Raul's Transfer Targets: Summer 2019

[UpTheGunnerz]

Think Tierney, Saliba being loaned out and Ceballos on loan is a pretty poor window.

Can't expect much until the bum squad are out the door though.

With the bummiest of em all, Masud, leading them

 

[DanDare]

"Just to give you an idea about how Emery rates this player, I'm going to waffle and speculate..."

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

The difference at fergie era the teams weren't demanding 80M for player.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Think Tierney, Saliba being loaned out and Ceballos on loan is a pretty poor window.

Can't expect much until the bum squad are out the door though.

Winger will come in either way we don't need to sell because we already short in wings. Another CB backup RB need to sell players agree

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

Exactly my thoughts. I was confused by the post to be honest.

Anyway, until we actually sign the players, we cant say so and so window was worse than this one.

Whatever happens it is highly unlikely this window can be worse than the summer of 2015 window. Only signed Cech. Only club in the major 5 leagues in Europe not to have signed an outfield player. Banter!

 

[6gunner]

Winger it's important because we lack width we too predictable offensively in away games very easy to defend against. We want player like Zaha Soares that will cause problems because of thier speed and skills and ability to beat thier man

We need a proper winger because, without one, we have to play Auba and Laca together. When we play them together, it means we play a two man midfield and we don't have enough cover in the middle of the field to help our center backs. This window is, or should be, all about balancing the team in a 4-3-3 and/or 4-3-2-1 formation. If we can accomplish this, we can let Neikath go out on loan because we'll only have Auba and Laca on the field together for short stints when we are behind.

 

[Axel9090]

Whatever happens it is highly unlikely this window can be worse than the summer of 2015 window. Only signed Cech. Only club in the major 5 leagues in Europe not to have signed an outfield player. Banter!

Goodness me, thanks for the reminder. I almost collapsed from the flashbacks!

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

The funny thing is even buying only cech that year we were so close to win the title but because leaving the team short it cost us the title

 

[Rex Stone]

Think Tierney, Saliba being loaned out and Ceballos on loan is a pretty poor window.

Can't expect much until the bum squad are out the door though.

Agree if I’m honest, winger was and still is a priority for me.

Although Tierney lets us play four at the back we’re going to have a combo of Iwobi, Nelson, Mkhi and Özil on both flanks. That’s brutal.

 

[OnlyOne]

Agree if I’m honest, winger was and still is a priority for me.

Although Tierney lets us play four at the back we’re going to have a combo of Iwobi, Nelson, Mkhi and Özil on both flanks. That’s brutal.

In my opinion Sokratis and Holding are decent pair for CB, where as we literally don't have first team wing options.

Still CB and wing are super important in their own right, just depends what players we could get where.

 

[Hunta]

Leno
Bellerin Sokratis Holding Tierney
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That back four is capable of challenging for 4th. The problem is that Bellerin is unlikely to be ready for the first couple of months and even then he’ll need time to get up to speed. Holding has only just started training with the team so he’ll need time himself and Tierney is recovering from a bad injury.

Leno
Sokratis Mustafi Monreal

That’s what is more likely for the first month, and it’s terrible.​

 

[OnlyOne]

Leno
Bellerin Sokratis Holding Tierney
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That back four is capable of challenging for 4th. The problem is that Bellerin is unlikely to be ready for the first couple of months and even then he’ll need time to get up to speed. Holding has only just started training with the team so he’ll need time himself and Tierney is recovering from a bad injury.

Leno
Sokratis Mustafi Monreal

That’s what is more likely for the first month, and it’s terrible.​

Monreal Chambers Sokratis AMN

 

[Hunta]

Monreal Chambers Sokratis ANM

Emery doesn’t trust AMN in a four, and that back four is poor as well. Just accept mediocrity, breathe it in.

 

[OnlyOne]

Emery doesn’t trust AMN in a four, and that back four is poor as well. Just accept mediocrity, breathe it in.

Not saying it's good at all

But probably best we could muster.

Maybe Kola - Monreal - Chambers - Sokratis - AMN

First month will be atrocious.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Leno
Sokratis Mustafi Monreal
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I'm out.

 

[Makingtrax]

It’s too simplistic imo to say “x goals scored means we can attack and y goals conceded means we can’t defend”.

The system was broken at the end of the year, not all the goals we conceded were due to defender error, which is what a new CB would improve.

Of course it’s simplistic because that’s exactly what football distils down t0. Unlocking the opposition’s defence whilst keeping your own solid. What else is there?

When you have clowns at the back making mistakes, it’s irrelevant how good your manager or attacking combinations are. And a great example of that is Liverpool, with the arrival of VVD they almost halved their goals against in one season, whilst only scoring 5 more goals than the season before. Anybody watching his commanding play will know it wasn’t a winger that caused such a difference.

 

[Kobi]

If we just want a player who gave our defence trouble then we may as we well save some money and go after one of the other 300.

 

[dka1]

Of course it’s simplistic because that’s exactly what football distils down t0. Unlocking the opposition’s defence whilst keeping your own solid. What else is there?

When you have clowns at the back making mistakes, it’s irrelevant how good your manager or attacking combinations are. And a great example of that is Liverpool, with the arrival of VVD they almost halved their goals against in one season, whilst only scoring 5 more goals than the season before. Anybody watching his commanding play will know it wasn’t a winger that caused such a difference.

Yep, I know football can be deep in regards to tactics, but underneath it all sometimes it's really that simple.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

 

[Rex Stone]

Of course it’s simplistic because that’s exactly what football distils down t0. Unlocking the opposition’s defence whilst keeping your own solid. What else is there?

When you have clowns at the back making mistakes, it’s irrelevant how good your manager or attacking combinations are. And a great example of that is Liverpool, with the arrival of VVD they almost halved their goals against in one season, whilst only scoring 5 more goals than the season before. Anybody watching his commanding play will know it wasn’t a winger that caused such a difference.

Interesting that you bring up Liverpool because they completely changed the way they played after 17/18. They sat much deeper and looked to release the front three quickly or hit crosses from the full backs pushed high, the front three presented a constant threat in behind as well when the opposition had the ball.

We can’t do that because we have no players who can play LB and we have no wide players who deserve to be starting for Arsenal.

Teams are less likely to press us high if we’ve got genuine width. Some of the dross teams that were dominating games against us last year was brutal.