Arguably the biggest news concerning the club to surface today (as of writing this) is our imminent signing of Martin Zubimendi. As remarkable as it may sound, this is genuine, with several highly credible sources reporting the same thing.
As first revealed by the Daily Mail’s Sami Mokbel, the Gunners are in advanced negotiations to bring him in for the summer. Arsenal are set to trigger his €60 million release clause in a move that should see him join in the summer. The report also mentioned that the deal is virtually completed, which will certainly come as a surprise given our obvious need for attacking reinforcements.
It’s not that the deal is without reason—midfield was an area that needed strengthening anyway, particularly as both Jorginho and Partey are set to see out their contracts in the summer. However, I can’t help but feel perplexed by our decision to complete this deal now.

The report also indicated that the Gunners initially wanted him this month but were forced to settle for a summer move after his club refused. That’s truly amazing! To think that we have such an urgent need for attacking reinforcements and then a report like this comes out—it’s a bit frustrating.
With Gabriel Jesus now set to be out for the remainder of the season, and with the current state of our frontline, you would expect a forward to be top priority this window. Yet it seems the club doesn’t view it that way.
With this news coming out, it would be unforgivable if we somehow fail to sign a forward—unforgivable!
Thoughts about this headline, Gooners? Let us know in the comments.
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With only 4 senior forwards available and fit at present,this distraction is of little interest to fans when the immediate priority is the recruitment of a striker .The injury to Jesus is yet another blow in a season where the imbalance of our squad is painfully evident.No fewer than 5 of our squad are available to fill the LB role yet we do not have one natural centre forward at our disposal.A very sad state of affairs for a Club with pretentious to win the Premier League.
@Grandad,
As much as we fans wants a Striker this January transfer window the error has already been committed by Arteta and the board not buying a CF last summer. Getting a worthy CF is almost unrealistic this January. Arsenal may not be able to afford the type of Striker that will impress the fans. Yes they may get a quick fix but will he be better than Havertz &
Jesus?
Imo, we can hopeful something can still be done. Even if getting a very good wide player and Matinelli can play from the middle.
Not really interested in a player who’s signing for next season ,maybe news on a forward coming in this transfer window might help .
Just a PR stunt to appease the fans
Sorry should have written “some gullible fans “
I don’t want to believe that Arteta and Josh Kroenke won’t sign a striker this January.
Two weeks left to go. Something can still happen by that time.
The signing of Zubimendi is not a bad one for the summer though.
But we really need a striker right now so that’s the news that we should be getting.
More like three weeks.
After all the hype for Merino and his lackluster displays, could be another Viera type signing. If this news is true, them Arteta is probably staying next year, which means we will still have to trust the process, phase 6 – 2025/26, maybe phase 7 we sign a CF and phase 8 we might win the EPL.
I would absolutely trigger the release clause of Ademola lookman if I were arsenal I would take a delap now and get either Victor gyokeres, or oshimen in summer
All very good, but like most fans am more interested in the here and now. Gabriel Jesus was holding his knee against Newcastle, so clearly there was a problem there, he also didn’t start the MU game as involved as he normally is. He surely mentioned he had a problem to the club, so should’ve been taken seriously, and skimping on forwards has come back to bite us big time.
I’m more interested in this transfer window to be honest. We need forwards
Also, nothing is certain until confirmed on Arsenal website and a lot can change from now until summer. Im not taking any notice of summer transfer rumours
Forrest helped us. We need to win now
@Stephanie
Forest looks hungry…
NY_Gunner, I was very concerned when Spuds hired Nuno, but was thrilled when they were hasty in letting Nuno go.
We have to be hungrier and start winning matches.
It’s si frustrating that ee have failed to capitalise on Liverpool’s recent mini slump. They keep dropping unexpected points but then we ourselves will drop similar points in our games.
We should at least be a few points behind Liverpool by now after the points they have dropped on the last month or two. But we still don’t look bothered and hungry to capitalise.
