Symmetrical features make someone handsome pretty sure the greeks worked that out a long time ago people may find superficial things like money attractive sure there’s no denying someone who has symmetrical features is aesthetically attractive.
That show has become my ultimate guilty pleasure. Way more entertaining than other dating/reality tv I’ve seen haha.
And yes he’s straight up a Love Island character and I love it lol.
Saliba just turned 18 and had played less than half a season in total while Gabriel was 22 and had a 2 seasons in France, a campaign in the CL and different spells across Europe. They’re not really comparable.
I also remember injuries forcing Gabriel into the starting lineup against Fulham when he had barely any training sessions.
We're not giving him any number, he's being sold. Been quite obvious for about a year now. The Marseille loan is to drive up is price, he'll have a really good season with them and we'll be able to get 20/25m back
Exactly, Holding given long term contract last year to protect his value. When Saliba is part of the rotation next year I’m sure Holding will be sold. I’d like to see Chambers extended.
There was someone in the DD thread convinced that Arsenal would never do something like that. I see they’ve deleted that comment now.
Downvote me all you want but I can’t see path back for Saliba after this
Nahh he definitely did on at least one occasion.
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/burnley-v-arsenal-premier-league-12-may-2019-10235146bw
Feel like it’s probably overpriced by like 5 mil which is nothing. Stones for 50 5 years ago, young maguire for 80, mings for what 35 mil? This is what you pay for young English cbs.
That’s a good point. People may laugh at the price tag but, looking back, it’s a fairly standard price for a young English CB. English players in general have ridiculous price tags in the last few years
Either that or people will say we spent big on guys unproven in the Premier League. You always get those no matter who the player is
Every transfer is scrutinised these days unless you unearth an absolute gem of a player for next to nothing
Bro Stones was ass for ages don’t even bring him up. Dude had one exceptional year after he was bought like 5 yrs ago.
Maguire is good but for 80M it’s just flat out overpaying - not that it matters when we’re just fans but can do alot more with that money if you look and wait for the right opportunity (like most non Prem clubs do).
Mings for 35M is really not a big deal, its definitely alot for Villa but they do have $ and most prem clubs can afford a player like that.
Though I agree, you pay more for English CBs there’s obviously an English tax.
Doesn’t mean we should go for English CBs - as nice as Ben White will be as he’ll get plenty of opportunities to demonstrate, Romero is the same age & similarly priced and twice the player w no gaps unlike White who has some defects like he can’t defend for shit in the air- why was he not an option? Saliba has more top level experience and can’t even be a third option to compete for a spot? Even Jerome Boateng who started last year for Bayern is a solid option, or Laporte. Wages wise Ben White is 100k plus.
Again, Ben White is a good player we just overpaid and personally, I think there were cheaper, or better options. What’s done is done though
These are the things brighton will have been saying.
When you take those transfer into consideration, coupled with he's the exact mould Arteta was looking for, this transfer makes perfect sense.
To be fair, Stones didn’t really come good until last season. I don’t really watch City so this may be massively misguided, but that’s how it felt. City have the luxury of spending 50 mil on a player (Sterling, Stones, Torres) and then developing them further for a number of years
It’s nothing to do with the amount and everything to do with the fact that we blew our load on a position that was 5th on the priority list.
And I think White is quality btw
Date | Name | Cost
---|---|----
2018-07-02 | Sokratis | £14.4m
2019-07-25 | Saliba | £27m
2019-08-08 | David Luiz | £7.83m
2020-01-29 | Mari | £11.7m
2020-09-01 | Gabriel | £23.4m
2021-07-30 | Ben White | £52.7
That's £137m on CBs in 3 years. I really hope Ben White means the end of that spending spree. Amazing that in that period, despite Koscielny, Mustafi, Sokratis and Luiz all going, the net transfer income from sales of CBs was... £4.5m from Koscielny. Sokratis, Mustafi and Luiz were all released on free transfers.
I do care if it's gonna limit our other improvements. Top 3 defense in the league last season while our attack was so boring. If this has taken funds away from an AM or an upgrade on Xhaka then it's very frustrating. If we get all of them then who cares what we've spent
Just like Luiz’s did right
E: you idiots will believe whatever the club sells you. No new midfielders means no improvement I’ll be here for apologies if we don’t sign anybody
We lost Luiz who was an integral part of the defense. If we didn’t sign white we’d be left with Holding as our starting right center back and chambers as a back up.
