Willian

[Garrincha]

If we can pull this off will be a fan favorite within months.

 

[teamsoutheast]

Hopefully a loan. I'm coming round to the belief that there is a good player in there. Could possibly be a late bloomer.

No more loans for Reiss IMO. He needs to be around the first team to keep his confidence up. If he gets shunned out on loan again it may break his confidence.

 

[Kysus]

It's a tricky one imo.

Willian is clearly the better technician, but Zaha represents that bit of unpredictability that works both for and against him for a big team.

We have Auba and Pepe, for us Willian is a better fit and more valuable as we need someone to link up midfield and attack.
David Silva type is what we need

 

[FinnGooner]

We have 3 young players already in the squad.

I'm not talking about a 20 year old. I'm talking somebody 22-25 from a smaller league who's already made their mark on a lower level and is ready to take the next step. Isn't that what our scouting department should be doing? Or are they there only to find wonderkids? It's not like Willian is absolute world class. He is a decent PL level player but every year dozens of Willian level players make their breakthrough in the top European leagues. We'll need to start finding the players who can make that breakthrough in Arsenal shirt. That is what beating the market is, not signing decent-but-old free-transfer players to bloated contracts. If Willian was Auba -level, it'd be a different story, but he is not even close

 

[Tir Na Nog]

I got to enjoy the FA Cup victory for all of two days before the sad reality of this club set in.

 

[Hunta]

The poll results so far. :rofl:

 

[Tosker]

you are all aware, I suppose, that it's all over the media that Willian, Coutinho and Partey are Arteta's main targets - and perhaps Auba's as well

 

[teamsoutheast]

11 goals and 8 assists across all competitons with an avergae rating of 7.33 on whoscored...... yes please, i'll take that.

 

[El Duderino]

Doesn’t matter. You still have to be a good footballer to make it over there.

His old side Flamengo are currently on a par with any PL team that isn’t called Liverpool or Manchester City. They were unlucky against Liverpool in that final. Were probably the better side on the night.

No they're not. Mind you they have great players, but Rafinha, Felipe Luis and a few others would get totally rinsed in the PL currently.

 

[A_G]

Yeah, not like they know their own player. I don’t want to listen to AM, this forum told me Cech and Luiz are GREAT signings when I could clearly see they were absolute ****.

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/petr-cech.27902/page-100#post-3790612

Why were you excited about signing someone who's absolute ****?

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Honestly, he will instantly be one of our top 5 players. He is really good.

 

[El Duderino]

How longs the contract going to be?

Please don’t say 3 years

Whole reason he's leaving Chelsea is because they are only giving him 2 years, so...................

 

[say yes]

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/petr-cech.27902/page-100#post-3790612

Why were you excited about signing someone who's absolute ****?

:rofl:

 

[Tom349]

I'm not talking about a 20 year old. I'm talking somebody 22-25 from a smaller league who's already made their mark on a lower level and is ready to take the next step. Isn't that what our scouting department should be doing? Or are they there only to find wonderkids? It's not like Willian is absolute world class. He is a decent PL level player but every year dozens of Willian level players make their breakthrough in the top European leagues. We'll need to start finding the players who can make that breakthrough in Arsenal shirt. That is what beating the market is, not signing decent-but-old free-transfer players to bloated contracts. If Willian was Auba -level, it'd be a different story, but he is not even close

We're not going to be making these type of signings and for good reason. We will be targeting top class players like Pepe, young players like Saliba and experienced players to keep us competitive like Luiz. Signing 20-40m players in their mid 20's won't be happening.

 

[Kysus]

The poll results so far. :rofl:

I rebel against a poll that asks a relative question in an absolute way

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Willian if both where in their prime, Zaha right now...shouldn't be signing either really though.

Willian has had twice the season Zaha has. Willian is comfortably better. Really excited by this.

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On a Villarreal note, seems like Coquelin is on the verge of joining the submarines. Happy days

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Willian stats
Passing accuracy 82%
Key passes a game 2.2
Long passes a game 1.8
Crosses a game 1.5
Shots per game 2
Dribbles a game 2.2
Bad control a game 1.7
Dispossessed a game 0.9
Tackles a game 1.2

 

[Riou]

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/petr-cech.27902/page-100#post-3790612

Why were you excited about signing someone who's absolute ****?

Compared Cech to Flappy...least he knew how crap he would be for Arsenal.

 

[Tosker]

looks like we're after a quick fix - which will cost money with little chance of getting it back

if the Kroenkes are in favour of this then one way or another there must be funds we are not aware of

 

[<<reed>>]

Since Edu got the job:

Luiz (same agent)
Pablo Mari (same nationality)
Cedric (same agent)
Willian (same agent)

Coutinho is next, this is corruption!

When you signed Kia's clients but managed to get away with it by winning a cup