Morning everyone.
It remains pretty quiet in terms of Arsenal News, but a transfer story that some people will have left and take knowledge is interest in Eberchi Eze of SP*RS. They need someone after Jimmy Darts Lad had an ACL, and with the Crystal Palace -Man who seems too available this summer, you can see how they would be interested.
He is clearly connected to us this summer. But in the first place his name was more often connected in the weeks before Ethan Nwaneri’s new contract was agreed – not so much after that. 2+2 =?. Yet he is a player who is a lot coveted by Arsenal fans, I myself admitted through the road, even if I don’t see him as the left option that many people crave. He can play there, he played there, but for the most part I see him as the most effective in central areas, and we are currently reasonably well filled there.
I wonder if Eze was linked to someone else, a villa or a Newcastle or another upper middle table team, instead of that lower table mob, if the reaction would be the same. Everyone likes him, we don’t want to write him as a good player who went to a club that we hate. But if there is nothing ‘concrete’, should he reject a movement at 27 when it comes to interest from Arsenal? I mean, yes, everyone must be advised not to go there because of their career, but still. Will Arsenal send a rescue mission for Eze? I am doubtful to be honest, but let’s see what is happening. An important part of this is that we provide some income for players on the outskirts, and on that basis Andrea Berta still has to prove his bonafidesDespite a solid summer of income.
As far as Palace is concerned, they have a strange time. Win the FA Cup, they forget to check their e-mails and discover that UEFA’s multi-club rules only apply to them instead of other clubs, because the other clubs have met some random blind-trust instructions that do not change the fact that these clubs have the same owners. Then they win the Community Shield, their star player is connected to a move and it can eventually be the worst club on earth, and their best defender looks like he was going to Liverpool.
In the meantime, they have a really good manager who has done fantastic work, but the only additives to the team have been an experienced keeper and a defender of the Reisman who cost £ 3 million. Perhaps this week they had waited for Cas’s statement (Court of Arbitration for Sport) before they opened the checkbook, but Oliver Glasner has been somewhat opaque about his future because of the current state of the team. The sale of Eze and Marc Guehi would generate some income, but their season starts on Saturday and you can’t make up for the business they have prepared well for the first few games. There is still time with the window open until 1 September, but there are points to play for now.
A little later this morning we leave a free episode of the 30, which is our Premier League review -Podcast that we do for our Patreon members. Phil Costa and I will look ahead to the new season and discuss the transfer activities at other clubs, how we feel that they are reinforced, who are the most important rivals, and concentrate on some other aspects of the new Premier League campaign.
In preparation for that, I looked a quick look at what the ‘big clubs’ spent this summer, and what they have brought in through the sale. The figures are pretty interesting (based on the Sky Sports Reporting of this article).
Arsenal
Out: £ 194 million
In: £ 4.3
Net: £ 189.7
Chelsea
Out: £ 256 million
In: £ 154 million
Net: £ 102 million
Liverpool
Out: £ 293m
In: £ 199M
Net: £ 94 million
Man
Out: £ 160 million
In: £ 5 million
Net: £ 155 million
Man utd
Out: £ 214 million
In: £ 0
Net: £ 214 million
Liverpool and Chelsea have spent large, but have also generated quite a few incoming income. You may have one or two questions about one or two of those deals, and how they may be facilitated by ties with Saudi Aarabia, but it both gives room to spend more. City spent a lot on their summer spending in January, but we know they have ways to throw money that almost unique seem to them. It is as if they operate in a different financial landscape than others.
The editions of Arsenal and United are almost complete without anything to compensate. We have sold Nuno Tavares to Lazio, but that’s it. In the meantime, players such as Oleksandr Zinchenko, Reiss Nelson, Fabio Vieira, Karl Hein and Albert Sambi Lokonga are unlikely that they will even make the team this weekend – left in London while we travel to Old Trafford. For me it looks very much as if a further arrival before the end of the window is probably dependent on not only introducing money for the aforementioned players, but making room in a team that is currently just too big. Back to Mr. Berta on that side of things.
I suspect that the last few weeks of the window in general will be quite hectic. There are clubs such as Newcastle and Aston Villa that have not spent much, but they probably have to. The first to have Alexander Isak situation to go with, what, I hope sincerely, she continues to disturb and possibly Liverpool, while I am becoming more and more toxic. But when a few pieces start to move, the Domino effect has an effect on the market and I think we will see quite a bit happening in the last three weeks.
Okay, let’s leave it there. The podcast that I mentioned will be outside halfway through the morning, in the meantime a great Wednesday.
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