re: Arsenal 2022/23 Season Thread - Jesus Take The Wheel

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While it's painful how we've sold (or just paid players to leave) the last few years, hopefully that spell is over.

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Looks like Arsenal may be buying out/terminating Bellerin's contract soon as well.

And barca are looking to deal already.

I think you’ll see the rest of our outgoing deals to take place rather quickly to end this week and maybe the start of next.

Pepe was interviewed stating he wants to stay and battle for his position. Of all the players we need to offload, he's one I wouldn't mind staying even though he is costly. Get him in this team with quality and I feel he can shine like we hoped.

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This is what i would do with pepe. Start him in the group stages so he gets like 4-6 goals, sell him in jan.

Some team will see that and need the goals. When he plays he scores. his highest goal scoring season was when he had the most minutes, his lowest he had the least minutes.

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He still has loads to offer as a dribbler, but his first touch has to be the most inconsistent I've ever seen. If he was willing to be converted to another position, I could see him flourishing. He has the passing ability and skills to play a role similar to Bernardo Silva, not to mention size. He doesn't seem to have the proper physicality for a central midfield role, but he could slot into a number '8' role if we play a 4-3-3 like Man City does, as a back-up to ESR or MO. He definitely needs to play though, regardless if we sell him or not.

I'm watching the All or Nothing doc right now, and I was confused by something Josh Kroenke said. He stated his family really didn't own the club until 2018, which I thought was an odd statement. I find it hard to believe that the Kroneke's weren't involved at a high level from 2007 to 2018, while they shared ownership with other members. It would, though, make sense that the Kroneke's weren't willing to invest in the club before they had complete control, as that investment ran the risk of increasing the value of the club, making total control impossible.

It's still disappointing that we didn't get proper investment until after Wenger left, as he was the only reason that the club was valued so highly in the first place.

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It's still disappointing that we didn't get proper investment until after Wenger left, as he was the only reason that the club was valued so highly in the first place.

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i think so too, but we did buy laca, then auba. that had to be wenger. that was poor recruitment. And then the whole xhaka is going to be our dm and mustafi will be a cb in the pl.

IDK wenger was getting bad near the end even when spending big on some players. Like mustafi was more than gabriel and saliba. or atleast somewhere around salibas price def more than gabriel.

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I thought it meant they were the x player to play for Arsenal, sort of like how England keeps a list of every player to represent them since the 1800s, so that would mean there were 845 players before Willock made his debut. But that number seems kinda low to me so idk. Tried looking on Twitter without any luck

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I think that’s exactly what it is.

The Amazon doc is great. The club seems to be in great shape from the bottom to the top right now and everyone looks 100% invested.

Surprised no one has come for Maitland-Niles yet. Two games a row he doesn’t even make the bench but he could be useful as a utility player for a lower level PL team.