Eddie Nketiah’s time at the Emirates could be up. According to Fichajes, the Arsenal striker is no longer a cog in Arteta’s project. In fact, the North Londoners are eager to cash in on the Hale End graduate. According to the Spanish publication, the striker’s price tag has been set at £43 million.
Nketiah’s current contract was set to expire in 2027, giving Arsenal enough leverage to sell him at a premium. Notably, several Premier League clubs will be interested in the transfer. Crystal Palace was interested in making the trade in the summer, but Mikel Arteta was unwilling to let him go.
I believe Arteta has realized he can’t rely on the 24-year-old. In 24 league games, he has only scored five goals, the last of which came in October. Looking at Arsenal’s impressive record of 31 goals in 7 games, one might assume Nketiah had a hand in these goals, but he did not. In fact, it’s evident that he’s lost favor; even when Arsenal’s first-choice striker Gabriel Jesus was sidelined in recent weeks, the Englishman continued to warm the bench, with Leandro Trossard and Kai Havertz chosen. He’s only been left to make substitute appearances once others have taken care of business.
Nketiah’s potential exit may leave some Gooners disappointed. It’s a shame he didn’t reach his prime at the Emirates. But, given Arsenal’s persistent transfer links to top strikers, there is a reason to believe that a better striker will replace him.
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I think its best for both parties that he moves on. He is not a 6 or 7 team player. Might do okay at Luton or a team outside the top 7. But he is being wasted om the bench.
All the best eddie time for someone to challenge jesus
I would sell Jesus as well.
Yes , thinks he needs to move on and rescue his career, a decent player that serves us well in the absences of the Brazilian.
But fans and armchair managers struggle with his pay package, though no fault of his.
I doubt if Eddie’s prepared to take a pay cut, because I doubt that any other club would pay his £100K per week.
That wage rise was potty imo. Will that mean that the club will have to revise its valuation of EN, Jax?
Yes Sue, I suppose selling him quite cheaply would offset his pay package. Unless we could loan him & pay some of his wages, but I doubt that he’d accept that.
Isn’t Nelson, another who ought to go IMO, on the same sort of deal?
As far as I know you are right
Arsenal must sell Nketiah, Zinchencko, Partey, Tierney, Tavares, Lokonga, Elneny, Cedric, Ramsdale,ESR and Jorginho in summer transfer window to balance the books and raise funds to help strengthen the team. Zubimendi and Ederson should be our new defensive midfielders, while, Arsenal should definitely bring in Benjamin Sesko (ST) and Ferdi Kadioglu /Jorrel Hato (LB).
Perhaps you could explain Wayne why a Club would be willing to match the current wages paid to Nketiah given that he is not a first team regular?.In the case of Partey, ESR, Tierney and Zinchenko, while they are all fine players, they have an injury prone record which is likely to severely limit their resale value ?Basically Wayne your assertion that we “must” sell these players is easier said than done and in practical terms we may be obliged to retain the likes of Zinchenko and ESR.As for the recruitment targets you mention,Hato would certainly be a priority for me but I confess to being unaware of the Ederson you mention as a DM?
That is an awful lot of players on your list.
Wayne mate what on earth are you on about? Sell half of the squad when we don’t need to raise money unnecessarily and as for having Jorginho in your fire sale, well ISMFH !
Wayne, I don’t disagree about your choices per say but you have to pick a few of the list, not all of it. We can’t magically move everyone and bring in the equivalent replacements.
Getting value is also an issue. I can’t imagine Partey would really bring much with his injury record, Tierney has same issue – both are really good when healthy and Tierney has been the healthier of the two. I could see Lokanga coming back as a good squad player, he has played pretty well at Luton.
Partey may prove very useful in the run in this year, but he will eventually get hurt so if we get decent money for him, take it. There are also the murkier, unsubstantiated stories about him so it may be good to get him out of England.
Ramsdale will really want to go I think, although he sure seems like a really good team player. His attitude probably keeps his value fairly high.
I like Eddie but he can’t do the job for us. I could see him ending up in a good Championship side and getting back on track, or as someone said, bottom half. I hope he does well except against us.
ESR probably is in same boat as Ramsdale, he just doesn’t seem to fit in the plans. He will fetch a decent return because he is English, but I would rather see him used and kept.
If Jorghinio wants to stay I absolutely keep him. I know we plan to get more help in middle but used wisely he is great to have.
I think that Mo can stay if he wants, just seems like a good team guy and Arteta likes him. Not sure that he has much value anyway. Cedric might be in same boat, more about if he wants to play in his role or wants a bigger role elsewhere.
Should’ve been sold long ago, I can only see that his value has lowered over this season and we’ll get less and less the longer we keep him.
“There is A reason to believe…”!
NOT SO, assuming that “A reason” means only ONE reason.
There are many reasons in fact.
The prime one being that Nketiah is not good enough, which almost all agree.
Other reasons include our abilty to obtain close to £35 mill for a not good enough player, his inability to be other than a poacher; no good in the air, too lightweight, him being too predictable in style, lack of good enough goals to minutes played ratio.
Nice lad, loyal, hard working but the bottom line is that he ought never to still be here at all,esp given the strength of the rest of our squad.
