Rasmi
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They haven’t learned sh1t from the AMN situation. Keep players you don’t rate and just pay them not to play. Joke of a club
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Eddie Nketiah (Out)
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Honestly given Eddie's current squad status, the financial climate and his contract length, £10m Is fairly reasonable.
I'm sure we'll be able to bump it up to £12-13m or put in a nice sell on clause.
Yes there's an English tax but we need to stop comparing every youngsters fee with Solanke. That was just an exceptionally good deal for Liverpool and a poor one from Bournemouth. It's not the norm.
I'm sure we'll be able to bump it up to £12-13m or put in a nice sell on clause.
Yes there's an English tax but we need to stop comparing every youngsters fee with Solanke. That was just an exceptionally good deal for Liverpool and a poor one from Bournemouth. It's not the norm.
Blankety Blank
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tbf its tricky at times Eddie has not produced enough here but going to another club & getting lots of game time may flourish?
Its a real shame he has been out injured as looked good in pre season & would likely have offered more of a goal threat than (forum fanboys) Balogun & Martinelli in the last 2 games.
I am not saying Balogun & Gabby wont improve btw.
Its a real shame he has been out injured as looked good in pre season & would likely have offered more of a goal threat than (forum fanboys) Balogun & Martinelli in the last 2 games.
I am not saying Balogun & Gabby wont improve btw.
berric
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Player:Trossard
I liked Eddie cutting from the left during pre season. Shame he got injured.
Think 12 million will do this.
Think 12 million will do this.
Blankety Blank
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I would say that would be a very decent deal
In an ideal World i would like another striker. A more complete player or just someone who can play with his back to goal better than the ones we have. Someone like Lukaku would be nice.
Blankety Blank
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Yeah but you have to try & get what you can for players tbf.
Im sure we will let him go for less than 20m.
If a bid of 12- 15m came in with a decent sell on clause i think it more than likely gets done tbh.
samshere
Why so serieuse?
He's looking better than anytime he did before, in preseason or actual season.
mirrorstare
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The only thing he has proved so far is that he might not be capable of becoming a PL player
10m is daylight robbery already.
10m is daylight robbery already.
LG10
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Of course you lot are happy for 10 M when we finally are holding out for a reasonable fee…
Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
we want him to be sold as he won’t be playing this season. So hold out as long as you get a sale. But if he is here end of the window and we turned down 10 million and he just get paid to train. Then it’s madness
ArsenesCoatMaker
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I mean he has about 3 suitors maybe more and we've had bids. Eddie's goals per minute in the PL, Europa and Championship are all really good. He's levels above Brewster who went for 25 million.
While he'll never be a world class player, he won't have great hold up play either and he won't help in the build up. But as a total poacher he'll get goals and he might be at the age where he goes up a level. There's loads of value for that in clubs who want to stay up and he's only 23 or so.
There's an argument we should be giving him more minutes and offering him a bigger contract.
Rasmi
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Country: England
Lol why do fans big up players their club want to get rid. If he is do good keep him then
I wonder if part of it is the club know they have a reputation for selling cheap so they're trying to fight that by going too far the other way. 20m is a ridiculous price for Nketiah.
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Nketiah situation sums up Arsenal's sales struggles
Are Arsenal right to wait for a £20m offer for Nketiah? With depth to their striker unit in their squad, they face a tricky balancing act
theathletic.com
By Art de Roché
With one week left in the transfer window, Joe Willock remains the only player Arsenal have sold this summer.
Other departures have included loans (Matteo Guendouzi, William Saliba and Dejan Iliev have joined other sides, and Maty Ryan, Dani Ceballos and on-loan Martin Ødegaard’s deals expired, although the Norwegian has since signed permanently) and one expiration of contract (David Luiz).
Willock’s £20 million sale to Newcastle was a healthy profit for a player who came through the academy. The main reason Arsenal were able to command such a fee, however, was because the 22-year-old played himself into a position where Newcastle United felt they could not go into this season without him.
His goalscoring, which included seven goals in seven consecutive matches at the end of the campaign, and ball-carrying threat gave Steve Bruce exactly what his team needed. With that, Willock gets what he needs — the regular first-team football he was not getting in north London.
Arsenal have been open to selling more players than just Willock, but with no propositions as promising as the midfielder was for Newcastle, they have struggled. Picking which players should be moved on has been challenging enough, before you even factor in what price tag to give them.
