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Raul's Transfer Targets: Summer 2019

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em9999

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I have just been informed edu and the transfer team met with SK today and hes released all cash reserves for Emery to spend.
Hence we are going mental..

I dont know if its true but it fits
 
El Duderino

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That's, like, your opinion, man.
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Aevi said:
Yeah, quick wingers have been giving him trouble.

He's still got more to give elsewhere though, he's got heart. Plenty more than most of our lot. That's always made him easy to like.
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Underrated technician too. Time for him to go back to Spain, but was low-key one of the best lbs in the league for some time.
 
A_G

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Highbury_2006 said:
Has anyone read this article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/its-starting-to-look-ugly-at-arsenal-5prgfbzjx ? Its locked and im not sure if its worth paying for.
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Last summer Antoine Griezmann released a film. It featured ponies, a chateau and lingering shots of his moody stare, building towards the revelation that he was staying with Atletico Madrid. A five-year contract was duly signed. Soundtracking Griezmann’s movie was a song called God’s Plan.

This summer, Griezmann refused to train while engineering a transfer to Barcelona, so in the scheme of things Laurent Koscielny skipping Arsenal’s tour and demanding a move is low-level footballer betrayal. Yet for incandescant Arsenal supporters the bigger picture is sometimes hard to see. Understandably. A decade of false dawns and their club’s dwindling eminence left them that way.

Now a transfer window they hoped would be transformative seems mired in mishap. Tottenham threaten to hijack a drawn-out bid for William Saliba while Celtic keep rebuffing low Arsenal offers for Kieran Tierney. The only signing is a teenager from Brazil’s fourth division (Gabriel Martinelli). Now Koscielny, the mild-mannered club captain, inset, is on strike. Not to forget Wilf Zaha-gate, a saga in which Arsenal mooted £40m for a player Crystal Palace are understood to value beyond £120m.

That price is because he is their talisman and Palace simply do not want to sell. Nor do they want Arsenal cast-offs in exchange. Palace are puzzled that a top outfit can be deaf to such basic messages. Back in May, Arsenal’s likeable head of football, Raul Sanllehi, promised to “outsmart the market” but so far the market appears to be outsmarting him, although in fairness Sanllehi is at least trying things, in contrast to the executive inertia that stunted his club before his arrival. And Sanllehi’s task is steepling: to oversee the rebuilding of an elite team with money similar to what Aston Villa just paid for Ezri Konsa and Tyrone Mings.

The “self-sustaining model” enshrined by owner Stan Kroenke affords Arsenal a transfer budget of £40m-£45m and is unlikely to change, but prudence is beginning to look like a risk. This is an era where not only peer clubs but middling ones such as Wolves and Leicester are growing smartly via owner-investment. Arsenal are the most vulnerable to dropping out should an outsider infiltrate the Premier League’s “Big Six”.

They have accrued the fewest points of that elite cabal since 2015-16 (83 fewer than England’s past three title-winning teams) and slippage on the pitch is mirrored by slippage off it. Football finance expert Swiss Ramble recently laid out the issues. Behind record £70m profits trumpeted in Arsenal’s latest accounts (to the end of the 2017-18 season) he found worrying trends: the worst revenue performance among Europe’s top 20 clubs, profits manufactured by player sales, an underlying operating loss. He painted a stark picture of Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea pulling away and Tottenham closing fast. Sp**s’ revenue was £141m behind Arsenal’s in 2016 but only £10m behind in 2018. Arsenal’s commercial revenue and matchday income had flatlined while Sp**s made massive strides — and this before Sp**s opened their money-spinning new stadium.

The impact of two seasons outside the Champions League is clear. Arsenal have earned £115m less from Europe than Liverpool since 2017, £89m less than Sp**s, £83m less than City, £60m less than United, £35m less than Chelsea. With 2019-20 Champions League prize money increasing to £2.92bn compared to £503m for the Europa League, gaps will widen further. And, of course, playing Champions League football is something Sp**s can dangle before Saliba.

Sanllehi told The Sunday Times in October that Arsenal “need to regain that positioning, that privilege to be seen as a Champions League club. From there the wheel starts rolling again.”

