With the Premier League on a break owing to the March internationals, it’s impossible not to think about what will happen in the summer.
Once the 2023–24 Premier League title competition is over, and hopefully Arsenal will have won it, Mikel Arteta will try again to improve his team. Transfer reports have mentioned Ivan Toney, Benjamin Sesko, Pedro Neto, Martin Zubimendi, and Douglas Luiz in relation to a summer move to the Emirates Stadium.
The Evening Standard believes they have a good idea of what Arsenal fans may expect, and they reveal the following:
Aaron Ramsdale, Kieran Tierney, Nuno Tavares, Cedric Soares, Thomas Partey, Mohammed Elneny, Albert Lokonga Sambi, Reiss Nelson, and Eddie Nketiah are among the players they report will leave to make room for new signings.
We should perhaps anticipate the completion of these deals:
Striker: in the first half of this season, Mikel Arteta’s team clearly lacked a ‘clinical striker’. If he fails to sign one this summer, he will have himself to blame.
Midfielder: There are reports that Mikel Arteta is considering signing a top central midfielder, which would allow Declan Rice to play as a box-to-box midfielder. This could result in another new midfield trio comprising Martin Odegaard, Rice, and the new midfielder.
Defense: Considering Arsenal’s injury issues this season (Timber, Zinchenko Tomiyasu, and Gabriel have all sustained injuries thus far), despite the firmness and reliability of those available, Arteta needs additional quality defenders as insurance in case of injury.
Goalkeeper: With Aaron Ramsdale expected to leave, a move to replace him is expected.
Everything seems to point to Arsenal having a busy summer transfer window. Like me, I know you can’t wait until then.
Sam P
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Sorry to break your fantasy minds, Ramsdale,Nelson and Nketiah are definitely staying!
Its you who have a fantasy mind VAMOS as you think those three will be staying. Not in hells chance for Nketiah or Ramsdale and only a small chance for Nelson.
I am willing to bet you too about the first two I list.
IT OUGHT TO BE OBVIOUS TO REALISTS AMONG US THAT A GOOD MANY LEESER PLAYERS WILL DEFINITELY BE LEAVING THIS SUMMER. To make space and provide funds for fewer but better incoming players.
Ramsdale, though a top player, wants out and will fetch a decent fee. He plainly will NOT hand around as second choice.
Isn’t that OBVIOUS??!!
I’m very much surprised Nelson hasn’t agitated for a move, as he’s wasting his time with us. Nketiah has had enough games (albeit usually as a sub.) to have proved his value, and should be sold to Palace for £20/30m. Ramsdale has been very shabbily treated, and will need to ply his trade elsewhere. The new sustainability rules will dictate that these three and others will need to be sold.
Why has Ramsdale been shabbily treated?
He got dropped/ousted in favour of another player who the manager favoured instead. It happens all the time. Not nice for him, but that is the name of the game.
Sorry to break your fantasy mind, but Ramsdale is definitely off; he won’t be content with being a distant 2nd, and no chance to compete for the 1st choice.
Nketiah is gone if a decent offer comes in. Arteta has seen enough (finally after 4 1/2 years) to know Nketiah is not Arsenal quality backup striker.
We can’t carry 2 strikers when neither scores with any reliability. Nketiah has had years and over 150 appearances to stake a claim, and has failed to do so. Time to move onwards and upwards from Nketiah.
Nelson is a tougher call. If Brighton or a club comes in and offers a good fee, I think Arsenal would sell the player. However, I don’t think he falls into the category of Tierney or Lokogna, where they are off at almost any discount price.
Welcome realism Grandad .
Why cannot MORE Gooners become realistic, instead of fooling themselves and being fantasists? It is SO juvenile! Sigh! Vamos had cleart put no actual thought at all into his post. He simply WANTS those three to stay!
Well, so he might, but that does NOTmean they WILL STAY, as all we realists know! I agre Nelson leaving will depend on who we can buy first. He MAY NOT LEAVE AT ALL.
BUT I HOPE HE DOES, AS WE NEED ALL TOP CLASS PLAYERS TO TRULY COMPETE WITH CITYS SQUAD.
This post was meant for both Grandad AND Durand.
I make you are both correct
They will go only if the price is right if not they will stay us if it is right for them
All as far as I am aware are on decent length contracts still
Why not round up the departures to 10 and include Vieira?There is no doubt five or six will leave but with FFP in mind will they all be replaced?
I agree, Vieira should move along as well. Patino is homegrown academy player and we have Nwaneri and Cozier-Duberry coming in the next year or 2, and I don’t see Vieira suddenly figuring it out, growing 5 inches, and adding 20 pounds of muscle to his teenage frame.
