Arsenal are interested in a move for Sandro Tonali, but the midfielder is attracting strong interest from several clubs, with Manchester United also keen to add him to their squad when the transfer window reopens.
The Italian has been in impressive form for Newcastle United since arriving from Serie A and has established himself as one of the standout midfielders in the Premier League. His performances have attracted attention from top clubs across England, with Arsenal now viewing him as a player capable of improving their already talented midfield options ahead of next season.
Arsenal and United Monitor Tonali
Tonali reportedly wants to remain in the Premier League, which could hand Arsenal an advantage in the race for his signature, although Juventus are also believed to admire the midfielder and dream of bringing him back to Italy in the future.
The battle for his signature is becoming increasingly competitive, with The Sun reporting that Manchester United are also serious about signing the Newcastle star. Both clubs are expected to strengthen heavily during the transfer window as they prepare for another demanding campaign.
Tonali Seen as Midfield Upgrade
After winning the Premier League title, Arsenal are expected to continue improving their squad with high-quality additions in key areas. The club already possesses a strong midfield unit, but Tonali is viewed as a player who could raise the level of the group even further with his composure, energy, and technical quality.
Adding another elite midfielder would also provide greater depth and competition within the squad as Arsenal look to challenge on multiple fronts next season and maintain their status as the strongest teams in England.
Knowing he could compete for major honours at Arsenal may encourage Tonali to consider a move to the Emirates Stadium if the Gunners intensify their pursuit. His experience in both Serie A and the Premier League has made him one of the most highly regarded midfielders in European football, and Arsenal may view him as an ideal addition to strengthen their squad for the future.
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Tonali
Kroupi
Livramento
Done.
Um. Left wing? Keeping Martinelli and Trossard?
Trossard will be aging out in a season or so, and Nelli is our best selling option. LW has needed work for years. For me, under the assumption that Alvarez is not a realistic option, it’s cash in on Nelli and go in for Barcola. This assumes PSG get Yan Diomande of course. If not, Rogers would also be interesting as a Trossard successor. Calafiori and Hincapie are quite capable of progressing the ball rapidly up the left side. Rogers can obviously cover/rotate with Ødegaard too, which against the opponents we face in the current era would be ultra helpful.
RB: I wouldn’t hate us getting Tino as a backup if White goes, but I’m extremely wary of his injury record. Doesn’t seem like an upgrade on Benny Blanco in that regard. For tactical, spending and squad reasons, would (for me) be better to keep Benny and look to a young player that is more reliably healthy. Unfortunately Josh Nichols didn’t make the grade, so maybe an outstanding dribbler who can give and go in the defensive triangles with Saka and Saliba like Marco Palestra for example.
Nope. None of those.
Livramento would outdo California for sick notes.
Kroupi, where would you play him, LW or no.9? and who would you play him ahead of? Squad player here at best, rarely played most likely, and his career progression dented by that.
Tonali. When the link plastered the media end of the last window, it wasn’t Arsenal showing interest, it was Tonali’s camp behind it all. Who is this bang average midfielder an improvement on and regular starter ahead of, in our squad? We are well stocked in what Tonali offers. We can also get a Tonali cheaper elsewhere than what Newcastle would ask, even if we did need one. We don’t. There’s a suspicion he comes with baggage – after the polite period of welcomed and loved back into the Newcastle fold, the Newcastle hierarchy are trying to offload him, hence all his linkages in media with other clubs. I’ll make a prediction, Tonali does leave Toon this summer, but not to a Prem club, and you will never hear of him again.
MG, no offense but the bit about Kroupi reminds me of your posts last summer where you were very lukewarm at best about Eze being bought, because you were finding it hard to see where he’d fit in. At the time I was arguing that he’d be the primary rotation option for Ødegaard, and occasionally played out on the left. Which is basically how it panned out, so as regards Kroupi – and I can’t always predict the future! – but let’s start with the fact we currently have three strikers: Gyok, Havertz and Jesus. Jesus is clearly on his way out. So first up, he would be a direct replacement for Gabi’s role, albeit less technical, and given that he is 19, in a couple of seasons a potential successor to Havertz and/or Gyokeres as a starter. Kroupi is more clinical than all of them, a profile we’ve also been begging for for some time! He also often plays as a second striker right now with Evanilson, so it might be that in some phases he plays alongside Gyok. Or later on if we’re chasing a goal, with Havertz.
