This week, we’ve been made to believe Arteta has a perfect plan to add much-needed quality to his squad in the summer. Arsenal want to clinch the Premier League title this season, but there is a chance they won’t win it. Manchester City looks like they are on course for another league title.
The Gunners’ major undoing this season has been that they have yet to have quality options at times. At times, one would argue Arteta needed a more quality bench to make game-changing subs when things weren’t going according to plan on the pitch, but sadly, he hasn’t had one. On the other hand, his main rival, Pep Guardiola, has quality options to change as much as he likes. That’s the perfect definition of why the Manchester Blues are beating the North London Giants to the title.
Back to Arteta’s plan: He is keen on six top stars joining his project. These are Moises Caicedo, Declan Rice, Romeo Lavia, Moussa Diaby, Wilfred Zaha, and Marc Guehi. The six are signings from all over the pitch. If Arteta can get them all, it will be great, but he will need to be given a huge transfer budget to complete all those deals. How huge could that budget be? The Independent claims the Spaniard will be given about £150 million to spend.
Is a £150 million transfer budget enough to complete these six deals?
It’s not enough. Declan Rice would command a fee of not less than £75 million; even that figure may seem too low compared to the £100 million price tag the Hammers have always dreamed of gaining from his sale. Caicedo as Rice may not come cheap, as he may also command a figure in the £70 million region. If Arteta opts to sign both midfielders, he may be unable to complete other deals.
With £150 million, Arteta may be forced to sign one of Rice or Caicedo, then complete a free transfer for Zaha plus probably a £60 million deal for Diaby, and hope Guehi isn’t worth more than £25 million.
Thus, for £150 million, Arteta could end up signing Rice, Diaby, Guehi, and Zaha. Do you think the four could take Arsenal to the next level if they are to join? Or does the budget need to be boosted to accommodate a Caicedo deal?
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Based on Arteta’s signings and player selection, I think he prioritizes experienced tactical players with high passion. Therefore, I believe he’ll try to sign Rice first
Caicedo would likely cost more than £70 M, Diaby might be too expensive as well, Zaha is too old to be our winger and Guehi’s abilities seem too similar to White’s
I’d be surprised if they just rely on Jesus, Balogun and Trossard for the CF position
I read it was £200m as we get alot of money from finishing 2nd, something like £1.5m less than the Champions plus champions league qualification brings in more money & gives us so much more power in signing players back in UCL.
There is a few options, Ndicka is a quality defender from German league, free and would defo upgrade on Rob Holding who could be sold for a few million along with Taveres.
Get Elneny & Vieria gone also and replace with Teilimans on a free then Leaves room and money to buy a quality defensive midfielder to help Thomas Partey out & cover him. Seems Declan Rice may be that guy or Caicedo by the looks of it.
That leaves the attacking options to work on. Reiss Nelson is leaving on a free, Flo is back and Eddie is hit or miss so its a hard choice what to do there tbh. Øde & SmithRowe keep battling away against each other is the best way to work that as Emile was brilliant in that role and reason he got the no10, injuries are killing this young lad.
We need a Striker who is a natural born goal scorer like a Haaland type, big strong fast & knows where the net is.
Alot of work to be done in the summer, interested now to see are we heading in as champions or runners up.
A war chest of £209 mill was a recent estimate for four players off the gaffer wish list.
Not sure what we could salvage from our own fire sale.
Balogun
Tavares
Lonkango
Marie
Nelson
Four players from the wish list below would significantly strengthen the spine of the team but could well take the spending in excess of the £209 million
Caicedo
Rice
Diaby
Tapsoba
Vlohovic
Zubimendi
2 players on that list alone would cost us 200 million (rice, Vlohovic ) Diaby IMO is worth no more than 5 million not a patch on Pepe who’s not deemed good enough ,only player on your list I would be interested in would be Zubimendi .
As for your list as sales we would get 25 million at most ,nelson is out of contract.
My word 😯
Think they will need minimum 200 million but to really challenge recon 250 million on 4-5 top quality players if they do that then believe they can challenge again for the prem league next season although don’t think they would have ever got a better chance than winning it this season as everyone else will strengthen there squads and will definitely be more competitive next season so gona get even harder to win the league!
Lets not forget that Man City are fixing their finances to
be we’re they are. And the FA are allowing this by doing
as little as they can. Cheating on or off the pitch is always
unacceptable..
There’s got to be some decent money available as Arsenal spent a lot less in the last window due to the Mudryk thing falling though. Also with the league position certainly being much higher this season than in previous years, and Champion’s League/etc, that’s got to leave things looking very good in terms of funds for bringing in players.
Too little for a team aspiringuy Ivan Toney and forget about a winger. We have enough to be champions.
I don’t believe in spending huge fund on over hyped players.
Arsenal scouting team should comb the lower leagues in South America, Asia and around the world to unearth young talents like Martinelli and guendozi etc.
We don’t need to spend too much to be competitive.
Chelsea spent fortune in the summer but they are still struggling..
Big players don’t guarantee success these days, it the tactical approach of the coach that really counts.
Newcastle is doing well without spending too much.
Nope!