[David Ornstein] No more signings, Arsenal are done for the window. Arsenal went for Marquee players like Vinicius and Alvarez. Arsenal have decided to keep the powder dry.

[u/ahjkolhs]

https://www.youtube.com/live/R8u5Oki0WUA?si=NC_sC9nqf6Vbg2sn

[u/Troung]

I guess Eze and Madueke are getting some more time on LW

[u/NobleHelium → u/Troung]

Eze is losing a lot of minutes to Guimaraes in the middle so he is getting more on the left, yes.

[u/Advanced-Judgment905 → u/NobleHelium]

• MLS who didn’t feature as much in the early parts of last season

[u/Fleetfox17 → u/Advanced-Judgment905]

MLS doesn't play in the same area as Eze so not sure that's too relevant.

[u/DenzelOntario → u/Fleetfox17]

I think the insinuation is that the primary positions have changed from last season (we saw it at Villa yesterday):

Eze: CAM -> LW

Merino: CM -> CAM

Myles: LB -> CM

Bruno: N/A -> CM

[u/Inner-Light-9731 → u/DenzelOntario]

You forgot Calafiori: LB -> LW/ST/CF

[u/gq_mcgee → u/Inner-Light-9731]

Calafiori assuming the Leroy Jenkins role.

[u/Maleficent_Soft9187 → u/Inner-Light-9731]

You forgot RW and RM, possibly Cup Keeper.

[u/Syphark → u/DenzelOntario]

People say we focus on defense yet our players keep advancing smh

[u/sm00thArsenal → u/Syphark]

In Arteta’s ideal formation, all eleven positions will be played by CBs.

[u/iforgotmyun → u/Fleetfox17]

We don't really play with a fixed midfield formation and switch it up depending on the players available and opposition. MLS is now part of that equation.

MLS won't be directly replacing Eze but it could be that Arteta decides to go for a midfield of MLS/Bruno/Odegaard instead of Bruno/Eze/Odegaard (for example, obviously there's Rice, Zubi and Merino)

[u/batmans_a_scientist → u/Fleetfox17]

No but Bruno does, so when he’s not playing 6 it can be Zubimendi or MLS, which means he plays left 8 instead of Rice or Merino. Thats too many bodies between the 6 and 8 for Eze to get enough minutes in midfield.

[u/pm_me_ur_breakfast1 → u/NobleHelium]

Doubt we see Bruno as the most advanced of a 3 very often, if at all. Eze is more affected by Merino's return from injury, we've already seen him be the Odegaard sub in both games this season.

[u/EldritchWyrd → u/pm_me_ur_breakfast1]

Because Merino is literally the best goal-scorer from headers in clutch moments in the world right now. Think back throughout the past three or four years every headed goal he has scored for Spain and for us. Almost all of them crucial and in key moments. I would put Merino on before anyone else if we needed to go.

[u/Afc_josh12 → u/NobleHelium]

Cdm vs cam? Sure

[u/Wild-Picture-9340 → u/NobleHelium]

That is probably the answer

[u/CardiologistAny8339 → u/Troung]

It’s also a pathway for dowman to get minutes on the right if Madueke rotates left side

[u/Blue_winged_yoshi → u/CardiologistAny8339]

Dowman is going to blast past Madueke on the right as he gets old enough to play regularly. They aren’t even close when it comes to end product already.

Madueke from the left though is just bad. He loses his cut in, but doesn’t gain a range of crosses.

[u/blueluster → u/Troung]

If fans are already complaining about Madueke at RW, him on the left will cause strokes.

[u/Pomd → u/blueluster]

If we worried what fans thought we wouldn't have won the league.

[u/boatinavolcano → u/Troung]

Tbf Dowman emergence frees Madueke up a bit for LW minutes and I'd be happy to see Dowman more involved.

The club will receive criticism and a part of it is merited imo, but if they aren't convinced by some of the options it is better to not sign that player.