I am so frustrated at Arteta and his players right now.
🤦♂️😩
Liverpool, Chelsea, Nottingham Forest, Man City all drop points so we must try to win Spurs tomorrow but if we can’t win we should not lose.
I hope we actually try to win every game.
Arsenal had better be more worried about finishing in the top four than signing a guy next summer. They dont need a forward to get into the title race….they need one to qualify for the CL
I don’t see anything wrong in securing a player we have coveted since creation now that he seems willing to commit to us over other top clubs that would give a hand to sign him. As we plan for the now, we can’t lose sight of the future.
OT: – I think that reported loan signing of Randal Kolo Muani by Juventus could pave the way for Arsenal to land Dusan Vlaovic on loan even though I would have preferred to see Muani at Arsenal.
I hope Arsenal will not pass up that chance if it comes
We all saw Zubimendi live up to his billing as Rodri understudy, and catch the eye against England. Home schooled, no longer a rookie, with the main years of his career ahead of him, Zubimendi a brilliant signing for Liverpool, Man City, Barcelona, and everyone else who coverts his skill set and potential, so of course it’s a brilliant coup for us.
If, and big if imo, the last piece of the jigsaw is a great lump at 9 to be the Great Finisher, like Gorkeres perhaps, good at finishing but offering little vision or passing ability in build up play, for me Dušan Vlahović is by far the best “big lump” option. Unlike Gorkeres, Dusan will be on pens and free kicks, likely would hit about 20 premiership goals a season at one of the bigger Prem clubs.
At £51M Dusan will cost about half in transfer fee what Man U will pay for Gorkeres. Dusan also cheaper than Sesko is also more oven ready than Sesko. Dusan most definitely has more pace than Gorkeres, Harlaand and Isak – he’d skin them in a race. I like the different ways he scores – sometimes power, but also passing it in, dinks, curls, chips. Yeah natural finisher.
And now the catch. Dusan is definitely not coming to Arsenal. Read between the lines folks, that ship has sailed, Arteta now has his heart set on Sesko who won’t want to come in January, nor his club release him in January.
Someone who can play across the front as well as warm a bench beside Sterling, will come in on loan, till Sesko arrives in summer.
Sesko is coming becuase both the player and Arteta know, for all the rawness Sesko has better technical abilities than any other pretender you can mention, and working with Arteta will achieve the potential of those technical abilities. He will be a very raw number 9 throughout next season though.
Vlahovic is such a simple move and there is absolutely no risk at that price but I do not expect Arteta to take the plunge. He’d rather just keep padding the squad at fullback and DM.
This could be the clearest sign the gaffer is going nowhere come what may the end of the season.
Have long known the gaffer is a top defensive coach, nothing is going to change that now.
Of course he is going nowhere! This season is likely 3rd runners up in a row at worst, and I mean that as though it’s great place to be, not a disaster, with only three quarters finished rebuilding, Look at both the world quality and the best years ahead of them of the core group players Arteta is piecing together.
Who doesn’t want to give him a chance to complete the puzzle of the front line, and then see how the whole completed thing actually works? Arteta leaving now would be a worse “what if” than if Man U sacked Alex Ferguson just before the scrambled cup win at Nottingham Forest.
It’s our exciting up coming Arteta being here, that helps get the likes of Zubi and Sesko into the building, and not at pool or Chelsea. He’s on the phone to them himself.
We will thrash Dinamo next week and secure top 8 and get a by to next round. But before that win both Spurs and Villa can pile plenty more misery on a misfiring side. I’m not predicting we win either of these, not because we don’t have a natural number 9 finisher – we have scored gazillions of goals last two and a half seasons without a number 9 – it’s because those who scored those gazillion goals are very badly out of form.
We’ve been down this way before, when suddenly it’s not football, but like watching a mass panic attack. But injuries, rotten luck and slip ups and dips in form, all part and parcel of football fandom. We will roll wiv wot comes, like mature supporters.
