When Arteta took over at Arsenal, he must have dreamed of turning the club into the Premier League force it ought to be. When Arteta began his Arsenal rebuild, he had a tough task in re-instilling the Arsenal culture, which seemed diluted under Unai Emery. In his initial days, some felt Arteta wouldn’t manage, and they thought it was a bad bet to gamble on him to get Arsenal back to being competitive in the Premier League.
To cut a long story short, at least 3 years later, amidst Arteta’s “‘you must go’ calls here and there, the Spaniard has done it. He has Arsenal playing beautiful football, fighting, winning, and topping the Premier League table by five points with 12 games to go.
Arteta has managed to assemble a strong team that fights for him; one may ask, has he at last found the dream Arsenal team that he always wanted? Well, surely not until after this summer window.
Whatever happens from now until this season ends, Arteta has a big summer window in which he may dive in and emerge on the other side with his dream Arsenal team. But before we even think of who he ought to bring on board in the summer, we must agree that for any significant acquisition, some current Arsenal players need to make way and raise some funds.
As per Football Insider, Mikel Arteta already has three stars in Kieran Tierney, Albert Sambi Lokonga, and Nuno Tavares that he intends to cash in on. For Tierney, a £30 million sale is eyed, while for Lokonga, it is hoped his value will rise as he re-establishes himself at the Palace.
For Tavares, he’s had a great time at Marseille, though the French side’s struggled once or twice to afford Arsenal’s reasonable fees.
With these three out of the picture, Arteta will be free to do his business and unleash probably his dream team for the 2023–24 season.
Who else do you think will leave to make room for Arteta’s dream signings?
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Tierney should be in our first eleven but as our Manager prefers to ensure we win the possession stakes by playing another central midfielder in the highly skilled Zinchenko as an “inverted” LB , he most probably will ask to move on.There will be no shortage of Clubs interested in Tierney, but in monetary terms, it might not be so easy to profit from the sales of Lokonga and Tavares.The big problem will arise when Zinchenko is injured and Tierney is no longer around.
Would be nice to see Tierney at LB and Zinchenko in the midfield to give Xhaka a rest. Zinchenko has a bit more mobility, creativity, and technique than Xhaka and I think it would help us break down the low blocks we have been facing lately.
Oh boy..someone is suggesting that Xhaka be dropped again for no reason..
Merely rotate players my friend, to give them a rest. Nowhere did I say “replace” Xhaka in midfield, but intentionally used “rest.”
Perhaps read again, think and digest the words, and then reply. Otherwise you may not understand the comment, which you clearly have done.
We have quite a few players out on loan who wouldn’t be missed should they be sold. I would accept decent bids for any of the following. Tierney/ Tarvares, Niles, Pepe, Lokonga and Nkietah. I would then use the money to add real top class players to the squad. Firstly Caicido, don’t care if it’s 100 million or 120 million. Just go watch his performance against Rice over the weekend. Next up his college and Xhaka replacement, McAllister. Finally we decided wether we need another winger or cf. For me it’s a cf I would go for Toney assuming he’s served his ban.
There are quite a few players that could be transfer or move on to facilitate the next phase of the building process
These are players that could well come alive in easier opportunities away from the Emirates.
Holding
Pepe
Tavares
Mari
Balogun
By back clause could be inserted as these are not necessarily bad players, but not quite figure in the next phase.
Players below should be targeted.
Oshien’s
Bellingham
Vlohovic Onana
Zubimendi
Rice
With the war chest by large intact a minimum of two of the above is achievable
I believe Arteta would like Tierney to stay. I can’t think of another player who’s able to deputize Zinchenko in the inverted LB position
I saw Tierney’s improvement in that role and finding a new high quality LB-LDM hybrid would likely be a difficult task to do, unless we can sign Camavinga, Cancelo, Chilwell, Sarr or Cucurella
It would depend on Tierney, who might want to be a first-choice LB elsewhere
Interesting targets outside the PL are available this summer. I’ve followed up certain players who will be available for relatively modest fees in the summer if not free:
Enzo Le Fee, Morten Hjulmand, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Manuel Ugarte, Alejandro Grimaldo, Adrien Truffert, Milan Skriniar, Rafael Leao, Pote..
