Noni Madueke could be wearing an Arsenal shirt by the end of this transfer window, as the Gunners continue to push for his signing from Chelsea. The winger is reportedly open to the move, with increased competition for places at Stamford Bridge limiting his chances of regular football following Chelsea’s addition of several new attackers.
Mikel Arteta is understood to be eager to add a winger to his squad this summer, and Madueke is prepared to answer that call. Reports indicate that Arsenal have already reached an agreement on personal terms with the player, and discussions between the two clubs are ongoing.
Fans Unconvinced by Move
Despite the potential deal progressing, a section of the Arsenal fanbase remains unenthusiastic about the prospect of signing Madueke. Many supporters are growing weary of the club’s habit of signing players from Chelsea and have voiced concerns over the effectiveness of such transfers. Madueke is being labelled by some as yet another unwanted player from their London rivals, fuelling scepticism over the wisdom of the move.
However, beyond the perception, Madueke’s statistics suggest he may have something to offer. Comparisons have been drawn between Madueke and Arsenal’s current options on the left flank, namely Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Martinelli.
Statistical Comparison with Arsenal’s Wingers
As reported by The Sun, Madueke completed 2.0 out of 4.3 dribble attempts per match for Chelsea last season. In contrast, Trossard completed 1.3 of the 2.8 dribbles he attempted per game, while Martinelli completed 1.3 from 3.9. In terms of open-play crosses, Madueke averaged 2.8 and completed 0.5, equal to Trossard’s 2.7 average with 0.5 successful. Martinelli was the standout in this area, averaging 3.5 crosses per game with 0.8 successful.
These figures indicate that Madueke has been statistically effective in certain aspects of his play and could add depth and variety to Arsenal’s attacking options. While doubts remain about the pattern of signings from Chelsea, Madueke’s individual performance metrics offer some reassurance that he may prove a valuable addition, should the deal go through.
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I have seen that he has no goals or assists for Chelsea in their last 8 games.
I hope I am wrong, but I am not convinced here.
Arsenal never learn, they keep overpaying for mediocre players, anyone remember Pepe? clearly the club don’t. This guy makes Havertz look like a good signing when we needed an out and out striker (which we still do 2 years on). I can’t understand why they’d waste over £50 million on an average mid table winger when Eze was available for £60 million and is twice the player Madueke is. Chelsea must be laughing all the way to the bank I know their fans certainly are and who can blame them after making mugs out of us once again.
I like Madueke, he’s a good player and offers something different in the final third to Saka, he’s more direct and is more willing to shoot quickly – something we often lack. He doesn’t deserve fans slamming him…
However, the club may well do. Sending Chelsea (again) £55m is insane for a Saka back up. If the deal was £30-35m it would be more understandable. There’s more affordable options out there in Bakayoko and a couple others, and why we have looked at strengthening that position yet ignoring the far more versatile and fitting Kudus is beyond me (unless its the homegrown quota?).
AND, I think all fans are united on this; we’d all much rather see Nwaneri getting game time. If we get Eze at LW, that’s great, he’s superb, but if Odegaard is injured it’s clear we’d play Eze (maybe Havertz too if we finally land a true striker) ahead of Nwaneri in the 10 role.
It all just seems very weird to be financially propping up Chelsea yet again (funding their moves for Pedro, Gittens etc), for a player we don’t really need or that matches our system. Kepa is shrewd business, but Noni is going to be yet another fan-splitter like most other Chelsea buys… have any been worth the money and wages? I know Havertz and Jorginho (bargain) did well but ultimately they’ve both proven stop gaps, as many predicted, and as for the other Chelsea players… Eurgh
The scary thing is, nobody spends that sort of money on a back-up. He is intended to be a starter.
I dont understand the trending notomadueke. He is a actually a good player and i belivee he can shine at Arsenal. Have seen him play at chelsea good dribbling skills and decent shots in him. I probably think that Trossard is leaving to Saudi. If he left we are probably left with. Saka, Martinelli and Nelson as natural wingers. Tats really a poor depth. Nwaneri can be a back to Odeggard. Madueke will add another dimension to our attack. Bring in Gyokeres and Eze now!
@Prehm: Fully agree on Mandueke and Eze
Signing a full England international is never too much of a bad thing. Add Eze now, and a real nasty contingent is formed.
For now, I’ll keep my thought.
Will only talk if we end up not signing Gyokeres and Eze.
For some for us we saw this coming from afar. The season won’t be complete without us signing a Chelsea bench warmer. It’s Arteta’s personality.
Again, I’ll keep my thought till the end of the window.
You will keep your thoightill the end of the window but in this same comment you gave some of your thoughts already.
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I believe he has some words of mortification for them if they don’t sign eze and gyokeres and so do I. Honestly I think they lack ambition or have inferiority complex, they should be aiming for top signing like pool and city doing. Why can’t they go all out for nico williams, graceful doue of psg, eze is cool too.