@MoonGirl
But more pressure / encouragement has to be pointed towards Arteta now. He has been in a top job (Arsenal) for 5 years now. Now he needs to deliver but going by this season so far he has absolutely regressed the team. But can he go in a convincing run to the end of this season?
Once again, he has tanked in the domestic cups (FA and League cup), this is becoming a very disturbing pattern to Arteta for me now. He had been so poor and a absolute disaster in the domestic cups. He won a FA cup in 2020 when he first joined but simce then he has been so poor.
The EPL seems so out of our reach while I don’t see us winning the CL too this season.
So we are in “No Mans land / limbo” as a team right now. The team looks lost, disjointed and lacking in belief.
Where are we going at the moment?? 😊
I don’t agree that he has regressed the team. The whole context of the team needs to be considered honestly. We have had a lot of injuries right across the team.
I don’t understand the “got to win something”. What does it actually mean? The League Cup and FA Cup so devalued in 21st century, do they actually count anymore? Win something can only mean PL or CL in my book.
The domestic cups became very much devalued, to the level of King Cup or Coppa Italia, when teams in PL and Championship, to limit matches their top stars making in season and league place finish became far more important, stopped taking them seriously, early rounds: 11 changes from league game.
In terms of bragging – in the modern game, is what Man Utd laid down last year of no top 4 but an FA cup, a stronger hand than 3 PL 2nds in a row and no domestic cup?
No PL or CL, but a FA cup or league cup, it’s like a Mickey Mouse consolation prize for losers, who clearly weren’t good enough that year. Is that what you want to brag about?
“Once again he has tanked in the domestic cups.”
Last Sunday, prioritising the more important game of this week, Arsenal chose to start with Jorgi and Wooly in midfield. Get over it.
MoonGirl,
On what basis to you think that we will thrash Dinamo next week.
Have you not been watching our joke of a strike force lately.🙄🤦♂️
Firstly, they are bottom, and not in great form themselves. Secondly they won’t come and embarrass themselves like Everton or Man Utd by lining up just to cling on, like the Alamo – dynamo will play their preferred shape and tactic going for a win. All home CL games this season have shown opponents not up to PL levels for tight defensive shape – in noticeable contrast to PL games, suddenly you are gifted space everywhere – so in transition they will be caught outnumbered in midfield.
Our strike force hasn’t’ seen enough investment in it, it is true – but these days you financially can’t bring in to a squad, till you have moved players out and off the bills, and can only make the big exciting deals in summer window.
They are patched together in spate on injuries, out of form, under pressure – as a hard weather fan do you want to add to all that, by calling them a joke? or put an arm round them, sing their name, and lift them up?
MoonGirl, forgive me if I’m overstepping here but if your vocation is not as a motivational speaker then you may have missed your calling. While I don’t always agree with all of your points, I still love reading your positive posts. Thanks.
Thanks. But Just flipping obvious, pile pressure on your own side and you are doing your best enemies work.
How’s Kai supposed to come out into the cauldron tonight and perform well, with everything thrown at him and family in last few days. Arsenal fans, from celebrities down, have heaped a whole world of pressure on him. I doubt he’s slept.
Sad thing is, if you went into the dressing room after final whistle Sunday, you would find him silent, head down in a towel – his own fierce critic. It’s not a true fans role to come in and slap him at that moment, but wipe the slate clean, sing his name and lift the weight off his shoulders. Whilst he’s still at the club, and still one of us. Simples.
Get down there tonight, and sing his flipping song from the start. Sing it, let him hear, and don’t let up.
Arteta’s had enough summer transfer windows now to have provided better cover in the squad.
And who did he buy, Havertz, Calafiori, Merino.
You’ve admitted yourself that we’re light in attack.
So tell me, with that in mind how can Arteta not address the problems we’re clearly having attack, and instead go all out and bring in two defensive minded players.
Remember he had the chance to address this in a summer transfer window, and didn’t.
