✍️ OFFICIAL Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Out)

[L3T5 PL4Y]

If we got 20m for him we're on the right track. We can buy a good right back or loan two talented fullbacks with that money for couple of years.

 

[Dutch D]

If we got 20m for him we're on the right track. We can buy a good right back or loan two talented fullbacks with that money for couple of years.

That's such a losing strategy for a big club. I get it for short term fixes, but a big club like Arsenal shouldn't lean on loans too much. It's a waste of assets.

I'd take the 20m but put it towards signing a good RB to compete with Bellerin.

 

[MutableEarth]

Ainsley is outta here!

 

[krengon]

Yeah that makes it really likely he's gone.. Good luck to him, I hope he succeeds.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Good if we can get get 20-25M for a backup RB. we need money to rebuild.

 

[al-Ustaadh]

Same agent as Sterling apparently.

 

[Aussie_gunner123]

His best position is CM, he's not a RB at all, he's quick & got good passes on him aswell, useful on the counter if he is in CM. However, looking at our current financial issues we should sell him, 20-30 will be a good deal if we can get that much. He's a talented player & still young but he's too far down the pecking order in the CM department to stay for our financial problems. I like him but unfortunately it is for the best in both camps.

 

[Sanchez11]

Ainsley is outta here!

Great news

 

[El Duderino]

Ainsley is outta here!

If this club were Liverpool, we'd already have Newcastle eagerly awaiting to pay us 45 million for him.

 

[MutableEarth]

If this club were Liverpool, we'd already have Newcastle eagerly awayting to pay us 45 million for him.

Think the agent move is also to get him a move where he's gonna get minutes at CM or possibly RW/RM - wouldn't move somewhere where they're gonna play him all over the shop. I think if they really earmarked him for RB and that's the area they want to replace, we get £20m+ for him and spend up to £10m on Bogle - we have £10m profit and a young talented RB with huge potential.

I'd like to see AMN go to a team like Palace, where they need some fresh energy in midfield IMO. Would thrive there IMO and potentially help take them up a level (if they sign a better CF aswell).

 

[Beksl]

Great news. Hope we can fetch a decent fee.

 

[MutableEarth]

Yeah that makes it really likely he's gone.. Good luck to him, I hope he succeeds.

I think he will personally. He'll hopefully get a run in the position he actually belongs in and regular minutes. Big shame for me that it hasn't worked out here, but the writing was on the wall for me the second it was decided he should be a full-back. It's a loss we can absorb, we just have to make sure we don't make the mistake with our next batch of upcoming midfielders.

 

[dashsnow17]

His position isn't even that important anymore (although that argument could go on for decades). What's important is that if we get a decent fee it's encouraging from a wider perspective. Last summer we got good money for Iwobi, if we can do the same with AMN it establishes a good trend of making profit from academy products that aren't going to be game-changers for us. It's exactly the sort of good business we should be doing.

 

[Ash10]

Would be brilliant business like the Iwobi deal

 

[Hinderz]

If we could go from AMN to a Max Aarons with only a modest net outlay we would have done very well

 

[GDeep™]

Same agent as Sterling apparently.

Aidy Ward? Kingsley Coman joined him recently too. Ox is with them etc.

I remember during the Sterling/Liverpool saga he was labelled a “problem agent” by the media, now the same media are having discussions related to people like him and how they are viewed.

 

[GDeep™]

If we could go from AMN to a Max Aarons with only a modest net outlay we would have done very well

Most likely Cedric Soares will sign to back up Bellerin and any AMN fee will go to spending in attack or midfield.

 

[Elite Smarts]

If this club were Liverpool, we'd already have Newcastle eagerly awaiting to pay us 45 million for him.

Don't forget Arsenal did get 35 million pounds for Iwobi. That was good business by Raul & Co.

 

[Marjorie]

£20m seems like good business just gotta hope he doesn't explode playing cm at his new club. Wish him well.

 

[rich 1990]

Don't forget Arsenal did get 35 million pounds for Iwobi. That was good business by Raul & Co.

Everton are even stupider then us.