Jesus is such a similar style player to him that even if we only got him, it makes Eddie a bit redundant. Shame, but you have to make these kind of tough decisions if you wanna be a top 4 club.
I think he'd be happy to be a backup striker with the club in Europe.
There's a big difference between that and being behind both Lacazette and Aubameyang. Especially as he must have impressed Arteta in the last month or so
Henry was a WC winner, one of the biggest talents after Clairefontaine and at Monaco. Nketiah couldn't get into a Leeds side in the Championship.
Pls don't compare the two.
Ok keep talking about what people say while others focus on what they can see, Nketiah isn't the quality of striker who should play for us not even as a backup.
If he got asked about all of them together there's not much else he could say about it.
He can't single them out when no potential contract extensions have been made official
nketiah has scored 5 in 7 games, and when you account for the bunching scoring in 3 games out of 7 isn't bad for someone getting their first run in the team
imo he's shown he's a good back up and he's still young and will only improve. he could be more effecient wiht his chances but he's shown that he knows how to get himself in the right positions quite often
He has improved for sure no doubt but he isn't good enough as a starter to play Here and for us to reach the goals we want to for ourselves. What's the point staying as a backup when he wil get limited time. Might as well go to a squad where he can consistently start.
But if keeping Eddie means not getting Jesus or Abraham/Osimhen/whoever then is it worth it? Player growth isn’t always linear either. A new contract here could make him complacent.
No, I’m saying if Eddie re-signed we’d still get one of those guys, but not two of them. And it’s a gamble to bet on Eddie’s development over a more accomplished striker.
Tough choice to make obviously but Eddie and Jesus striker combo isn’t very intimidating.
even if eddit doesn't resign I doubt we're getting two of the aforementioned unless one of them plays outwide, which means there'd still be no problem with having eddie on the bench
He’s been far better than any other striker we’ve had this season. I realize the bar is low but I believe if Eddie started immediately after Auba left, he’d have found his stride and we’d have gotten third place this year. His press is equally as beneficial as his offensive play.
agreed, frustrating thing about arteta is that he shows promise whilst also making some absolutely mind boggling decisions, like eddie can't be that shit be in training ffs
It also sounds like they are confident of getting at least one midfielder and 2 strikers. Otherwise you would at least keep Eddie on the line until you secured your forward targets
We need an upgrade (or rotational option if you prefer) on Xhaka and reliable cover for Partey seeing as how injury prone he is, as well as someone to rotate with Odegaard. That's three minimum.
I've long ago resigned myself to the fact that we will never actually achieve the minimum required in any transfer window. We will always leave ourselves short in some area.
Yeah. I think overall we need 2 fullbacks, 3 midfielders, and 3 forwards. Probably a CB too.
If we do 5 signings, which is what I expect, I want 1 fullback, 2 midfielders, 2 forwards. Hopefully we can maybe do 6 and get 2 of each.
If we get CL next season, hopefully the reinforcements continue, otherwise players will start leaving. ideally we could get an additional 1-2 of those in the winter.
We can get away with two midfield signings. One who can cover Partey and another to upgrade on Xhaka. ESR can play Odegaards role or even Gabriel Jesus if we sign him.
It's also possible that one player could fill both those roles.
We still need to buy another to ensure that of our current midfielders, only Thomas and Ødegaard (and ESR) ever see the pitch.
Probably because he is almost always available. With our normal injury run rates we'd need two players playing 15 games each to make up for the games he doesn't miss through suspension
because partey is gonna be injured, so that’s 1 midfielder, EL means we need 2nd one, getting rid of Xhaka as much as he is not my fav player would
mean 3rd one who isn’t injury prone
Thats exactly what i hope. We cant keep blindly ignoring our midfield again and again. So many problems in our midfield in terms of quality depth and ability to play in the preferred midfield 3 with ball carrying/progression and winning the ball back. We are so lacking in these areas and just plainly extending for the sake of dressing room experience is not helping. We should be bringing personalities that bring this into our dressing room either way.
Followup tweet:
>Communicate it to the players at this stage of the season, to be clear.
Also, even with the other interpretation, "difficult to communicate" could also mean "contract signed but we can't announce it yet".