Sorry, I forgot to write the name of whom I was answering. This is in answer to MoonGirl. (My bad🙄🤦♂️).
Easy. If Sesko had said yes last summer, he would already be here. Sesko is sold on the move, he preferred it in 2025 not 2024. Might sensibly thought himself to raw. It was Sesko call to delay, not Arteta.
So your criticism is, Arteta should not have waited for Sesko, he should have got someone else in last summer? Any old body in? If you want quality not quantity, the big player to you, not to Manchester, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spain, Italy, Paris, etc, you can’t just go out with credit card and do it, in this day and age. Arteta tried to sneak under everyone’s radar and steal Sesko in the building, from everybody starting a bidding war – and his own fans accusing him of not wanting or trying to get a top notch striker in?
But the problem over the few weeks isn’t number 9, it’s the fact Kai is running through brick walls for his team mates, but they aren’t helping out chipping in goals – they all had their scoring boots on last few years, now they’ve put the keystone cops boots on.
Let’s wake up to the actual truth here. Fans need darn sight more patience and respect than the last few days.
MoonGirl,
So what your saying is going into a new season and you couldn’t get your first choice striker, you then ignore the problem and wait a complete season for said first choice striker to become available.
Are you telling me that he shouldn’t have gone out and brought in some sort of striker, even as a stop gap, until said first choice striker comes in the following season.
Because if that’s the case, what kind of management is that, risking the teams season without addressing the problem that the team has here and now, not in a complete season’s time.
That being the case, it would be terrible management.
Well, while I don’t rate Calafiori particularly high based on the limited evidence so far, in the prior season, given the LB situation, I believe his presence could very well have been the small improvement which was needed to finish 1st rather than 2nd so that may have been the line of thinking in his acquisition.
That’s how I see it too.
I just hope the club don’t listen to our sensationalist fanbase once again. No need to panic Sack Arteta after the last three seasons of progress at the club. But Arteta too has to also pay back the owners and some fans for sticking / standing by him him through all the times of adversity.
It’s up to Arteta to make that next step as a manager. I hope he does not have a ceiling (a Bridesmaid / Bestman) sort of thing. Can he push himself to become the groom? That’s where he needs to diversify his approach / style of play.
But I hope the club don’t panic yet. Might turnout to be like the likes of Man United, Chelsea, Spurs etc that have had zero stability in the last 5 years. Hiring and firing managers every other season.
👍Goonster
Goonster,
The last time I looked, 5 years is not every other year is it.🙄🤦♂️
Frankly, I think it is disgraceful that certain loudmouths are suggesting that Arteta has reached his ceiling. It doesn’t help the team and given where we are completely lacking in perspective.
David,
Its there opinion, and there entitled to it as you are yours. But I don’t hear them going around calling you a loud mouth.
Opinions!🙄🤦♂️
My comment did make it through at all for whatever reason, but to summarize, good signing, needed with Thomas and Jorgi leaving even tho we are all starving for a forward. Short term, looks bad for us, hopefully we can still get 4th. Summer, EVERYTHING needs to be a hit signing. And folks, Arteta’s job is NOT in danger and will NOT be. When you put everything into context it makes zero sense to sack him. I am very frustrated with him this season but I still say to stick by him. But he needs to grow as a manager and get through this rough patch.
Never worry about how anyone would perceive you on issues that are meant to be looked at in a more holistic long term manner.
If this Zubimendi talk is even genuine then it shows that the clubs is still very competent and mature in their outlook. They are not being shallow / surface level / myopic in their approach. You can’t just focus on one thing at any given time and not keep an open mind for other options / targets that might have presented themselves to you in a realistic way at any that given juncture.
Right now we are fantasising about this top clinical striker, but where is he? What serious club will be willing to sell their best strker right in the middle of a season?
You should never be swayed by Short-termism / sensationalism. Always think long term / big picture. 😊👍
Goonster,
The club has a big issue that needs addressing now, and you talk about the future.