[u/djwatoo → u/boatinavolcano]

Martinelli & Trossard are both better than Madueke

[u/StrangeArachnid7998 → u/djwatoo]

Martinelli wasn't getting a new contract and he was in his last year. We should feel lucky we got what we got for him. Trossard wasn't getting a new contract, either, at his age, so they got what they could for him and let him find starting football elsewhere. Why don't people understand this?

[u/ajax0202 → u/djwatoo]

No one is claiming they aren’t. But we made great money on those sales this summer and that’s a crucial part of improving this team as we continue on

[u/drfunzone → u/Troung]

We dont even like Madueke in his preferred position, so him playing in his nonpreferred position hardly gives confidence.

[u/boatinavolcano → u/drfunzone]

Tbf he'd be a backup regardless. It's Eze we're banking on to do well.

[u/SecurePianist2009 → u/boatinavolcano]

I dont think madueke is a backup .. whoever does well will be starter. LW is up for grabs

[u/Conscious_Regret_140 → u/drfunzone]

I like Noni as a Saka rotation.

[u/NUPreMedMajor → u/Troung]

Tzolis, Eze, Madueke, Saka, Dowman for our wings. Thats 5 quality players who can rotate.

It’s a little light but imo it’s not really all that bad. Last year it was trossard, Martinelli, Saka, Madueke, jesus (dowman barely featured until the very end). Eze had to play center mid since Odegaard and Merjno were out.

With rice, zubi, ode, bruno, merino and MLS, our midfield is full of quality and depth. Eze doesn’t have to be there anymore.

[u/ahuangb → u/NUPreMedMajor]

So apart from Saka that's an unknown quantity, someone that's not a winger, Madueke and a 16 year old. That does not fill me with confidence

[u/Liber_Ace → u/NUPreMedMajor]

It’s not about numbers, it’s about quality.

[u/Fleetfox17 → u/Liber_Ace]

But that's the whole issue, at this point there are only so many players who will elevate our quality, we tried for Vini and Alvarez and it didn't work.

[u/NUPreMedMajor → u/Liber_Ace]

To improve on quality, we would’ve had to shell money for Vini or Alvarez. We tried and neither were willing to come here. Malick Fofana or whatever his name is would be a depth piece, not someone who would improve quality. Not sure why people are so up in arms.

[u/diegolucasz → u/NUPreMedMajor]

Because we lost Trossard and martinelli and only bought in Tzolis.

Thats why people are up in arms

We didn’t havea. Wc left winger so wouldn’t have taken something crazy to be a upgrade

The version of Rashford we saw at Barca would have been a upgrade and i really didnt want that signing thats how poor the lw was.

Tzolis now will have immense pressure on him to perform when he should have been a project.

[u/loosetranslation → u/NUPreMedMajor]

Just, no. I know we’re looking for ceiling raisers, and that would be great. Why are people seemingly taking for granted no one exists on a level between Vini and Martinelli/Leo?

[u/MyUsernameAlex → u/Troung]

Madueke on the left…….lets hope it doesn’t come to that

[u/amineimad]

Kroupi you got 4 months to find yourself a house in London

[u/Necessary_Silver_795 → u/amineimad]

100% sure we go big for him provided he recovers well from the injury.

[u/Tort89 → u/Necessary_Silver_795]

Yes please let this happen. Avoiding the Alvarez quagmire and swooping in for Kroupi would be the best possible outcome.

[u/Pires007 → u/Tort89]

I guess we get a potentially free run at him. Man City likely not going in for him, Chelsea have a settled front 3. Barca will focus on Alvarez.

[u/Familiar-Conflict152 → u/Pires007]

Liverpool needs to strengthen their defense, so they’ll definitely be in for him.

[u/scaliland → u/Pires007]

I saw both Barca and PSG being interested in him earlier this summer tbf 

[u/_soundpost_ → u/Necessary_Silver_795]

I just know he'll end up going to PSG for a price that we weren't willing to pay

[u/amineimad → u/_soundpost_]

I'm coping here but I'd like to believe the club is ready to pay for a target that's ideal (unlike Rogers or Fofana, more like Alvarez or Vini)

[u/MeNotStable → u/amineimad]

It’s not cope, it’s just inarguably fact. We were willing to go higher than Chelsea paid for Rogers for both, they just didn’t want to join. We were offered to match the bid for Rogers and declined - if we were fine with the finances of the Vini deal there’s essentially no player in football we wouldn’t sign providing the fee is something we find reasonable for the player in question

[u/Lanky_Ad_1747 → u/Necessary_Silver_795]

PSG will be right in for him ready for a fight 

[u/Actual_Smile6564 → u/amineimad]

You’re going to be shocked when Bournemouth refuse to sell him midway through the season because they need him for their European campaign and when he reaffirms in the summer that PSG is his first choice as he did this summer.