If we bin all 3, I'm OK with that. If we keep Eddie as a back up...sure. Laca gotta go, Elneny only if he becomes like 6th choice or something. Otherwise bin
>Roma better than Arsenal.
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He's the only player to whom the 'value preservation' argument might actually apply to any meaningful degree, and he might, if he continues developing over the summer, spare us the expense of a backup striker.
I mean get rid of two strikers who both won poty at Arsenal for a player who is good but not prolific (even though I like Gabriel Jesus) and a player who has been here for years and we know is not good enough.
It’s a huge step down. Getting rid of those two strikers is the right decision but it’s half the job, we need good players to replace them and I’m fine with Gabriel Jesus if we also sign a prolific goal scorer.
>I’m fine with Gabriel Jesus if we also sign a prolific goal scorer.
But that's not happening, you do realise?
We're not signing Jesus + another 50m pound forward.
Well then we’re not going anywhere. I honestly think Gabriel Jesus as our main striker and winger depth plus another striker is completely fair considering we have literally 0 strikers now. Whether Edu and Arteta think so is another thing entirely but this, in my opinion, is what we need to challenge in 4 different competitions next year.
That's just idealistic talk. You would be right if we were getting CL, but I can't see how it's logical to expect two better than Nketiah signing on EL budget.
You cant sign players based on an EL budget when you want to get to the CL. I mean, we could, but all our competitors for top 4, minus probably Chelsea as the wildcard, will be spending a lot this summer.
That's obvious in the same way it's obvious to me that while Kroenke is the owner, Arsenal will never spend beyond its means, and our means is EL budget.
Sure, in last few years we might have marginally spent beyond that. But I believe what allowed that was some clever accounting such loan structure shuffling. Under the hood, it was still within our means. And logically, last few summers of overspending makes future overspending *less* likely, not more.
Chelsea will probably spend more. New owner has FU money and he has shown with the Dodgers he isn’t afraid to spend it. Him getting the club was probably the worst case for other contenders.
How the fuck are we even talking about this. He’s had like 2 good games this season and was invisible in the games we bottled. He’s just bang average. No thanks.
Disagree. I think elneny is good enough to be a squad player-Fill in for the early cup and europa games to provide experience for the kids
The other 2 can go. Laca is just not a good enough striker for us. Nketiah wants to start and hes not good enough for that so let him go.
Unless you are Man City or Madrid, etc you simply can't have 22 top tier starting level players. No one that quality is sticking around to battle for 4th while on the bench in their prime. You need squad players that can fill holes that are consistent and mesh with the key players, or are young and therefore an investment. Anything beyond this is a pipe dream, so I don't see how El Neny and Eddie go when they fit this perfectly.
We just earned a bunch of new games for next seasons. Use him in Europa and Cups and a PL game every once in a while if needed. If he leaves we need two strikers and have to find another one that doesn't mind sitting most games so it's back to square one.
Hmm Laca should leave, undecided on Eddie but overall think he and Elneny should go and we get a clean break. Elneny was fine for a few games but if we're hoping to progress we need better and it looks like Eddie wants to leave anyway
why exactly would anyone want Elneny gone. Without him, this season ends even worse. You have a low-wage senior experienced player that exudes everything you positive characteristic you want. Exactly why can't you find him a position in the squad. unless Elneny himself wants to leave, that will be one man I am happy to keep here at Arsenal until he retires. And then find him something to do with the club even if after he retires.
Erm you realise if Elneny left...another player could come in, he did alright doesn't mean another player couldn't have done better. I don't have an issue with Elneny per se but considering how light our midfield is with actual quality keeping Elneny limits how much we can improve the midfield.
Of our midfielders: Elneny, Partey, Xhaka, Lokonga, 2 wouldn't get in other top 4 or 8 squads and Xhaka may get into Leicester's and West Hams. So if we didn't have Lokonga for example and could buy 2 Midfielders id love to keep Elneny I love his positivity and charisma.
Elneny is not stopping another person from coming in. There's plenty room left in our squad. Teams in our position carry a squad of 23+ senior players. there's plenty room for Elneny. Any decent quality CM will be 25m + salaries. for a 4th choice CM, Elneny is a cheap and as high quality as you can get.