Priceless, absolutely priceless.🙄🤦♂️
Sorry Derek but I don’t think you know what I am like. I don’t do sensationalism and overreactions.
You will hardly ever catch me acting the way some of you do. Reactionaries.
Sorry but that’s not my personality. 👍
Goonster,
What’s reactionary about dealing with the issues we have in the here and now.
Not in the summer.🙄🤦♂️
Zubimendi is a quality addition I remember Liverpool fans licking their lips at the prospect of him leveling up their midfield A lot of top clubs have tried to sign him so it is a bit of a coup for Arsenal
People need to stop thinking in this very shallow and surface level way. Just because many think that we need a striker does not mean the club has to be myopic and only concentrate on one so called urgent aspect (striker) when it can walk and chee gum at the same time.
If an opportunity like Zubimendi presents itself at any given moment you have to take it as we a replacement for Partey and Jorginho come next season. And where are these available top strikers that most of our fans seem to be paranoid with?
I just hope that the club keeps a calm but clear head this January window and not be panicked into wasting money on any average striker just for the sake of soothing our sensationalistic fans that are already abusing Havertz and his family on social media.
After the FA cup horror show at the weekend, our fans have jumped on harrassing and abusing Havertz and his family on social media like they did with Xhaka a few years ago. What joke fans they are. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Good points there👍
I remember quite clearly how fans were having a go at Ozil and Aubemeyang amongst others.
I wonder if they’re the same keyboard warriors now having a go at Havertz, Jesus and Martinelli???
Could be. Sadly, given some of the vitriol and angry comments on JA, a few of the culprits could even be on here.
I wasn’t happy with Ozil and Auba in the end but I wouldn’t have got at them by being vile to their families. That is crossing a line
I know they are BB and so do they!!
You should see what Giroud used to be called on here
Zubimendi is a coup simply put, a top player coveted by both City and Liverpool who actually rejected the latter last season. Will make our midfield much better. That’s a big part of our summer transfer completed.
Now we have to focus on the present we need a striker and/or winger right now. Jesus done his acl and saka is probably only returning end of march. Liverpool is starting to drop points as expected, a good team with the best player in the world currently but nothing uncatchable like the past City teams. Can we capitalise that is the question?
If he had signed, would be some good news. As it stands, he’s more of a pie in air as a lot could happen between now and the summer.
Short term, we keep hoping but the possibility of the League is not yet realistic. We don’t have what it takes to be sufficiently optimistic.
Just a big distraction this story!!
Arteta says we don’t need a Striker. Let’s Trust the Process.
Prophet,
What like we have for the last 5 years.
Being a arsenal fan is like watching the chuckle brothers fix a roof. As we stop one leak another one opens up.
We are loosing thomas partey and Jorginho in the summer which will leave us light in the midfield. So this is a really good signing. HOWEVER! WE ALRADY HAVE ANORHER BLOODY LEAK!! it’s super obvious we need a striker and a LW today as well.
Come summer we may well get a LW. But our backup I’m sterling will be gone, trossard will go and jesus won’t be back until next season. So we will still have a leak as we will be lacking squad depth.
Same old arsenal. Like every said it’s like watching netflix and I’m tired of it
Having the foresight to fix a problem before it truly becomes one, while (apparently) failing to address the problems that exist today – from our vantage point, it seems they can’t see the wood for the trees
I agree with you. We never go into a season with a FULLY realized squad. It always seems to be 1-2 positions short that inevitably come back to bite us. We need HITS in every department this coming summer. That means top striker, top midfielder (good if Zubi), top winger. No half measures or it will come back to bite us. Hope we can achieve this.
RSH,
Yet if you level this at Arteta, you’ll get castigated for it.
There’s no accountability at this club.
Happy if Zubimendi is coming to Arsenal in the summer but we need a forward urgently, it is as clear as daylight. Perplexed as to how the Club does not seem to see this glaring reality. There are still 2 weeks in this window to get a forward and hope Arsenal do get one asap. FNo doubt Zubimendi is a class player but a forward is the need of the hour.
