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frabrizio says we’re going hard after eze. i’d love that. former hale end youth player, loves arsenal, doesn’t break the bank, and fills a role we really need (plus hopefully he and nwaneri can play some backup to odegaard as well). i’d really love to sign him, big fan.

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And now Ornstein is mentioning Eze, with the nugget that it wouldn't close the door on signing a RW as well.    Eze, $$ RW, and a 9.   That is the kind of business they should've done last summer window, or the one before or the one before that...

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On 7/1/2025 at 8:09 AM, Ted Lange said:

And now Ornstein is mentioning Eze, with the nugget that it wouldn't close the door on signing a RW as well.    Eze, $$ RW, and a 9.   That is the kind of business they should've done last summer window, or the one before or the one before that...

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Summer 21, 22, and 23 and January 23 (Trossard, Kiwior, and Jorginho) were big windows. Serious cash was splashed for a club outside the CL and massive upgrades arrived.

Last summer…. Not do much.  A dud: Calafiori showed promise when healthy, but he was rarely healthy. Merino, signed to play left eight, became more valuable as a striker because we had neglected the position. Then January was nothing. 

If club was really keeping the powder dry, they need to use it now. Striker, winger, and a defender who can get play LB (or cover those who can) are all needs, and I’d like another creative MF, too. 

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Looks like it’s Gyökeres; he’s the “win now” player at the peak of his powers vs Sesko who may have a higher ceiling in 4 years. £56m with £9-13m in performance add-ons. Leipzig reportedly want north of £80m and won’t budge. There’s also reports he wants a move to Liverpool and is willing to wait another year for them to get him.  

I also understand Arteta wanting the new striker to have a full preseason to get integrated into the side.

 

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5 minutes ago, Derka said:

he’s a ready-made, goal scoring beast, and he looked awesome against us last year. can’t wait to have him in the team.

Yup. Not to mention a smaller fee on the 9 also allows us more room to maneuver on winger and defender deals. Also, should have thought a few years ago that £56m + 9-13m would be the bargain. 

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Clive from ArsenalVision with two good points: 

1. Gyökeres wants deeply to play for Arsenal. Not just a CL club. Arsenal. Sesko? Very much seems he is willing to wait and wants another club. This matters.

2. He runs and works his ass off, and has that hunger to score goals. 

Also…  Arsenal previously signed a 27 year-old with an unconventional route to top flight football, and it worked out alright for Wrighty. 

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19 hours ago, Derka said:

 

If paying £50m for a Chelsea castoff in part causes Ethan to decide his future lies elsewhere… it will go down as one of the worst signings in club history. 

FUCK. THAT SHIT. 

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we’re not gonna let nwaneri leave. we’re gonna lock that down. he wants to be here, he just wants to play. we simply need to use him off the bench with some regularity this year. i believe that will happen.

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the only real reason i’m posting this is to say that our listed “potential backup xi” is equal to/greater than the teams that wenger was taking to the ucl knockout stages every single year when i first became a supporter. two takeaways:

1)What Arsene Wenger did here was incredible. I cannot imagine another manager taking this club to 19 straight ucl ko stages with the asinine budgets he was given to work with. incredible.

2)the pressure is really on this year. i have been openly and extremely pleased with the job arteta has done. for us to beat City 5-1, and to dominate the defending champion madrid team 5-2 with an injury crisis and merino at striker? i could never have dreamed of arsenal doing these things before arteta. not even close. those teams used to do that to us, regularly. now we’ve done it to them. it shouldn’t be glossed over or unappreciated.

and look, trophies are the ultimate goal, but finishing in the top 2 three consecutive seasons with best defense in the league and squad full of guys mostly entering (or still years away from) their primes is straight up badass. that’s on par with what sark has done at Texas, so i’ve really never understood how underwhelmed so many fans have been. this is by far the strongest the club has been during my time as a supporter.

that said, we really do need to take the final step and win something this year. we’re going to have the squad depth, we’re finally going to have the striker we’ve been missing, and we’re still going to have the best defense in england and possibly all of europe. it’s got to materialize with a trophy and a parade this year. if not, then for the first time since he took over, arteta will have his most staunch advocates (me) no longer being satisfied with clear but trophyless growth. this year has got to be the breakthrough.

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3 hours ago, Derka said:

alcaraz is easily bigger than timber lol. always kinda shocking how small soccer players are.

 

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Yeah; their weight is even shockingly less than their height compared to other sports. I guess it makes sense with as much running and sprinting as is required at the top level. 

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