West Ham has emerged as a new contender in the pursuit of Emile Smith Rowe, aiming to reinforce their squad with high-quality players following the funds accrued from Declan Rice’s departure.
The arrival of Rice at Arsenal has presented a fresh challenge for Smith Rowe’s playing time at the Emirates Stadium. This situation has raised the possibility of the English midfielder seeking opportunities elsewhere to secure more regular appearances.
While Aston Villa had expressed interest in signing him earlier in the summer, and Chelsea also recently demonstrated their attraction, West Ham has now entered the race to acquire his services.
In light of Arsenal’s midfield depth, including the promising performances of Fabio Vieira, there might be a willingness to consider Smith Rowe’s sale. Football Insider has reported that West Ham is actively pursuing negotiations with Arsenal, determined to test whether their London neighbours will yield or remain steadfast in retaining one of their standout academy products.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Smith Rowe is a fine midfielder but it is sad that he does not look better than those playing above him on the pecking order at the club.
We have some very fine youngsters in the group and hopefully, they will step up and perform if we sell Smith Rowe because we cannot offload the Englishman if there is no guarantee that our alternative options perform better.
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Off loading ESR borders lunacy. MA better gets all things going well, especially regarding his handling of Havertz. Things won’t be nice and rosy for him once Havertz proves to be a flop, which looks very much likely.
Fabio Vieira better than ESR? Out of touch with reality. Seriously!
It is believed Brighton have now join West Ham for Smith Rowe signature.
Now this could unsettles the player with two days left in the window.
MA has unsettled the player, no-one else
I think MA has serious issues with man management, especially the way hes managing the home grown. He seems not to value them however they try, because the owner are giving him too much backings financially and to be honest he has not been too prudent with his spending considering transfer and wage of Kia, termination of Auba’s contract and more. We’ll see come the end of the season, but I’m beginning to be pissed off with the guy(MA)
No he handles Auba well. But tierney, Balogu and now ESR?
He is even thinking of outing Partey and Gabriel if he gets good money for them. Not that they will have time to reinvest on better alternatives – because arsenal likes to take for ever to sign players.
Why keep rubbish like Kiwor and Kia and you are selling the above. ESR is far better than Kia!
Home grown is an important factor. You can have an English team with 1 or 2 English Players. Coaches tent to favour players from their country of origin to some extent.
ESR shhould remain not just because he is homegrown but he is a much better player than Harvets and Vierra
I say sell if the price is right. ESR barely kicked the ball last season, and I can’t see that changing much this season. The money could come in to strengthen other areas of the pitch. Leave sentiments out of it.
So you are saying ditch a man who was scoring and assisting two years ago better than Vieira has done in his whole Arsenal career? Give your head a wobble. Arteta/Edu will lose a lot of fans good will if they sanction the sale. Especially as Havertz isnt setting the world on fire.
I think you maybe right. I’d have preferred it if ESR had established himself as a regular starter but that hasn’t happened. It’s a tough old world and if Arteta doesn’t think he’ll feature then it is better to cut the ties.
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Emile Smith Rowe has huge huge potentials. He will definitely play at the highest levels.
But sorry, it is the end for him at Arsenal.
He fits no where in Arteta-ball, tactically:
OCCUPYERS – Saliba, White, Tomiyasu, Kiwior, Partey, Rice, Havertz, Magalhaes*, Holding*
DRIVERS – Odegaard, Timbre, Saka, Martinelli, Jesus, Eddie, Zinchenko, Nelson, Vieira, Trossard
Sweepers – Ramsdale, Raya, Arthur, Hein
Mikel Arteta has earned the right to be given the calibre of players he wants.
Trust the process.
Now, Arsenal needs
– one more attacking occupyer to complete the squad.
– to upgrade on Holding, and Magalhaes if possible.
“OCCUPIERS AND DRIVERS”?? Are you speaking about fooballers or illegal migrants stowing away in a lorry bound for Britain!
And your “sweepers” OUGHT to be keepers, or at the very least, sweeper keepers!
Why not use the universally accepted terms in British language, instead of inventing your own!
It is sad that Arteta is in the process of destroying what he’s built.
This season might prove as the one the club went back to the Ozil/Auba atmosphere in the dressing room.
We all must admit that we don’t know what goes on the training ground and maybe ESR really doesn’t fit the system anymore but still, it feels really dodgy that he gets absolutely no game time.
I’m hoping the reports are just paper talk as would hate to see ESR leave, though why he’s not getting games for us is puzzling to me.
I see we were drawn away to Brentford in the Carabao Cup yesterday and will learn our opponents today in the Champions League. With the FA Cup also to come in January, we will need him undoubtedly.
I for one, would not let ESR leave. He is one of our very own and a promising talent who hasnt just got the right opportunity to demonstrate his talent. We will be playing so many games this season and rotation will be a must. Considering ESR’s versatility in the midfield and on the wings, he should stay at Arsenal.
You’d have to imagine that Emile was used at the left-eight role in training and that he looked bad in the role. He attacked very well when playing on the wing (a long time back now) but you need to have a good balance when playing CM -he must have failed to convince because -I see no other reason why he wasn’t given the same chance that F. Vieira has received.
It’s a pity that ESR doesn’t play on the right wing because he’d be great for resting Saka and I’d like to see what he and Ode could do in tandem.
Arteta might be trying to get ruthless here with Emile’s injury record and with us having Trossard. I think for ESR a loan might be best for him to be loaned out to someone who will guarantee him a starting spot in ACM. Then we’ll know for sure whether it’s Arteta or if it’s the fans that were right
ESR is talented but not suited to the high tempo high press game Arteta plays. So if we can get 40m+ for him, I say why not, as long as we can replace him with a more suitable player, maybe like Olmo, or highjack City’s move to Nunez.
IF MA sells ESR, esp this window , without having given him a single chance while preferring the so far passenger type play of HAVERTZ, I will have to WONDER whether or not MA is quite well in the head!
I much doubt he wants to sell ESR, though a loan would not greatly surprise me, though that too would be VERY daft, IMO.
PLAINLY THOUGH, HE WAS NEVER GOING TO CHELSEA, AS EVENTS PROVED. I saw that immediately that daft rumour first emerged.
Loan is a possibility. I would say Aston Villa would be the best place for him to develop and return back to us.
There was no need to bring Kai, absolutely no need.
We are talking fondly about ESR and why wouldn’t you? The difficulty lies with the fact that he has had very few opportunities/game time due to intermittent injury issues.
It was reported by Arteta some time ago that he expected more from Smith Rowe. Hopefully he will claw his way back into contention