Durand. I agree with your overall assessment. Reiss Nelson is obviously an underrated player at Arsenal, based on playing time, if not salary. He needs to move on to progress his career. Similarly Ramsdale will seek a starting keeper position at another club.
I hope the view that Arteta is seeking a new DM to allow Rice to play box to box is correct. Vieira has been a waste of wages and squad position, as he lacks the physicality or skill to be the quality midfielder Arsenal requires. Arteta’s energy and hope that Vieira will come good, would in my opinion been better directed to Nelson and Tiernay.
Tiernay will leave if the offer is right, as he is totally out of favour with Arteta.
I think arteta believes that Vieira will come good – he had some good games earlier in the season, and I do think there’s a lot of talent in there to be unlocked. If he doesn’t play more next season, I expect then he’ll be off, but I don’t think he’ll be sold before then.
I would say Cedric, Elneny and Ramsdale are 100% leaving.
I think we will try our hardest to sell Nketiah, Nelson, Tierney, Tavares and possibly Partey (considering his fitness issues and wages).
I suspect ESR and ASL will stay because they still have couple years on and they aren’t on overwhelmingly high wages.
Who could be promoted is the interesting question.. Patino and Norton-Cuffy started well this season but have been benched lately. Biereth has been excellent. Nwaneri, Cozier-Duberry, Lewis-Skelly, Sweet and Walters have been on the bench already or are doing well for the U21s.
I would add ESR to that list and still consider it a realistic to-do list tbh. And if the club can bring in 5 quality players to replace that crowd, I think we’d be quite fine.
I have always maintained that there’s no point having a crowd of players who cannot influence a game. It’s not just enough to have a good 11 players on the pitch, it’s also important to have a bench as good as the pitch. That’s the mark of a great team.
So we are now accepting that Eddie Nketiah isn’t good enough ?
Took some of you ages to admit it
Dab
I think we all agree he isn’t but he done a job for us at times and might need to call upon hom from now to the end of the season
We tied him up on a 100k contract which at the time looked ludicrous but if we recoup 20m plus for him then a bit of decent business
Apologies Dan typo on your name 😔
Any ideas as to what club might pay £20 million plus and £100,000 a week plus to tempt him away from the bench AB?
Dan, always looking for an opportunity to say : I told you so!
Nine or more players are being discussed and you are picking on only Nketiah.
Good evening Ken
Just summarising on price
I could actually see someone like Palace, West ham coming in for him
Is he worth £20m
He worth what someone wants to pay for him
In this mad world of football now I wouldn’t be surprised if someone paid it
As for his wages that is a heads gone amount for a bench warmer but again not uncommon
If they don’t pay then we don’t sell
Or they rip up his contract and get him off the books that way if they want to get rid of him or not
Onwards and upwards
Strange AB that I can’t recall city or pool having to rip up so many contracts in just four and a half years.
Some might say what a way to run a football club, but if Stanley Kronkie is happy then who are we to question this ridiculous state of affairs?
I totally agree but every club has a sad story to tell about losing money on players
City.lost there captain of last season on a free
Pool had chamberlain go on a free
The football club industry is run on clubs losing money but just enough not get clobbered by ffp rules. It’s a mad insane world
As for silent stan
I despised him for such a long time on how he was running our club but I am happy to eat humble pie and say take a.bow SK as he and josh have put up for some of us to shut up
Some fans for some reason hate we are a cheque book club and throw money down the dra8n by buying players who we consider not worth it or rip up contracts and get rid of players
I am happy we are in that position and where the owner is happy to put his.mo.ney where his mouth is and take a chance
At this moment in time we are lucky but things can change in a blink of an eye so make the most of it
Onwards and upwards
Hi Allanball08
I think you made a good point about players leaving on a free at other clubs. I haven’t a clue how they run their contracts but there are always players willing to see out those generous deals in the hope of a generous signing on fee elsewhere. It’s a case of thanking Bosman – apologies in advance for any bad spelling there
But the difference is AB and SueP, a club ripping up a contract for their benefit and a player running down his contract to benefit himself are two different scenarios.
Off the top of my head, I can’t think of the last Arsenal player who run his contract down, but there are a few contracts that have been terminated by the club lately.
I’m not saying that it’s right or wrong, but I put out the question why is it only The Arsenal who seem to do this?
I’m hoping that ripping up contracts becomes a practice of the past.
It may not be a popular view, but the Ozil era departures were necessary imo. Similarly, Aubameyang being paid off was a vital step in restoring law and order to the club. I don’t care how good he had been, his behaviour towards the club at the end was appalling. Pepe is a different kettle of fish as discipline wasn’t the issue. Equally, Willian going was about both he and the club moving on quickly from a mistake.