Kroupi isn’t happening.

[u/Mammoth_Amount_168 → u/Actual_Smile6564]

The arrogance is staggering. Plus if you think we baulked at all the summer prices wait till you see the January ones!

[u/Mephistopheles2249 → u/amineimad]

We know everyone is complaining and wants the shiny new toy but we got McDonalds at home.  It makes sense to keep funds for top guys.  Like a Yildiz, a Kroupi, a Osimhen, etc.  Now other teams add young prospects and flip them (which is smart in a way), but Arteta ain’t really about that.  Whether we like it or not Arteta is not selling anyone on a lie like so many of these young signings are being told.  

At the start I said MLS, Merino, Dowman and Nwaneri would have important parts to play this season.  I’m down one, but MLS is going to be huge, Merino is going to fill in a lot cracks and Dowman…..don’t be surprised when he gets folded in.  With Nwaneri I’m going to replace him with Eze.  Now it’s Eze time to step up.

[u/98675436856 → u/Mephistopheles2249]

We can’t rely on Havertz, Odegaard and Merino to stay fit. Madueke isn’t good enough, Arteta doesn’t trust Gykores and we’re down two attackers in Martinelli or Trossard. We were meant to strengthen the attack and instead we’ve weakened it.

[u/pulphead789]

a real somba bomba

[u/TallnFrosty → u/pulphead789]

not to be confused with samba momba

[u/sleepingbro → u/TallnFrosty]

Which was us being linked to Blackburn defender Christopher Samba

[u/kaden_dd]

Going to bed typa F5

[u/catchthisfade → u/kaden_dd]

First thing you see after you wake up and it just fucks up your whole day typa F5 like damn i never stood a chance today typa F5 like damn maybe i should’ve started Prozac after all typa F5

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_ARSEnal]

It was nice F5ing with you all

[u/Matzeeh → u/PM_ME_YOUR_ARSEnal]

Im dont be sad it happened be glad its over

[u/Francis-c92]

No pressure then Tzolis, mate...

[u/colourofinfinity → u/Francis-c92]

Madueke, welcome to LW rotation lol

[u/Revoldt → u/colourofinfinity]

Tbf… when we signed him for relatively big fee last year… a decent chunk of people believed he would get time on the LW. (As why spend so much on Saka backup…)

[u/pies1010 → u/Francis-c92]

Big opportunity for him.

[u/nicklo2k → u/Francis-c92]

Eze looked good yesterday from the left when he came on.

[u/throwditawayred]

Calafiori, get ready to learn LW

[u/P1wattsy → u/throwditawayred]

Unironically though

[u/H0meslice9 → u/throwditawayred]

Bale regen who says no?

[u/KaiBob21]

it's your time king

https://giphy.com/gifs/e12fJTytzGTbEHkJ2l

[u/UnquenchedMammoth356 → u/KaiBob21]

Happy to be proven wrong but he's not a winger.

We currently have 1 fit left winger until January.

All the injury woes over the past three seasons and we're banking on our players fitness?

[u/LysergicWalnut → u/UnquenchedMammoth356]

He put a decent shift in on the left last night.

[u/MorganFreemann → u/LysergicWalnut]

I thought he was pretty sharp there yesterday. I think he knows that spot is up for grab

[u/Pires007 → u/MorganFreemann]

He had some highs and lows. Helped make the first goal, could have had an assist if Bruno scored (or earned a penalty). Should have been played through by Saka as well.

But he had a few bad turnovers in the transition. I like him a lot more in LW than at the 10.

