Who is your choice for Arsenal’s signing of the season – out of Marquinhos, Fabio Vieira, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Gabriel Jesus, Leandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior, and Jorginho?
I’m sure, like many, you’ll struggle to choose between Jesus, Zinchenko, and Trossard as your signing of the season; the trio has improved Arsenal in their own right.
Interestingly, when asked the same question, the Arsenal legend Ray Parlour made a strange pick. Parlour argues that of the new arrivals this season, Jorginho has stood out for him. He argues the other signings just gave us value worth their investment, but Jorginho, for £12 million, exceeded all expectations in excelling at the Emirates.
“Jorginho has done a good job in midfield. He’s got good experience for the money [Arsenal paid],” Parlour told the Metro.
“I’m going off the value of the players signed. Trossard has also been an excellent signing. Jesus leads the line very well.
“But probably for the money they spent and the experience they got, which they needed, as well as a backup in midfield, I would go for Jorginho. For the last two or three games, he has been really good.
“You can’t buy experience. He knows what needs to be done to win trophies. Zinchenko has been excellent as well.”
Other than Jorginho, Parlour named Bukayo Saka the young player of the season, Martin Odegaard the player of the season, Gabriel Martinell the most improved, and Ben White the unsung hero.
So, Jorginho is Parlour’s pick; tell us which new signing impressed you this season and has given us the most value for our money?
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Jesus 11 goals and 6 assists (EPL) I think if his season was not disrupted by injuries he could’ve contributed more goals. Trossard 1 goal and 10 assists huge impact, when he played falls number 9 he was phenomenal and considering the money we paid to get him, Trossard takes for me.
While we made great signings in Zinchenko, Jesus, Jorginho, Kiwior, and Trossard. Trossard remains the best buy at 29 million euro with 10 assists and 1 goal in just 4 months play, given his speed, passing accuracy, judgment with the ball, versatility in the pitch and experimental few game-time so far.
I think Trossard could break our assist record if he kept playing false-nine
But we can’t rely just on false 9 tactic or only skilful CF
We need target man…
You have to have strong target man who can score at least 15-20 goals per season..
The target man doesn’t even need to clinical if he can make his teammates score more goals. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to find a dominant CF with a double-lung stamina to do high-press
Exactly Bro👍. Yes for me it’s Trossard the club urgently needs a fearsome hit man, if Arsenal were able to offer £75m for Mhudryk there is no reason for them not to seriously go for Victor Osimehn even at £100m. We need a deadly dreaded finisher. Arsenal would have landed EPL TROPHY 🏆 had Man. City not bought Erling Harland and they paid less what they received for Gabriel Jesus. It’s time Edu & Co should be ruthless and positively precise in their recruitments this summer if they want to improve on transpired in the just concluded season. They show their indepth foresight knowledge and understanding of what the club and fans want except if the club is not really interested in Titles only to just participate. Madrid got Tchuoumany & Co less than what West Ham & Brighton are asking for Decline Rice and Caceido. Since Arteta doesn’t have confidence in Reiss Nelson he should either sell him or send him out on loan and bring Balogun back for he has proven he’s our material.
On what transpired
The problem with finding a target man with 15-20 goals is minutes played. If he plays all matches, we lose our fluidity. Jesus can back Saka up, with Nelson staying we will not need any forward player if we sign a target man, but he has to content with playing 2000 minutes total for the season, and still have to contribute 15-20 goals.
In order of efficiency.
Trosaard**** (10 assist less game time)
Zichenko****
GJesus***
Jorginho**
Trossard
Trossard was a great January signing. Pity we didn’t over play him.
Trossard, easy one!
I really liked the very little of Marquinhos I got to see, looks to be a quality player in there. Problem is he’ll never get game time if he comes back as he’s behind Saka. I mean he might get 3 minutes in a League Cup game we are already winning 5-0 but nothing significant.
Before the title run-in I prob would have said Zinchenko, maybe, but now looking back I would say Trossard, those assist numbers are excellent. He’s been tops and I would have liked to have seen more of him in the run-in
How do you determine value? In terms of impact few could argue against Trossard representing the best value, however I would assert that he is not of sufficiently high quality to take the club where we say we want to be. Jorginho is but we are 5 years too late. Jesus and Zinchenko probably give us the best impact>cost>age>quality>re-sale value but even then Zinchenko has been found out defensively and has definitely cost us points and Jesus isn’t prolific enough or positionally disciplined enough to operate as a central striker, so are we really getting the value we should be from him? I think next season he should play LW and Martinelli should be our central attacking option.
By and large to a great extent they all did well some with the limited opportunities given to them, somewhere there is a good player in Vieira hope we send him on loan immediately the window flys open.
Trossard is going to be an Assist machine next season.
You feel like every time he gets the ball he will create a real chance.
I was p!ssed off with the Jorginho signing as I did not rate his time at Chelsea but he has also been a good stop gap.
” Value for money” is IMO, a hackneyed phrase and there is not one defined and agreed by all definition of EXACTLY WHAT it means. To me , one keyb part of value for money is how many years do we hope and expect that player to have left at top level.
As Jorginho is already in his thirties, I CANNOT POSSIBLY seriously consider him as even being in the running for that title
As SALIBA , though having been signed some seasons ago, has ONLY played in our team for the first time THIS last season , HE would be my choice and by a considerable distance too.
He is, effectively, OUR NEW signing of the season. Second to him would be Ramsdale IMO.
SILLY ME! Ramsdale has of course,played for TWO seasons already!
To be honest, all our signings were great.
I didn’t expect much from them but they did well and fitted into MA’s system quickly. Next season is our season to start winning cups!
I hope we find a replacement for Xhaka ASAP!
TAVARES? LOKONGA? VIERA? Prof Wenger, I reckon you have overlooked at least these three, all of whom have been huge disappointments and two loaned out already, never ro return , , except maybetemporarily to be loaned out elsewhere or be sold, hopefully.
Viera is a huge waste of money and pretty much ALL Gooners say the same about him. A tiny few only, would give him more time.
The problem is that Lokonga didn’t play easy games before playing in PL.
He was left alone at some point and he’s not that experience, the same goes for the rest of the players (bear in mind that Tavares has been doing good with his team, he made the same mistakes that Zenchinko made at some point).
Apart from Veira who didn’t do enough and I didn’t expect much from him in his first season, I don’t think our signings were bad. It’s just they need time to adapt to the PL playing style.
Have to agree, from what we have seen so far from Viera it was a big mistake to sell Willock for £25m and then buy Viera for £35m
We got Jorginho for 12mil for half a season and Man Utd got Casemiro for 60mil for full season. Both are 31 years old. Who did better? Certain Jorginho didn’t lose 7-0. It just shows that Arsenal are not only financially burdened against the team above them but also the teams below them. A testament to Mikel Arteta.
Zinchenco is the most over rated player we have ever had, every game he plays he gives the ball away 2 or 3 times or we concede because he is way up in midfield instead of defending. Dont get me wrong he is a good player but he is really over rated, in the media, by pundits and also much of the fan base. Even as far as people saying that the reason we did so well this season was because of him just because we bought him from City same with Jesus