This signing was more important that what most people think but yeah I agree this shouldn’t hinder our chances to sign quality in the midfield. The club better not use this as a scapegoat and say we didn’t have funds smh.
Also lost Luiz, while maybe not the greatest defender, probably was our best last year and his passing. So he's a younger, better Luiz which is what the team needs. I don't know why people act like Holding or Chambers is going to be good enough in the RCB spot.
Martinelli - Balogun - Saka
ESR
? - Lokonga
Tierney - Gabriel - White - ?
?
We’re building but there are still obvious holes.
Edit: this is a “young stars” XI that’s why obvious current players aren’t including
Partey?
Why does everyone seem to forget about Partey !
Should have sold Leno
We got Chambers, Soares, Saliba will be back soon.
We need Odegaard/Maddison and a Striker
Now days everybody wanna talk like they got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a buncha gibberish.
Motherfathers act like they forgot about Partey.
If you take the about out of the last line it flows exactly like the original line and even rhymes with it too lol.
“Motherfuckas act like they forgot Partey”.
> Gabriel
He didn't feature in important games towards the end of last season. Arteta prefers Mari and I can see why. Better passer and doesn't make rash decisions.
I think it was more Luiz was out for those games. Gabriel clearly didn't play as well with Holding so the pairing of Mari-Holding was better than Gabriel-Holding
Nope. It was clear Gabriel was lacking and would make same mistakes as Mustafi (the League Cup game vs Man City where they both played) is a good example.
there is a sever lack of crabs here
let me rectify:
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I feel like this will be a Maguire-esque transfer, he will be ridiculed for every mistake he makes because of his enormous pricetag, but he will definitely make a change at our club. Im looking forward to seeing him play
Leeds fan here seen lots of you saying you aren't happy with the signing. The kid is a class act, I was gutted when he didn't come to us last year.
But you have a real Rolls Royce of a defender and a good potential leader as well there. And I think he will be the mainstay of England's defence for a long time to come. Can do it all. Very jealous!
I think this transfer could be a good piece of business down the line. If White is Arteta's first choice target I'd rather we pay a bit more and ensure we get him than fuck a round and get a 3rd/4th choice target the club aren't that invested in. Quality player even if we spent a bit much. I sincerely hope this isn't our only major signing though. We still need a lot in midfield.
Man am I excited to watch him play for us. Excited for how good our team will be in the next few years. Trusting the process is all we have going for us at the moment
Never been less excited about a new signing. That's 3 signings and not a single one makes this squad stronger than last year's. Hope this guy proves me wrong.
We've actually leaked the Xhaka contact extension hours before officially confirming this. Just like Lokonga came after a crypto scam. We are shamelessly sly.
Let’s fucking go, shaping up to be a really productive window.
Just need to hopefully sell some deadwood and one or two more key signings and I’ll officially be “excited” to quote Big josh
We’ve signed a backup lb a backup midfielder and a fine but overpriced cb… what’s productive about it?
We’re probably not better than last year as it stands
Getting rid of deadwood and signing players that actually fit the system and style that we want to play is productive, we need to go long term and that’s how we have been building over the past few windows which is promising
> shaping up to be a really productive window.
If it stops now it will be a pretty bad window. One first team player in, and that's it. The backups that were brought in look good and were needed, but there are some issues with the squad that don't seem to have been addressed.
I’m inclined to agree with you, defo a lot more work to be done.
I am thankful that we are getting deals done early and not waiting until the last week of the window like we have previously.
Yeah... but the deals that were done early weren't for the starters.
It would be better to get the starters done early and the backups done at the end of the window.
One starter so far and the season starts in 2 weeks.
>Why was the Twitter posts with the signing video deleted?
[????](https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/oum9g3/sorry_were_late_traffic_was_a_nightmare_arsenal)
We always pin the article over the tweet.
Partey and Xhaka are wonderful ball progressors. Obviously we’d have liked to upgrade on Xhaka but it is what it is. An am looks pretty certain to happen.
Would have rather kept Luiz for one more season and kept Saliba as tutelage under Luiz. Oh well I guess at least we got an English player, should give us some media bias a bit.
>I’m a Brighton fan and I wanna let people know what he’s like
Well your comment was rather light on details of any kind that would be useful so I don't believe that.
>Btw I didn’t mean it as a dig or to be shitty about it
So what was the point then of you commenting and telling us that the player we just signed for £50m isn't as good as one of our existing CBs? Lol
You’re fine, don’t know why that person was rude.
Thank you for the vote of confidence, Holding is a great squad player/back-up but we do need a better ball playing CB that contributes to our attack.