Good people, wrestling the mistakes of their predecessors — that’s how the Arsenal front office is characterised by an agent who deals with them. Chief contract negotiator Huss Fahmy is seen as high-quality but overworked as he tries to address the strange approach to deals and renewals, epitomised when Ivan Gazidis and **** Law led the process that ended with Mesut Özil landing £350,000 per week but Aaron Ramsey walking away. Managing director Vinai Venkatesham is driving commercial improvement, with income about to be boosted by new Adidas, Emirates and Visit Rwanda deals. But you come back to owner-investment. With Fenway Sports Group adopting, within sensible limits, a speculate-to-accumulate approach, Liverpool have shot beyond Arsenal on the pitch, partly by increasing wages by £67m more than Arsenal since 2015. Arsenal’s wage bill is now second lowest of the Big Six.

The way forward lies on the field. Edu’s arrival as technical director brings the promise of more young South American signings such as Martinelli, who recently trained with Brazil’s senior squad. Freddie Ljungberg’s promotion to assistant coach has gone down well among Arsenal’s academy products. Transfer targets such as Saliba (18) and Tierney (22) are youthful. There is joined-up thinking and a strategy that looks like an intelligent response to the spending limits — rebuild through youth. But some questions. First, is Unai Emery the man for it? At PSG he did champion Presnel Kimpembe, and at Valencia a young Juan Mata, but generally in his career he has preferred experience in his teams.

Emery’s ill-fated loan signing of Denis Suarez in January is believed to have dismayed Sven Mislintat, who wanted kids in the same playing position — Joe Willock and Bukayo Saka — afforded more opportunities. Mislintat departed as head of recruitment soon after Suarez’s arrival. Twelve of a 29-man squad on Arsenal’s US tour are youngsters, including Saka (17), Tyreece John-Jules (18) and Reiss Nelson (19), all of whom have the potential to become £50m players. But they need playing time — tricky for Emery in 2019-20 when it is so vital for Arsenal to qualify for the Champions League.

The other question is how long can Arsenal wait for a youth-based rebuild to come good? Leicester are building a £100m training ground, have Brendan Rodgers, and now sign talent such as Youri Tielemans. Wolves have a manager of similar standard, ambitious Chinese backing, and Jorge Mendes’ players on tap. Everton have wealth. West Ham are signing well and increasing capacity to 62,500, which will relegate the Emirates to merely the capital’s fourth largest football arena. The pack is catching up and on Tuesday Arsenal play Colorado Rapids, Kroenke’s other soccer team — who are bottom of the MLS Western Conference. “The similarity between United and Arsenal is that for several years they’ve just not been smart enough,” the agent said. “The difference is United can buy their way out of trouble.”
 
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Last summer Antoine Griezmann released a film. It featured ponies, a chateau and lingering shots of his moody stare, building towards the revelation that he was staying with Atletico Madrid. A five-year contract was duly signed. Soundtracking Griezmann’s movie was a song called God’s Plan.

This summer, Griezmann refused to train while engineering a transfer to Barcelona, so in the scheme of things Laurent Koscielny skipping Arsenal’s tour and demanding a move is low-level footballer betrayal. Yet for incandescant Arsenal supporters the bigger picture is sometimes hard to see. Understandably. A decade of false dawns and their club’s dwindling eminence left them that way.

Now a transfer window they hoped would be transformative seems mired in mishap. Tottenham threaten to hijack a drawn-out bid for William Saliba while Celtic keep rebuffing low Arsenal offers for Kieran Tierney. The only signing is a teenager from Brazil’s fourth division (Gabriel Martinelli). Now Koscielny, the mild-mannered club captain, inset, is on strike. Not to forget Wilf Zaha-gate, a saga in which Arsenal mooted £40m for a player Crystal Palace are understood to value beyond £120m.

That price is because he is their talisman and Palace simply do not want to sell. Nor do they want Arsenal cast-offs in exchange. Palace are puzzled that a top outfit can be deaf to such basic messages. Back in May, Arsenal’s likeable head of football, Raul Sanllehi, promised to “outsmart the market” but so far the market appears to be outsmarting him, although in fairness Sanllehi is at least trying things, in contrast to the executive inertia that stunted his club before his arrival. And Sanllehi’s task is steepling: to oversee the rebuilding of an elite team with money similar to what Aston Villa just paid for Ezri Konsa and Tyrone Mings.

The “self-sustaining model” enshrined by owner Stan Kroenke affords Arsenal a transfer budget of £40m-£45m and is unlikely to change, but prudence is beginning to look like a risk. This is an era where not only peer clubs but middling ones such as Wolves and Leicester are growing smartly via owner-investment. Arsenal are the most vulnerable to dropping out should an outsider infiltrate the Premier League’s “Big Six”.

