West Ham’s quest for a new striker has led them to the Emirates, where reports suggest they are considering a move for Arsenal’s Eddie Nketiah.
Currently playing second fiddle to Gabriel Jesus in the pecking order at Arsenal, Nketiah tends to get playing time primarily when the Brazilian is unavailable. With Arsenal reportedly in the market for a world-class striker, Nketiah might find himself surplus to requirements as the club looks to make room for the new signing.
Recognising the challenge of securing regular game time at the Emirates, Nketiah may be open to a move to a smaller club where he could feature prominently in the starting lineup.
West Ham has reportedly shown interest in acquiring Nketiah, with manager David Moyes seeking a homegrown player to bolster the team’s striking options. Football Insider suggests that West Ham is keen on adding Nketiah to their squad, and Arsenal is reportedly willing to sell him for around £40 million.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Selling Nketiah next month or in the summer will be our first step in signing a better striker.
He has had enough chances at the Emirates and we need someone new to come in and score the goals to fire us to titles.
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Think he would be a beautiful signing for the Bubbles, where he would afforded much more playing time and experience growth.
Most Arsenal fans it appears will never forgive him and his agent for getting his present pay package
Initially thought the same for the pay package. But the decision was not unilateral. The Club accepted it what they thought was the justification for it. If anything were to be wrong, the club bears part (if not the greater) of the responsibility.
His finishing might still need some work, but I think I like his (Nketiah) attitude and work ethic though
Most people at the time pointed out we would have spent significantly more than his pay packet on even an average replacement. If we do now sell him for the reported 40 million it was an absolutely astounding bit of business. We got a capable backup on just 100k a week with no transfer fee when we needed to address other areas and then made 40 million. Not bad, not bad at all.
This all only works if Arsenal are bringing in a top level striker. Difficult to see this happening.
If we can sell now for 40m – it seems like a big “if”. It relies on either whu’s willingness to at least match Nketiah’s wages, or Eddie being willing to take a pay cut to leave a title-challenging side where he does currently have a fairly important role. It also relies on whu valuing Eddie at 40m, which i doubt, personally, but it wouldn’t be the craziest transfer fee I’ve ever seen.
Overall it seems unlikely to me, but i guess we’ll see.
Even if we manage to get a sale for around 40m, it will have been incredibly fortunate, because realistically Eddie has not shown he’s worth that. Paying people more than they’re worth is not a good idea and will not serve us well in the long run.
I think Nketia is still so much needed at Arsenal,at least for the remainder of this season,
Yes we need a world class striker, but how sure are we that he is going to adapt to our style of play so fast?
For me i think the only thing we need to do is to look for saka’s backup and a defensive midfielder ,then we can get astricker next season.
For a reported £40 mill I would of course sell NKETIAH ,but ONLY IF we will use that money to sign someone markedly better at the virtual same time as we let Eddie go.
But unless we DO sign someone better,and that means hopefullly Toney, it would be disastrous to let him leave simply for the money we get in.
Personally I doubt either of those things will happen in Jan, but almost certainly will next summer.
“we use that money TOWARDS signing someone markedly better”.
£ 40 mill buys nothing special strikerwise anymore, as West Ham MAY, though probably wont, find out this Jan.
IF its true we can get £40 mill for Nketiak, then surely we MUST take that offer, provided that another ands abetter striker come sin to replace him and that £40 would go towardsbuying him.
Okay, accept 40M for Eddie and spend 80M for a CFC flop! Oh, sad, this year CFC does not have a no 9 or else Arteta would have paid over the top for their flop. Or dish out good money for a good for nothing old pal whose name ends with Mendes.