[u/prestigiousstrangery → u/LysergicWalnut]

Yea he had the “hockey assist” on the goal with the pass to Calafiori

[u/Swimming-Necessary23 → u/UnquenchedMammoth356]

He may not be a traditional chalk on his boots winger, but he’s played out wide plenty and will do just fine. We also now have the option of Madueke out there given that Dowman is a very strong backup on the right side.

[u/Inside_no_9 → u/UnquenchedMammoth356]

He’s not an out and out winger, but has played on the left side of attack both for Palace and England. He’s a lovely player and I don’t think there’s a reason to panic

[u/Particular-Current87 → u/Inside_no_9]

His best football at Palace was stepping in off the left

[u/LIONLDN → u/Particular-Current87]

Let it all work out 💣

https://giphy.com/gifs/Lp7xxDxPLg2pEFnrvn

[u/RealCheekClapper → u/UnquenchedMammoth356]

most of his best numbers at Palace were at LW

[u/etherealfields → u/UnquenchedMammoth356]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9iIwniNa4b0tuaYcfL

[u/pewell1 → u/UnquenchedMammoth356]

he does well in attack on the wing

[u/thesketchyvibe → u/UnquenchedMammoth356]

He plays best on the wing with more space.

[u/Pixelated-Hitch → u/KaiBob21]

Get ready for teams to press us like hell because we won’t have any pace to scare them

[u/patholocaust → u/Pixelated-Hitch]

Which is mitigated by two of the new signings being proficient line-breaking passers (Bruno & Konsa). Tzolis is the Nelli replacement (playing more with his head up than relying on pace alone), with Eze taking on the Trossard role.

[u/xelanart]

Ornstein Bomba(clat)

[u/ahjkolhs]

CONTINUED:

Vinicius was really close to joining and he was the player the club worked most on. Alvarez was the next choice. Tzolis was signed as a sort of rotation option for the marquee attacker but no marquee attacker was signed by Arsenal. Mallick Fofana was just an interest as a player to develop for the future. We have seen deals done from Arsenal at the very end of deadline day as a surprise like Ozil and Sterling and Welbeck so all hope is not lost for Arsenal fans but as far as my sources are concerned, Arsenal have decided to keep the powder dry to pursue their targets in the winter or next summer window.

[u/JayPunk90 → u/ahjkolhs]

So theres still a chance haha

[u/shaygitz → u/ahjkolhs]

Seeing "a surprise like Ozil and Sterling" is really funny to me for some reason. No, David, those were very much not like each other!

[u/AbsoluteGarbaj → u/shaygitz]

Ozil deal probably the most exciting transfer ever for me

[u/RayParloursPerm → u/shaygitz]

A surprise like winning the lottery or shitting yourself in public

[u/fsamuel → u/ahjkolhs]

when do we FINALLY start getting our "First" choice?!?!?!?!

[u/InterimAragon → u/fsamuel]

7 years and counting!

[u/RayCashhhh → u/ahjkolhs]

Been keeping the powder dry the past three seasons. We're banking on players that haven't been completely healthy in 3 years to go thru this season injury-free while being forced to play basically every week with little rotation. Yea ite.

I'm just glad we got one PL title man. If we get this second one I'll be ecstatic, but City and Chelsea have closed the gap.

[u/vladimirandestragon]

Just incredible to go into the transfer window with a universally acknowledged need to improve the forward line and come out of it with that area of the team weaker than before.

[u/warpentake_chiasmus → u/vladimirandestragon]

Can't help but feel disappointed. We need more goal threat up front and let's face it - Havertz and Gyokeres are just not good enough in front of goal.

Another season of grinding and edging 1-0 wins ahead?

[u/TorKristianH → u/vladimirandestragon]

Astonishing levels of incompetance. Barcola was right there. Now watch him do bits for Liverpool. Absolute shambles.

