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Transfer rumours - summer 2021 edition

I see a couple places are linking is with Locatelli. Seems plausible to me - 23 years old, at an unglamorous team (Sassuolo), international, 2 years left on his contract....

A CM isnt the highest priority in my mind (CB, RB, RW and a back-up CF are) but it would be a positive in terms of our intent IMO, given we're presumably guaranteed to bring in a CB or two too, he'd probably be signed to be a starting 11 player, and a couple signings to stregnthen the core of the team would help a lot.
 
AdamB said:
I see a couple places are linking is with Locatelli. Seems plausible to me - 23 years old, at an unglamorous team (Sassuolo), international, 2 years left on his contract....

A CM isnt the highest priority in my mind (CB, RB, RW and a back-up CF are) but it would be a positive in terms of our intent IMO, given we're presumably guaranteed to bring in a CB or two too, he'd probably be signed to be a starting 11 player, and a couple signings to stregnthen the core of the team would help a lot.
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He ran the show in midfield against Turkey, even more than Jorginho.

We've also been linked with Lorenzo Pellegrini today, who is a very similar type player (athletic but technical alrounder)
 
AdamB said:
I see a couple places are linking is with Locatelli. Seems plausible to me - 23 years old, at an unglamorous team (Sassuolo), international, 2 years left on his contract....

A CM isnt the highest priority in my mind (CB, RB, RW and a back-up CF are) but it would be a positive in terms of our intent IMO, given we're presumably guaranteed to bring in a CB or two too, he'd probably be signed to be a starting 11 player, and a couple signings to stregnthen the core of the team would help a lot.
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I think a CM is second priority to 2 x CBs. Hojbjerg desperately needs a partner in there who will give us a platform to play from. As well as Locatelli there are also rumours about Pellegrini from Roma. These could just be because we now have an Italian DoF and (it seems) are on the verge of announcing a head coach who has been working in Italy at the same club as the player.... but in this case as well the player has just a year left on his contract and also has a 30m euro release clause.

(GB got in there just before me I see)
 
This is the sort of squad that I'd like to see next year (I'm assuming Kane is gone):

-------------------------------------Lloris/Likakovic
Dumfries/Bogle----Milenkovic/Toby---------Elvedi/Rodon---------Regulion/Sessgnon
---------------------Hojbjerg/Skipp------------Soumare/Lo Celso
-------Pereira/Bergwijn------Ndombele/Dele/Olise-------------Son/Thuram
-------------------------------------------Ings/Isak

Good players and cover for them all round. Would be a huge amount of work to do for the new DoF but incomings would be covered by outgoings (I expect we'd end up about £30m down due to agents fees and loyalty bonus pay offs). Wage bill would also likely be considerably lower than this season. There are various players that could be inserted into the above instead of the ones I have marked in bold (i.e. the two Italian's mentioned in the previous posts instead of Soumare), just as long as they are fast, powerful and technical

The likes of Tanganga, White, Scarlett and Clarke can also be included in the Europe squad.

That sort of team/squad has so many good young players that it should only need 2 or maybe a max of 3 players a year from then on and it is the sort of team that could really develop into something pretty special in 2 or 3 year's time, there are lots of formations that could be played by the above players as well. It would be a brave rebuild but not actually a particularly painful one. If we are brave, decisive and act quickly this summer then there are a huge number of good players available for transfer. The worst thing for us could be hanging on to Kane until the last few days of the window and selling him then (even if it gets us another £10m in transfer fee) as that will seriously hamper the new manager in building a new team that can hit the ground running next season.
 
Finney Is Back said:
I think a CM is second priority to 2 x CBs. Hojbjerg desperately needs a partner in there who will give us a platform to play from. As well as Locatelli there are also rumours about Pellegrini from Roma. These could just be because we now have an Italian DoF and (it seems) are on the verge of announcing a head coach who has been working in Italy at the same club as the player.... but in this case as well the player has just a year left on his contract and also has a 30m euro release clause.

