Arsenal desperately needed to bolster their squad in the winter, in order to maintain their title drive. Multiple sources strongly linked them to a transfer for Mykhailo Mudryk. A move for the Ukrainian appeared to be a done thing at one stage, but Chelsea eventually won his services. The winger hasn’t done much at Chelsea aside from demonstrating how fast he can sprint.
With Arsenal’s need for reinforcements in the winter, they required players who could make an immediate impact to assist them in the PL title race.
Arsenal were not going to win the title while waiting months for a bright young player to find his feet. Notably, the football kournalist Paul Brown suggests to Gooners that signing Jorginho, who has already made an impression at Arsenal, was a better investment than signing Mudryk.
“I think it’s fair to say that, at the moment, Arsenal probably think they’ve had a bit of a lucky escape there not bringing him to the club. I’m sure Mudryk will get better with time,” said Brown on Give Me Sport.
“He needs a bit of time to settle and adapt to life here in a different country and a new league, but when you look at who Arsenal did sign, they signed Jorginho, and I can remember a lot of fans being mystified and upset with that. But if you look at how the two players have performed, I think it’s clear that Arsenal got the better of the deal there when it comes to those two signings.”
Anyway, Arsenal signed Leandro Trossard in order to strengthen their offense. Trossard has made an immediate impression, he has already scored in Arsenal colors.
Do you believe losing out on Mudryk wasn’t all that bad?
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Arsenal got the better deal especially over the short term if you analyze it properly.
Apart from that cameo in his introduction to the league the kid has done absolutely nothing.
The kid has pace to burn no doubt about it but his playing style will be found out before his feet gets wet, for whatever reason Chelsea is a club that kills winger, Pulsic was unplayable before he came to Chelsea with a big reputation and look at him now, we knows he has quality but he cannot hit a barn door presently.
Mudryk can only be taken on trust especially if he remains at Chelsea, but then again on a fat eight year contract he’s going nowhere and the word is out he’s already unhappy.
Mudryk will be a fine player next season. But since Arsenal’s short term focus is to win the title race, Jorginho and Trossard have proved to be super aquisitions. They have already had valuable contributions.
Trossard with a goal and an assist ,jorginho with a goal… that’s 7points already
NO we didnt dodge a bullet. Mudryk was boehly’s signing, I expect him to struggle under Potter ’cause he was never in Potter’s plans in the first place. Good player, wrong manager, wrong club.
As he isn’t our player we will never know if Mudryk would have worked for us – immediately anyway.
Honestly, I was pissed at how this lad led us on and ended up shoving the middle finger at my beloved Arsenal. In a way, I am delighted he hasn’t made much impact at Chelsea. That would teach other youngsters like him that money isn’t everything. He may eventually make an impact or end up as another Pulisic. I don’t really care. I’m still mad.
I blame his agent, bcz he didn’t dig deep in to what will happen to his clients future and it has to serve as a lesson to Mudryk him self bcz it was Arsenal who had a ready plan on how they were going to use him un like Chelsea who went just bcz they know Arsenal are good in scouting yet its not only scouting but also how u are going to play the player u are bringing in. And he was going to fit very well in our team , now he has to start from where he didn’t expect to be.