[u/Rhiyuu]

they’ve had two seasons to improve the LW. a whole month for this window and all they’ve done is flirt with two players that didn’t want us for the majority of that time. useless

[u/FigurinesInNature]

Martinelli going sounds awful all of a sudden

[u/ro-row → u/FigurinesInNature]

him and trossard going in the same window with only one in is a mistake

should have kept one of them

[u/GoonnerWookie → u/ro-row]

For the money trossard would have been the one to keep. Let him just see out the contract so he could move and take a better deal. Couldn’t turn down the money for Martinelli

[u/ro-row → u/GoonnerWookie]

I agree, to be honest I dont understand why you shop him so early in the window

I kind of think that £20mish fee is around there later in the window

[u/TheRealGooner24 → u/ro-row]

Because we wanted to do right by the player. He wanted job security beyond his remaining year.

[u/SugisakiKen627 → u/TheRealGooner24]

we want to do it right for Trossard, but we push away Martinelli like he is someone who cause problem in thr club or something smh

[u/Hamderab → u/ro-row]

Agreed. Seems like they counted on getting another replacement at that time, but it never manifested. In hindsight I definitely rather would have kept Trossard and get no fee for him next year.

[u/markismith12 → u/FigurinesInNature]

It’s more Trossard. We getting good money for Martinelli with only 1 year left.

For the little we got for Trossard, it’s worth keeping him

[u/chiptheripPER → u/markismith12]

Leo's game seems like it will age very well too, he's very crafty and was never the fastest or quickest anyways.

On the other hand we signed Bruno G because he's elite at playing through balls and Martinelli was a legitimate threat to run in behind.

But either way the club messed up here, should have kept one of them.

[u/YungL1am → u/FigurinesInNature]

He was finished as soon as Arteta picked Eze over him and Trossard for City away.

The three options this summer were sell for £60 mil, sign a new contract or try to sell again in the final year of his contract. If Arteta doesn't even rate him as a winger over Eze then there was only one real option there.

[u/KellettCollective]

why do we always do this with attackers? So quick to spend on defensive players but always so much caution with attacking players? Why? I don't understand

[u/Fr0stpie → u/KellettCollective]

Except when it's chelsea players. 60m for madueke ? Sure, deal done in 1day

[u/sonofsochi → u/KellettCollective]

Because its easier to win games when you're not losing. All you need to do to win a game is score 1 more goal than your opponent. If you stop them from scoring, then you only need to score once 🤷‍♂️

[u/_Fyfe]

If we can keep the boys fit then fair fucks but heads will have to roll if we get into the meat of fixture congestion and having to fill the bench with U21s in UCL matches...

[u/Matzeeh → u/_Fyfe]

When have we ever stayed fit

[u/Poo-Smurf → u/Matzeeh]

23/24 was very comfortable aside from Timber, the ensuing seasons very much the opposite

[u/TheHorrorAddiction → u/_Fyfe]

We will pay for it in some way. Probably not the PL, but very likely the CL.

Tzolis, Bruno G and Konsa were good signings. But anyone defending the way we’ve gone about the LW needs to check themselves, seriously. We’ve weakened our already weakest position.

[u/vibesnvibez → u/_Fyfe]

Go over the first part of your sentence and let me know if that’s something Arsenal can do

[u/runnycharisma]

"Arsenal have decided to keep the powder dry." That is probably one of the most irritating and horrible lines to hear.

[u/Brandaman → u/runnycharisma]

Gotta keep it dry for January where we spend £0

[u/Ajgrob → u/Brandaman]

Correction, we'll sign another defender and maybe a midfielder in January.

[u/wsthepurposeoflife → u/Ajgrob]

Maybe another goalkeeper too

[u/Matzeeh → u/runnycharisma]

I still love Arteta but going for Alvarez was so fcking stupid

[u/El_Peregrine]

From an attacking perspective, coming off winning a league title, that's a very, very poor performance from Berta et al. Should have seized the opportunity to solidify our position at the top of the table, but now we risk a lot of games looking like last season's, where we struggle to put up more than a goal.

I hope Havertz, Saka, & Ode stay fit and prove me wrong. But it's a real risk now.

[u/SugisakiKen627 → u/El_Peregrine]

or at least dont sell both Trossard and Martinelli if they can only bring one LW in..