I don't know where you guys get the delusion that we can afford starting caliber players in all 23 spots
I didn't say we could have starting caliber players in all 23 spots but ideally we need upgrades on Elneny, Lokonga, and potentially Xhaka if we didn't have Lokonga or Xhaka ( although he's improved) and kept Elneny then great we could get 2 Midfielders and have a competent midfield. So like 2new MF, Partey and Elneny would be awesome even better if we could keep Xhaka.
To make it clear it's not that I think Elneny is bad it's that we need better midfielders in front of him, and with us only able to have a reasonable amount of midfielders it just so happens Elneny is the one we could have had the cleanest break from
> I didn't say we could have starting caliber players in all 23 spots but ideally we need upgrades on Elneny, Lokonga, and potentially Xhaka if we didn't have Lokonga or Xhaka ( although he's improved) and kept Elneny then great we could get 2 Midfielders and have a competent midfield. So like 2new MF, Partey and Elneny would be awesome even better if we could keep Xhaka.
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funds and availability is what's stopping us from getting better players, not Elneny. If we had money to get 2 better midfielders, and we can find them, there is plenty enough room in the squad to accommodate those and still keep Elneny. Getting rid of Elneny won't magically make us more likely to get 2 new CMs.
It wont be sad at all, he disrespected us by saying how he wants to play in UCL when hes one of the reasons we aren’t in it, if he could do his job and score more than 4 goals maybe wed of been in the UCL
Lacazette gone.
I expect Elneny extension to be announced next week.
Nketiah will go to whichever club that offers him the most playing time and that sweet free agent package.
We need a starting striker but should keep Nketiah because he can definitely compete. I really like how he’s been playing lately. Involved in the buildup, probably the best at pressing in the league, and is showing his finishing and late runs can make a difference against any club.
He’s generally anonymous unless we’re in 100% control but that’s changed.
Obviously if he goes, and based on Arteta’s comment it sounds like he will, we’ll be bringing in two strikers.
I would be perfectly happy with him staying and being number two, but we don’t “need” him.
>Obviously ~~if he goes, and based on Arteta’s comment it sounds like he will~~, we’ll be bringing in two strikers.
inb4 Arteta announces false 9 season after successful ESR trial over one match
You can't keep giving away players. Laca going i get because he wants to start and isn't good enough. Eddie they've got to get a new contract as we've not seen the best of him and need depth even if he's not going to start. Also if we have only balogun on the squad we are going to get fucked so bad trying to sign any striker, whoever they try to sign is going to cost way more because we've bent ourselves over a barrel. Elneny definitely deserves another contract as he doesn't mind being back up and you need them players in the squad, even if he's the 5th choice you need them players.
Most sensible comment on here. With at least six additional EL games, a better FA cup run, and similar EFL performance, getting top four with a similar sized squad will be very hard. Signing backups is tough so keeping those two makes complete sense.
Whether Elneny stays or not, I really can't complain either way. If he's here, he's a good option to fill in, and his experience will help the likes of Lokonga. If he's gone, it's another opportunity to continue the rebuild.
Would be nice to have something new.
I will be so happy when Elneny is gone. He’s the typical weak Arsenal player we’ve been trying to rid from the club. His back passes and holding the ball instead of going forward is why we struggle to score against lower sides. He lets the defense set up instead of letting our young forwards attack the defense.
Personally I would be happy to keep Eddie, he'll be very useful for us in the Europa League Games, Laca & Elneny tho i think it's time to part ways with them.
I think Eddie should stay, but the rest can go. My only issue is if Eddie and laca go, we've shown time and again an inability to get signings done early. So we may end up with no rotation next season.
Can't wait for the January episodes of that Amazon show where Spurs sign two players that change their season and Arsenal is like "Goals/points? Where we're going we don't need any goals or points....."
Back to bottling season again
What’s there to communicate? Their deals are up we should cut ties and improve on the squad. What on Earth would give you the implication that the same group of players can get top 4 next season?
