Pedro Neto’s perfomance for Chelsea in the clash with Arsenal was certainly a transfer lesson for our Gunners transfer department.
I’m not sure why they didn’t make every effort to recruit Neto during the summer, given that we’ve consistently been associated with him in recent transfer windows.
Remember back in June our piece: “Surely Arsenal must make Pedro Neto our top target this summer.” Well, our calls weren’t headed
It’s clear that Arsenal made a transfer mistake by not signing Neto. Other than Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli, does Arsenal have anyone better than Neto? Arsenal are short on quality in their attack.
Neto Sunday took his opportunity to prove to Arsenal that they were wrong not to beat Chelsea in his £54 million swoop. No one else bid for him, so the Blues were lucky.
On Sunday, he provided us with a glimpse into his exceptional profile, showcasing a unique blend of elite technical ability and an incredible work rate.
It was like Neto was just waiting for Arsenal to get his first Arsenal goal and prove a point while putting up these numbers:
Pedro Neto’s Game by Numbers vs. Arsenal:
38 touches
4 crosses
4x possession won
3 duels won
3 touches in the opponents’ box
3 shots
2 chances created
2 fouls won
1 goal
On BBC Match of the Day, Walcott certainly expressed the opinions of Gooners regarding the missed Neto transfer, stating, “When you talk about Neto, he’s the sort of player that Arsenal could have [signed] to provide competition for other players.”
“I think that’s what they need right now, a bit of competition.”
Well, at least now the Arsenal scouting and transfer departments have learned their lessons; if Arteta wants a player, they should do everything to get him on board. Arsenal need to massively bolster their attack in 2025, focusing on top targets instead of making last-minute stop-gap signings like they did last summer.
Yes, Neto was considered an injury-prone player, but didn’t the claims that he was that way because of his overdependence at Wolves make sense? Surely, Arsenal’s management of his game time, similar to Chelsea’s, would have made it more difficult for him to sustain injuries.
What do you think?
Ivan Toney wanted to come to Arsenal and they let him go to Saudi Arabia. Arteta is a fool that should be replaced
I couldn’t agree more with the former Arsenal man, In my opinion he was the mystery winger we always had an eye on.
Despite some armchair manager keep mentioning Neto injury records, having miss out on Raphinna, Arsenal should have grab him up the Portuguese to ease the work load on Saka, he could easily started thirty percent of the young Englishman games hence enabling better management of the kid
BBC gossip today says we are going to “spend £83m (100m euros) on West Ham attacking midfielder Mohammed Kudus with the 24-year-old Ghana international keen to join the Gunners to play European football”
So that will solve our issues and we will score lots of goals!
Neto – the one that got away in the summer window? Trouble is that they all got away because of the concentration on bringing in Calafiore and Merino.
Fellow Arsenal fans, it’s all very well Walcott saying we should sign Neto in the summer window, unfortunately everyone seems to forget that is Chelsea only sell their castoffs to Arsenal mostly.
So I would suggest that Neto is a nonstarter, sadly.
But don’t worry people, Arteta and the club will probably go all out to make Sterling’s loan into a permanent move, because that’s the kind of daft decisions that this club makes now under these owners, and the genius that is Arteta.