Emi Buendia

[A_G]

Didn't Santi only transition to CM later in his career, when he was in his late-20s? Buendia could do that, but it's something you probably learn a bit later.

He played there occasionally for Villarreal and then more often in his one season at Malaga. Emi is only a couple of years younger than Santi was when he started to move infield so it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

 

[Bloodbather]

Imagine if Aston Villa keep Grealish and get Buendia. Challenger for European spots for sure.

 

[dashsnow17]

I'm going to keep banging on about this, but we have one of the best goalscorers in Europe and just gave him a massive deal. Team should be built around getting him and Pepe on the end of chances and not so much on the build up.

Arteta needs to learn that there are more letters in the alphabet other than U.

 

[field442]

He won’t join Villa until he knows whether we go for him or not.

 

[OnlyOne]

He won’t join Villa until he knows whether we go for him or not.

And we won't go for him until Madrid tell us they're keeping Ødegaard.

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Grealish replacement?

 

[The_Playmaker]

Well based on his actual performances in an Arsenal shirt in an Arsenal system which for me has more value than performances in other teams.
Also based on technical ability, first touch, eye for the pass, also, he actualy can run away from players etc etc.
Also, regarding numbers, one would think if we consider only historical numbers, a team consisting of Auba,Laca and Pepe should definitely be scoring for fun in EPL. In reality though, thats not how it works. you can`t just add players who have good numbers and expect numbers to get realized. I would much rather trust my eyes and my eyes saw what Ødegaard brought into this team. Just the fact that players were passing the ball to him when we was under pressure and he was able to hold on to it made a big difference in our system IMO.
Again nothing against Buendia though. Buendia is also an interesting player with the set of attributes which could be useful for us. We tend to look selectively at poor performances of Ødegaard and compare it with highlights of Buendia to prove a point here though and I don`t think that`s useful.

Buendia was statistically one of the most press resistant players in Europe during his first season in the Premier league. Ahead of Grealish and Aouar. So give him the ball and he won't lose it, and he will wriggle out of pressure with both feet while also putting in twice the defensive intensity of Ødegaard.

Ødegaard can't run away from players. He isn't fast. He is also incredibly one footed. Pepe and Saka use their right foot. Buendia uses both. He is a no brainer for me.

 

[OnlyOne]

Buendia was statistically one of the most press resistant players in Europe during his first season in the Premier league. Ahead of Grealish and Aouar. So give him the ball and he won't lose it, and he will wriggle out of pressure with both feet while also putting in twice the defensive intensity of Ødegaard.

Ødegaard can't run away from players. He isn't fast. He is also incredibly one footed. Pepe and Saka use their right foot. Buendia uses both. He is a no brainer for me.

Thoughts on Bissouma?

 

[SingmeasongSong]

Imagine if Aston Villa keep Grealish and get Buendia. Challenger for European spots for sure.

Grealish and Buendia is actually the holy grail for attacking signings imo.
Those two together would be ridiculous to watch.
Buendia+Bissouma+Aarons+Grealish would be a 10/10 window.

Will be hard to see the dream at Villa

 

[gunner4lyfe]

And we won't go for him until Madrid tell us they're keeping Ødegaard.

We're going to waste time negotiating with Madrid and lose out on Buendia.

 

[boonthegoon]

We're going to waste time negotiating with Madrid and lose out on Buendia.

This is what will happen. We will probably end up missing both. Our board is painfully slow.

 

[The_Playmaker]

Thoughts on Bissouma?

Yeah I like him. When you think about getting into the top 4, buying Premier League ready players is a good start.

Buendia, Berge, Aarons, Bissouma. They are all Premier League ready. Even physical players from abroad need to adapt, like Partey and Ndombele. I would do as little business as possible from abroad. Even if we went for someone like Edouard. He would not need much adaptation.

We need to be smarter. We don't need glamour. We need top 4 and we need a physical team to be flat track bullies.

 

[OnlyOne]

Yeah I like him. When you think about getting into the top 4, buying Premier League ready players is a good start.

Buendia, Berge, Aarons, Bissouma. They are all Premier League ready. Even physical players from abroad need to adapt, like Partey and Ndombele. I would do as little business as possible from abroad. Even if we went for someone like Edouard. He would not need much adaptation.

We need to be smarter. We don't need glamour. We need top 4 and we need a physical team to be flat track bullies.

Yeah I like that last part, think we could bully teams off the park with Partey and Bissouma. Add creative players around them and we are set, Yves showed a bit of **** about him as well which I like.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

 

[TimoJens]

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Please, far better than that stiff Norwegian.

 

[TimoJens]

How quick are you?

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

look the only player we are sure interested and want him signed is Buendia many reliable people reporting. Still waiting for Bissouma reliable links.

 

[boonthegoon]

Please get it done soon

 

[Tir Na Nog]

How quick are you?

Yousif's been doing this for 12 years, he's something of a transfer rumour veteran.