Arsenal’s progress last season, from bottling the top-4 race the season before to establishing themselves as Premier League title contenders, can be traced to many things. However, one thing we can all agree on is that the addition of Oleksander Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus was one of the reasons the Gunners improved.
The two Manchester City stars injected a belief that Arsenal had every chance of fighting for the league title, and that is just what they did. Zinchenko found a way to dictate play from left back; his technical ability saw him easily drift to the midfield and, at times, initiate attacks. Jesus saw Arsenal off to a bright start to the season; he got important goals and a link-up with Saka, and Martinelli managed to get the best out of the two Arsenal prospects.
Recent reports suggest Arteta is once again eyeing a double raid from Manchester City. This time, Arteta is set on recruiting Joao Cancelo and Aymeric Laporte. The two defenders have lost favor at the Etihad. Cancelo has for the last six months been out on loan at Bayern Munich, and it is believed that even upon his loan return, Guardiola wants him gone this summer. Laporte, on the other hand, lost his favor, and the headline arrival of Jasko Gvardiol to the Etihad makes it evident that his time there is up. Arsenal can have what they failed to have last season in these two players: quality, squad depth, and experience, if they manage to pull off these deals.
Zinchenko and Jesus may have helped Arsenal back to competing for the league; Cancelo, who can influence a game like Zinchenko does, and Laporte, who thrives on keeping possession, could be the missing pieces to the Gunners winning the league. It has already been proven that arrivals from Manchester City make Arsenal better, as we have seen.
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Am afraid, this ship has sailed.
Flim flam methinks.
Hopd they should complete this two deals
Laporte is a great player and a fantastic defender, one whose transfer I would really support. However, Cancelo has got disciplinary issues and I heard he is not happy at being benched and could create problems in the dressing room.
THIS IS A FIGMENT OF SOMEONES IMAGINATION. ESPECIALLY NOW THAT TIMBER IS INCOMING.
Cancelo was a possibility at some stage but nt anymore.
Are we looking to build a squad of 100 players like Chelsea or what? With the imminent arrival of Timber,surely that will be sufficient cover for defense both in terms of quality and quantity. There’s always a danger to having too many players. They can’t all play and some will end up becoming disgruntled and a hindrance to harmony within the squad. Zinchenko, Tierney, Saliba, White, Timber, Tomi, Kiwior and Gabriel sounds good to me.
Additionally, if you register too many defenders, they’ll be fewer slots in the squad for the rest of the positions.
This news isn’t real.
We are not getting any of them
True, we don’t need Cancel or Laporte in our squad. Arsenal is complete as per now.
But also put in mind that we have Soo many and competitive games this season which games also need many and quality players if we are to do something this season. One of the reasons why we failed to top the league was fatigued players , the likes of party who got an injury bcoz of Soo man games played.
They can recruit but the question is, is the club able to afford to pay the wages of these all stars thy are bringing? Just to ask.
We don’t need any more city players to win the league. IMHO the title was ours to lose which we actually did 😭 . For the first time in a long time I was so optimistic only to be brought back to earth.