So this would give us 3 very good strikers with different qualities for different phases and different games, and then after this season, he’d be fully bed in as a player. And then we consider our options again.
Tonali
Kroupi
Livramento
Barcola
DONE
Yep sell Martenelli keep Trossard one more year as per contract
Makes sense
Tonali is a no-brainer for me. Imagine a midfield with Rice / Zubi / Tonali / Merino / MLS / Ødegaard / Dowman / Eze (and maybe even Rogers).
Exactly buddy
Right back sorted already
White / timber
No need to change
Left back –
Cala / livramento
Upfront
Havertz / gyork/ merino (back up)
We don’t need major surgery just a couple of additions and sales
I can’t see us signing Tonali. He simply is not worth the £80m that will be asking, that would be £20m more than we paid for Zubi for an inconsistent player who has not scored a premier league goal all season.
Absolutely correct on every point. Let’s call out and end this daft media story here and now. Our season is not even over yet, and getting drowned out by silly media trying to tell us Berta has this and that all lined up. We know our club better than the media who invent these story’s – it’s clear Jesus (who belongs to Jesus, bafflingly) Martinelli, White and Nanweri have chosen to leave, and some if not all have their move settled already. The left forward will be the most expensive incoming this window, and the riskiest signing as well, for just like signing of the centre forward Gyokeres, the whole team will have to learn how to play to the strengths of the big money Left Forward, or a lot of games will just pass them by.
Nabilo,
You should check your facts before making an incorrect statement. Zubimendi has scored 5 Premier League goals in his first season, which was quite good for a player in his position.
I know how many goals Zubimendi has scored, I was talking about Tonali who has no goals
👍. Perhaps I should read comments more carefully before replying😱
The way the game is tactically evolving though, especially against other top level clubs, the thinking is that to remain at the top we will need another specific profile in midfield. The links to Tonali specifically are because of this profile identification. It’s not about how many goals he scores. He is very similar to Thomas Partey in his strengths and weaknesses. This is the balance we are missing a bit currently that neither Rice, MLS or Zubi quite fits, and certainly not Norgaard. There may be cheaper players that fit this profile, and we only have a war chest that can stretch so far, so we’ll see.
Tonali is years ahead of Zubimendi in every single department…simply put, Tonali is a clone of Rice-good for every single midfield position, attack and defense.Zubimendi is not even near him…
No. None of that’s true.
Are you Tonali’s agent, Antonio? Why have you been determined to sell your client to Arsenal all year?
Just pay Newcastle the money, it will be well spent.
My take on the Italian international is well documented
Here we go again, turning our unsubstantiated opinions into facts!!
We have no idea whatsoever who’s going to leave, either by choice or MA wanting to move them on.
Likewise, we have no idea who MA wants to sign, as all these rumours are just media based and the club never comments on incoming players until they have actually signed anyone.
In my opinion, the best way to find anything out, is to use our official site and, that way, avoid all the nonsense created by uninformed media and fan rumours.
Absolutely well said.
However Jesus, Martinelli, White and Nanweri won’t be here next season, we know that much, Gordon will be, and Ed Quintero in 2027, and Max Dowman won’t ever play wide right for Arsenal again, he’s central from here – what media calls no.10.
We know that much, so no point trying to keep these secret any longer.
I know you have special powers, Moon Girl, so that makes you at least one step ahead of everyone else, but who is going to be replacing White and where is Nwaneri going? Just asking for a friend…
Nwaneri is going to Germany, and Martinelli to Italy. Part of these two moves is how pure profit sells help balance the books in the round of all transfer business done, and part is neither will get enough game time going forward in relation to what the clubs talking to them are promising. Similar to Cole Palmer to Chelsea for example.
Jesus finds himself 3rd choice for 9 nor even used out wide, he might stay in Prem with another club, but Palmeiras is a serious possibility.
White is moving to Everton to be first choice starter.
Skelly may still move to Man Utd, as they have a massive rebuild in order to compete over multiple comps next season rather than just one, and have made him a great offer.
How do we know these things? Well remember when the Rice to Arsenal was set up between club and player in late winter, but the media still sold stories about Rice to Man City or Man Utd right up to the moment Arsenal chose/were able to close, the deal with West Ham? It’s the same here, we don’t have to do too much research to know all the deals between player camp and signing club back in early spring this year, that won’t be announced until agreement between clubs for ages yet. Isak to Liverpool was another example of deal agreed between player camp and Liverpool in winter last year, Newcastle made a right mess of it.