Just a very underwhelming transfer, Chelsea sign him, he plays bang average and then sell him to arsenal for more than 20 million profit? I just can’t make sense of it. He’s no better nwaneri or Nelson
Madueke is no game changer, Eze is, and should have been the second priority.
It’s very misleading looking at his stats as he is far better on the right wing where he made most of his assists and goals, step overs and take ons. When he was moved to the left wing towards the end of last season his output dropped dramatically. Anyway, £50 million? someone’s having a laugh!
I have feeling £50 million is the complete package including add ons. The fixed fee is probably closer to £40 million, which is about right if you consider the “English tax”. Elanga went for £55 million and is around the same age and quality I’d say. If Madueke came from Forest or Bournemouth, we’d probably view him differently.
English tax on a non homegrown player, why the English tax when you can’t even take up a home grown slot, just being English by status but not by benefit, elanga is homegrown and English which madueke isn’t, madueke is just English in pretense
Chelsea must look on us as a reliable income stream. The only Chelsea cast-off who has even remotely worked is Havertz, and even he has only been a qualified success.
I understand the reservations some fans have with this deal, but he’s one of us now so we should give him the benefit of the doubt and see what he’s all about. It’s ridiculous the abuse he’s received even before kicking the ball for us.
Many players improve once they leave Chelsea and Arteta has a good track record of working with wingers. He’s only 23 as well so he can be coached into a better player.
We suffered last season in the absence of Saka and it’s great to have decent cover for him. I know Ethan played there but he’s not a touch line winger like Saka. He tends to come inside playing more like a 10. We need a player who can go on the outside like Saka to provide width,while also being able to cut inside and shoot. At the very least, Noni is an upgrade on Sterling and Nelson in these aspects.
I also like the fact that Noni is a good dribbler. We need more of those in the squad. Besides Saka, we don’t really have anyone else who can consistently beat fullbacks and cross/shoot. That we are also pursuing Eze(another dribbler) tells me this has been identified as a weakness. Dribblers is one of the ways you break down those stubborn defences we’ve struggled against e.g. Newcastle.
He also adds pace which is another thing we need more of in the squad. At the moment,we only have Martinelli. Madueke and potentially Gyokeres will make us more dangerous on the counter. Often we win the ball quite well but lack the players with pace who can turn these turnovers into goalscoring opportunities.We just end up passing the ball back and the opposition defence regroup.
If you look past the transfer fee and the team he’s coming from, you’ll see that he has skills we lack and could use in the squad. It’s also important that he’s Premier League proven. My only worry is his injury record.
Well written Onyango.
Remember the abuse Havertz got when we signed him and look how that turned out?
We have to give Saka time out during the coming season and this transfer does just that.
MA has been lambasted for not letting the likes of Saka rest and yet, here he is getting lambasted for making plans to do just that.
As for chelsea, I don’t give a damn what they think or do and why our fans seem to hold them in such high esteem is beyond me!!
Think of De Bruyne and Saka, how they ruined the career of Mudryk and how we have finished above them for the last three seasons, despite buying all their cast offs, such as, supposedly, Kai Havertz!!
£50m+ for a work in progress?
@ onyango I don’t understand if u are related to madueke or he’s your boyfriend or crush. You patronise him so much u almost wrote a novel, true ballers like eze, nico williams, skillful doue, won’t need such patronage
There is no worse way than trying to pull info from stats like this
VVD has some of the lowest tackles per game, is he a bad defender??
Madueke attitude problems aside, promptly yielding 50m to chelsea for a backup while the hole in the team is yet to be fixed! Who do we risk losing madueke to really? Its shameful and downgrading how we rush to Chelsea for rejects that never get us anything_ even spurs have that sense of dignity.
So you know exactly what the terms of the transfer are then Njarookie?
You don’t think our club is trying to fix the striker problem as well as sorting out other areas of concern?
Saka was overplayed last season and we need to accept that.
If the chavs have a player who can remedy that situation, why not buy him?
Every season I read how the club is so slow in the transfer market, dilly dallying over a few million, yet as soon as the club go out and identify a player and want to seal the deal in time for pre season, the same fans moan because we’re “paying over the top” or “it’s another chelsea reject” or “why aren’t any other club interested in him, while we’re paying top dollar”!!
If he’s such a bad player, why did the chavs pay a reported £50 odd million for him in the first place?!?!
Honestly, if we get Madueke and hopefully Eze and Gyokeres too, I’d be buzzing. These are exactly the kind of players we need to stop being so bloody predictable.
We’re shocking against teams that just sit back and defend deep – you know the type, they come to the Emirates just to get a point. Our attackers are all cut from the same cloth, always wanting it to feet, never actually running at anyone or getting in behind. It’s so frustrating to watch.
Madueke actually takes people on – he’ll just run straight at defenders, which is something we never see. Gyokeres would give us that striker who makes proper runs behind the defense, and Eze can pick those killer passes or just smash one from 25 yards when teams are sitting deep.