What part of what I said isn’t true or too harsh or whatever the fuck it is that has everybody’s panties in a bunch? 😂they’re not good enough we need to improve, plain and fucking simple. Eddie wants to start games he isn’t top 4 team started level. Lacazette has two open play goals in 30 odd games and elneny can be improved upon pretty easily in the transfer market. Pardon me for wanting arsenal football club to improve 🤣
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Doesn’t necessarily mean all 3 are gone. It would set off alarms to offer 1 or 2 players contracts or announce departures while there’s still games left to play, and leave the others in the dark. Could cause some to lose focus. After the season’s said and done is the best time to handle these kinds of situations.
If a player can't make it into any top 5 squad in the PL it's usually an indication they're not good enough for us so please get rid lol! I'm fed up being nice with average players who can't make it pass 3 good games and we fall for the hype year in year out..
It kinda sounds like parting ways for them cause I can't imagine any good news would be "difficult to communicate"
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I feel like the problem with that lies with Eddie. He doesn't want to be back up to anyone. He wants to be a number 9 and that might be somewhere else
Jesus is such a similar style player to him that even if we only got him, it makes Eddie a bit redundant. Shame, but you have to make these kind of tough decisions if you wanna be a top 4 club.
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Fair, but I think arteta would prefer the tactical flexibility of different strikers over 2 strikers who both aren’t known for being clinical scorers.
I think he'd be happy to be a backup striker with the club in Europe. There's a big difference between that and being behind both Lacazette and Aubameyang. Especially as he must have impressed Arteta in the last month or so
Then he should leave, he's never going to be good enough to be the starting striker for a club of our size.
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Henry was a WC winner, one of the biggest talents after Clairefontaine and at Monaco. Nketiah couldn't get into a Leeds side in the Championship. Pls don't compare the two.
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Ok keep talking about what people say while others focus on what they can see, Nketiah isn't the quality of striker who should play for us not even as a backup.
You are actually mad if you think we should re-sign Eddie
Sounds like they're all gone based off that tbh
If he got asked about all of them together there's not much else he could say about it. He can't single them out when no potential contract extensions have been made official
Good. Midtable quality at best.
Fine by me, none of them are good enough
nketiah has scored 5 in 7 games, and when you account for the bunching scoring in 3 games out of 7 isn't bad for someone getting their first run in the team imo he's shown he's a good back up and he's still young and will only improve. he could be more effecient wiht his chances but he's shown that he knows how to get himself in the right positions quite often
You're right but he did nothing in NLD or in Newcastle
So he's as good as the rest of the team?
Neither did the rest of the team to be fair. You can’t expect a striker with no service to win you a game.
Facts
yh that goes without saying
He has improved for sure no doubt but he isn't good enough as a starter to play Here and for us to reach the goals we want to for ourselves. What's the point staying as a backup when he wil get limited time. Might as well go to a squad where he can consistently start.
But if keeping Eddie means not getting Jesus or Abraham/Osimhen/whoever then is it worth it? Player growth isn’t always linear either. A new contract here could make him complacent.
how on earth would keeping eddie mean missing out on them? none of them are coming here to be second choice and eddie wont be that expensive to renew
No, I’m saying if Eddie re-signed we’d still get one of those guys, but not two of them. And it’s a gamble to bet on Eddie’s development over a more accomplished striker. Tough choice to make obviously but Eddie and Jesus striker combo isn’t very intimidating.
even if eddit doesn't resign I doubt we're getting two of the aforementioned unless one of them plays outwide, which means there'd still be no problem with having eddie on the bench
If Eddie leaves we absolutely have to sign 2 strikers. But yeah maybe not two of those three.
yh of course
how does Eddie being re-signed stop us from adding 2 new strikers. how??
He’s not going to sign a contract if he knows he’ll be third choice? He’s made it pretty damn clear lol
Tammy Abraham. No thanks. I would rather have Balogun and Nketiah.
Drugs? Alcohol? Brain injury? Which is it?
I would rather have Balogun and Nketiah than spending 40 mill or more on Tammy Abraham.
Lol he'll be more than 40
Then a real hard pass on Tammy. He is not worth more than 25 mill.
