Many factors can be credited for Arsenal’s outstanding performance this season. One of which is the remarkable 2022 summer transfer season. After a disappointing 2021–22 season, Arsenal sought the assistance of the transfer window to help turn things around.
Instead of the talented youngsters he was known to acquire, Arteta chose expertise in the players he was signing.
For experience, he returned to his old employers, Manchester City, and persuaded them to let him sign Gabriel Jesus and Oleksander Zinchenko.
Man City didn’t hesitate to cash in on the pair; they must have glanced at Arsenal and thought they weren’t a threat. Little did they realize they were weaponizing the Gunners to end their supremacy. Before his World Cup injury, Gabriel Jesus had transformed Arsenal’s offense from toothless to razor sharp.
Zinchenko, on the other hand, is clearly attempting to win the Player of the Season award. Is there anything the former Manchester City midfielder cannot do? He leads attacks, poses by drifting to the midfield, and defends while also playing left back. Arsenal’s transfer raid on Manchester City could be one of the keys to their success this season.
After seeing the squad improve following a transfer assault on Manchester City, some Gooners may urge Arteta to target other City players he can persuade to join his band. But will he be able to pull off another “steal” from City? No, he won’t, according to Jamie Carragher, who claims that Manchester City would be smart not to do business with Arsenal because, as the adage goes, once bitten, twice shy. Pep now views Arteta as a danger; you don’t strengthen your competitor.
“Pep Guardiola’s system this season is a flip of what he’s done before. It was always the full-back going into midfield; now it’s the midfielder going to full-back,” said Carragher on the Overlap. “Bernardo Silva is starting in midfield then trying to get to full back. Pep and Manchester City will never sell a player to Arsenal ever again.
“The reason why Oleksandr Zinchenko was sold to Arsenal is because of Pep’s mate – and he didn’t feel Arsenal were a threat.”
Well, I wonder what Pep is thinking now…..?
Sam P
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When it comes to assessing the transfer market old ‘Spitting Boy’ has an awful lot to learn. First, he criticizes Arsenal for signing three players who were obviously brought in as a stop-gap, while we built and now he’s attacking us for doing good business with City. Yes, they were two brilliant signings and yes I guess that Pep rues the day he sold at least one, but to say they will never do business with us again is naïve nonsense. The operative word here is ‘Business’. Football is a business and to say that two market traders will be subject to some sort of grudge because one bought wisely and the other sold rashly is ridiculous. If such petty grudges had any place in football Arsenal would never do business with Liverpool again because Liverpool lied about the clause in Suarez’s contract; now that was far more dishonourable. However, it doesn’t change market forces and the business of football, and it never will.
👍MikeB, a rational response in answer to Carragher’s emotive comment.
The reality is the selling club wants the most money and the player has to accept the transfer to the buying club.
A stop gap. How can you sign player over 30yrs and give him 4yrs contract. Cedric was left with 6 months to run on his contract which was not going to be renewed. Kia managed to convince and outmanouver Arteta to sign a player on the Southampton bench working through his friend Edu to get 4 yrs contract at 29yrs.
It was a fleece.
True words
Jon, do you know the reason why MikeB referred to the Scouser as ‘Spitting Boy’ ?
HD Obviously I do, as do most other football folk everywher who read that silly phrase. But it is way over a year ago and Carragher simply overreacted and then being very ashamed , apologised profusely and often. It is best forgotten and not used to taunt a fine football man who made a human mistake. I do not believe in being vindictive as it is childish and of low intellect.
So that being the case ,I said so, AS IS MY RIGHT.
I find him to be a very interesting signing. He has clear weaknesses in defence, but the positives he gives in attack, his leadership and the way he tactically helps us to fully dominate games, outweigh those weaknesses to such a degree, it’s really hard to care!
That is should not be a surpresing thing if we can compare arsenal transfer with chelsea , williams david luis
Never say never, yes the Citizens will be extremely cautious selling players to Arsenal in the future but not to the extent of totally avoiding selling to us.
All clubs assess the situation and measures the business carefully in trying not to weaponize their competitors, you do have the add cases where club will strengthen another club by loaning a player and selling
etc , done in the intrest of stalling the real club they think is a danger who they them self will have to face.
The Citizens definitely did not think Arsenal was .a threat then, when those deals were made, in the Citizens opinion their strengthening were far superior so they didn’t think twice in letting Arsenal have those two players.
But a line may have now drawn as ilkay Gundogan who’s contract will be up in the summer, would never been allowed to join Arsenal in the recent Winter window.
They still have better players, only that arteta knows his team even before they came.
And we are seeing the proof .
I think the sale was because the did not want chenko and Jesus, and the needed to cash in on them. Jesus did not play many times for them (except towards the end of the season) last season.
They left because they did not want to play for city anymore. Zinch is a boyhood gooner and Gabriel wants to fulfill his potential, which he will never do under Pep. They both wanted out and got their wish.
By that thinking, The Arsenal will never sell another player to city, after watching the parade of our first team go there… A ridiculous statement!!
Surprising how the media or whatever are tryin’ to create an issue out of a matter not worth discussing. In terms of transfer dealings, the citizens have overtime benefitted from Arsenal the most. Yes, they have.
Nothin’ will stop City from selling any player that is up for sale. Ofcourse, it will make of them a lot of sense not to sell to us but if the transfer fee is enormous enough, I think they would give in, like with Zinchenko and Jesus. Cos, at the time of purchase both players weren’t really worth the amount paid them but present performances have justified the money.
So, as far as the business of buying of players keeps on existing, Arsenal will buy from City and vice versa.
I think Real Madrid were more than willing to take GJ, but couldnt because they did not have an open space in the squad at the time. They were always worth it mate. Without them, City would not dominate the league, thats a fact.
I think Arteta deserve some credit.
He knew arsenal didn’t want to spend big so work within the budget to sign the best fringe players and it’s working well cause of the workload this season for every team.
Thanks goodness we are having some good players back.
I expect arsenal not to loose a match this month and let’s watch the table guys
The players themselves chose to come to Arsenal, it had nothing to do with the relationship between Arteta and Guardiola/Arsenal and Man City. Jesus supposedly had other options, including Real, but was adament that if he left he only wanted to move to Arsenal. City were left with the option of selling him to us, playing him even though they didn’t want to and hoping that he would change his mind and accept a transfer elsewhere, or keeping him without playing him, paying his salary while he saw out his contract or chose to leave if he featured in under 10% of games, thus losing any transfer fee. This would have cost them tens of millions of pounds. Given that they had Haaland and Alvarez as their preferred number 9s it wasn’t much of a choice.
When Abu Dhabi money came to Man City they bought a truck load of arsenal players so there’s was a good relationship there and remember they also sold Raheem sterling to Chelsea
Man city first raided Arsenal FC and went away with their best players seasons ago. The likes of Samir Nasir, Clichy the list goes on… At this point, Arsenal picked players Man city does not need as far as I’m concerned, so cut the crap.