Arsenal 2021-2022 Thread

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wangus12
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3:01p, 1/25/22
Also apparently in the last few hours, rumors picking up steam that Newcastle are gonna sign Bruno Guimaraes. Granted I'm also not sure we were ever really invested in trying to sign him.

Love having to fight another oil backed team for players. Hope those ****ers get relegated
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In reply to wangus12 • 3:19p, 1/25/22
wangus12 said:
Also apparently in the last few hours, rumors picking up steam that Newcastle are gonna sign Bruno Guimaraes. Granted I'm also not sure we were ever really invested in trying to sign him.

Love having to fight another oil backed team for players. Hope those ****ers get relegated
They submitted an offer that Lyon has accepted but I have not seen anything yet RE Bruno's willingness to go. For the life of me I can't see someone of his level being willing to go to a relegation team unless they are throwing stupid money at him.
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3:22p, 1/25/22
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3:54p, 1/25/22
Seeing a conflicting report from a Lyon "expert" that the Bruno offer has not yet been accepted.

Also seeing some rumors that we are looking at Tyler Adams in the summer, especially if we make top 5.
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6:14p, 1/25/22
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Love having to fight another oil backed team for players. Hope those ****ers get relegated


I just hope we become an oil backed team. Or at least a music streaming platform backed team.
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8:46p, 1/25/22
Lots of Tyler Adams buzz. Not sure how much of an immediate impact he would make but I really like his potential and versatility.
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6:11a, 1/26/22


Still feels like a weird move to me.
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In reply to chjoak • 6:23a, 1/26/22
chjoak said:


Still feels like a weird move to me.


I mean I guess I could see them selling that he will be the piece to ensure no relegation and then they'll spend like crazy over the summer. Plus really high wages too
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6:30a, 1/26/22
Yeah, i'm seeing some rumors of 200k/wk wages. If that is the case, he is gonna find himself stuck there unless he can develop into a world class CM. Right now I am predicting a Jean Michael Seri situation. He was all the rage a few years back due to his play at Nice. Lots of Arsenal fans wanted him and we were linked. Ended up at Fulham and fell off a cliff. Last I heard he was playing in Turkey.
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8:00a, 1/26/22
Interesting... Lyon is denying that there is an agreed upon deal with Newcastle.

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11:57a, 1/26/22




Makes very little sense given his age but he is tall (6'2") has strong linkup play, a decent scoring record (13g 9a in all comps) and is really good at pressing.

Maybe this is the deal where we can't get our future #1 now so we are gonna get someone better than Eddie and maybe better than Laca and then go for #1 this summer. I'd still rather Cabral or Gouiri but... hey, what do I know?

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12:40p, 1/26/22
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1:28p, 1/27/22
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2:04p, 1/27/22
Well **** we are getting real thin and we've let him go for little if anything. Best of luck to Chambo. I always really liked him.

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2:10p, 1/27/22
Seems like a bad idea
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3:11p, 1/27/22
Rumor based on pure speculation is that this may be part of a deal for Douglas from Villa.
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3:19p, 1/27/22
Very excited to have an American joining the senior squad, and the timing does make sense as we'll have cup games again next fall for Turner to play in (and hopefully Europe too!)

But doesn't the joke write itself? Arsenal need signings to save the season so of course they are working on signings for next season
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6:33p, 1/27/22
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In reply to PJYoung • 9:18p, 1/27/22
Sometimes I'm excited because it feels like we have turned the corner and we have a cohesive plan to rebuild - we are going to finally stop buying useless overpaid players and stop losing solid players without recouping any money. Then I read crap like that and it feels like we have absolutely no idea what we are doing. We have made the squad objectively weaker and diminished our shot at the top 4 for absolutely no money. Again.

This is our current squad depth:


I'm not jumping off the bridge yet, but we better have 3 incoming first team players by Monday, none of which can be 3rd string keepers.
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In reply to agdoc2001 • 8:36a, 1/28/22
agdoc2001 said:
Sometimes I'm excited because it feels like we have turned the corner and we have a cohesive plan to rebuild - we are going to finally stop buying useless overpaid players and stop losing solid players without recouping any money. Then I read crap like that and it feels like we have absolutely no idea what we are doing. We have made the squad objectively weaker and diminished our shot at the top 4 for absolutely no money. Again.

