Arsenal is now prepared to sell Eddie Nketiah as they seek to replace him with a more prolific striker.
The Englishman has been a significant part of the Arsenal first team over the last two seasons, serving as one of the club’s two top strikers.
However, his goal-scoring record falls short of what is needed for Arsenal to compete for league titles or other trophies.
Recognising the need for more goals to secure silverware, Arsenal is open to parting ways with Nketiah.
The Daily Star reports that the Gunners are willing to sell the West Ham target for £30 million.
While this sum may not secure a top-tier striker, it will certainly facilitate the addition of a new player to bolster their squad.
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Nketiah cannot be our main striker and has to leave as we search for a better option.
If he remains at the Emirates and we sign another striker, it will be difficult for him to play.
However, we cannot force him out and expect him to understand that leaving the club will benefit him more.
It will be interesting to see if any interested party will get serious and approach us to sign him this month.
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Too late, should’ve been sold last season and kept Balogun as the backup while seriously looking at recruiting a better striker with the funds we spent on Havertz/Viera. At that stage Eddie had already been involved in around 150 1st team games, I mean I’m not sure what more needed to be seen of him to make the decision.
PJ-SA, Folarin Balogun has not set the league on fire playing for Monaco and is now valued less than the €30 million that Monaco paid Arsenal for him.
I commented on EN on the Paul Merson post – particularly about the value of his renegotiated contract. It seems absurd to me that a second string player can be worth £5m plus per year.
He will expect at least that from the buying club so for Arsenal to get rid, they need a low-ish valuation to be tempting. Easier said than done
One of the most sensible things to come out of the Emirates Stadium lately. Now, it’s really not rocket science to usher out Soares, El Neny, Tavares, Runarsson, Jorginho, Ramsdale, Tierney and maybe Partey since it’s too late for Arteta to use him for anything this season. There’s no point keeping the player till the summer window. It just delays the inevitable. Arteta has shown openly that he does not want him in his team. He needs him, but doesn’t want him. This list can bring Arsenal a top end striker and a defender.
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I’m not sure I understand your point about Partey regarding Arteta’s relationship with him. Arteta signed him and had high hopes that his arrival would spark a regeneration. Partey’s injury problems surely can’t be placed at Arteta’s door? He hasn’t played for months and wasn’t fit sufficiently last season.
Cedric is out of contract at the end of the season and is happily milking his contract until then.
So your logic says we sell seven players and recruit two to replace them?!
Great thinking batman and if Raya gets injured and having sold England’s number two keeper, your choice of keeper would be??? to see us win the PL and CL?.
30m in today’s market for an English striker who played for England and scored so and so goals for Arsenal, is too low. 45m should probably be our starting position, hoping for 37-40.
So you wanting to repeat the cycle of asking what others won’t pay, then having no other option but to let the contract run down?
Instead of taking 30m and having millions off our wage bill you’d rather pay the wages of a bit part player and receive nothing?
👍PJ-SA, what you suggest is good business practice, which apparently others don’t see (maybe because it’s not their money).
Almost every single time rumors come out that we want to sell Nketiah, Jesus gets injured. Why? Is Jesus trying his best not to get Nketiah sold? Is Jesus trying to save Nketiah? 😂 😂
Perhaps we should think in terms of selling Jesus and Zinchenko who appear to me to be as injury prone as KT?At least Nketiah is virtually always available unlike some others and I for one consider him to be a very decent player .We may well need a top line striker, but we desperately require a natural LB and a quality box to box operator with pace and energy to support Rice for the long term.It’s ironic that our North London rivals have no fewer than 5 full backs as Postegoglu looks to them to push forward and support their wingers at every opportunity.Compare this with our dependency on our wingers to make things happen.No wonder they look burned out half way through the season.
What is happening to us now was what happened to city, we want to sell Eddie to fund money for a good striker, City wanted to sell Gabriel to fund money for Halland.
Serious club. But Arteta went to pick us Gabriel thinking Pep doesn’t know what he was doing, today, Pep decision secured him a league cup, champions league and a World club cup
By” Gabriel”, presumably you mean Jesus.
Why not use the name we all know him by, meaning Jesus, as we have two OTHER GABRIELS in the team?
One being known as Gabriel ,our CB , the other as MARTINELLI.
On a 100k a week, we are not selling Nketiah. Teams that could afford him, can not afford his wages.
That’s it in a nutshell Reggie.
And, let me think🤔, who gave him that contract.
No one is talking how bad bukayo saka has been for the last 6 games, we do need another right winger to contest that position with him, i laugh out loud when saka fan boys are comparing him with mo salah, bukayo still has a long way to go. arteta is also part of our problems the guy hasn’t completed is coaching course, he should go learn from klopp and guardiola this guy’s are ruthless and pragmatic in their approach to football. If saka was in man city with how badly he has been playing guardiola would have benched him, same with Jürgen klopp. it baffles me to see that the kids aren’t giving opportunity then what’s the need for our academy?
I beg your pardon Es.Yesterday I highlighted the fact that Nelson ,who was one of our better performers , was substituted whilst a very mediocre Saka player the entire game.There is a very simple way to rejuvenate Saka and Martinelli and that is by switching them so they can run and cross with their stronger foot.Will it happen? I very much doubt if Arteta has the nous to even consider it such is apparent disdain for anything conventional.
Such a simple move Grandad and one that seems not to have entered MA’s thinking.
All this nonsense about inverted players is so frustrating, when one sees our opponents always targeting the LB position, where Zinchenko (excellent player in his midfield role) is guaranteed to be caught out every game.
Nelson was indeed one of our better performers but was he actually that much better than Saka? Saka is being downgraded mainly because his finishing has not been at the high levels expected of him. For most of the game Saka was still more of a threat than Nelson.
Martinelli actually brought a different kind of threat for Liverpool to contend with. The disappointment is that his endeavours did not lead to goals.
The tactic you keep referencing (based on right footed wingers etc.) is old-fashioned and all modern managers will be well aware of it. The real question is whether it is likely to be effective when deployed against high level opposition in the PL. Unfortunately, you have provided limited rationale for the deployment of the tactic given the way Arsenal play and available personnel.
Grandad, I too am concerned about Mikel Arteta’s decision making, assessment of players and general football acumen at the level required for his position as manager of Arsenal FC.
Very good idea grandad.. this will change the dynamics of our attack if he eventually tweaks things, but I can’t see that happening the coach arteta is just too stubborn.