Arteta’s Transfer Targets: Summer 2024

[hydrofluoric acid]

I take Rashford but only if Darwin Nunez is not available.

Darwin - Havertz - Saka would be sick attack next season and give us that tall-aura!

 

[Nunowoolmez]

Regardless of sales we should have a budget of around £200M. Bruno Guimaraes is seemingly a main target along with a striker and a LCB.

Like Orny said the club wants a couple of level raisers in windows now but you also need to continually sign competition.

We need a proper LB, we dont need a LCB. We have Gabi & Kiwi if he needs to step in.

 

[drippin]

If we can manage to strike a deal at 30-35m for Rashford...

For 30m or so, he’d come in like a Trossard signing. Quite rare to get that value in this market unless you go for a younger player and develop them.

It's quite rare to get that value, because they won't sell Rashford for 30-35 million to a rival ffs.

They won't sell Mainoo either, and he likely wants to stay at his boyhood club where he gets good minutes at a young age. Plus Arsenal already has Lewis-Skelly as a similar talent.

What am I reading here again? Fantasy AM transfer speculations?

 

[samshere]

We need Pep to feck off or City to be docked points. Will boost our chances more than any player.

 

[LookingForEric]

We need a proper LB, we dont need a LCB. We have Gabi & Kiwi if he needs to step in.

Our system fits a LCB who can play LB, we also have Timber and Tomi.

 

[Nunowoolmez]

Our system fits a LCB who can play LB, we also have Timber and Tomi.

Exactly, we don't need another one

 

[CannonBals]

Exactly, we don't need another one

If Tierney did not have such huge injury concerns I would have been ok with him aswell.
A player in that mould, defensively capable and decent going forward aswell.

 

[LookingForEric]

Exactly, we don't need another one

You think Kiwior is good enough to step in if Gabriel gets injured?!

 

[MikelHadADream]

You think Kiwior is good enough to step in if Gabriel gets injured?!

Yeah, as a back up he’s more than adequate.

 

[Nunowoolmez]

You think Kiwior is good enough to step in if Gabriel gets injured?!

It doesn't matter what I think, I have no power of transfers

It's what Teta & Edu think & they bought him mate. Gabi is pretty robust & doesn't get injured, so we've not needed to play Kiwi at CB but he gets plenty of game time, so they obviously have confidence in him.

 

[El Duderino]

Yeah, as a back up he’s more than adequate.

As long as you put Tomi next to him, it should be fine.

Zinchenko, on the other hand...

 

[drippin]

You think Kiwior is good enough to step in if Gabriel gets injured?!

Kiwior is much better fit for LCB to cover Gabriel, than inverted LB. He can play LB as a defensive option of course to get minutes.

LCB absolutely isn't something to use money for. RCB is, because White is now the starting RB, and you don't switch his position unless absolutely necessary. Tomiyasu is needed as fullback cover.

So Arsenal needs a RCB, who will make it so that an injury to Saliba won't ruin the season. That's someone like Diomande.

 

[lomekian]

Rashford is barely better than Martinelli

If Rashford could get Arteta's into matching Martinelli's work rate he'd be a really fantastic player. Fee and wages make it less than likely though, unless the new brass at OT want him out.

 

[MikelHadADream]

As long as you put Tomi next to him, it should be fine.

Zinchenko, on the other hand...

Even Gabriel often looks shaky with Zinchenko next to him…

 

[Nunowoolmez]

Kiwior is much better fit for LCB to cover Gabriel, than inverted LB. He can play LB as a defensive option of course to get minutes.

LCB absolutely isn't something to use money for. RCB is, because White is now the starting RB, and you don't switch his position unless absolutely necessary. Tomiyasu is needed as fullback cover.

So Arsenal needs a RCB, who will make it so that an injury to Saliba won't ruin the season. That's someone like Diomande.

Not sure about this. White & Timber are RCB by trade. If Saliba gets injured, we can use either of those as RCB & the other or Tomi at RB.

 

[drippin]

If Rashford could get Arteta's into matching Martinelli's work rate he'd be a really fantastic player. Fee and wages make it less than likely though, unless the new brass at OT want him out.

They might want to fetch a fee for him, as he doesn't seem like overcoming the challenges.

But clubs don't want to sell players like this to rivals. Chelsea wanted to extend Havertz, but Havertz basically forced them to sell to Arsenal. Tottenham sold Kane to Bayern.

If they sell to a rival, it has to be big money. They would rather sell to PSG for cheaper. Can't see Rashford forcing a move to Arsenal. Havertz did because he had a grudge for Chelsea, and he wasn't their own youth player.

 

[drippin]

Not sure about this. White & Timber are RCB by trade. If Saliba gets injured, we can use either of those as RCB & the other or Tomi at RB.

Tomiyasu is 1/2 of a player with his injury-proneness, so that has to be taken into account. He hasn't played CB for ages, apart rarely for Japan.

Said it from the beginning, but Timber will be a inverted fullback for Arsenal, not a CB. He can play on either side. He is a bit short for a CB, and has no experience playing it at top leagues. His qualities are perfect for the inverted role.

So yeah, White can cover there, but like I said, you never want to do it at this point, unless absolutely necessary.

 

[ArsenesCoatMaker]

They might want to fetch a fee for him, as he doesn't seem like overcoming the challenges.

But clubs don't want to sell players like this to rivals. Chelsea wanted to extend Havertz, but Havertz basically forced them to sell to Arsenal. Tottenham sold Kane to Bayern.

If they sell to a rival, it has to be big money. They would rather sell to PSG for cheaper. Can't see Rashford forcing a move to Arsenal. Havertz did because he had a grudge for Chelsea, and he wasn't their own youth player.

If they want to sell him and PSG don't want him, they'll have to sell to the PL. No one will pay a big fee because of the wages and the risk. Maybe 50m tops.

 

[lufere7]

Arsenal already has a chronic groin injury midfielder in ESR, and you want Arsenal to buy another one in Enzo for tens of millions pounds.

The guy finally got a surgery for it, as has had to play because they have so many injuries. These chronic groin injuries can be nasty as we have witnessed with ESR.

Wait, did these mfers really wait after our game to do the surgery?
So the last game that mattered for their season was them trying to derail ours? Good job helping us pad our GD Enzo you cvck

 

[drippin]

If they want to sell him and PSG don't want him, they'll have to sell to the PL. No one will pay a big fee because of the wages and the risk. Maybe 50m tops.

And why do they have to sell him? He has 4 years left, he is own youth, he is not going to force himself out to ruin the relationship with everyone related to the club. That would be a very shocking turn, and I don't see it.

They're not going to sell one of their best players, who has had amazing seasons, for peanuts to a rival.

People here thought Chelsea would have to sell Havertz for like under 40 million pounds. Never happened. And were shocked at the price. Chelsea could have kept him for another year, and they should have in hindsight (or every sight, because I was shocked that they were ready to sell him to a rival. And they only had Jackson as a striker to depend on.).