I am ALWAYS baffled, that at Arsenal, fans never talk of promising strikers coming from the Academy. Does this club not have a plan for easing talented strikers from the academy into the first team like other teams in Europe, or are they intended to be shipped out [free/cheaply] like Obi Martin, Biereth, Omar Hutchinson, Balogun, etc.?
Letting Biereth go was yet another error of judgement.The guy is a natural striker who is doing very well indeed.
@Grandad
And yet, there were many here who thought he was not good enough for the first team. Comparing him to the likes of Osimhen and Vlahovic. I was under the impression that we groom academy players for the first team by giving them game time in order to evaluate their level of skill. Guess I was wrong.
@Jagombe
👍🏾 They usually want ready made talent that some other manager has cultivated. They would rather brag about “a good buy” than put in the work themselves. Just sayin…🤔
NY-Gunner,
Apparently, we’ve got to trust the process.🙄🤦♂️
While the likes of Chelsea, city130, manure and pool go out and buy the finished product, we either have to compete with them or accept that we have to wait for our own Hales End boys to come through the ranks.
It seems that the vast majority of Arsenal fans aren’t prepared to do the latter.
Ken1945,
While we’re waiting, our opponents are getting stronger.
Still, we’ve got to trust the process haven’t we.
What phase are we in now, by the way?🙄🤦♂️
I understand we are trying to replace Jorginho with Zubimendi but I cant help but feel he is another blunt tool. We have a lot of players like this where they have soo many interesting traits except what’s expected of their position on the field. Zubimendi, a defensive mid that has decent passing technique but is he physically adept to the job of a no. 6, Rice has his skills but is he a no. 8, Havertz has his skills but is he a no. 9, Odegaard has his skills but is he a no. 10…its just becoming strange to build your squad on players who do not give you what the position requires
Zubimendi will not bring pace and energy to our midfield, but Baleba of Brighton will.He is also more versatile in that he is comfortable as a DM or in a box to box role.He would be my top midfielder target for next season.
Grandad
I agree with you about Baleba and would prefer a B2B type midfielder over yet another DM. Zubimendi is better than Merino, and looks like wasted money.
Merino has really struggled in midfield, and lacks the pace and tools to play as a proper 8. Baleba can slot in a be a good link between Rice and Odegaard.
Also, watching Baleba in buildup and comparing that with Merino, big difference in skillet and ability to break the press.
Thanks D.Merino has been a peripheral figure so far for us whilst Baleba is all action and takes charge of proceedings.
Honestly I’d just try to sell Merino this summer already. Unlikey theres a market, but Arsenal like to hold out hope for too many players sometimes. I don’t see how a 29 year old midfielder suddenly fits into the squad if he isn’t doing it now. Surely there’s an academy player that can take up the spot he will surely be warming on the bench next season. As it stands I’d rather Havertz back in the midfield!
If Arsenal finish this season without a trophy, trust it’s all down to his arrogance. There’s only one team in the world that could play wiithoit a top, I.e. Man City and those days are fast fading off. For Arteta to think Arsenal could match that feet, it’s such a joke. It’s already another stale season. Even average teams in EPL boast of better attackers.
Managers must always build from the back, not front, or else they’ll be out within 18 months.
Now is the rebuild moment for the icing on the cake, no one’s arguing that point, the iconic number 9. The money is set aside, Jan or July that bit is not a problem.
think in your head, no need to tell us, that number 9 you most want to bring here.
His club won’t sell in Jan, that player can’t come till July. It won’t happen now, but the young, big star with bags of potential who half the planet are wanting to sign, is coming to you in July.
What are you going to do right now? If it was your call?
Now think in your head, no need to tell us, that second choice number 9 you most want to bring here.
His club won’t sell in Jan, that player can’t come till July. It won’t happen now, but the big star with bags of potential who half the planet are wanting to sign, can come to you in July.
