Piero Hincapie -Signs + Full Summer Transfer Venward 2025 Breakdown

Morning.

The transfer window of the summer 2025 closed yesterday, and, as expected, Arsenal still completed an incoming deal, with the arrival of Piero Hincapie on loan from Bayer Leverkusen. There is an option to make the following summer permanent and the general consensus is that we will do. This is not a deal where we will see how it works before we make a decision, it is one where we have kicked the look a bit on the road for financial reasons.

About the 23 -year -old, who is the first Ecuadorian to play for the club, Mikel Arteta said:

Piero has a real physical presence, with its versatility and tactical flexibility that yields our strong added defensive options. He is a great character, with a very good combination of both youth and adulthood. He will make our team stronger and more competitive as we continue this season.

He can play center half, he can play left back and he brings a real depth to that part of the team. We already have Riccardo Calafiori and Myles Lewis-Skelly, and Hincapie adds something else stylistically. If it is not really an old-fashioned overlapping full-back, he seems more inclined to do that than one of the other two, so there is a lot of tactical variation on that side of the pitch.

So it completes our incoming company that looks like this – figures via Transfer market.

Arsenal Signings Summer 2025

This ensures a large total expenditure of € 293.5 million (£ 253.9 million), making it an unprecedented summer window for this club. I don’t think I have ever seen something like that, and only on the basis of income is it just as close to a 10/10 as you will see. It is certainly more than I had expected at the start of the window, and we have tackled all the important problems, which added special sauce in the form of Eze and another defender to the end to facilitate a few departure. The honor where it must be, it has been a great shops of the club and Andrea Berta will get his flowers in his role as the new sports director for the role he played in it.

That said, there is another aspect of the window, and so we sell, and again, I think Arsenal was found in that respect. Do I have any sympathy with Berta for trying to generate costs for some players? Absolutely, I think you should be honest and say he doesn’t have a great hand to work with. Nevertheless, it has been a disappointing window when it comes to spending, and the flurry of deadline day abnormalities were all loans, although one of those – Jakub Kiwior’s move to Porto – comes with an obligation that will generate some income next summer.

This is how it took place, so that the free transfer/contract deviation took place earlier in the summer, and again the figures come via Transfer market.

Arsenal editions summer 2025

It provides an incoming total of fair € 10.3 million. The Asterisk with Greeting Kiwior is the payment of the Porto loan. They published the details of it on their website yesterday, and it reads:

FC Porto has reached an agreement with Arsenal Football Club for the loan transfer of Jakub Kiwior’s registration fees, valid until June 30, 2026, for a total amount of € 2 million. The agreement includes the option to permanently transfer the registration fees and 100% of the economic rights of the player for a fixed amount of € 17 million, plus a maximum variable remuneration of € 5 million, depending on the achievement of certain objectives. This option can be exercised by FC Porto or Arsenal. Arsenal will also retain a fixed amount of € 2 million in a possible future transfer of the player.

So in total it can reach € 26 million if Kiwior reaches all objectives and then leaves Porto at a later time to generate that extra € 2 million in a sale. I think that is on the border to be an OK deal for an established international player who is sold elsewhere to a large club, but to give it more context, it is actually in the same margin as the biggest spending this summer of the other large Portuguese parties (Benfica and Sporting).

To give the outgoing window of Arsenal a little more context, we have shifted 8 players (apart from the liberties) and we generated less income than the loan costs that Chelsea received from Bayern Munich for Nicholas Jackson – € 16.76 million. Eventually we had to move these players, they were surplus for requirements and because of their own career they had to play. We could not let them hang around, not even make matchday quadrons.

But I can’t help that even with that status on the fringes, and with worries about one or two with injuries, we really didn’t do well to extract a value of them. If you actually stay on Deadline Day to climb around to find someone to take them for free (essentially), you can’t say that it has been a well -outgoing window. If it was the other way at 10/10, this was actually a 1/10.

Again, there are reasons why it is more difficult to sell, there are a number of themselves to try to find out their future in a more timely way, but the perception of Arsenal as a club that does not sell well is already well established. We had a pretty decent summer the last time, but it is the other way again. I am sure it is internally something they will look at, because you cannot spend € 290 million every summer. By selling players well – especially in this era of PSR – you can invest again in your team when the opportunities occur. In other words, I suspect that in the course of the next 12 months a more incoming things in the course of the next 12 months (and I mean summer 2026 more than January, where I do not expect that we are active), is probably closely linked to everything we generate through sales.

Anyway, the most important thing is that we have seen the club invest heavily in the team, and the strategy is clear to go for it in the coming seasons with this group of players as the core. You cannot say that we have not shown an ambition and good strategy when it comes to our incoming activities. The downside is that 8 new players are a lot, and it can take a little time for things to gel when you have that kind of inflow, but I suspect that a manager who has seen his job very complicated by not having enough players at his disposal, this is a ‘problem’ Mikel Arteta.

Exactly, I will leave it there for the time being. If you want to come to Patreon later, we have a new player -podcast to look at Piero Hincapie and what he is going to take with us, and we will also complete all Deadline day movements elsewhere. The good, the bad and the hilarious (I look at your emi martinez). Go on board hereIf you like it.

For the time being, have a good one.