As for incomings, I would put here MA won’t just buy someone who’s good at what they do, they would need convince him they will do what he wants them to do. awful lot of what’s touted as best forwards and wingers in Europe and worlds best, don’t defend. Often allowed by club contract just to save their energies for offensive moments, but sometimes fall out with managers who ask for more off the ball, and to take serious interest the teams defensive shape. We may know them because of their attacking stats and publicity, do we know them for working as hard off the ball as Martinelli, Saka, Kai, Victor and Ode or know them for title winning last man tackles like Leo’s at West Ham? If the best ten left wing forwards in the world don’t want to work hard off the ball and work hard on the teams defensive shape, this Arsenal manager is not signing any of them.
just making this up lol
MG, I see you have seen the media rumours linking Nwaneri with BVB. It wouldn’t surprise me of that happening.
BTW, out of the 2, only Nwaneri would be pure profit, as we bought Martinelli.
No Martinelli is pure profit because of the age he came in and terms he came in. The Quintero Bros will probably be the same.
No, we paid a fee for Martinelli, so if he leaves it won’t be pure profit. We would make a profit, but it won’t be pure.
No, he was too young to count when we paid fee. He went into acedemy, is classed as home grown = pure profit.
You have gone further than I expected from my post MG. Herr Drier suggests Borussia Dortmund are interested but an expected transfer figure might be too high to come off.
Regarding White, you didn’t offer up a replacement. White is still a very good player and when fit again would imo still have tremendous value to the club.
However, to keep refreshing players – both in and out – is something I agree with. Change should be organic but there are other players within the club who need moving on before White I’d have thought and offloading too many at once and then bringing in too many could be problematic
SueP, absolutely right about moving out too many and bringing in too many. Just look at how Liverpool fared when they done those two things.
And the year before Slot did almost zero. Didn’t pan out too well HD
MG
On re – reading your post you mentioned that Skelly may, in your opinion, go to Utd. Can you explain to me why Arsenal would sell him to Utd and your reasons why you don’t think he has a future with us? Or if it’s the case that Arteta doesn’t think he has a place for him within his squad
I like Tonali but l think if Anderson goes to City ( as is now expected ) Tonali will go to United. I am on the fence with Zubimendi, it’s his first PL season so l would not mark him down too much. Let’s see how he does next season. MLS needs games in midfield and they can alternate. If Nogaard goes we don’t need to replace him as a priority, we have three who can play DM with Rice, Zubimendi and MLS. That said as an around midfielder I like Alex Scott, he is technically good and has quite an engine.
Also asking for a friend…. how do you know Martinelli, White and Nwaneri will be gone?
For instance, whose going to buy Ben White, when the level of his serious injury is unknown and the time level to get him back to full PL fitness is around the start of next season?
Why would MA sell Martinelli, a Brazilian international, who was our best player, along with Rice and Raya, during our unbeaten run to the final of the CL?
As for Nwaneri, where is this information coming from?
I think Jesus will leave, especially after his remarks about playing time and his injury list… but that’s my opinion and I have no facts to back it up.
Of course, we need to replace any player we might let go, so, if we can’t sign anyone, why would we deplete our squad anyway?
I refer the Gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Medial knee ligament is no issue to Whites career, it will soon be completely healed up. Harlaands injury might be more serious to career performance decline, as it’s not clearing up. Glasner shared something interesting in his presser yesterday: this stage of season, lots of players playing through pain, it depends on how injury restricting them. When players are out there we shouldn’t think of them being 100% – fit to play a part or start is more like a judgement call than science, like transfer medical is. No medical person fails a player in transfer medical, they merely give an honest assessment to buying club, who decide to continue or not. A failed medical is non medical decision, based on medical report, and fitness tests are likely a variable threshold from place to place too.
Soon as Man City were no longer competing, Erling vanished you noticed? How many games did he enter this spring bringing something in with him?
So what’s the “massive offer” manure have offered Skelly then?
Why would Everton buy White until the extent of his injury is known and, likewise, the extent of Timbers injury is known to The Arsenal?
We don’t need to make “pure profit” at all, as we have untold wealth coming in from being PL champions and, at the minimum, reaching the CL final.