Eddie Nketiah is the latest player to represent this seemingly eternal struggle.
As revealed by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, Crystal Palace are believed to be ready to pay around £10 million for the 21-year-old. An unnamed German team are thought to have made two approaches with a similar price in mind. Arsenal, however, hope to receive around £20 million for England Under-21’s record goalscorer.
Cast your minds back a few weeks and a very similar pattern played out with Granit Xhaka. Arsenal were open to letting the Swiss midfielder leave and assured him if they received a good enough offer, he would be allowed to. Despite Roma’s interest, however, they did not receive a bid that matched their estimate so he stayed and was given a new contract to protect his value.
Similarly, Arsenal offered Nketiah a new deal in June, as revealed by James McNicholas, but the striker has not yet signed. Considering Nketiah has entered the final year of his contract and can decide to run it down and leave on a free transfer next summer, Arsenal find themselves in a more extreme situation than with Xhaka — they must decide whether to stick to their valuation and risk losing him for nothing or accept what they are being offered.
Considering the number of strikers at the club, the logical decision would be to cut their losses and move on. Nketiah, who was one of the sharpest forwards in pre-season, could have stepped up in the absence of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette but injured himself.
If he stays and returns from his ankle injury next month, Nketiah will have Aubameyang, Lacazette, Folarin Balogun and Gabriel Martinelli to compete with. If he performs as he did in pre-season he may be able to challenge them, but that would benefit him more than Arsenal in the long run. He could eventually decide to extend, but it could put him in a position of power like Willock or Emiliano Martinez last summer where he has more licence to choose where his future lies.
That is not necessarily a bad thing for Nketiah personally, especially given how players are treated like pawns by clubs across the world, but it does leave Arsenal vulnerable.
Given the lack of quality in areas of the squad, the desire to receive as big a fee possible to address them is understandable. Willock’s sale no doubt eased the financial aspects of the Ødegaard and Aaron Ramsdale pursuits, for example. Arsenal cannot get into a situation, however, where they are unable to sell players and are forced to terminate contracts, which include payoffs, as was the case with Mesut Özil and Shkodran Mustafi last year, to continue the much-needed turnover of the squad.
It should not be a surprise that players unwanted by Arsenal are not in demand from many other teams. That, however, provides more reason to accept the offers made and deal with what taking a lower fee means afterwards.
Yes, there should be room to negotiate a higher fee or include clauses that will benefit you as a selling club, but disregarding those offers that provide the opportunity to balance an imbalanced squad may not be the best approach.
That being said, with the end of the window approaching, there will be more desperation among buying clubs, which may end up working in Arsenal’s favour, allowing them to command a fee closer to their valuation.
Nketiah is attracting interest in the Premier League, but this dilemma also stands with Sead Kolasinac. His contract also expires in 2022, and Arsenal now have Kieran Tierney and Nuno Tavares at left-back. There is reported to be interest from Fenerbahce.
Arsenal have a week left to decide. They could decide to bite the bullet and accept the offers they are given, but they are cutting it fine. This inability to sell players remains one of their key structural weaknesses.
With one week left in the transfer window, Joe Willock remains the only player Arsenal have sold this summer.
Other departures have included loans (Matteo Guendouzi, William Saliba and Dejan Iliev have joined other sides, and Maty Ryan, Dani Ceballos and on-loan Martin Ødegaard’s deals expired, although the Norwegian has since signed permanently) and one expiration of contract (David Luiz).
Willock’s £20 million sale to Newcastle was a healthy profit for a player who came through the academy. The main reason Arsenal were able to command such a fee, however, was because the 22-year-old played himself into a position where Newcastle United felt they could not go into this season without him.
His goalscoring, which included seven goals in seven consecutive matches at the end of the campaign, and ball-carrying threat gave Steve Bruce exactly what his team needed. With that, Willock gets what he needs — the regular first-team football he was not getting in north London.
Arsenal have been open to selling more players than just Willock, but with no propositions as promising as the midfielder was for Newcastle, they have struggled. Picking which players should be moved on has been challenging enough, before you even factor in what price tag to give them.
Eddie Nketiah is the latest player to represent this seemingly eternal struggle.
As revealed by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, Crystal Palace are believed to be ready to pay around £10 million for the 21-year-old. An unnamed German team are thought to have made two approaches with a similar price in mind. Arsenal, however, hope to receive around £20 million for England Under-21’s record goalscorer.
