LOSING XHAKA AND PARTEY IN THE SAME WINDOW IS A HUGE RISK BY I
This transfer window has come with excitement for Arsenal fans with the reported transfer businesses from the club so far. With Havertz already signed and White and Timber almost done (reportedly) there’s much for fans to be excited about.
What I like about this window’s business is the timing of the transfers. We are making efforts to get our players early enough for them to join the team as early as possible. That’s good for the team. We saw what the early signing of the likes of Gabriel Jesus did to our team last season. How they took their preseason form to the league.
While it is part of football for players to come in and go out, it is also true that every transfer business is a risk on its own. We have signed players in the past who were doing fine in their former clubs who failed to live up to expectation in Arsenal. Players like Willian and Cech didn’t leave up to expectation. On the positive side, we have our current captain, Odegaard and Sanchez who turned better players after they joined Arsenal.
We were close to the title last season. One of the reasons we couldn’t win it is lack of squad depth. It is understandable for the club to bring in players that are expected to strengthen the squad. But there are rumours that Xhaka and Partey are on their way out.
To lose two of the key starting three midfield players in our team at the same window would be a huge gamble on the team coherence. These two players when played together bring experience, understanding and stability to the team.
Both players have their limitations. Xhaka’s major limitation last term is his lack of pace. While Partey’s case is lack of consistency at the end of the season. Most of the players struggled towards the end of the season.
Looking at other options in their positions, Jorginho is good with passes, but he does not have the type of command Partey has in that area. Lokonga has a long way to go. He needs to play with experienced players. We don’t know the club’s plan for El-Neny. I don’t see Arteta playing Zinchenko as part of midfield three. It seems the inverted wingback position suits him more.
Declan Rice understandably has qualities on and off the pitch. He might require time to understand the midfield players in the team. With our achievement last season, I don’t think we have that time and patience to wait for team coherence as a result of reorganizing the midfield players.
Though as a fan, I don’t know what is going on at the management side of the club, I believe they are taking the step they believe is best for the club.
I hope they at least retain either Xhaka or Partey.
By I
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White still not signed?😂😂😂
I still believe we haven’t seen the best of Partey yet. Xhaka has been a trooper for Arsenal and has given his all. Especially after a difficult period at the club. However, Xhaka wants to leave now (if reports are true) and we should let him for the right price. But to lose Partey too would have a negative impact on the squad due to too much change too soon. You can’t just swap or change an entire midfield and expect instant results. It could cause a slow start to the season which we may never recover from in time to challenge for the EPL title? Partey still has more to offer I’m sure.
Rice will sign this week no stress.
Letting go of both Partey and Xhaka would be a huge risk imho. At least keep one of them(preferably Partey) as you run the risk of having too much change in the Midfield area with Rice and Havertz needing to get used to playing alongside each other let alone Odegaard which could affect football results in the Short term which wouldn’t be very good for another expected title charge.
However if we were to bring in someone of top quality (not Lavia although he is very talented) like Caicedo (unfortunately on his way to chavski) then I would be okay with that and we might be able to get away with it.
Replacing Partey is easier said than done, maybe impossible to replace him in this window, but I refuse to believe this sick rumor, the Ghanaian is not prepared to play second fiddle to Declan Rice.
Thomas Partey natural abilities is of such to get him any team on this planet.
Yes, as long as the newcomers can perform as good as Xhaka and Partey did
With the players bought and the players we have a feel a shift in formation might be in Arteta’s plan. White/Tomi Saliba/timber Gabriel/Kiwior are all top quality options in the 3 cb positions in a back 3. The next question is where does Arteta want Rice to play. Will he be the lone 6 or will he play alongside Odegard in the number 8. Personally I would play him alongside Odegard and bring in Lavia if Partey is to leave.
Ramsdale
White Saliba Gabriel
Lavia
Odegard Rice
Saka. Havertz Martinelli
Jesus
Bench- Turner, Kiwior, Tomi, Timber,Jorginho, Viera, ESR, Nelson, Eddie and Trossard.