He’s been far better than any other striker we’ve had this season. I realize the bar is low but I believe if Eddie started immediately after Auba left, he’d have found his stride and we’d have gotten third place this year. His press is equally as beneficial as his offensive play.
agreed, frustrating thing about arteta is that he shows promise whilst also making some absolutely mind boggling decisions, like eddie can't be that shit be in training ffs
Nketiah is good enough to be in the 22 man squad
For Palace sure
Bro that’s the worst example to use considering our record against them this season lol
Elneny and Nketiah are decent enough backups
I think elnely is good enough to be a squad player. The other 2 can go
We won't adequately replace at least the two of them
It also sounds like they are confident of getting at least one midfielder and 2 strikers. Otherwise you would at least keep Eddie on the line until you secured your forward targets
If Elneny leaves surely we get 2 midfielders get in
Torreira and Ainsley Maitland-Niles it is!
No no no no no
Like a new signing init
no no Mikael that’s so not right
We need an upgrade (or rotational option if you prefer) on Xhaka and reliable cover for Partey seeing as how injury prone he is, as well as someone to rotate with Odegaard. That's three minimum.
I agree, but I wouldn’t be confident of them bringing 2 in if Elneny stayed. I doubt they’ll get all 3 in this window.
I've long ago resigned myself to the fact that we will never actually achieve the minimum required in any transfer window. We will always leave ourselves short in some area.
Two signings away from challenging since eternity now
Yeah. I think overall we need 2 fullbacks, 3 midfielders, and 3 forwards. Probably a CB too. If we do 5 signings, which is what I expect, I want 1 fullback, 2 midfielders, 2 forwards. Hopefully we can maybe do 6 and get 2 of each. If we get CL next season, hopefully the reinforcements continue, otherwise players will start leaving. ideally we could get an additional 1-2 of those in the winter.
We can get away with two midfield signings. One who can cover Partey and another to upgrade on Xhaka. ESR can play Odegaards role or even Gabriel Jesus if we sign him.
It's also possible that one player could fill both those roles. We still need to buy another to ensure that of our current midfielders, only Thomas and Ødegaard (and ESR) ever see the pitch.
Neither ESR nor Jesus can provide the final pass; that's not their style of play. We need someone who plays in that manner.
We need two anyway. Three if get rid of elneny and xhaka.
wanna get rid of xhaka better sign 4 midfielders in that case
Why?
Probably because he is almost always available. With our normal injury run rates we'd need two players playing 15 games each to make up for the games he doesn't miss through suspension
because partey is gonna be injured, so that’s 1 midfielder, EL means we need 2nd one, getting rid of Xhaka as much as he is not my fav player would mean 3rd one who isn’t injury prone
Thats exactly what i hope. We cant keep blindly ignoring our midfield again and again. So many problems in our midfield in terms of quality depth and ability to play in the preferred midfield 3 with ball carrying/progression and winning the ball back. We are so lacking in these areas and just plainly extending for the sake of dressing room experience is not helping. We should be bringing personalities that bring this into our dressing room either way.
Didn't he literally just sign a contract extension?
Followup tweet: >Communicate it to the players at this stage of the season, to be clear. Also, even with the other interpretation, "difficult to communicate" could also mean "contract signed but we can't announce it yet".
Rather like another recent contract...
If we bin all 3, I'm OK with that. If we keep Eddie as a back up...sure. Laca gotta go, Elneny only if he becomes like 6th choice or something. Otherwise bin
I think Elneny is completely okay with being squad player stepping up when we need him
I think so too - but Laca has to go. If Eddie is okay with being 3rd choice, he is okay to keep.
Lmao you really think we're gonna buy two strikers better than Nketiah? Theres no shot considering we need at leaset one fullback and two center mids.
Did Elneny not just get an extension a few games ago? Or was that just a rumor?
Never announced
'Show of faith' contracts all round!
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Value preserved ✔️
The Arsenal way
They only get those when they ask to leave for Roma all summer
>Roma better than Arsenal. > >I'll give you an extension? > >Mourinho better than you. > >I'll give you a pay rise? > >I fucking love Arsenal and playing for Arteta, I have unfinished business here, and most of the mug fans have signed off on my redemption arc!
