Arteta’s Transfer Targets: Summer 2024

[OnlyOne]

I imagine the conversations between Edu and Arteta at the minute are about whether they should sign someone like Sesko and have Jesus/Saka/Martinelli/Trossard as the wide options, or sign a winger and keep Jesus and Havertz as the strikers.

Needs to be both.

 

[Rasmi]

@LookingForEric giving @Rasmi the belt treatment. You love to see it.

He is going through teenage rebellious stage. But he is a good kid

 

[field442]

Needs to be both.

Who are you selling then?

 

[OnlyOne]

Who are you selling then?

Jesus, Nelson, ESR, Trossard, Viera, Eddie can all go,

 

[LookingForEric]

Jesus, Nelson, ESR, Trossard, Viera, Eddie can all go,

Now if we’re being more realistic we probably sell 3 of those names (Nelson, ESR and Eddie).

Sesko comes in -

Martinelli, Trossard, Sesko, Jesus, Havertz, Saka.

Deffo room for one more game changer in there imo. Also in general I still don’t see anyone who will consistently win big moments for us.

 

[Dynamic]

Don't forget you can't just sell Nelson, ESR and eddie without bringing home grown replacements. It makes the selling situation a lot more complicated.

 

[field442]

Don't forget you can't just sell Nelson, ESR and eddie without bringing home grown replacements. It makes the selling situation a lot more complicated.

Yes you can. You dont have to have a specific amount of homegrown players, you just can't have more than 17 non-homegrown. With Cedric and Elneny going there's room for another 4 or 5 non-homegrown.

 

[ragnarock]

Don't forget you can't just sell Nelson, ESR and eddie without bringing home grown replacements. It makes the selling situation a lot more complicated.

If my calculations are right our squad this season is 11 home grown and 14 non.

That means if we sell Nelson, ESR, Ramsdale & Nketiah we are down to 7 HG, if we replace them numerically we would need one of those signings to be HG to make the quota.

I might be wrong

That’s assuming we’re not offloading any other non-HG ones, but still. They’ll need replacements

 

[StefanB]

Homegrown: Raya, White, Saliba, Rice, Saka, Martinelli
Total: 6

Not HG: Tomiyasu, Timber, Gabriel, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Partey, Jorginho, Ødegaard, Havertz, Jesus, Trossard
Total: 11

In: Sesko, Bruno, Nico Williams
Total NHG: 14

You cannot have more than 17 non homegrown players, so in a squad of 25 you'll need 8 HG's to have a complete squad. Basically we can add quite a few players without having any risks of not being able to register them.

 

[Sebastes]

Unless we get a great offer for Trossard, Martinelli or Jesus we’re not signing both a striker and a winger

 

[ChefMan21]

What about someone like Barella? Would unlock a lot of defences and give Ode some support.

 

[lomekian]

Buy Sesko, Bruno Guimaraes, Nico Williams, a backup for Saliba and Raya. Keep Gabriel Jesus, Partey and Zinchenko.

Sell Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Nelson, Ramsdale and Vieira (+ all the deadwood out on loan).

We would have a tremendous first eleven along with a mixed bag of very talented and experienced players, with tons of experience and talent on the bench in Jesus, Partey, Trossard, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Martinelli and Sesko.

I think we don't have enough HG players if we sell 4 and bring none in...I think that's why they are looking at a HG back-up keeper

 

[StefanB]

I think we don't have enough HG players if we sell 4 and bring none in...

See my other post #4709

 

[Red London]

same vibes:

“Get your money out, buddy”

 

[Red London]

Lots of debate about whether we get a CF, a Winger, or both. It’s a valid debate, I’ve been going back and forth on it.

I think realistically we do need both unless Jesus miraculously shows great signs of fitness which we won’t see until after the summer window.

However we are at risk of overloading at LW. Martinelli Trossard Jesus play there but unfortunately there is uncertainty about whose it is.

I would argue Olise would be a great solution for this scenario. As he wouldn’t mess with the LW at all, his areas would be RW and RAM areas (giving us a handy backup to Ødegaard).

You can then make further space in the squad by not only selling Eddie and Nelson, but 1 of Vieira and ESR as Olise comes into their territory too.

 

[Red London]

The only way we sign both a CF and Winger is if Edu gets very creative with sales. Nelson and Eddie need to go regardless, but maybe 1 more would need to happen. I doubt that happens.

 

[Goonger]

Havertz when the lights were brightest Against villa and bayern View attachment 24385

I'm not convinced about having Havertz as main starting striker going forward either, but I'm just wondering why Villa was the game the lights shone brightest and not Chelsea or Sp**s game for instance?

 

[Sanchez11]

Slow news day!

 

[ArsenesCoatMaker]

I'm not convinced about having Havertz as main starting striker going forward either, but I'm just wondering why Villa was the game the lights shone brightest and not Chelsea or Sp**s game for instance?

Havertz was CM against Villa and it clearly doesn't work against a well organised midfield

 

[Xoxo]

I'm not convinced about having Havertz as main starting striker going forward either, but I'm just wondering why Villa was the game the lights shone brightest and not Chelsea or Sp**s game for instance?

Because if we won that game we would have been 2 points clear