Arsenal have not really been very busy this January considering that fans were expecting a massive clearout of our deadwood, although I haven’t heard any complaints about Martin Odegaard and Mat Ryan’s arrival at the Emirates.
There is sill the possibility of Arteta bringing in a left-back, as the boss himself hinted a week or so ago, and it looks like we have no chance of getting Ryan Bertrand from Southampton who has been linked recently.
Now it seems we have turned our attention to another Chelsea graduate in Patrick Van Aanholt, who is currently at Crystal Palace but has recently lost his place in the starting line-up. We definitely need a backup to Kieran Tierney who has missed our last few games through injury.
But we should definitely see more players leaving with Mikel Arteta saying yesterday when asked about Mustafi, Nelson and Maitland-Niles possibly leaving: “Well, there are some conversations at the moment going on. I spoke with all the players about their own situation because they are all aware of the minutes that they’re playing and they want to improve their situation. I’m willing to help them, the club is willing to help them and we will try to find a solution at the end, but I don’t know whether it will be the case or not.”
Mustafi has been linked with Liverpool (although I think we should keep him until the summer as injury cover).I can’t really see Arteta letting that happen to be honest.
Maitland-Niles has been reported to be choosing between West Brom and Southampton, but Leeds and Leicester are apparently making a late bid for him.
Reiss Nelson could be on his way back to Germany after a successful loan at Hoffenhein previously, although a Championship side could be the easier option.
Newcastle are desperately looking for reinforcements and they have been linked with Joe Willock, who is struggling for game time this season, and our promising young midfielder Matt Smith could be looking for another club after Swindon ending his current loan.
That is just about all the Arsenal transfer rumours around today, but I am sure there will be a few surprises coming our way as is usual on deadline day. Let’s hope we get a bit of excitement!
Why keep Mustafi when you have Holding , Luiz, Mari and Gabriel with Chambers and Rekik in reserve ? He is very expensive to keep !
Wow! Bertie Mee! I thought you were dead; so glad you are not!
Smart thought man
He is precious that’s all
Mustafi should just GO! There is enough is the tank
AMN to Leicester is a good shout in view of the injuries to Praet and the impressive Nditi.
Allow mustafu to go arteta our defence is good
why mustau
Worth mentioning that if we don’t shift a non-home-grown player, we’ll need to drop one from the squad. We’ve had Ryan/Odegaard come in and only Kolasinac leave (Ozil and Sokratis weren’t in the squad so don’t matter). That’s another reason for wanting to at least loan out eg Mustafi and/or Runarsson, and needs to be borne in mind when assessing other potential arrivals.
I think van Aanholt counts as homegrown btw.
Nelson clearly needs to go out, whereas I would likely keep Willock due to our lack of depth at attacking midfield(maybe prop-up his value before a summer sale) and I would try desperately to salvage the Balu scenario by finding a buyer for Eddie(likely too late in the window for that, so maybe another loan)…sounds like the problem with Balu might be his unrealistic wage demands, especially considering what Saka and ESR re-upped for…that said, he would likely change his tune a bit if he was actually given a chance to see some first-team action, as they’re likely no takers out there for a player with hardly any first-team minutes at 100/week…unless there’s another Arsenal somewhere I don’t know about
There is an Arsenal in Brazillian SerieA, but as you said I dont think they would take the kid at 100k/week or for that matter anything above 10k.
Actually Sid, there are a few other Arsenals around the globe, not just in Brazil!