They have accrued the fewest points of that elite cabal since 2015-16 (83 fewer than England’s past three title-winning teams) and slippage on the pitch is mirrored by slippage off it. Football finance expert Swiss Ramble recently laid out the issues. Behind record £70m profits trumpeted in Arsenal’s latest accounts (to the end of the 2017-18 season) he found worrying trends: the worst revenue performance among Europe’s top 20 clubs, profits manufactured by player sales, an underlying operating loss. He painted a stark picture of Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea pulling away and Tottenham closing fast. Sp**s’ revenue was £141m behind Arsenal’s in 2016 but only £10m behind in 2018. Arsenal’s commercial revenue and matchday income had flatlined while Sp**s made massive strides — and this before Sp**s opened their money-spinning new stadium.

The impact of two seasons outside the Champions League is clear. Arsenal have earned £115m less from Europe than Liverpool since 2017, £89m less than Sp**s, £83m less than City, £60m less than United, £35m less than Chelsea. With 2019-20 Champions League prize money increasing to £2.92bn compared to £503m for the Europa League, gaps will widen further. And, of course, playing Champions League football is something Sp**s can dangle before Saliba.

Sanllehi told The Sunday Times in October that Arsenal “need to regain that positioning, that privilege to be seen as a Champions League club. From there the wheel starts rolling again.”

Good people, wrestling the mistakes of their predecessors — that’s how the Arsenal front office is characterised by an agent who deals with them. Chief contract negotiator Huss Fahmy is seen as high-quality but overworked as he tries to address the strange approach to deals and renewals, epitomised when Ivan Gazidis and **** Law led the process that ended with Mesut Özil landing £350,000 per week but Aaron Ramsey walking away. Managing director Vinai Venkatesham is driving commercial improvement, with income about to be boosted by new Adidas, Emirates and Visit Rwanda deals. But you come back to owner-investment. With Fenway Sports Group adopting, within sensible limits, a speculate-to-accumulate approach, Liverpool have shot beyond Arsenal on the pitch, partly by increasing wages by £67m more than Arsenal since 2015. Arsenal’s wage bill is now second lowest of the Big Six.

The way forward lies on the field. Edu’s arrival as technical director brings the promise of more young South American signings such as Martinelli, who recently trained with Brazil’s senior squad. Freddie Ljungberg’s promotion to assistant coach has gone down well among Arsenal’s academy products. Transfer targets such as Saliba (18) and Tierney (22) are youthful. There is joined-up thinking and a strategy that looks like an intelligent response to the spending limits — rebuild through youth. But some questions. First, is Unai Emery the man for it? At PSG he did champion Presnel Kimpembe, and at Valencia a young Juan Mata, but generally in his career he has preferred experience in his teams.

Emery’s ill-fated loan signing of Denis Suarez in January is believed to have dismayed Sven Mislintat, who wanted kids in the same playing position — Joe Willock and Bukayo Saka — afforded more opportunities. Mislintat departed as head of recruitment soon after Suarez’s arrival. Twelve of a 29-man squad on Arsenal’s US tour are youngsters, including Saka (17), Tyreece John-Jules (18) and Reiss Nelson (19), all of whom have the potential to become £50m players. But they need playing time — tricky for Emery in 2019-20 when it is so vital for Arsenal to qualify for the Champions League.

The other question is how long can Arsenal wait for a youth-based rebuild to come good? Leicester are building a £100m training ground, have Brendan Rodgers, and now sign talent such as Youri Tielemans. Wolves have a manager of similar standard, ambitious Chinese backing, and Jorge Mendes’ players on tap. Everton have wealth. West Ham are signing well and increasing capacity to 62,500, which will relegate the Emirates to merely the capital’s fourth largest football arena. The pack is catching up and on Tuesday Arsenal play Colorado Rapids, Kroenke’s other soccer team — who are bottom of the MLS Western Conference. “The similarity between United and Arsenal is that for several years they’ve just not been smart enough,” the agent said. “The difference is United can buy their way out of trouble.”
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So beautiful after this long article we getting close to sign Tierney made 80M euros bid for Pepe even it could turn out false report want to buy Everton Soares and the Sp**s want to hijack Saliba getting quiet :lol:
 
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OnlyOne

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No talk on the Dani Alves links? I do think he'd be worth it on a one year, player of the tournament at Copa America right?
 
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No talk on the Dani Alves links? I do think he'd be worth it on a one year, player of the tournament at Copa America right?
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Ill take him for a season, for sure.

Wages may be a problem I reckon, he must be on a pretty penny now.
 
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