Sebastes
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Non-Arsenal Transfers: January 2025
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Country: Sweden
Yousif Arsenal
Was on Vinai's payroll; misses 4th place trophy 🏆
Youngsters at top clubs rarely get a chance it's normal cases like Nwaneri are rare because he amazing talent and you sure he gonna succeed
MutableEarth
Reiss' Dad
No he's right tbf. We have enough problems getting arguably one of the best 17 year old footballers in the world to play more than bleep test minutes. Clearly Toure is making the safer, smarter decision. That said, it still bodes badly for us. It means we're still going to be relying on Sterling and Jesus past the Jan window and potentially buying/loaning ill-fitting attacking profiles for what we're trying to do. I have little confidence in our attacking recruitment.
Macho
Thinks he's better than Havertz.
Country: England
I don't follow U23 like you do, but I hear/read the Chido Obi-Martin saga didn't go down well at Arsenal at all.
Sebastes
Statbomb Merchant
Country: Sweden
I was all aboard the Dortmund/Brighton route a couple of years ago when we were rebuilding. Now I believe it’s more about getting ready made players in and developing the odd wc talent in our own ranks.
I think the management of Nwaneri is largely the correct one. I’d personally like to see more minutes and specifically for Øde and Saka, in addition to starting some cup games.
When it comes to recruiting young talents we’re probably right to focus on bolstering the academy and hoping someone takes off like Nwaneri given where we are as a club atm.
MutableEarth
Reiss' Dad
I would imagine not. The plan was apparently to keep Obi-Martin playing U18 football with a few U21 opportunities thrown in the mix, which IMO is ridiculous given he basically scored 2 seasons worth of goals in a schoolboy year. The word is the money was the ultimate deal-breaker, but I think that's from our side and I do think there's validity to the claim that we weren't ready to promote him higher.
Ironically though, Man United are basically following the same model with him and playing him for the U18s predominantly, while Andre Harriman-Annous has basically slotted into Obi-Martin's spot and is now playing more U21 football than U18 at the moment.
I agree, I'm pretty happy with Nwaneri's management - in a vacuum! I admire Arteta's will to protect him even amidst the call for him to play more. That said, he probably shouldn't have put himself in this position and actually signed some better creative and attacking talent. As far as bolstering the academy, the recruitment has been relatively slow but we've signed a couple pretty sought after talents.
Macho
Thinks he's better than Havertz.
Country: England
I also read this but didn't want to put that out there about a kid.
MutableEarth
Reiss' Dad
I hear you. FWIW I think he's entitled to want more personally - if we're looking at it from the POV of a young footballer, if someone out there is mad enough to pay it (i.e. United) then the onus is on us to match it and ultimately I think - even with all those goals he scored - that the brass didn't rate him as highly as we and everyone else all did. It even kinda shows in the way we've dealt with Harriman-Annous, who seems to be under the radar for most of us yet the club have promoted him to U21s almost permanently at 16 and the club seem to really like him, especially since his move to #9. He was the first to get offered a scholarship of the current batch (Obi-Martin already had a pre-agreement in his U15 season).
carter777
Thinks Poch Is The GOAT
Country: England
Player:Saka
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Country: England
Nunowoolmez
Chairman of the Eduardo Hagn Appreciation Society
Country: East Timor
Going by the expression on his face & the weird vest/t shirt combo....it looks like he's been physically dragged out of bed & made to hold up the shirt at gunpoint
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Country: England
Yousif Arsenal
Was on Vinai's payroll; misses 4th place trophy 🏆
Ah s**t project save me 2025
Red London
Anti-Simp Culture
Huh? He’s been playing in La Liga already no?
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Country: England
They only registered him for the first half of the season.
Macho
Thinks he's better than Havertz.
Country: England
A-M slagging him off for years only to be forced to call him world class once he's an Arteta player
Red London
Anti-Simp Culture
Wow
carter777
Thinks Poch Is The GOAT
Country: England
Player:Saka
Sapient Hawk
Hates sharing cyberspace with Tets' bootlickers
Country: Saudi Arabia
I wouldn't look his way if ge were offered for free.
He' be better served pulling a Winston Bogarde & collect the remain £53 million owed him by United per his contract.
Yousif Arsenal
Was on Vinai's payroll; misses 4th place trophy 🏆
He need to change teams but he earn 300k no big team will give them that with the way he stinking on pitch
