ALL Transfer talk - merged thread

[mcdowell42]

Nuno Tavares leaves Arsenal for Lazio in deal worth around £7.5m.


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[OneBardGooner]

Good Luck To Him....No doubt t at some point in the future he'll come back to Haunt us by scoring the Winner against us.

[A11M11]

Sesko is much more talented than Gyokeres, much more. He's very much in the Isak mould, tall, fast, great balance, good with the ball at his feet, can dribble past players and has a great shot on him. At his age, I would take him any day over Gyokeres, who will be 27 soon and isn't going to get any better and is much more one dimensional.

1 point about Gyokeres is that most of his goals came against teams in the bottom half of the table 17 against the bottom 2 . taken from a cursory look at transfermarket . com

That "one dimension" is goal scoring - having a one trick pony is far better if that one trick is scoring goals regularly, than having a guy who can do a few things well but has average scoring stats

[Limerick Gooner]

Nuno Tavares leaves Arsenal for Lazio in deal worth around £7.5m.


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Aren’t Lazio selling him straight on to Juve for £30m?

[mcdowell42]

Nuno Tavares leaves Arsenal for Lazio in deal worth around £7.5m.


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Aren’t Lazio selling him straight on to Juve for £30m?

If they do ,Arsenal have a sell on clause of 25%



PS not a hope of anyone paying 30m for him

[augie]

Sesko is much more talented than Gyokeres, much more. He's very much in the Isak mould, tall, fast, great balance, good with the ball at his feet, can dribble past players and has a great shot on him. At his age, I would take him any day over Gyokeres, who will be 27 soon and isn't going to get any better and is much more one dimensional.

1 point about Gyokeres is that most of his goals came against teams in the bottom half of the table 17 against the bottom 2 . taken from a cursory look at transfermarket . com

That "one dimension" is goal scoring - having a one trick pony is far better if that one trick is scoring goals regularly, than having a guy who can do a few things well but has average scoring stats

Like I have said many, many times, I understand the argument against gyokeres, but I cannot understand how the same logic is not being used by people pushing sesko as the better option - does sesko not play against the shit teams in the german league then cos he only scored 13 league goals last season ? His goal stats are similar to havertz - he is the serbian havertz ffs, and we all know that havertz is never gonna score us enough goals to win a league, so why buy his clone ??

It says a lot that despite supposedly having a massive transfer budget at our disposal this summer, we are scratching around in the second (or third) tier of strikers and cant even agree which is the least risky guy to sign There is no doubt osimhen is better than gyokeres and sesko combined, and even though he is available we are not interested - why ? To me it again comes down to the manager's inability to deal with players with personality/character - he can fill the dressing room with nice "yes sir" players but they dont win you trophies, and invariably melt when the going gets tough (es evidenced by our disappearing captain) Would the cone boy run away from PV4 the player ? How would he react to some of the off pitch stuff GG had to deal with re TA6 and merson ? Players like TA6 and PV4 were complex characters at times, but when you had to go to war you knew they would be leading from the front. We need a proven top quality goalscorer like osimhen or martinez from inter milan, and while signing a striker like gyokeres will improve things, it is hard to be confident that he will make us winners

[the playing mantis]

FFS Augie no one is interested in osimen for whatever reason. That must speak volumes.

Yes I'd like to sign him but there must be a reason no big club wants him

As for shopping around for 2nd rate strikers who is there available other than the potentially and likely flawed options we are linked with.

There are not many top class strikers out there and none bar osimhem realistically available so sadly it's a case of best if the rest

If we had any sense we would sign both sesko and gykores and cover all bases. But then what if there both cack in a big league!

[Midz]

We should've at least had a go at getting Delap for £30m (which is a steal in this day market) even if he won't be the main striker.

The Chavs made a wise move there.

Unfortunately for the fans our club lacks wisdom and employs idiocy.

[the playing mantis]

Ok, here’s the link to X. This bloke’s post is right up there with terms like “Leadership group”.