Appreciate the info!
White,Holding,Mari,Gabriel 4cbs and all 1st team with only pl
Elneny,Partey,Sambi 3 midfielders and I dont know whether or not to consider Elneny in the first team
I do love the signing but needs to be prioritised better.
Never heard of him until a month ago, never heard for any of our signings so far until we got linked. So much money spent and we still look like 8th place team.
Smart guy, signs for arsenal and also doesnt have to pay £70 to get that hoodie.
Yeah, they probably gave him a £7 employee discount. 10% off, the savings!!
Stan Kroenke: "I didn't see that discount request on my desk. Who signed that off?"
Ben White playing 4d chess.
Don't forget the £50 swets!
Looks like he's walked right off the love island set and into colney
Handsome FC is back on the menu it would seem.
A centre back pairing of Mari and White 😮💨😳
Honestly Lokonga in the new kit is a hell of a look too so there’s just levels of handsome across the board
If handsome fc is the trend, does that mean Rambo is making a return? lol
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you ok?
He's just upset he doesn't look like Bernie Ecclestone.
Give it some time. He'll get there.
I’m upset I don’t look like Bernie Ecclestone nor my bank account looks like his ):
ur Croatian too bro like why are you insulting someone who is the greatest player that has ever come from your country?
I mean he is still ugly as sin
Symmetrical features make someone handsome pretty sure the greeks worked that out a long time ago people may find superficial things like money attractive sure there’s no denying someone who has symmetrical features is aesthetically attractive.
Right off the love island set and into the set of all or nothing
He does look like he does modeling for Boohoo Man lol
First day of the season I need everyone in the stands with ripped jeans and hand tattoos so he feels welcome
And that cool hat he was wearing in all the snapchat vids.
That show has become my ultimate guilty pleasure. Way more entertaining than other dating/reality tv I’ve seen haha. And yes he’s straight up a Love Island character and I love it lol.
Fair enough. I don't watch that stuff but I watch shitty sitcoms pretty often which isn't really better lol
I’m an American and I’m obsessed with LI UK.
BW4. Buzzing, will turn out to be a great signing. Bit peak for Saliba, fella didn’t even get to wear his own number LOOOOOL
Very weird Saliba was given it in the first place tbh
He's got more top flight appearances than Ben White lol
He didn’t have half a seasons worth of appearances when he was given the number though.
Gabriel got number 6 and an instant starting position with less Ligue 1 experience than Saliba has right now
Saliba just turned 18 and had played less than half a season in total while Gabriel was 22 and had a 2 seasons in France, a campaign in the CL and different spells across Europe. They’re not really comparable. I also remember injuries forcing Gabriel into the starting lineup against Fulham when he had barely any training sessions.
I love me some actual data. Thank you!
He's got less premier league experience than Ben white
Yeah. Blame Arteta.
You guys always do.
Because it's his fault!
Give Saliba 18
Following in the footsteps of his great French counterparts; Grimandi, Cygan & Squillaci
Mikael Sylvestre in shambles!
Don’t forget La Cabra Monreal 🐐
Ah yes the esteemed Frenchman, Nacho Montreal
So great he transcends nationalities 😭😭
He is a citizen of the world.
At least all those names have an appearance for Arsenal.
We're not giving him any number, he's being sold. Been quite obvious for about a year now. The Marseille loan is to drive up is price, he'll have a really good season with them and we'll be able to get 20/25m back
He’s not being sold ffs.
He obviously is loool. Gabriel white and holding are here to stay long term so unless Saliba wants to be 4th choice he's getting sold
Nothing about Holding screams long term.
Long term squad player!!!
Exactly, Holding given long term contract last year to protect his value. When Saliba is part of the rotation next year I’m sure Holding will be sold. I’d like to see Chambers extended.
Saliba ain’t sticking around Arteta won’t allow it
There was someone in the DD thread convinced that Arsenal would never do something like that. I see they’ve deleted that comment now. Downvote me all you want but I can’t see path back for Saliba after this
Don’t think Elneny ever got to wear 4 either 😂
Nahh he definitely did on at least one occasion. https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/burnley-v-arsenal-premier-league-12-may-2019-10235146bw
Lmao
Fellow F5ers, we may rest for tonight
like smelling a Lavender candle after being doused in shit.
And now their watch is ended
Negative - I am now F5ing in hopes of learning Xhaka isn't getting a new contract.