The thing that kills me is when we make subs, nothing changes. The other team doesn’t even need to think differently because we’re just bringing on more of the same. At least with these three, we’d actually have some variety and teams would have to worry about different threats.
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I agree. More directness will improve us.
No arguements with those facts of yours_ question is or are is Madueke the best deal available or possible and should that move be receiving priority at this time when striker is yet to be sorted? Man United have remained focused on Mbeumo cos thats how you prioritize your PRIMARY target. Madueke should be coming late at a cheaper price.
Correct!
And Man Utd have still not signed Mbeumo… So what if the striker deals don’t get resolved before mid-August, once pre-season is basically complete? Focussing on only one player – which may or may not work out – and then trying to fill the gaps on deadline day, once the actual season has already started, is the approach we used to have.
The approach has changed. They are working on four key deals at once right now. They are showing it’s possible to work on more than once deal at once, so Arteta can get as much of his team in training during pre-season as possible.
Anyway, Eze, Madueke (we need the directness) and Gyokeres will greatly satisfy. So, we keep our fingers crossed.
Not my choice but I must say, when I have seen him, he has always looked a handful. Give him a chance at least. He is young and can improve a lot.
I don’t give a schitt about dribbles and step overs, if the end product is not there, I do care that Che fans are loving that they’re losing this player and are even more excited that Arsenal are the takers. I never rated Noni, so I can’t now lie and try to talk myself into liking his talent. If he bangs, I’ll be happy and astonished
My only concern on this saga is that the Gyokeres deal has stalled because of the price, and yet we are rumoured to be paying £50, which will probably mean a fee up front, when we should be prioritizing a striker
My worst nightmare would be that we now sign DCL on a free
True because by that time even Watkins would have been sold!
So the Gyokeres and Sesko deals have stalled, but we quickly complete this sale, and rush to hand Chelsea huge money for a backup player not challenging for starting position at Chelsa.
Sounds about right, to be honest.
I mean, Luiz, the great season Willian had, Havertz couldn’t stick in midfield but was an average striker, and Sterling had a superb season for us last year.
Noni will be different tho, right?
Bench player, limits opportunities for our youth, and are you sure he will be rotated with Saka?
After all these years with Arteta, now he will rotate? Believe it when I see it.
If we first brought in Eze and Gyokeres there would be much less of a negative uproar. I like Madueke and he will improve with us. But, like everyone else l am waiting for Eze and Gyokeres before l get really excited.
Unless there is a massive sale, we won’t get both. And we are in for Gyokores.
Spot on. Underlying all this outrage is a portion of the fanbase being frustrated about the striker purchase not being sorted yet. We all want to see a striker signing soon – but to me, that doesn’t mean they should down tools and neglect our other needs until the glamour role is filled.
We should be busting a gut to finally get gyokeres over the line, but instead we seem to be more focussed on paying some £52M on another Chelsea cast-off. Madueke is a nothing signing, indeed for me a nothing player. Apparently we see Madueke playing on the left, a position at Chelsea he has only occupied for THREE games, and his stats playing there are abysmal. I fail to see the attraction, beyond maybe the fact he has played for England. I have never been so annoyed at the prospect of one of our deals while we are penny-pinching elsewhere. There seems to be an indecent haste in getting Madueke in, as if Arteta knew we wouldn’t
like it.
If we get in Eze, and Gyokeres, I won’t be too disappointed, but if we cock up elsewhere we, the fans will need answers.
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He’s not being bought primarily as cover for the left wing, that’s just considered a potential trainable area for him. He’s clearly better on the right currently and that’s the position he’s mainly being bought for. Especially against low-block teams we have struggled with – he scored a hattrick in 14 minutes against Wolves last season from that role! So it doesn’t seem fair to let judgement be completely coloured by the chavs playing him out of position.
He improves our squad depth on the right, that’s the main thing to consider. The fact that it moved fast has more to do with the ease of buying from a highly transactional club like Chelsea, whereas as we all know the Sporting deal is more difficult because the new president doesn’t want to immediately lose their most successful player. It also doesn’t automatically endanger any other deals over the next 6 weeks, we have the funds for Eze and a striker as well, it’s not an either-or situation.
Yeah talk about the speed_we need 50+, okay we’ll top that with 2 million, no haggling and they’ve haggled for how long now on Sesko & Gyokeres. They had to secure him ASAP_from who i wonder.
Hard to gauge this signing, I’m all for it. Just should have wrapped up the striker issue first and foremost. Maybe this deal was discussed during the kepa negotiations.
No one knows really it’s all speculation. The structure of the deal is perhaps good. (Amortization that lines up with Chelsea’s accounts) We just don’t know.
The old addage of hate the game not the player kind of falls into this scenario.
Hope Noni smashes it and wins us an extra 9 points with his contribution to the COLLECTIVE.