Arsenal 2021-22: The Youth Movement

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Saka- 19

Martinelli- 19

Saliba- 19

Smith-Rowe- 20

Nelson- 20

Nketiah- 21

Willock- 21

Gabriel- 22

AMN- 23

Pepe- 25

Holding- 25

Chambers- 25

Bellerin- 25

 

The club has a plan in place, and for once, it actually seems that selling players for a profit/bringing in multiple starting caliber players will actually be a priority. Everyone listed above will either be a part of our first team plans, or actually sold while they still have value to help bring in reinforcements. Despite how shitty last season's results were, i actually like where we're headed, and look forward to watching our team grow and jell this year. and, it appears that our first new player will be joining the club imminently:

 

 

 

 

COYG. 🔴⚪️

Edited June 30, 2021 by shadow_operative

[Dutch 4577]

Not to mention Kieran Tierney - 24. Thread title is apropos. 

We have to hope getting out of the "Thursday - Sunday EL grind" will help boost league results. 

Edited June 30, 2021 by Dutch

[Dutch 4577]

Also, Locatelli? Yes, please.

http://www.thehardtackle.com/news/2021/06/29/transfer-news-arsenal-make-approach-for-manuel-locatelli/

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3 minutes ago, Dutch said:

Not to mention Kieran Tierney - 24. Thread title is apropos. 

We have to hope getting out of the "Thursday - Sunday EL grind" will help boost league results. 

how could i forget Tierney? he's our future captain. 

[Ted Lange 16426]

 

[shadow_operative 15932]

Nuno, Locatelli, Lokonga, and Ben White would be a pretty damn good window. Let's hope that there some fire beyond this smoke.

[Dutch 4577]

18 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

Nuno, Locatelli, Lokonga, and Ben White would be a pretty damn good window. Let's hope that there some fire beyond this smoke.

 

Damn. An Italian turning down Juve and CL football was always a stretch. Looks like Sassuolo was using us as leverage to get more out of Agnelli. 

Edited June 30, 2021 by Dutch

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yeah that sounds about right. 

[Surly Bevo 25759]

Checking in for the disappointment, might as well fire it up paying attention to our cheapskate owners in a transfer window.

[CooterBrown 18289]

Checking in for the disappointment, might as well fire it up paying attention to our cheapskate owners in a transfer window.

Yeah, I quit paying attention until they are signed. 99% of done deals for Arsenal have fallen through this last decade.

[Ted Lange 16426]

So Sancho goes for 75M pounds, Aresnal spent 72 on PEPE....They are so bad at this

[Dutch 4577]

Yeah, that won't go down as our best bit of transfer business. Pepe is a turning into a nice player, but a ~ 30m player.  

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official:

 

 

 

[Surly Bevo 25759]

So Luiz is gone and his starter kit is out on loan....what do we do for hair?

[The Maestro 785]

46 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

So Luiz is gone and his starter kit is out on loan....what do we do for hair?

More importantly, what are we going to do without stupid reds or pk giveaways?

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15 minutes ago, The Maestro said:

More importantly, what are we going to do without stupid reds or pk giveaways?

Well we just gotta figure out how to keep Bellerin and Xhaka from going to Italy

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[idigTexas 2332]

Get back to me when it is final.  Arsenal is where done deals go to fall through.  

[shadow_operative 15932]

Romano saying "here we go" is confirmation these days, which makes "here we go soon" as close to a done deal as it gets. 

[dbecks 442]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal-engarsenal/story/4429814/all-or-nothing-arsenal-to-star-in-amazon-documentary

[Dutch 4577]

 

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off to a great start this preseason. 🙄 

[Anastasis 23723]

oops

 

 

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also, Nketiah blew a 1 v 1 with their keeper, and Pepé took a shit penalty which was saved. ugly-ass match from the looks of it.

Edited July 13, 2021 by shadow_operative

[Ted Lange 16426]

 

nketiah needs to be loaned somewhere and get a bunch of minutes. I don’t he is that great but he needs to be starting somewhere so we can find out.  

[shadow_operative 15932]

well apparently crystal palace wants to sign him. anything over €10M i say do it.

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[Ted Lange 16426]

I can think of lots of better ways to spend 50m.   It ain’t my money so I don’t really care, unless that limits whom else Arsenal can sign, which it almost surely does.  

[Bullneck 19543]

Top of the table, baby!

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1 Arsenal
2 Aston Villa
3 Brentford
4 Brighton

 

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Arsenal to sign Brighton's Ben White in £50m deal

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/57873034

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the youth movement is exciting and all, but at some point we need to add an established player or two. 

[Surly Bevo 25759]

Just now, shadow_operative said:

the youth movement is exciting and all, but at some point we need to add an established player or two. 

Knowing us we will bring in somebody like Diego Costa hoping he can regain that early-mid teens Athletico/Chelsea magic one last time. 

[Surly Bevo 25759]

There is already an ongoing Arsenal thread. @immamac  close this one. 

[Dutch 4577]

Apparently more signings inbound as well. 

 

 

[Bullneck 19543]

1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

There is already an ongoing Arsenal thread. @immamac  close this one. 

Sorry, didn't see it.

(Edit: looks like he merged them).

Edited July 17, 2021 by Bullneck

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6 hours ago, Dutch said:

Apparently more signings inbound as well. 

 

 

i think he's referring to Lokonga and White. as far as White goes, from what i've read about him he's ver good on the ball and can play both CB and CM. that tracks, because that's what Arteta's style is all about- having players who are good on the ball, shot can advance it forward, who can win 1v1's etc, all over the pitch. if he becomes a high class, starting XI mainstay for the next 7-8 years then he'll be a steal. hopefully that's the case. if he and Partey can pan out then that will be a lot of size and skill in the middle-back of the pitch for us.

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[Dutch 4577]

James Maddison, too?  Not sure Leicester would sell, but he's a nice player.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/blog-transfer-talk/story/4435581/live-transfer-talk-arsenal-plotting-swoop-for-leicesters-james-maddison

[shadow_operative 15932]

i'd love to have him, he's the exact type of MF we need to sign. he's a very good player and could be a difference maker for us.

[Dutch 4577]

16 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

i'd love to have him, he's the exact type of MF we need to sign. he's a very good player and could be a difference maker for us.

For sure.  He could be deadly pulling the strings with Saka and ESR on the wings.

Edited July 22, 2021 by Dutch

[Dutch 4577]

ESR reupped for another five years.  

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