It was hardly the stuff of dreams, but the Arsenal squad all got some minutes on the pitch to begin their preparations for tougher games ahead in America to reach optimum fitness in time for the start of the new season, where we are expected to make another assault on the Premier League title.
Nurnberg certainly didn’t make it easy for us and, taking into account that we two completely different teams in each half, Mikel Arteta wasn’t very disappointed with the outcome, as he spoke about his thoughts on the game: “A lot of things that I saw in the first half, and especially as a few of the boys have only had three training sessions, so just to give them minutes and exposure to understand and start connecting with each other again.
“I’ve seen some really good things despite the amount of changes we made and that is why the game declined, especially in quality and in control but we knew that was going to happen.
“The way we played in the first half was really good and I think we could have scored more goals, even in the second half we had two big, big chances to score and we didn’t. It’s part of football, and mistakes are part of the sport.”
And of course he was asked about his thoughts on our new boy Kai Havertz on his first appearance in the Red & White, and he thinks it’s too early to give a true assessment: “We will see. We have to see how he adapts and get to know each other and build relationships. Football is about that and time will tell where he sees best. ”
So all in all, it was an adequate start, and the boys will return directly to London and start preparations for our big American trip where I am sure we will see a lot more urgency in our play….
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It will certainly take time for the players to restart and rebuild their combination play and energy after a long and tough season. That said, it was a good game of football with lot of experimentation which is natural at this stage of preseason friendlies. with Rice, Havertz and Timber yet to jell in, Arsenal will be a force to reckon with next season, much stronger than the previous season.
Westham have upped their bid for Balogan to £55 million, but Arsenal are holding out for £60 million as part of a swap deal for Rice, which is why there is a hold up in the Rice transfer. Westham want £50 million plus Balogan for Rice, but Arsenal are holding out for £45 million plus Balogun,as they now value Balogun at £60 million dut to the higher demand accross Europe for Baloguns signature.
If that was true, Romano, Ornstein or Watts would’ve published it on Twitter
From the little flashes I saw of FBalogun yesterday I am afraid we shouldn’t sell him just yet. His run in behind defence with pace is interesting. Otherwise, he shouldn’t be sold to a premier league side hope it doesn’t come to hunt Arsenal. He seem to have bright future.
I believe it would depend on whether he will extend his contract or not. If we sell him to Chelsea, they would be forced to bench Jackson and Broja who’re more powerful than Balogun
sylva, rather than “little flashes”, I would rather see Falorin Balogun demonstrate an ability to hit the target and put the ball in the net.
I am sick and tired of Arsenal forwards prolifacy in front of goal.
Balogun shouldn’t be sold imo. The lad is electric. He should be given chance, unless Arteta has some new signing targets up his sleeves that is even better.
Absolute BS.
If may ask, where is this coming from? Who’s your source?
I hope so Jax! Like others I think balogon should stay and we should be looking at maybe moving Eddie on. Although he miss two big chances to score yesterday he got himself into those positions and come September October he’ll be putting those away for fun (I hope)!!!
The positioning and runs by Balogun were impressive, the lad deserves a chance. Foolish and impatient to sell this Summer, better backup then Nketiah.
We should sure try to I keep Balogun. He is another Andy Cole and would certainly fire up another team. If we can’t keep him we need some big bucks to let him go.
Watching the Nuremberg game. I get shocked to see any goalkeeper, even 4th choice Hein, give a ‘hospital ball’, to a midfield player. It’s good to play out, but memories of Ramsdale Vs Southampton came up. We did play well in the first half and Nuremberg never got a look in. I am looking forward to seeing Rice and Timber in the Stateside games.
Sean, an absolute “Barry Crocker” by Hein.
At least Arsenal have made it official with Timber in the past hour. About time
It is hard to believe that Mikel Arteta would be pleased with this performance against Nurnberg, a second division team. Particularly there were few goal scoring opportunities created and apart from Saka, the finishing was anaemic.