Eddie is very much part of Mikel’s plans, long term infact. We’re not building a Galacticos kind of team, not the best idea.
Vamos, How can you say such an unlikely thing?
Almost ALL GOONERS WHO POST ON JA EXPECT NKETIAH TO LEAVE THIS SUMMER.
I will be amazed if he is NOT gone by next season. I AM WILLING TO BET YOU TOO, that he will be gone by next season!
He will be here next season, best you keep your money or whatever you intend to stake.
Vamos
I hope he is going to surprise me then
He sure will.
that was going to be my line – he just doesn’t justify his place and he looks lost.
I see this as one of MA’s mistakes – one of those we shouldn’t mention as we’re being disloyal!!!
Ler me ask a question here – if Nketiah came up for sale today, would ANYONE on JA (or anywhere else for that matter) pay over the reported £40 million being asked and, to entice him to move, pay even more than the reported £100 grand a week in wages?
The same goes for Nelson as well and as a footnote, these two players contributed to the boast that we have the youngest squad in the PL.
In nny opinion, we’ll be lucky to get £300,000,000 for the two of them.
Sorry – £15 million each 😂😂
So Nketiah signed his contract two years ago, and Nelson a year ago. If they are earning the reported £100,000 per week (it’s never been confirmed by the way), then we’ll have paid Nketiah £10.4m and Nelson £5.2m by the end of this season. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that price of £15m each is higher than £10.4m and £5.2m, so the club will have made a profit, won’t they?
If they had been released on free transfers the club would have missed out on any transfer fees (which count as 100% profit under sustainability rules as they are academy products), and wages and fees would have had to have been paid to their replacements, so I don’t really get this idea that it was a “mistake”.
By your reckoning then, we could have 25 squad players on £100 grand a week who, as we can see, are nowhere near the level required to play for a top club on a regular basis, we MIGHT sell for a PROFIT, is how The Arsenal is going to get to the top again – is that correct?
You didn’t answer my question, would YOU pay £40 million for either of them?
Of course I know that the £100 grand a week is not official, that’s why I put “reported”.
Ken, we will,of course , NOT do what you ironically asked ArGooner.
WE LEAVE THAT NONSENSE TO MIDTABLE CHELSEA AND THEIR NOVICE OWNERS.
And with yet another manager by next seasons start,. to replace Poch.
Argooner has made some relevant points in relation to Nketiah and Nelson. His points make sense and have not been addressed.
It is not relevant what anyone on JA would pay for either player. Would another team meet Arsenal’s valuation of the players in question? No-one can answer this question definitely until we see bids or either player is made available for transfer. However, given Nketiah’s current valuation it is not inconceivable that a team could make a bid north of £35million for Nketiah.
A really important and relevant question is whether we could have got quality replacements without spending additional huge transfer fees and high salaries. This point is regularly side-stepped in debates about certain players.
Nope, never said that we should do it with every single player. It needs to be addressed on a case by case basis, considering all the variables.
As they are both club trained players, they could not be replaced by non-club-trained players on our UEFA A list. So if replacements were signed, they would either need to be left out of the squad altogher or other non-club trained players would need to be removed to make room for them.
If they had left on free transfers, what would the cost have been to replace them? Now add to that cost the profit we would miss out on if we do sell them, and how would this effect FFP considering we’re walking something of a tightrope there?
We kept to club-trained players, who will all but definitely be sold for a profit when deducting the cost of their wages, profit which can now be used to improve.
Considering all of this, I don’t see how this can be classed as a mistake.
We would be indde extremely lucky yo get £333 million pounds KEN! But your revised transfer prediction was much nearer the mark and about right IMO. Earlier tonight I posted that we might get near to £35 mill for Nketiah.
I neglected his current wages, but even so you would think a still youngish player would want to play, at SOME OTHER club and would accept less wages in order to move on and revive his career, which is never going to last longer than this seson at Arsenal, despite VAMOS with his unrealistic prediction that EN will stay.
I say that definitely will NOT happen and am prepared to back it with a bet offer,but which he ducked.
Quelle surprise!!. NOT!
The reason I am convince EK will move on and.IF NECESSARY, be pressured to do so,is that MA is markedly MORE ruthless inpursuit of trophies the longer he has managed us.
And much of the remaining deadwood and also such as Tierney and Ramsdale , BOTH TOP PLAYERS BUT UNWANTED, will leave this summer.
MA knows we cannot carry such types and still expect to win TOP TROPHIES WITH PASSENGERS IN TOW!
For the first window in some longish time, I predict we will gather in sizeable funds this summer,to be put toward bringing in MORE top class players still.
Let’s wait and see Jon, meanwhile I’m looking forward to seeing Ramsdale on Saturday – hopefully that will enhance his value?
thats right, Raya can’t play against Brentford. Forgot about that. Agreed Ken, I hope he has a fantastic game for value and just because he is a good team player.
Nketiah, is going to be a great striker if he gets a team and manager who is patient.
Who is patient yes, and ALSO, who manages a far lower level club than Arsenal.
Bottom line, as all sensible Gooners have known for sometime already , is that Eddie Nketiah, loyal, hard working and likeable though he is, is simply not good enough to remain at Arsenal and he will NOT remain either!