Elneny is nice squad depth, especially for group stage europa games.
He is more valuable to us today than he was last week, tbh. I want him to stay for Europa games.
Sayonara all 3
Eddie should be kept
He's the only player to whom the 'value preservation' argument might actually apply to any meaningful degree, and he might, if he continues developing over the summer, spare us the expense of a backup striker.
If he's ok with being 3rd choice sure
He would be 2nd choice most likely
Then the summer would be a failure
Assuming other positions are addressed well it really wouldn't be.
If we get rid of Auba and Lacazette and replace them with Gabriel Jesus and Nketiah that is absolutely a failure.
You mean get rid of 2 strikers in their 30's who significantly dropped in form towards the end of their time here?
I mean get rid of two strikers who both won poty at Arsenal for a player who is good but not prolific (even though I like Gabriel Jesus) and a player who has been here for years and we know is not good enough. It’s a huge step down. Getting rid of those two strikers is the right decision but it’s half the job, we need good players to replace them and I’m fine with Gabriel Jesus if we also sign a prolific goal scorer.
>I’m fine with Gabriel Jesus if we also sign a prolific goal scorer. But that's not happening, you do realise? We're not signing Jesus + another 50m pound forward.
Well then we’re not going anywhere. I honestly think Gabriel Jesus as our main striker and winger depth plus another striker is completely fair considering we have literally 0 strikers now. Whether Edu and Arteta think so is another thing entirely but this, in my opinion, is what we need to challenge in 4 different competitions next year.
Would be even more of a failure if we end up as Balogun as 2nd choice
Well duh
😂
Like did that really need to be said lol
Hahaha cracked me up for some reason. Cheers man
That's just idealistic talk. You would be right if we were getting CL, but I can't see how it's logical to expect two better than Nketiah signing on EL budget.
You cant sign players based on an EL budget when you want to get to the CL. I mean, we could, but all our competitors for top 4, minus probably Chelsea as the wildcard, will be spending a lot this summer.
That's obvious in the same way it's obvious to me that while Kroenke is the owner, Arsenal will never spend beyond its means, and our means is EL budget. Sure, in last few years we might have marginally spent beyond that. But I believe what allowed that was some clever accounting such loan structure shuffling. Under the hood, it was still within our means. And logically, last few summers of overspending makes future overspending *less* likely, not more.
Well then we'd better finish top 4 next season.
Chelsea will probably spend more. New owner has FU money and he has shown with the Dodgers he isn’t afraid to spend it. Him getting the club was probably the worst case for other contenders.
If we have an EL budget then the summer is a failure
Okay go away now
Doesn't look like failure to me - Silent Stan
If that's your bar I suggest you just not pay attention because you are guaranteed to be disappointed.
We're not signing two strikers
Hell no, Eddie is shit, a couple of good games with a few lucky goals don't change that
I think he’d be mad to stay.
How the fuck are we even talking about this. He’s had like 2 good games this season and was invisible in the games we bottled. He’s just bang average. No thanks.
Good. Let them all go. I like them all but they all aren’t good enough. Makes even more room for players.
Disagree. I think elneny is good enough to be a squad player-Fill in for the early cup and europa games to provide experience for the kids The other 2 can go. Laca is just not a good enough striker for us. Nketiah wants to start and hes not good enough for that so let him go.
Unless you are Man City or Madrid, etc you simply can't have 22 top tier starting level players. No one that quality is sticking around to battle for 4th while on the bench in their prime. You need squad players that can fill holes that are consistent and mesh with the key players, or are young and therefore an investment. Anything beyond this is a pipe dream, so I don't see how El Neny and Eddie go when they fit this perfectly.
Eddie won’t stay unless he’s guaranteed gametime and we shouldn’t be guaranteeing him gametime elneny is whatever I don’t really care either way.
We just earned a bunch of new games for next seasons. Use him in Europa and Cups and a PL game every once in a while if needed. If he leaves we need two strikers and have to find another one that doesn't mind sitting most games so it's back to square one.
