No, but after all the trophies he has won with City he might be willing to step down a level in order to get back into the Brazil team (WC year). He would waltz into our starting 11 - and then probably get injured.
Amusingly, due to past discussion, he has missed more games due to injury/sickness than Gündogan the past 5 seasons. Only 21 though.
It’s not like we’re gonna be a player in CL Think it’s all about playing time and Brazil. Him being pivotal for City down the stretch worries me more than no CL and seems like he’s above Grealish(City have to keep) and Mahrez/Sterling currently Wouldn’t be surprised if he was convinced to stay which would suck
I know there’s some physical questions on him but honestly feels like we need at least 2 maybe more CMs if Xhaka leaves and he seems decent on the ball (from what I’ve read so far).
normally Arsenal are linked with a million people but outside of Jesus and Tielemans I have no idea who else on the list at ST and CM. other than Lewandowski of course who is all but signed already.
Not sure why but Jesus wasn’t at the parade and when they introduced the whole squad, he and Raz weren’t there
Very. They seemed to think Sterling was there and introduced him but he didn’t come out. Never even said Jesus
Tap-in merchant tweeted earlier today he told City he wants to leave Hopefully he’s not high up on Real’s list after missing out on Mbappe. Not sure there’s too many fits/teams that can afford him.
A lot of Arsenal news this morning. Charles Watts claims Osimhen’s agent is in London. Orny reported us looking at 1/2 strikers like Tammy, Dcl, Scamacca and someone like Hlozek or Gakpo as the second striker signing Also looking at a #8 (Tielemens?) and a left center back to deputized Gabriel (Mari backup). Says we went after Schlotterback before he signed for Dortmund. all in all, shows ambition but I hope we sign another midfielder in addition to a couple of strikers, a LcB and Hickey
The lcb news can’t be good for saliba right? Also saw that backup RB wasn’t a priority which frustrates because Cedric
if we are able to somehow get osimhen and jesus this summer, then baby we got a stew going of course we’re looking for a lcb smh. if we sell saliba for anything less than €70-80mm, that would be extremely disappointing imo
so if gabriel gets hurt, we’d rather have the mari replacement fill in for him instead of saliba? given what we’d likely have spend for a new cb with our other deficiencies needing to be addressed, i’d be shocked if we could find someone better to play that spot than saliba imo
I like this but I’d also want to see goals scored for each combination and some other teams thrown in for comparison. Only 10 games seems like shit but I’ve no clue how Pool, City managed.
Southgate talking about giving players like Henderson a rest but he still calls in Saka and will probably play him in every match.
Yeah however they want to do it. No point in keeping him if arteta plays him as often as other players he doesn’t completely trust yet(Tavares, Pepe, Sambi). I don’t really care as long as the squad is arguably better for it. Honestly tired of hearing about Saliba, either use him or sell him.
No one and I hope someone at the club learns about sell on clauses. I don’t care if we cash in later but we need to stop getting fucked in these.
Buy Jesus, buy Tielemans, buy a LB, buy another versatile forward sell Pepe, loan Tavares, keep Saliba/Holding, keep Xhaka unless someone offers like 20 then sign another, and absolutely keep Tierney
More like they paid 50-60 + sent 4 academy players and deemed them worth the 20-30 mill. Ofcourse, Lille didn't get the whole amount since the intermediaries took a cut as well.
Lille and Napoli had a dodgy arrangement for various reasons. it’s crazy that clubs can get away with this shit, while we try to do things the right way and don’t get anywhere. ofcourse, the French cops raided the Lille headquarters around financial irregularities. https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.c...-fee-from-victor-osimhens-transfer-to-napoli/
Such a meh signing. I guess if they spend on other areas you can’t break the bank on two strikers. But hopefully the plan is to move on from him in a year or two.