Cast your minds back a few weeks and a very similar pattern played out with Granit Xhaka. Arsenal were open to letting the Swiss midfielder leave and assured him if they received a good enough offer, he would be allowed to. Despite Roma’s interest, however, they did not receive a bid that matched their estimate so he stayed and was given a new contract to protect his value.
Similarly, Arsenal offered Nketiah a new deal in June, as revealed by James McNicholas, but the striker has not yet signed. Considering Nketiah has entered the final year of his contract and can decide to run it down and leave on a free transfer next summer, Arsenal find themselves in a more extreme situation than with Xhaka — they must decide whether to stick to their valuation and risk losing him for nothing or accept what they are being offered.
Considering the number of strikers at the club, the logical decision would be to cut their losses and move on. Nketiah, who was one of the sharpest forwards in pre-season, could have stepped up in the absence of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette but injured himself.
If he stays and returns from his ankle injury next month, Nketiah will have Aubameyang, Lacazette, Folarin Balogun and Gabriel Martinelli to compete with. If he performs as he did in pre-season he may be able to challenge them, but that would benefit him more than Arsenal in the long run. He could eventually decide to extend, but it could put him in a position of power like Willock or Emiliano Martinez last summer where he has more licence to choose where his future lies.
That is not necessarily a bad thing for Nketiah personally, especially given how players are treated like pawns by clubs across the world, but it does leave Arsenal vulnerable.
Given the lack of quality in areas of the squad, the desire to receive as big a fee possible to address them is understandable. Willock’s sale no doubt eased the financial aspects of the Ødegaard and Aaron Ramsdale pursuits, for example. Arsenal cannot get into a situation, however, where they are unable to sell players and are forced to terminate contracts, which include payoffs, as was the case with Mesut Özil and Shkodran Mustafi last year, to continue the much-needed turnover of the squad.
It should not be a surprise that players unwanted by Arsenal are not in demand from many other teams. That, however, provides more reason to accept the offers made and deal with what taking a lower fee means afterwards.
Yes, there should be room to negotiate a higher fee or include clauses that will benefit you as a selling club, but disregarding those offers that provide the opportunity to balance an imbalanced squad may not be the best approach.
That being said, with the end of the window approaching, there will be more desperation among buying clubs, which may end up working in Arsenal’s favour, allowing them to command a fee closer to their valuation.
Nketiah is attracting interest in the Premier League, but this dilemma also stands with Sead Kolasinac. His contract also expires in 2022, and Arsenal now have Kieran Tierney and Nuno Tavares at left-back. There is reported to be interest from Fenerbahce.
Arsenal have a week left to decide. They could decide to bite the bullet and accept the offers they are given, but they are cutting it fine. This inability to sell players remains one of their key structural weaknesses.
The difference between xhaka and Nektiah is xhaka is usual starter Eddie is 3rd choice striker we need to not be so greedy with our demand i can understand wanting full money with Xhaka but Eddie just get what you receive. Crystal palace will get bit desperate late and give us few more millions but that risky situation
Sanchez11
Nobody Is Coming!
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Take the money an start a fresh, amn situation otherwise
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Feel a bit sorry for him when he got the injury when he did because he was looking sharp in preseason. I wouldn't have been surprised if he had done a better job upfront than Balogun and Martinelli.
Kind glad he didn't though, he would have gotten slated.
Kind glad he didn't though, he would have gotten slated.
drippin
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Losing Nketiah for cheap was always the "win" we could get when Balogun extended. At least get an okay sell-on clause.
Otherwise we would have lost Balogun for free and Nketiah hasn't shown enough, and he would still had to extend.
Otherwise we would have lost Balogun for free and Nketiah hasn't shown enough, and he would still had to extend.
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My two all-time favorite players at CP? Vieira and Nketiah. I know what kit I will buy for this season!
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Eddie looked very sharp in what I saw during pre-season, so in a sense I'd be saddened to see him go.
But we need to cash in and bring in upgrades, even if they are slight upgrades. If we manage to let go of Eddie and say Laca, then I would make a move for someone like Eduoard and with Auba, Eduoard, Marintelli, Balogun we should have enough to push for a Europa League finish this season.
But we need to cash in and bring in upgrades, even if they are slight upgrades. If we manage to let go of Eddie and say Laca, then I would make a move for someone like Eduoard and with Auba, Eduoard, Marintelli, Balogun we should have enough to push for a Europa League finish this season.
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