It can be argued that Arteta was purging the squad to satisfy his ego as the man at the top. However, what we have ended up with is a highly motivated bunch of young men that don’t, on the face of it, have issues on Arteta’s management style.
I’d be seriously worried if terminating contracts became commonplace
Not sure it’s only Arsenal.
When Klopp took over at Pool saying “Rebuilding Liverpool is the most important job in football” he set about getting rid of a lot of players.
The Liverpool team Klopp first put out were all either sold or released.
7 Sold
9 Released (should be 10)
2 still there (Milner and Origi).
Link in a post below. Flanagan was left out for some reason. He was released in 2018 after loan spells from 2016 onwards (Klopp took over in 2015).
Clearing out dead wood takes time and comes at a cost (either money or playing performance).
Link:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-team-14244255
Probably Ramsey, running his contract down, Ken
The homegrown rule needs to be kept an eye on also, when letting all these English players leave.
Different scenario Jax he was offered a new contract that was then taken off the table abd and he was not offered a revised one… so in fact, the CLUB run his contract down!!
Yeah Ken, that’s right, probably Flamini then🤣
…the first time.
ken, some managers can develop players, others don’t have the patience and want to buy success. As you rightly say OK provided ownership will stump up the cash!
How much has Arsenal spent in the last 5 seasons and how many players brought in have been successful acquisitions to the Club?
Quite right OG, I think we’ve got a lot of “deadwood” that’s been accumulated in that time.
However, with Kronkie’s money and Arteta’s abilities we have progressed.
As long as we recognise that, then let’s enjoy the rest!!
We must acknowledge that most new players are likely to serve as substitutes, given the solidity of our starting eleven. Consequently, there’s a possibility of acquiring slightly better players than those we intend to offload. However, considering Arteta’s struggle to balance the squad, there’s a risk of these players eventually declining and reaching the same level as those we currently have. This could perpetuate a cycle of continually offloading players. On a separate note, if we were to acquire a midfielder and striker, would that mean our top earner, Havertz, would consistently find himself benched? If asked, we should sell him ASAP when we still can else at one point we will be ripping his contract.
the Midfielder incoming (or two) is a Defensive Midfielder (#6) whereas Havertz is Attacking Midfielder (#8)
the elephant in the room of the whole elite +£100m striker is they are not an automatic starter, particularly against elite opposition
e.g. Man City away on 31 March, our high-press box midfield so effective against Liverpool, Newcastle and Man City (home fixture) is not going to be ditched to bring in a striker
we tried the goal-scoring shoot-out last year against Man C and were thrashed 3 times, as in nowhere near, a different striker for us does not change that outcome
this is the challenge for Arteta, our Plan A current XI (lest conceded, most scored) is so effective right now that the new striker is effectively a Plan B when Plan A is not working, e.g. the West Ham style XI behind the ball ultra-low-block, it is that scenario where our new striker is needed, i.e. probably starting less than half our matches and happy to sit on the bench, not sure best way to spend +£100m and not sure such an elite player would accept such a role
hence why we might see a lesser known, lower cost, impact of the bench striker come in (e.g. Biereth, Sesko) rather than the superstar +£100m big names so many crave
there is a distinct risk the £100m new striker will not fit and not work
harsh reality time this summer, at least 9 leaving rather than as many as 9
out of contract – Cedric, Elneny, Jorginho (as it stands today)
time up at Arsenal – Tierney, Tavares, Lokonga, Partey, Marquinos, Ramsdale (too good and too expensive for the bench)
likely to go – at least one of ESR, Nelson and Nketiah, next will be Patino and Biereth unless promoted to 1st team, 11 other youth out on loan who have no future at Arsenal, and personally I would consider selling Zinchenko as I am not sure his frailty in defence outweighs what he offers going forward
as they are academy products ESR, Nelson, Nketiah, Patino is pure profit, and with each likely to get +£20m the financial benefit is too good for Arsenal, i.e. best part of £100m clean FFP money
Ramsdale to will fetch a decent fee, £40m, although probably not much profit
Partey, Tierney value has plummeted, lucky to get £10m
Tavares and Lokonga another £10m each
Zinc might get us £30m, have to be worth considering given injury record and our style of play is leaving him behind, i.e. 4 centre backs who defend first and attack second, Zinc other way around no longer fits ‘the best defence in the League’
so out of that long list I only see Jorginho (hopefully extend), ESR (still has plenty to offer) and Biereth (goal scoring stats we would rave about if wasn’t already an Arsenal player) staying and £150m in war chest
ruthless