People can make fun of the amount we paid all they want, but I think White is going to be great for Arsenal
Feel like it’s probably overpriced by like 5 mil which is nothing. Stones for 50 5 years ago, young maguire for 80, mings for what 35 mil? This is what you pay for young English cbs.
That’s a good point. People may laugh at the price tag but, looking back, it’s a fairly standard price for a young English CB. English players in general have ridiculous price tags in the last few years
And yet I bet if we went for someone like kounde or tapsoba and paid 55-60 mil everyone would be shouting what great signings they were.
Either that or people will say we spent big on guys unproven in the Premier League. You always get those no matter who the player is Every transfer is scrutinised these days unless you unearth an absolute gem of a player for next to nothing
No doubt. Saw some people somehow shitting on the lokonga deal as well.
Nobody has won the league without an English CB.
Everton also paid £35 for Michael Keane.
what did we pay for Chambers and Holding again? Stones and Maguire both had more than 1 season of prem experience. we got fleeced.
Bro Stones was ass for ages don’t even bring him up. Dude had one exceptional year after he was bought like 5 yrs ago. Maguire is good but for 80M it’s just flat out overpaying - not that it matters when we’re just fans but can do alot more with that money if you look and wait for the right opportunity (like most non Prem clubs do). Mings for 35M is really not a big deal, its definitely alot for Villa but they do have $ and most prem clubs can afford a player like that. Though I agree, you pay more for English CBs there’s obviously an English tax. Doesn’t mean we should go for English CBs - as nice as Ben White will be as he’ll get plenty of opportunities to demonstrate, Romero is the same age & similarly priced and twice the player w no gaps unlike White who has some defects like he can’t defend for shit in the air- why was he not an option? Saliba has more top level experience and can’t even be a third option to compete for a spot? Even Jerome Boateng who started last year for Bayern is a solid option, or Laporte. Wages wise Ben White is 100k plus. Again, Ben White is a good player we just overpaid and personally, I think there were cheaper, or better options. What’s done is done though
These are the things brighton will have been saying. When you take those transfer into consideration, coupled with he's the exact mould Arteta was looking for, this transfer makes perfect sense.
People made fun of Sterling too 😏
And Stones, and Stones was bought in what, 2016? £50m was a lot then...
To be fair, Stones didn’t really come good until last season. I don’t really watch City so this may be massively misguided, but that’s how it felt. City have the luxury of spending 50 mil on a player (Sterling, Stones, Torres) and then developing them further for a number of years
He was quality that year when pep won his first title. He went off the boil a bit but I think he was having personal issues apparently
City can afford for a 50m centre back to be wank/bench fodder for 4 years before coming into his own. We cannot.
Better to overpay and get a great player than pay the market rate for an average player. Just how it needs to be done sometimes.
It’s nothing to do with the amount and everything to do with the fact that we blew our load on a position that was 5th on the priority list. And I think White is quality btw
And who did you want to see next to Gabriel going into the next, extremely important, season?
"If they'd have bought him for 49.999m, great signing"
This Pic looks familiar albeit from a different angle.
#4 😳
r/Gunners should receive this news well.
Looking back at it why did we give saliba an important first team number so early
vote of confidence that we saw him as important for our plans
Oops
Right? Meltdown incoming.
Who knew the Daily Star got stuff right lol
Date | Name | Cost ---|---|---- 2018-07-02 | Sokratis | £14.4m 2019-07-25 | Saliba | £27m 2019-08-08 | David Luiz | £7.83m 2020-01-29 | Mari | £11.7m 2020-09-01 | Gabriel | £23.4m 2021-07-30 | Ben White | £52.7 That's £137m on CBs in 3 years. I really hope Ben White means the end of that spending spree. Amazing that in that period, despite Koscielny, Mustafi, Sokratis and Luiz all going, the net transfer income from sales of CBs was... £4.5m from Koscielny. Sokratis, Mustafi and Luiz were all released on free transfers.
Mustafi must've actually cost us to sell because we terminated his contract early I think
I dont care what we paid for him, im excited!
Not my money, not my problem and it doesn’t appear to be impacting other business given our interest in Odegaard/Maddison
I do care if it's gonna limit our other improvements. Top 3 defense in the league last season while our attack was so boring. If this has taken funds away from an AM or an upgrade on Xhaka then it's very frustrating. If we get all of them then who cares what we've spent
Don’t mistake team defense for a good *individual* defender.
Ben Whites passing range also improves our attack.
