Arteta and Edu Transfer Targets: Summer 2020

[bingobob]

Our issue might be attracting the players that we need. It's all well having 200m to spend, but if we can not bring in the calibre of players we need, it's no use.

Pepe (not drawing him out as I'm a fan) is probably the level of player that we can attract, but we need to be buying proven players for high costs. For example 200m could get you Upamecano, Pepe and Aouar, or it could buy you Koulibaly, Partey and Dembele/Coutinho/Griezmann Think I'd prefer the second option, but they'd be hard to attract without Champions League.

I genuinely dont think thatll be an issue. I went on a bit of a rant before about it but the way the top 6 or 8 in the EPL is growing it's nearly impossible for any club to say we will have CL football. Even City could magically fall away if ourselves, United and Chelsea get their act together. Then you've Liverpool, Sp**s wanting the spot and Wolves, Leicester and Everton all desperate to be there also.

It's very short sighted and if a player wants that then they'd be best going to a different league.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

Like I've said before you can buy a player for £20M and he can fit like a glove in a team and suddenly be worth £100M for that team. Or you can buy players for £50-70M and they might not work. There's a stupid amount of examples of players recently who went for stupid fees and it didn't work out.

Plenty of players out there can improve us. Even Aouar who I regard as the best creative player we can get this window would come if we had Europa league football. He isn't going to sit at Lyon with no European football next year.

 

[DanDare]

Grealish isn't the kind of value we need.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

I don't what you expect Villa have all right to ask 60M at least for Grealish specially after staying in PL they not in panic to sell. Crystal Palace asked for 80M for Zaha Leicester got 80M for Maguire that what happen when teams over spend.

 

[al-Ustaadh]

Odds for Grealish to Arsenal have been drastically cut. 33/1 to 10/3.

 

[Rex Stone]

Odds for Grealish to Arsenal have been drastically cut. 33/1 to 10/3.

Hearing this gets done. Plans to make him face of the club etc.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Odds for Grealish to Arsenal have been drastically cut. 33/1 to 10/3.

@Rex Banter putting his house on it.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Grealish make sense when you look at the loss we gave Villa. We didnt even try that day. Did we have a shot on tatget?

Something going on here.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Grealish, Buenda, Partey Im hearing now. We will fix our defense in 2024/25 season.

 

[Riou]

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Grealish on the left. Adapted Pepe on the right.

Double trouble!

 

[al-Ustaadh]

Grealish make sense when you look at the loss we gave Villa. We didnt even try that day. Did we have a shot on tatget?

Something going on here.

Grealish also likes the Emirates. Has posted on instagram in the past about how it's his favorite place to play at.

 

[al-Ustaadh]

Grealish is exactly what we need in midfield behind the striker. We need somebody for the left. Play Saka on the right.

 

[dashsnow17]

One thing I'd say, not so much in Kroenke's defence, but just querying the idea that the owners should just give the club 150-200m, is that you could spend 200m this summer, and spend it ok even, and still not get top 4. You certainly wouldn't spend 200m and win the league.

So if you're Kroenke and you have Arteta come to you and say we need investment to get top 4, I'd ask can you guarantee me that you'll get top 4 if I put my money in. And you can't guarantee that, not with Liverpool and City, and Utd and Chelsea spending what they will.

So wouldn't the natural answer be no, i'm not gonna give this club a huge amount of money with no guarantee of a return. You can have a modest budget and try to close the gap by exploiting inefficiencies in the market, and you can maybe try to sign one headline signing, but that's it.

Investing 150-200m in good young players about 4-5 years ago, yeah, that would get you a return, but now? We could spend 150m and still come 6th.

 

[dashsnow17]

I mean look at Utd and Chelsea, they'll both spend well over 100m this summer and it's perfectly plausible that they won't finish higher than 3rd and 4th again next season. And they finished 10 points above us.

 

[truth_hurts]

Paying 60m for the 2020 Jack Wilshere would be laughable. Maybe he would celebrate signing here with a couple of lines, a 40 pack of fags and a booze up. Maybe drive back home afterwards.

 

[El Duderino]

Poor @Rex Banter

 

[Rex Stone]

Poor @Rex Banter

The one game we couldn’t actually f*cking lose and we end up helping them avoid the drop.

I hate football.

 

[al-Ustaadh]

Poor @Rex Banter

Zaha all over again for us?

 

[El Duderino]

Zaha all over again for us?

Probably, Villa will need an actual campaign to stay up from the way they're playing and he's part of the reason they've not been relagated, so that's worth a lot of money.

I think United might bite depending how it goes with Sancho, though I would not be surprised to see him leave next season for around the same price.