one has left the club already. We probably also need two CM's given Amrabat will be let go, and one or both of Casemiro and Eriksen will be gone as well. That really only leaves us with one proper CM player in Mainoo.
And we also need another wide attacker. Sancho & Greenwood will be gone one way or another, Antony isn't good enough and that leaves two kids (Amad & Garnacho) and an out of sorts Rashford. Someone who can play on both sides of the pitch would be very useful (Nico Williams?).
posted on 22/6/24
Isn't Williams on incredibly high wages because Bilbao don't spend any (or very little) money on transfers.