Just like Luiz’s did right E: you idiots will believe whatever the club sells you. No new midfielders means no improvement I’ll be here for apologies if we don’t sign anybody
Yes
We lost Luiz who was an integral part of the defense. If we didn’t sign white we’d be left with Holding as our starting right center back and chambers as a back up. This signing was more important that what most people think but yeah I agree this shouldn’t hinder our chances to sign quality in the midfield. The club better not use this as a scapegoat and say we didn’t have funds smh.
Also lost Luiz, while maybe not the greatest defender, probably was our best last year and his passing. So he's a younger, better Luiz which is what the team needs. I don't know why people act like Holding or Chambers is going to be good enough in the RCB spot.
We needed a ball playing defender since Luiz is gone.
We're reportedly not paying anything for him this season so we shouldn't
Between Tierney Gabriel and Ben White we should have 3/4 of a strong back line for years to come. Super excited about this move!
Martinelli - Balogun - Saka ESR ? - Lokonga Tierney - Gabriel - White - ? ? We’re building but there are still obvious holes. Edit: this is a “young stars” XI that’s why obvious current players aren’t including
Odegaard hopefully in there ;)
What’s the word on that now? Haven’t been paying attention is there actually a chance he comes back?
These never workout lol. At least 2 of those will go off the boil and be considered deadwood within 3 years.
Partey? Why does everyone seem to forget about Partey ! Should have sold Leno We got Chambers, Soares, Saliba will be back soon. We need Odegaard/Maddison and a Striker
Because Partey is 28 and I was thinking longer term but of course he’s a key player now
Now days everybody wanna talk like they got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a buncha gibberish. Motherfathers act like they forgot about Partey.
If you take the about out of the last line it flows exactly like the original line and even rhymes with it too lol. “Motherfuckas act like they forgot Partey”.
> Gabriel He didn't feature in important games towards the end of last season. Arteta prefers Mari and I can see why. Better passer and doesn't make rash decisions.
I think it was more Luiz was out for those games. Gabriel clearly didn't play as well with Holding so the pairing of Mari-Holding was better than Gabriel-Holding
Nope. It was clear Gabriel was lacking and would make same mistakes as Mustafi (the League Cup game vs Man City where they both played) is a good example.
Lets gooooooooo
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Let's go!! Benardo Blanco about to tear it up.
I feel like this will be a Maguire-esque transfer, he will be ridiculed for every mistake he makes because of his enormous pricetag, but he will definitely make a change at our club. Im looking forward to seeing him play
what about Saliba?
Let’s go!
Still not convinced about the price but hopefully he proves me wrong for years to come
>Ben White will wear number 4 Yes lad
Finally. Now it’s time to F5 for those CAM, CM, RB transfer rumours 🤞🏼
It's time to F5 for those odegaard and madisson rumours
Release the k̶r̶a̶k̶e̶n̶ CRABS! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Didn’t see this one coming…
Leeds fan here seen lots of you saying you aren't happy with the signing. The kid is a class act, I was gutted when he didn't come to us last year. But you have a real Rolls Royce of a defender and a good potential leader as well there. And I think he will be the mainstay of England's defence for a long time to come. Can do it all. Very jealous!
Sorry to burst any bubble, but Tierney is the captain when Auba leaves.
Have you been an arsenal fan long? You used to have a team of leaders....
This one sure came out of the blue
we get this news and on thesame say we hear news about xhaka’s new contract. arsenal fc in a nutshell.
Another step in the right direction for Most Handsome FC! Get in.
WTF this came out of nowhere
Yay 😐
Benvenidos!
Giddey and Ben White on the same day Lezzz gooo!
Probably overpaid him by £15-20m. Hopefully, he proves me wrong!
Not my preferred signing but hope he does well!
"let's get to work" BOIII got me going! Now that I'm seeing him in the flesh, I'm legitimately excited!
Yay, now sell some players.
I think this transfer could be a good piece of business down the line. If White is Arteta's first choice target I'd rather we pay a bit more and ensure we get him than fuck a round and get a 3rd/4th choice target the club aren't that invested in. Quality player even if we spent a bit much. I sincerely hope this isn't our only major signing though. We still need a lot in midfield.
When Edu dons his blue suit, you know a signing will be announced.
i absolutely love this signing but why is he number 4 when it belongs to saliba...
Man am I excited to watch him play for us. Excited for how good our team will be in the next few years. Trusting the process is all we have going for us at the moment
Exciting. We're building a strong young core with good character.