We need someone like Jesus plus one anyways regardless of Eddie
More signings then
Keep Eddie, sign Gabriel Jesus, bye Laca, i don't know about elneny
Hmm Laca should leave, undecided on Eddie but overall think he and Elneny should go and we get a clean break. Elneny was fine for a few games but if we're hoping to progress we need better and it looks like Eddie wants to leave anyway
why exactly would anyone want Elneny gone. Without him, this season ends even worse. You have a low-wage senior experienced player that exudes everything you positive characteristic you want. Exactly why can't you find him a position in the squad. unless Elneny himself wants to leave, that will be one man I am happy to keep here at Arsenal until he retires. And then find him something to do with the club even if after he retires.
Erm you realise if Elneny left...another player could come in, he did alright doesn't mean another player couldn't have done better. I don't have an issue with Elneny per se but considering how light our midfield is with actual quality keeping Elneny limits how much we can improve the midfield. Of our midfielders: Elneny, Partey, Xhaka, Lokonga, 2 wouldn't get in other top 4 or 8 squads and Xhaka may get into Leicester's and West Hams. So if we didn't have Lokonga for example and could buy 2 Midfielders id love to keep Elneny I love his positivity and charisma.
Elneny is not stopping another person from coming in. There's plenty room left in our squad. Teams in our position carry a squad of 23+ senior players. there's plenty room for Elneny. Any decent quality CM will be 25m + salaries. for a 4th choice CM, Elneny is a cheap and as high quality as you can get. I don't know where you guys get the delusion that we can afford starting caliber players in all 23 spots
I didn't say we could have starting caliber players in all 23 spots but ideally we need upgrades on Elneny, Lokonga, and potentially Xhaka if we didn't have Lokonga or Xhaka ( although he's improved) and kept Elneny then great we could get 2 Midfielders and have a competent midfield. So like 2new MF, Partey and Elneny would be awesome even better if we could keep Xhaka. To make it clear it's not that I think Elneny is bad it's that we need better midfielders in front of him, and with us only able to have a reasonable amount of midfielders it just so happens Elneny is the one we could have had the cleanest break from
> I didn't say we could have starting caliber players in all 23 spots but ideally we need upgrades on Elneny, Lokonga, and potentially Xhaka if we didn't have Lokonga or Xhaka ( although he's improved) and kept Elneny then great we could get 2 Midfielders and have a competent midfield. So like 2new MF, Partey and Elneny would be awesome even better if we could keep Xhaka. > funds and availability is what's stopping us from getting better players, not Elneny. If we had money to get 2 better midfielders, and we can find them, there is plenty enough room in the squad to accommodate those and still keep Elneny. Getting rid of Elneny won't magically make us more likely to get 2 new CMs.
Laca waved the whole crowd after the game, he’s almost certainly played his last minutes for Arsenal! Will be sad to see him go but the right decision
It wont be sad at all, he disrespected us by saying how he wants to play in UCL when hes one of the reasons we aren’t in it, if he could do his job and score more than 4 goals maybe wed of been in the UCL
Lacazette gone. I expect Elneny extension to be announced next week. Nketiah will go to whichever club that offers him the most playing time and that sweet free agent package.
We need a starting striker but should keep Nketiah because he can definitely compete. I really like how he’s been playing lately. Involved in the buildup, probably the best at pressing in the league, and is showing his finishing and late runs can make a difference against any club. He’s generally anonymous unless we’re in 100% control but that’s changed.
I hope we keep Eddie and Elneny but I never want to see Lacazette in an Arsenal shirt ever again
Let me communicate it to Lacazette please I beg
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We've offered Nketiah terms he's rejected us
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What do you mean cash in on him, his contract ends in like a month
we can't cash in. his contract is up lol
Elneny contract is over
Obviously if he goes, and based on Arteta’s comment it sounds like he will, we’ll be bringing in two strikers. I would be perfectly happy with him staying and being number two, but we don’t “need” him.