Ideally we would need another cm and forward/winger to really complete the team.I can’t see us having the funds bringing in 4 players.
You already sent Tierney out of the team
Blowing 105 million on Rice overpaying for Havertz and making him top earner. Letting Party and Xhaka go are all bad moves. Lazy Edu should be getting his scouts to look in South America and finding the best there is. Really poor business from Arsenal. Can’t understand these moves. Very knee jerk.
Go home, Peter; you’re drunk. Or an idiot. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not even Jon Fox, the most cynical amongst us, can call our business so far ‘really poor’.
Yes, the price for Declan Rice is extreme but if we hope to compete at the very highest level, you need to very best players. Not some unproven 17 year old who has only played a handful of games in a terrible league.
The signings of Rice, Havertz, and Timber are the best signings from any transfer window as a fan of Arsenal that I can remember, and I’ve seen a lot of them. Perhaps you’ve just grown accustomed to mediocrity.
Who would you have had us buy instead? Mbappe? De Bruyne? Maybe We can resurrect Henry and Patrick Vieira? The fact is Rice is the best Defensive Midfielder currently available, Havertz is an excellent technical attacker, and Jurrien Timber is a smooth, skilful defender/midfielder who can pivot with Ben White. The business done so far is excellent. Open your eyes.
A decent article. I could not however see any point in mentioning Elneny or Lokonga, as neither will play any part in our PREM, barring an injury crisis.
We urgently need to get both these way sub par players out of our club.
The plans for el-neny : he extended one year no ? Will be around and I guess that this friendly and influential guy may stay in a certain trainer role at the end of next year.
I think that Arrêta would probably love to keep Party around but he is the only very valuable player in the transfer market that is rather “old” + a bit injury prone. He is 30 years old. He has only two years remaining on his contract. His value will drop next year. So it makea sense, unfortunately, to sell him this year if we are to go after Rice Havertz timber and I suppose Romeo Lavia or any other younger strong DM (as Lokonga does not seem ready). This is 250m for all of them. No way we will splash that amount without doing at least one big sale (Partey) or a couple (balogun, Eddie ?). We must not forget that unfortunately we lost a lot in of money in the recent years with players sold under their value (Mkhitaryan, Mavropanos, Leno, AMN that could have been sold for 20/25 etc…). I did not mention Xhaka. If we sell Partey I would have liked that he stays but would he want to being behind Havertz and Rice ? Or would he accept to share roles ? It seemed he was willing to stay more.
There seems to be NO SPECIFIC NEWS either way, about Partey either staying or leaving. Lots of conjecture, opinions, rumours, assumptions, but NO ACTUAL NEWS.
QAe are now onto July and pre seasontraining resumes very soon Usually, UNLESS ther is specific news this late in thr summer, it usually means no change to the status quo. Meaning that PARTEY is not leving .
Now , I do not know this for sure of course and perhaps someone does and would like to tell us.
But please ,UNLESS you have actual NEWS, spare us further conjecture, opinions, speculation. etc.
I far prefer reality to mere rumours almost all of which (rumours) prove groundless in general.
I have not been through biggest fan of Arteta, and I think he still has a lot of maturing to do as a manager before he is the real deal, but you have to credit the man for seeing the weakness in the team and addressing swiftly and decisively by signing better players than we previously had. We will be fine without Partey and Xhaka. Better even.
If Arsenal loses both players, it’d be the usual case of a good first eleven and nothing else. But if we keep them both in addition to the signings already made, we’d be a better team blending stability with upgrade quality. The spending that would guarantee the replacement of the quality both players bring would be enormous and probably unaffordable
In my view, I would like to see the Arsenal manager do the the undoable by bringing in Caicedo. He is such a big talent, young and could be a perfect replacement for Thomas Partey. Arsenal should not wait any more but to sign him and bring in Cancelo as well.
It would be foolish to sell Party. He is still a good player. If Arsenal get one or two injuries they will be short. Next season will be tougher. I think they should keep him at least until the new signings settle in.