Dutch D
Well-Known Member & FPL Champion 19/20
Agree with the sentiment, we need some players with high technical ability to improve our style of play (and the aesthetics of our game). Would be great to see players in an Arsenal shirt who are actually able of one touch football or beating a defender.Clown Gooners are turning their noses up at the likes of Coutinho and Lemar. This is the level of footballer that we need because aesthetically we aren't far off a Bournemouth or Palace at the minute.
I'd take a few players like Diop/Dunk/Ake, Dacoure/McGinn/Lundstram to stabilise our core, but we need a marquee signing as well.
I'd love Partey, Koulibaly or Coutinho/Zaha.
Disagree with the names mentioned, though. I think Lemar has that ability, but I worry about the mental side of his game. What I want now is technical ability coupled with an absolute disgust of losing. Don't know(/think) he or Coutinho fit that profile. Koulibaly is too old for a smart rebuild and Zaha I think is overrated.
29 already, still probably a €30m+ fee involved. Highly rate him, would be our most technical midfielder by a mile, but doesn't seem like the signing we should make at this stage. By the time we're in somewhat good shape, he's 31 and on big wages.Just saw something about Thiago not renewing his contract at Bayern. We'd be really stupid to not try and get him.