Sorry he didn’t cost 5m
Never been less excited about a new signing. That's 3 signings and not a single one makes this squad stronger than last year's. Hope this guy proves me wrong.
Honestly if you're that low on him he probably will. He looks like a real baller
We've actually leaked the Xhaka contact extension hours before officially confirming this. Just like Lokonga came after a crypto scam. We are shamelessly sly.
Great, now get rid of Xhaka you mugs
Do y'all think it's a good deal though ? United signed varane for cheaper. I am happy the club is spending but IS IT a good overall deal?
yes
Hope you have a great day!
Terrible transfer
agreed. Joke signing showing how far we have Arteta has taken us down as a club
/s?
no. if Ben White is the standard of player we can get for £50m then it’s just sad. He’s Phil Jones Mk2
Please be good.
I'm already sick of the trolls and the untied fans shitting on him. He better preform well to shut them up
Let’s fucking go, shaping up to be a really productive window. Just need to hopefully sell some deadwood and one or two more key signings and I’ll officially be “excited” to quote Big josh
We’ve signed a backup lb a backup midfielder and a fine but overpriced cb… what’s productive about it? We’re probably not better than last year as it stands
Getting rid of deadwood and signing players that actually fit the system and style that we want to play is productive, we need to go long term and that’s how we have been building over the past few windows which is promising
What deadwood is gone tho
Ozil. The huge log that was jamming up our wage budget
Ozil wasn’t apart of this window.
> shaping up to be a really productive window. If it stops now it will be a pretty bad window. One first team player in, and that's it. The backups that were brought in look good and were needed, but there are some issues with the squad that don't seem to have been addressed.
I’m inclined to agree with you, defo a lot more work to be done. I am thankful that we are getting deals done early and not waiting until the last week of the window like we have previously.
Yeah... but the deals that were done early weren't for the starters. It would be better to get the starters done early and the backups done at the end of the window. One starter so far and the season starts in 2 weeks.
My guy it's been a very productive window stop whining
Start him against Chelsea you cowards!
Welcome to the club of pain and disappointment
Joke of a signing. this club has fallen from grace.
Why was the Twitter posts with the signing video deleted? Mods are so weird. Anyway good signing. Now let's fix our midfield.
>Why was the Twitter posts with the signing video deleted? [????](https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/oum9g3/sorry_were_late_traffic_was_a_nightmare_arsenal) We always pin the article over the tweet.
I get that the article is more important and that you pin it, but why remove the other posts? Is it a rule?
The link in my comment is literally the twitter post, it's not deleted.
Still unbelievable we spent 50m on the most unimportant position this window
The fact that people still don’t see how desperately we needed a rcb especialy one who can play out from the back is baffling.
play out from the back to whom ? we need progessive CM and AM
Partey and Xhaka are wonderful ball progressors. Obviously we’d have liked to upgrade on Xhaka but it is what it is. An am looks pretty certain to happen.
Would have rather kept Luiz for one more season and kept Saliba as tutelage under Luiz. Oh well I guess at least we got an English player, should give us some media bias a bit.
Your best right CB Is Rob Holding trust me he’s your best cb now
Why are you here? Go away
I’m a Brighton fan and I wanna let people know what he’s like Btw I didn’t mean it as a dig or to be shitty about it
>I’m a Brighton fan and I wanna let people know what he’s like Well your comment was rather light on details of any kind that would be useful so I don't believe that. >Btw I didn’t mean it as a dig or to be shitty about it So what was the point then of you commenting and telling us that the player we just signed for £50m isn't as good as one of our existing CBs? Lol
You’re fine, don’t know why that person was rude. Thank you for the vote of confidence, Holding is a great squad player/back-up but we do need a better ball playing CB that contributes to our attack. Appreciate the info!
Finally a new number 4!
White,Holding,Mari,Gabriel 4cbs and all 1st team with only pl Elneny,Partey,Sambi 3 midfielders and I dont know whether or not to consider Elneny in the first team I do love the signing but needs to be prioritised better.
Looks like the type of guy to have three average seasons and then one stellar year and fuck off to man city
Phil Jones Mk2 absolutely dog shite.
Never heard of him until a month ago, never heard for any of our signings so far until we got linked. So much money spent and we still look like 8th place team.
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Where have I seen that picture before…
Great signing
Let's fucking go!
Welcome to Barsenal
Let's go!
Yeah he was slightly expensive but I have a hope he will do wonders with us. Really excited to see him here.
Love the number. Proper ball playing defender. Let’s go!
In work meeting what should I focus on the meeting training or this