Using Isak as an example to explain your opinion on Martinelli, White, Nwaneri and Jesus is a red herring, as Isak made it abundantly clear he was leaving and refused to play in order to get the move – none of the above Arsenal players have even hinted that they want to move away (perhaps Jesus?) and, in fact, have expressed their desire to stay at the club.
I have no doubt that the club will strengthen the squad even further during the summer, but I’m not going to predict anything, because, like all fans, we just don’t know what is going on behind the scenes and, furthermore, I’m not going to pretend that I do!!
they make it up for attention
they said yesterday Gordan transfer is sealed
it’s just made up
It is sealed, it was sealed between club and player 2 months ago.
The MSM and Pundit talk of Gordon off to Bayern is intriguing.
Well it’s all agreed between Barcelona and Newcastle for Gordon.
He did play brilliantly away at Barca, it’s funny how often someone signs someone based on good display against them.
So much for you saying it was sealed 2 months ago 😂
LOL. He’s off to Barcelona though.
There’s always “transfer pundit” speculation at this time of year and some of it even sounds like it makes sense…
“They make it up for attention”
Well I’m certainly not an attention seeker! I’m a football analyst, tactics, psychology, finances, I understand all that.
It’s not so much clubs selling players, clubs buying players – the players and agents have a lot of say too. And that is how we know what’s actually about to happen, when the players themselves chose the offer – Rice to Arsenal, Isak to Liverpool, back in the winter before their moves – there’s noise about it at the time for those looking for it. MSM? I pay no attention to MSM, they are outdated with more interested in idea of its clubs selling and buying players, and that it’s all up in air and not decided before summer comes, than the actual truth of players making choices and decisions, not clubs, and the actual truth that due FP rules, no window is made up on the hoof – the money you have, how you spend it on area’s of the team, is all decided years in advance, 5 or 6 windows in advance. It’s the only way it can be done these days, transfers can no longer be done on the hoof without years of planning. It’s not that old world of whose got biggest cheque book, these days the money is technically plumbed into a plan on three year cycles. That’s how we know what’s about to happen.
you said yesterday that the deal for Gordan to Arsenal was sealed ?
so you either made it up or your sources have zero credibility
got to be one or the other
A full medial knee rupture can take up to three months to heal properly and then more time is needed to regain full physicality.
As we don’t know the extent of White’s injury, as Everton also do not know, one would assume that, being dropped from the England squad, would indicate its a type three injury…. SO why would any club wait to see if White is going to recover?
They would look elsewhere during the transfer window wouldn’t they?
“medial knee”
There’s lots of blood flowing in there Ken, it’s not a career changing injury, it will be healed up perfect by July.
“We don’t need to make “pure profit” at all”
We do. Even though the FP rules are being relaxed, even though our income and prize money may look tasty, we are still limited by the fair play restrictions, and pure profit sales to open leeway in the market. Man City were good at doing this, Palmer for example.
Agree Dan – it’s made up by the media for click bait and by fans who seem to want to be seen as knowledgeable – remember Mudryk and how many times were we linked with players last season?
I believe it was over 100!!
I dont mind as long as this person can take the criticism when they are caught out
Let’s remember that Jesus, Martinelli, White and Nwaneri will, supposedly, be leaving the club this summer and see how that works out.
By all accounts, they are already done deals and it’s taken five years of planning in some cases!!
I wonder what happened with Eze and the transfer wrangle with the spuds?
Surely that deal was done long ago, as, in today’s transfer dealings, nothing can be done on the hoof!!
Then, of course, there was the Mudryk deal that we had “in the bag” after intense negotiations, only for chelsea, also after intense negotiations, suddenly came in and snatched him from under our very noses – surely that wasn’t done on the hoof?
There are so many examples of last minute buys, or clubs being gazumped that the thought that every transfer window has taken years of planning as suggested, is a complete nonsense.
As for selling our players because we need to make money and stay within fair play restrictions, when we’ve just proven that we have the most successful squad of players, with maybe just two or three players being bought in, will be making around £300,000,000 at a conservative estimate this season, just doesn’t make sense… especially as we have been planning our moves on a three year cycle and hadn’t got a clue how much money there would be in the kitty anyway!!
Unlike some on here, I’m not a football analyst, nor a tactical technician, don’t study the psychology side of the game and know very little about finance within the game of football, I guess I’ll just leave it up to the likes of those who say they know what they’re talking about… and keep a check on the comings and goings before next season begins.