This is our current squad depth:


I'm not jumping off the bridge yet, but we better have 3 incoming first team players by Monday, none of which can be 3rd string keepers.
Are you saying that we're weaker from a depth standpoint or a player quality standpoint?
If you say you hate the state of politics in this nation and you don't get involved in it, you obviously don't hate the state of politics in this nation.
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In reply to Ghost of Andrew Eaton • 8:54a, 1/28/22
Depth, of course. None of these guys were in the starting 11, but we are the most oft-injured and red carded team in the EPL. Even without a single cup competition to worry about we will need depth.

I also think Chambers is miles better than Cedric, so would have preferred we dump him since we were giving players away like kittens.
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8:57a, 1/28/22
If they fail to bring in a striker, you have to bring Auba back into the squad if he's still here. You simply have no other option. There are rumors today that Nketiah may be heading to Newcastle. Granted I also think you should run Martinelli out up top and ESR wide and see what happens at least once.

They have to get somebody in. As it stands right now going into this break, you have no healthy RBs with Tomi and Cedric injured.

I'm glad they're clearing out the deadwood, but I don't see how doing it now is any different than cleaning house this summer.

The optimistic side of me says that most moves in January happen in the last few days
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In reply to wangus12 • 9:41a, 1/28/22
If we had taken him to Dubai, I'd believe re-integrating Auba would be at least possible, but at this point I can't see him playing another match for us.
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12:49p, 1/28/22
Our ability to alienate our own players is unbelievable.
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5:50p, 1/28/22
I'm admittedly not the most avid soccer spectator, but between Ozil and PEA it seems we have especially bad luck with standout athletes with outrageous wages who are also flaky teammates. Seems like other clubs get the most out of their players and we always seem to be sailing at half-mast.
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12:15p, 1/29/22
Supposedly we have an agreement with Barca to send PEA on loan until June pending the departure of Dembele.

Also, twitter is going nuts with people claiming to have video and photos of Alexander Isak in London.
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In reply to Teacher_Ag • 12:28p, 1/29/22
Teacher_Ag said:
I'm admittedly not the most avid soccer spectator, but between Ozil and PEA it seems we have especially bad luck with standout athletes with outrageous wages who are also flaky teammates. Seems like other clubs get the most out of their players and we always seem to be sailing at half-mast.
I don't think anyone out there is always getting the most out of their players; but we definitely have a pretty bad track record with it.

We probably also feel the pain of it more given how we've consistently been "close but no cigar" year after year; and you can always see that if Mesut Ozil was creating chances or Auba was putting away chances, we'd be playing Champions League football.


There's a bigger problem, imo, that goes on down to young, low-paid dudes like Guendouzi and Saliba, etc. We're really quick to ostracize guys.
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3:54p, 1/29/22
Hoping there's fire to these Alexander Isak rumors smoke

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3:58p, 1/29/22
Seeing some rumors now that Isak's agent is in London as well.
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4:01p, 1/29/22
I'm still not sold on Isak. I know people will say look past the stats this year, but 4 goals in the league does not equal paying a 70m buyout.
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In reply to wangus12 • 4:05p, 1/29/22
It is an iffy deal if they pay full release but I've watched several videos from "experts" that make me feel much better by his lack of output this season. Guys I watched all felt that his issues where more change in scheme and psychological (went from "shoot on sight" to taking 1 touch to many from one season to the next). If they are right and change in scenery/management could make all the difference in the world.
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In reply to chjoak • 4:11p, 1/29/22
Hope that it works out. Just seems to feel like another Pepe deal. Also this use of funds could limit what we're able to do in the summer where we're gonna have to rebuild some of the depth with all the players we let go.
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7:01p, 1/29/22
Arsenal's been suffering from "one touch too many" for like 15 years now, so that's a little nervy to hear.

But I do appreciate his athleticism and ability to pull defenders to him. If we can get back to that overlapping run, fluid attacking setup Arteta had going back when he started, that'll work well.
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7:47p, 1/29/22
It would be cool to have one of those strikers who finish chances in front of a wide open goal. I've noticed that the teams with those tend to win more games.
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8:25a, 1/30/22
News out of Real Sociedad is they haven't received offers and if they did they'd simply refer to the 90m release clause. Ain't no way in hell we should be paying that.

Window has really not been kind to us this go round
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