Player:Saliba
I do think that players attitudes are a reaction to their environment. Get him away from "The Neymar Show" dressing room and maybe he can rediscover his Monaco form.
I do think that players attitudes are a reaction to their environment. Get him away from "The Neymar Show" dressing room and maybe he can rediscover his Monaco form.
Not pleased at all at this Kurzawa rumor. As some mentioned, PSG has been trying to off load him for years now. He is totally overrated and not good enough for Arsenal. Kurzawa remind me of a poor man Kieran Gibbs.
I am reading in the french press that this deal is being pushed by the super agent Kia Joorabchian (apparently Edu's agent and buddy) and Raul's friend). This dude is becoming more influential in Arsenal business.
Yeah but Arsenal is always ravaged by injuries every season, whos smart idea was to buy a player who was already injured? We literally bought him while he was injured and he was out for over 3 months, just to get injured again.
Even Ornstein was reporting on the shoulder injury before it happened. ‘Footballers get injured’ isn’t good enough when you buy injury prone players who are already injured when you’re buying them.
I’m not ok with going into the season with both our first choice fullbacks being injured, we really need to stop buying injury prone players.
We should resign Gibbo if it's just for cover purposes
I am reading in the french press that this deal is being pushed by the super agent Kia Joorabchian (apparently Edu's agent and buddy) and Raul's friend). This dude is becoming more influential in Arsenal business.
We're signing a back-up LB with the likely intention of shifting Kola in the summer for a decent fee and getting his £100K+ a week wage off the books. We're desperately short on full backs so what's the alternative here? The season is a right off anyway, might aswel begin planning for next season - Tierney as first choice with Kurzawa as back-up playing a few league games or cup competitions isn't exactly a bad thing, especially if it allows us to shift Kola for a decent fee to sign a top class CB or CM with the funds.We are not doing any squad building. We are just signing trash because agent is squeezing Raul's balls so hard he can't say no. But luckily Arsenal fans buy into any player we sign these days being best player in the world in his position so Edu and Raul don't feel any pressure at all.
What's not to get? Tierney is out until March, Kola is having his own injury issues but there's been some interest in him from other clubs so he'll likely be moved on in the summer as the club can't have a back-up LB on £100K+ a week! Plus if we get £20M for him it'll likely go towards a top class CB or CM.I don't quite get this. I would understand a Rb who can cover LB if we want AMN to move into cm but 3 senior Lbs? wtf?
We have 2 senior AMF for 3 positions, one of them 31 and soon out of the club and one still adjusting to the league.
Even without injuries we are clearly lacking a little bit in attack and we need to address this in the summer. But we can't if we have 10 fullbacks on our wagelist ffs
What's not to get? Tierney is out until March, Kola is having his own injury issues but there's been some interest in him from other clubs so he'll likely be moved on in the summer as the club can't have a back-up LB on £100K+ a week! Plus if we get £20M for him it'll likely go towards a top class CB or CM.
People are getting seriously wound up over us signing a back-up LB.
Because it's not sustainable for a club that's restricted financially - we're not Man City. If we don't rush Tierney back and get him fit for next season and he avoids any freak injury's like his dislocated shoulder then the only games Kola will play is the occasional league game or the cup comps. Is that really worth the £6M+ a year we'll be paying him? Kola isn't even versatile where he could cover RB or even CB like Monreal did, or AMN playing RB or CM. We could sell him for around £15-20M and use that and his wage towards the CB or CM this team is badly needing.Why can't we have a back up LB on 100k a week? We didn't pay a fee for him.
We wanted the guy but he just happened to be recovering form injury at the time. He's then had a freak injury that could have happened to anybody.Yeah but Arsenal is always ravaged by injuries every season, whos smart idea was to buy a player who was already injured? We literally bought him while he was injured and he was out for over 3 months, just to get injured again.
Even Ornstein was reporting on the shoulder injury before it happened. ‘Footballers get injured’ isn’t good enough when you buy injury prone players who are already injured when you’re buying them.
I’m not ok with going into the season with both our first choice fullbacks being injured, we really need to stop buying injury prone players.
I don't think logic works on here sometimes.We're signing a back-up LB with the likely intention of shifting Kola in the summer for a decent fee and getting his £100K+ a week wage off the books. We're desperately short on full backs so what's the alternative here? The season is a right off anyway, might aswel begin planning for next season - Tierney as first choice with Kurzawa as back-up playing a few league games or cup competitions isn't exactly a bad thing, especially if it allows us to shift Kola for a decent fee to sign a top class CB or CM with the funds.
We wanted the guy but he just happened to be recovering form injury at the time. He's then had a freak injury that could have happened to anybody.
Tierney wasn't bought as a stop-gap, he was bought as our potential leftback for the next ten years. Him recovering from injury at the time we bought him isn't stupid imo.