(GB got in there just before me I see)
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Each to his own. In my view, I'd take 2 CBs before a CM just because we have Skipp coming back next season and I think there's a lot of untapped potential in GLC. Obviously in an ideal world we'd get both

We have the same challenge across a number of positions this summer where there are gaps to fill - some of that will come down to prioritisation, some target availability and various other factors
 
Finney Is Back said:
This is the sort of squad that I'd like to see next year (I'm assuming Kane is gone):

-------------------------------------Lloris/Likakovic
Dumfries/Bogle----Milenkovic/Toby---------Elvedi/Rodon---------Regulion/Sessgnon
---------------------Hojbjerg/Skipp------------Soumare/Lo Celso
-------Pereira/Bergwijn------Ndombele/Dele/Olise-------------Son/Thuram
-------------------------------------------Ings/Isak

Good players and cover for them all round. Would be a huge amount of work to do for the new DoF but incomings would be covered by outgoings (I expect we'd end up about £30m down due to agents fees and loyalty bonus pay offs). Wage bill would also likely be considerably lower than this season. There are various players that could be inserted into the above instead of the ones I have marked in bold (i.e. the two Italian's mentioned in the previous posts instead of Soumare), just as long as they are fast, powerful and technical

The likes of Tanganga, White, Scarlett and Clarke can also be included in the Europe squad.

That sort of team/squad has so many good young players that it should only need 2 or maybe a max of 3 players a year from then on and it is the sort of team that could really develop into something pretty special in 2 or 3 year's time, there are lots of formations that could be played by the above players as well. It would be a brave rebuild but not actually a particularly painful one. If we are brave, decisive and act quickly this summer then there are a huge number of good players available for transfer. The worst thing for us could be hanging on to Kane until the last few days of the window and selling him then (even if it gets us another £10m in transfer fee) as that will seriously hamper the new manager in building a new team that can hit the ground running next season.
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I'd agree with most of that in principle, but I think Tanganga is ready and now needs to be one of the two RB options.

In practice I think Kane and one of Moura/Lamela will stay too and we'll only bring in one AM. So that brings it down to maybe 7 incomings instead of 11. The backup GK and backup CF could easily be chance loans too
 
I know we need to change our CB options but imo we also should strengthen our CM, our defence has come in for a lot of stick this last season ( deserved in part) but the cover they received from CM was really poor.
 
Finney Is Back said:
This is the sort of squad that I'd like to see next year (I'm assuming Kane is gone):

-------------------------------------Lloris/Likakovic
Dumfries/Bogle----Milenkovic/Toby---------Elvedi/Rodon---------Regulion/Sessgnon
---------------------Hojbjerg/Skipp------------Soumare/Lo Celso
-------Pereira/Bergwijn------Ndombele/Dele/Olise-------------Son/Thuram
-------------------------------------------Ings/Isak
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11 new players!!!!
11 FFS :rolleyes: Has any team in the history of the EPL ever brought in 11 players in one window?
oh boy, you are really gonna hate Levy by the end of the summer
 
NoLimits01 said:
11 new players!!!!
11 FFS :rolleyes: Has any team in the history of the EPL ever brought in 11 players in one window?
oh boy, you are really gonna hate Levy by the end of the summer
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Summer 2004.
A certain team bought:
Paul Robinson
Sean Davis
Marton Fulop
Pedro Mendes
Leigh Mills
Erik Edman
Nourredine Naybet
Thimothee Atouba
Rodrigo Defendi
Michael Carrick
Noe Pamarot
Calum Davenport
Reto Ziegler
Spase Delevski
 
NoLimits01 said:
11 new players!!!!
11 FFS :rolleyes: Has any team in the history of the EPL ever brought in 11 players in one window?
oh boy, you are really gonna hate Levy by the end of the summer
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Back when we had the best DoF in the business in Frank Arnesen we brought in more players than that I believe.

Campos at Monaco also had some years where he brought in incredible amounts of players.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Can’t believe Arsenal are gonna get Ben white
He is exactly what we need
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Haven't Brighton refused their £40m bid?

As I said previously, I thought it was conceivable that Arsenal's owners would invest/take on debt in order to take advantage of a probable buyers market and try to strengthen this summer. Unfortunately with our debt levels as they are we do not really have the latter option available to us so are reliant on the former (or selling Kane).
 
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