Arsenal should start making money from player sales for a change

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Arteta has already made so much progress in assembling a strong Arsenal team that he can mount a strong PL title charge. Rice, Havertz, and Timber are reportedly guaranteed to join. Besides this, three players, like Saka, Martinelli, and Ramsdale, have signed new deals. Reiss Nelson and Saliba are also set to pen new deals this summer.

With the progress made on the ones staying to fight next season, it is time for Edu and Arteta to make some money with player sales.

There’s some money to be made from Nuno Tavares’s sale. West Ham and Galatasaray are, as per Ekrem Konur, keen on his deal. A bidding war for his services could benefit the Gunners.

Thomas Partey could also bring in some good money. He is attracting interest from Saudi Arabian and Serie A clubs; Juventus is frequently mentioned as his main Italian suitor.

Folarin Balogun already has a £35 million transfer price slapped on his head. He is heavily linked to an exit. Several PL clubs want him; Marseille in the French league is keen to get him on board and pair him with Alexis Sanchez.
Xhaka also, as per the latest reports, has a £20 million price tag slapped on his head. For the Swiss international, it is now upon Bayer Leverkusen to meet his asking price to complete his Bundesliga return.

Kieran Tierney could also move for the right price. Though at the moment, it is a mystery where he could go with Newcastle, and even Aston Villa seem to have cooled their interest in him.

The beauty of this summer transfer window is that as much as Arsenal is buying, they’re also capable of getting some returns from player sales….

Daniel O

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11 Comments

  1. Havartz on 330k a week if true then this is madness, and who ever gave that contract should be screened

  2. Balogun – £50m
    Nketiah – £25m
    Partey – £25m
    Pepe – £20m
    Tavares – £20m
    Tierney – £40m
    Xhaka – £15m

    We could get around £200m or more from those sales. Losing two homegrown players means we’d have to sign at least a new one

    1. I think that lot of sales would be at least £50m less than you predict and we can’t afford to lose all those players if we want to retain squad depth. Balogun needs to be sold, he won’t ever have a higher value imo with EN also a better team fit for our playing style but KT and one of xhaka/partey need to be kept. I can’t see any team paying for Pepe with his wages as well. Maybe £65-£70m in total for the players sold.

      1. I think Balogun could be sold for around £50m because he scored many goals last season. Maybe Nketiah can fetch around £25m due to his homegrown status and contract length

    2. gai, last season we had 10 players in our squad that counted as Home Grown.

      Hein
      White
      Saliba
      Holding
      Saka
      ESR
      Martinelli
      Nketiah
      Nelson

      So even if we lost Holding, Nketiah and Balogun, we are ok.

      1. Yes. If Holding, Nketiah, Balogun and Nelson leave, we’d need Rice to comply to the homegrown quota:

        Ramsdale
        Hein or Okonkwo
        White
        Saliba
        Saka
        Martinelli
        Smith-Rowe
        Rice

        1. Clubs don’t necessarily have to fulfill that quota- they can leave those spaces empty if they want to. So if we only had 7 association trained players the squad could be 24 instead of 25, and it wouldn’t make any difference.

          Anyway we will sign Rice, and if we sign Lavia as well that’s another association trained player.

    3. Its easy setting up price tag, but to get the deal done matching that price tag is a difficult task, especially when the club is so called Arsenal. Buyers will try to make that price by half and then even want to pay that money in installments , otherwise they want only loan deals and asks to pay their partial wage, and worst of all club will wait until the contract is up so that they can get for free. So such ridiculous things only happens at Arsenal, we pay rival club what they ask for but in return we get such ridiculous deals for our players. And this season also its seems no different. Don’t know what will happen but if we could get 80 mil from these players then that would be considered success seeing their record.

  3. Balogun- £45 mill – AC Milan
    Tavarez- £10 mill – West Ham/ Marseilles
    Pepe – £25 Mill – Al-Nassar FC
    Lonkango-£15 Mill – Burnley
    Xhaka-£15 Mill – Leverkusen
    Holding £9Mill- Sheffield
    Mari £5-Mill-Monza
    Eddie- £5-West Ham

    Please note, we can make a minimum of £120 mill to afford us an out and out #9

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