Many of these players are entering final months of their contract or will already be free and they’ve all stood out for me. Most of them are midfielders which we are in dire need.
As for strikers, not many targets I can think of that would really catch my eye, apart from our very own Balogun!
Holding, Pepe, Tavares, Mari, Lukonga, AML, Eddie should be sold. We can get Balogun, a new more attacking RB and a top striker instead.
Tireny can be sold for the right price and if we can get a replacement
Also, I don’t know about ESR. He is too injury prone and too soft a player. If we can get a decent price for him or use him as a makewight in the Rice deal, I would consider it. More so if we can get a too MP to rival Xhaka
I’m worried about EMR too. I hope he’s not going to be another Jack Wilshere. Technically gifted, but phisically vulnerabile.
Actually I think Pablo Mari has practically been sold. There was a clause in the Monza deal that if they will avoid relegation, Mari’s deal will become obligatory. Monza is quite safe already so Mari is a goner.
Tierney is staying, so is Lokonga, trust me.
Anyone who suggests Eddie and ESR should be sold is, well, just plain daft!
I think Pepé, Mari and AMN will possibly be sold but I’m thinking Tavares will be retained.
Xhaka has played as full back before, so we will just bring in someone like ESR to the midfield and Xhaka as your inverted full back and Kiwio is another option
Don’t think it will be down on purely football reasons if players are moved on
Holding – could see him being held on too as MA see him doing a job for us when called upon but seems to do things for the team away from the football
Can’t see players like pepe coming back and will depend on what we can get for him
Don’t think there is much left on the debt of his 72m. Probably written down over 4 or 5 years =16m a season
Tierney is a good solid left back in a traditional mould. He could play for many strong teams. However he can’t play at the top level …… yet. He needs to improve his basic ball possession and distribution skills and understand the type of things Zinchenko does so he could split games with him, especially as we should really be playing CL football next season. Tierney strikes me as a down to earth guy who is honest and committed to being the best he can be for his team. I think he will try to stay and improve to challange Zinchenko. If he leaves it will be because he doesn’t think he can become the player Arteta wants him to become.
I’m not going to predict anything because it could be a mixed bag of some of my favourites going ie, Tierney and ESR while those I would prefer to see leave, ie Elneny, Xhaka, Nketien probably staying because nobody wants them and Arteta loves their hard training. Also who comes in will be a compromise based on price tag, not being chased by other clubs, and Edu and Arteta’s ” guy feeling”. Let’s just hope they really do bring in two” top top top” class players and not another Elneny type squib.
Make that, “gut feeling”.
To call those three players the piece lists are “stars” is English used incorrectly. Tierney is a good player. The other two are both not good enough to play for us , so they plainly are NOT stars.
I do stil think Tavares, if used in his correct position – which is not in defence- could prove a useful player, given time.
Jon
Tavares, has the talent but he is not disciplined enough and leaves us exposed. Is doesn’t matter if he starts off as a LB, wingback or he is pushed further forward.
Last season he looked lost at times, his positional play was awful and confidence was shot
Hopefully a season away will give him the experience he is lacking and comes back a better fit for us
If not then take the money and reinvest
Anyway I don’t really loved to hear that Tierney is going, ok at times if xinchenco is injured I sees him as the right assistance. In terms of offloading the likes of Taveres, Mari, pepe, holding, Maitland Niles,sambi,eleny, to raise some funds to make bids for caicedo n even loan nketia for balogun will really makes a lot of sense, and also to see caicedo replacing xhaka♥️♥️♥️♥️
The weight of number 10 jersey is too much
I suspect that most Gooners wil easily agre rthqat certain of our less talented players need to be moved on this coming summer. Which makes Elnenys surprising new contract a puzzle that I FOR ONE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND.
IMO, Elneny should be the number one target for us to jettison. Number one by some distance! Doubtless, he is popular inside the group and tries his hardest always.
But simply put , he has way less ability than ANY single other player on our first team squad.
Personally, I’d get rid of Tavares, Elneny, Nketiah, Trossard, Nelson, Vieira, Holding, Cedric. Trossard has done well in his first handful of games but he doesn’t have the quality we need to progress. And he is the best of the players I listed.