What are you going to do right now? If it was your call? The team collectively has scored loads the last two and half seasons – which is right way to build it than rely on just one player for your cutting edge. It’s really only become an issue because Trossard, Martinelli, Ode, Rice and Sterling have collectively lost their scoring boots and not helping Kai (whose still running through brick walls for them) and they should jolly well step up and salvage this season.
Now, in your head, no need to tell us, think of that third choice number 9 you most want to bring here.
His club won’t sell in Jan, that player can’t come till July. It won’t happen now, but the big star with bags of potential who half the planet are wanting to sign, can come to you in July.
What are you going to do right now? If it was your call? The team collectively has scored loads the last two and half seasons – which is right way to build it than rely on just one player for your cutting edge (Liverpool and Newcastle with Salah and Isak out for months). It’s really only become an issue because Trossard, Martinelli, Ode, Rice, Kai, Merino, and Sterling have collectively lost their scoring boots, and they should jolly well step up, chip in, and salvage this season. Ethan is not too far away from joining in. Saka back fit around Easter for the run in.
If it was your call?
MoonGirl,
Have you been watching Arsenal over the last two seasons.
The defense has functioned pretty well.
With a couple of tweaks here and there, and if Arteta had addressed the striker and better cover for Saka issues, we may well have gone that final step and won something.
But no, Arteta wants to go down the pragmatic route, and we’re now seeing the results aren’t we.
Arteta has rebuilt the team from back to front which is the reason the defence is now so strong.
Getting the right forward player is not straightforward as proven players cost a lot more. Also, if you then buy the wrong fit it could leave the squad significantly unbalanced.
It is overly simplistic to suggest we could have just gone and bought whatever player we want and that would have solved our striker problems.
You are right about bringing in the wrong player and the result is imbalance in that unit; attack, midfield, or defense.
No better example of that then our striker position. Jesus is not a scorer, or reliably productive, so Arteta took a big risk on Havertz.
Unfortunately, hard work is not enough, strikers have to finish off chances and score.
So here we are again; needing a striker. Jesus and Havertz were wrong fits, and honestly can’t beat out players in our squad now, they are bench warmers in other positions.
David your right, Arteta has rebuilt the team from the back.
As for your getting the right striker comment, well as Durand eludes to, Arteta has already got that completely wrong with the signings of Jesus and Havertz.
Derek, and yet since signing Jesus and Havertz we’ve actually been challenging for the PL. Iirc, last season we scored the most goals we’ve ever scored since the beginning of the PL in ’92.
Herr Drier,
Didn’t win us the League though did it. Just Saying.🙄🤦♂️
Closer by far than we’ve been since the invincibles.
True Bruised Banana,
But close isn’t good enough is it🙄🤦♂️.
So if we had gotten those additional 2 points last season honestly would have made a real significant difference in the discussion of players, manager, coaches, executives, etc. performances?
Derek, still better than finishing 8th and 5th. Just saying 😁
Herr Drier,
If you finish 2oth or 2nd you don’t win it’s as simple as that.
While all these personal records like good win rates, the best points gained at home and the like are good.
It’s all about winning trophy’s at the end of the day, no one remembers second place do they. Just saying.😁
I want to believe that the club can’t go for Zubumendi and isn’t working on our present need. Someone might come but not on a permanent deal, loan deal with or without option to buy in the summer. Our season may derail if we overlook strengthening that department.
Arteta is good at misplacing our priority. Is midfield player what we need now. I can’t understand why he has refused to buy a quality striker in all these years. His arrogance is becoming unbecoming.
Maybe I’m an Arteta apologist, but I don’t look at this signing as misplacing priorities. I think you have to sign players when you can. I think if you can get this deal done now, then you get it done. That said, if this signing is being made at the cost of signing of the attacking reinforcements we need right now, then there is a problem. I am going to trust the process until this transfer window closes, and then I’ll grumble if we don’t get anyone signed.