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Bunch of school girls in here. We literally knew in January that Cedric and Mari were long term options and loaning them was a way of getting around FFP. Luiz has been our best performed CB minus the city game under Arteta and we've known that he and the club have been negotiating at new contract less than what he is currently on otherwise we would have taken up the option on his existing contract. I would be interested to see how much he is on under his new contract but the idea we were going to cancel all talks after the city disaster class was fantasy at best. Of all our current CB options he makes the most sense to keep given he can play out from the back, his Brazilian nationality which may come in handy with getting talents out of Brazil to to acclimatise to London and that defensively he is actually better than the other options which is sad inditement on them (Mari still unknown). Luiz on 60-80k a week is a lot different to his current 120k a week.
I don't like how agents are having a big say on how we operate but can we at least see what they give us in return for these favours before throwing the toys out of the cot.
While I don't know what some of you expected straight after a three month break, where much of it was spent not training and at home. Everyones love child Naglesmann/Red Bull Leipzig come back from their break winning 3 games, drawing 4 and losing 1, their a much better team than we are in a much less competitive league. Its not a true reflection of their team they are in the same way it won't be for most teams, let alone a team like ours dealing with ridiculous injuries and luck.
Its nothing to do with what makes sense. We are signing players that are not good enough for us if we want to improve. I dont care if theres no money.
If theres no money promote whoever is RB in the under 23s and coach and develop him. Ok he may not be as good as Soares right now but in 2-3 years possibly. Luiz has been shocking since he came to Arsenal and while i did say maybe he should be kept a while back that was on the basis that Mustafi/Holding/Sokratis were all sold. And we signed a top CB leaving Mari, Luiz and Chambers as squad players.
That doesnt look like it will be the case so again we will be going into the season without a top CB. Saliba. Pfft hes 19 and has been playing in a farmer's league. Which 19 year old defender came to the PL and hit the ground running.
Another big problem is we are getting this easy deals of players that no other clubs want over the line. Yet we have a big pressing issue on Saka. Why is this not done?
Aubas going so that's not an issue anymore.
But tying a washed up player to a 4 year contract and messing about over Saka is a joke.
This club has never been further away from being run right.