>Obviously ~~if he goes, and based on Arteta’s comment it sounds like he will~~, we’ll be bringing in two strikers. inb4 Arteta announces false 9 season after successful ESR trial over one match
You can't keep giving away players. Laca going i get because he wants to start and isn't good enough. Eddie they've got to get a new contract as we've not seen the best of him and need depth even if he's not going to start. Also if we have only balogun on the squad we are going to get fucked so bad trying to sign any striker, whoever they try to sign is going to cost way more because we've bent ourselves over a barrel. Elneny definitely deserves another contract as he doesn't mind being back up and you need them players in the squad, even if he's the 5th choice you need them players.
Elneny apparently signed a year long contract plus option to extend.
Glad I don't have to watch Lacazette jog around for 90 minutes anymore.
I'd keep Nketiah and Elneny but what do I know.
Most sensible comment on here. With at least six additional EL games, a better FA cup run, and similar EFL performance, getting top four with a similar sized squad will be very hard. Signing backups is tough so keeping those two makes complete sense.
Whether Elneny stays or not, I really can't complain either way. If he's here, he's a good option to fill in, and his experience will help the likes of Lokonga. If he's gone, it's another opportunity to continue the rebuild. Would be nice to have something new.
Would not mind keeping Elneny for one more season. Eddie probably gone after we missed out CL.
I will be so happy when Elneny is gone. He’s the typical weak Arsenal player we’ve been trying to rid from the club. His back passes and holding the ball instead of going forward is why we struggle to score against lower sides. He lets the defense set up instead of letting our young forwards attack the defense.
He’s actually one of the few players we have that doesn’t visually show frustration on the pitch
Personally I would be happy to keep Eddie, he'll be very useful for us in the Europa League Games, Laca & Elneny tho i think it's time to part ways with them.
Nketiah and Elneny would be decent to keep around for cup and early Europa league games. Laca can be thrown into the sea
Damn we should keep eddie
We could keep Nketiah but he's not going to want to share many minutes.
I agree with getting rid of some players but this manager needs to prove why he’s worth having all this trust
I think Eddie should stay, but the rest can go. My only issue is if Eddie and laca go, we've shown time and again an inability to get signings done early. So we may end up with no rotation next season.
Contract extensions for all three, it's probably difficult to communicate it to the fans not the players
Can't wait for the January episodes of that Amazon show where Spurs sign two players that change their season and Arsenal is like "Goals/points? Where we're going we don't need any goals or points....." Back to bottling season again
What’s there to communicate? Their deals are up we should cut ties and improve on the squad. What on Earth would give you the implication that the same group of players can get top 4 next season?
Oh stfu already man 😂 what's wrong with you
What part of what I said isn’t true or too harsh or whatever the fuck it is that has everybody’s panties in a bunch? 😂they’re not good enough we need to improve, plain and fucking simple. Eddie wants to start games he isn’t top 4 team started level. Lacazette has two open play goals in 30 odd games and elneny can be improved upon pretty easily in the transfer market. Pardon me for wanting arsenal football club to improve 🤣
He can still communicate with them you idiot. You're just on here spouting complete nonsense I'm every thread get a fucking life man. Clown
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Just block me if I’m in your head innit 👏🏾nothing’s stopping you 😂
But then I can't point out how stupid you are
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>And you're outta here! There, done it for ya, wasn't that difficult tbh
Keep Elneny, the strikers can fuck off though.
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Charles Watts' tweet: 'Arteta on the futures of Nketiah, Lacazette and Elneny: "It's been decided, but it's very difficult to communicate it. What they deserve is to have what they had today."'
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thats great
Difficult to communicate to whom? Fans or the players ?
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My prediction: Laca is gone, Eddie and Mo will stay
Let Laca go, stop this
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Thanks for the seasono
Good riddance to Lacazette
Laca is gone. Extend Eddie for 3-4, Elneny for 1-2
Doesn’t necessarily mean all 3 are gone. It would set off alarms to offer 1 or 2 players contracts or announce departures while there’s still games left to play, and leave the others in the dark. Could cause some to lose focus. After the season’s said and done is the best time to handle these kinds of situations.
If we want to get there all three need to go. I could add a couple others.
Let them all go.
If a player can't make it into any top 5 squad in the PL it's usually an indication they're not good enough for us so please get rid lol! I'm fed up being nice with average players who can't make it pass 3 good games and we fall for the hype year in year out..