Some of the comments are good.

https://x.com/arsenalbarclays/status/19 ... 31508?s=46

Got a virus now!

Can you quote the comments, the only one I liked was the cat tunnel advert!!

[mcdowell42]

NEW

Arsenal are targeting Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers (£70m-£100m) and Feyenoord’s Igor Paixão (£25m-£30m) as attacking options, per Gary Jacob of The Times. Rogers, 22, has eight PL goals this season, while Paixão, 24, scored 16 in the Eredivisie.

[mcdowell42]

Here's 1 to get the heart racing



Former Juventus Head of Scouting and Granada director Matteo Tognozzi, currently in advanced talks to sign at Arsenal.

He’d be part of the team working under Andrea Berta.

[Red Army 2]

Here's 1 to get the heart racing



Former Juventus Head of Scouting and Granada director Matteo Tognozzi, currently in advanced talks to sign at Arsenal.

He’d be part of the team working under Andrea Berta.

Good to see the leadrership group is getting bigger...

[Red Army 2]

Sesko is much more talented than Gyokeres, much more. He's very much in the Isak mould, tall, fast, great balance, good with the ball at his feet, can dribble past players and has a great shot on him. At his age, I would take him any day over Gyokeres, who will be 27 soon and isn't going to get any better and is much more one dimensional.

That "one dimension" is goal scoring - having a one trick pony is far better if that one trick is scoring goals regularly, than having a guy who can do a few things well but has average scoring stats

Gyokeres 97 goals in 102 matches over two seasons ...remember Wrighty coming from non league

we desperately need someone....... at the moment we have Fuck all

Dont think we will get him though....

[TeeCee]

Darwin Nunez looked like prime Mbappe in Portugal and I wouldn't pay the bindippers 20m for him. Has any striker who's been great in Portugal gone on to be an excellent striker elsewhere? Ronaldo was a kid when he left Portugal, Luis Figo was class but he was a winger. there literally isn't any striker in the last 20 years + who's gone from Portugal to a big league and been a big success is there??

I wouldn't say no to Gyokeres, I would prefer Sesko though.

I see we are now 'talking' to some no mark one season wonder striker in Germany


Interesting article about Portugese golden boot winners......and how they failed afterwards

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/footbal ... r-AA1Cj3E8

[augie]

Darwin Nunez looked like prime Mbappe in Portugal and I wouldn't pay the bindippers 20m for him. Has any striker who's been great in Portugal gone on to be an excellent striker elsewhere? Ronaldo was a kid when he left Portugal, Luis Figo was class but he was a winger. there literally isn't any striker in the last 20 years + who's gone from Portugal to a big league and been a big success is there??

I wouldn't say no to Gyokeres, I would prefer Sesko though.

I see we are now 'talking' to some no mark one season wonder striker in Germany


Interesting article about Portugese golden boot winners......and how they failed afterwards

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/footbal ... r-AA1Cj3E8

And Timo Werner looked top quality in german league too, and now he is apparently up for sale for £3m !!!

Me personally, the only non english league I would give any credence to when it comes to goal scoring is the italian league - that is not me saying that the italian league is better than la liga or german league, but imo the italians are fanatical about defending and have an old school mentality about it, so if a player bags 20+ goals in the italian league then I will give him respect unless (as in vlahovic's case) that the goals nearly all came against piss poor teams. You can look at every league in europe (including the premier league) and there are a load of weak teams in the bottom half of the table, so again I point that sesko scoring 13 goals last season (14 the season before) and ask how can he not score more against shit german teams ? Why are europe's big clubs not trying to sign him now ? I mean say what you want about gyokeres but at least there are a few big clubs trying to sign him

My (not Arsenal's) transfer policy has always been a mixed bag - when quality young players become available I want us in there trying to sign them (£30m+ for a 17 year old greek kid is too expensive imo tho), but in key areas (striker, keeper, centre back and centre mid) I would want us going after proven top quality players cos your spine needs to be strong - the cone boy and his naive policy of signing nice young lads who will do as they are told, will never make us winners