[u/FishermanOpening5842 → u/El_Peregrine]

We missed out on Rogers and two players who really wanted other clubs (Vini at RM and Alvarez Barcelona). Who would you have signed to raise our ceiling and at what price?

[u/will-9000 → u/FishermanOpening5842]

Barcola could have been the one potentially. But I think Arteta didn't rate him at that price. Seems clear that Arteta and the board are agreed that they have the funds for one break-the-bank attacker, and Arteta would rather wait for his target than go for Barcola. Less sure about what happened with Rogers but I always had questions about how he'd fit in our team.

[u/FishermanOpening5842 → u/will-9000]

Yeah I was iffy on Barcola myself as I didn’t see him get through the low blocks we face week in week out

[u/lobsterdog666]

Bad bad window. Our attack is worse now than it was 3 months ago.

[u/UpliftedWeeb]

Why the fuck did we sell and loan out all our attacking depth

[u/Difsdy]

Which would be fine if we hadn't sold Tross and Gabi. Even if it was just one or the other I'd understand. Fuck me.

[u/EMKAYVI]

https://giphy.com/gifs/q4eXnb3AanIivD6Q0j
i always trust in the team but i can’t help but feel very concerned of our chances of making a deep run in the champions league again

[u/Datboy_98]

I’ll begrudgingly take it.

But they’ve set themselves up for criticism because we’ve gone yet another window without upgrading our attack in a substantial way.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xiAqCzbB3eZvG

[u/petition-for-xcom3]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8y0bx23FDPCNoEU

Tzolis’ hamstrings upon reading this news

[u/KA1N3R]

Yikes. Martinelli sale seems foolish in retrospective

[u/Centofchess]

If true our attack is worse, with less cover. Makes no sense if you want to go and win the prem again let alone a champions league.

[u/bluehaven101]

https://giphy.com/gifs/VBHenUonSCry8

[u/LemtaLongi]

PSG: Akliouche, Ferran, Godts for good prices. These players were good enough for the European champions

Berta and Kronke:

https://giphy.com/gifs/2kWW0WdwZ94yhgs1iz

[u/grimmyzootron → u/LemtaLongi]

Yeah I was repeatedly told godts wasn't good enough. PSG getting him was all the evidence you need of his quality

[u/TheKABH]

Unbelievable. Came into the window with LW as a glaring need, and we made the position WORSE. Gyokeres frozen out as sell. Attacking options look very worrying

[u/KA1N3R → u/TheKABH]

All this dynasty talk makes it all the more embarrassing

[u/only1arsenewenger]

Martinell, Trossard and Jesus accounted for roughly 6,300 minutes last season, equivalent to 70 full 90s. With all three gone, who exactly is supposed to cover those minutes?

Even if the new starters stay fit, you still need rotation across the PL, Champions League and domestic cups. One injury on the left wing and suddenly the squad looks incredibly thin.

Going into the season without signing a proper LW backup feels like a massive and completely unnecessary gamble.

You don't replace 70 games' worth of minutes with "we'll figure it out"

[u/Jellyfish_McSaveloy → u/only1arsenewenger]

Eze/Tzolis will be taking Martinelli and Trossard minutes. Eze's original minutes will be taken by Merino/Odegaard. Rice and Zubimendi's minutes will be managed by MLS/Bruno. Jesus/ST minutes will be taken by Havertz/Gyokeres.

There's 2 senior players for every position. If you think up it's light then it's the same situation for the backline.

[u/010u3 → u/Jellyfish_McSaveloy]

The difference is the backline is already top tier.

[u/Jellyfish_McSaveloy → u/010u3]

The quality not being there is a valid argument, but the point about lack of personnel isn't. Signing Malick Fofana for instance doesn't solve the quality issue if Arteta doesn't believe they're a needle mover. Look at how many minutes Norgaard played last year and it shows that a body means sod all if the manager doesn't believe in the quality. Or even MLS until the latter stages of the season.

A better question is whether Gakpo or Ndiaye is a 65-85m improvement to the LW over Eze, especially if it means compromising the long term outlook on that position. I don't think it is.

With the benefit of hindsight overpaying for Rogers or going for Gordon before Barca would have been a good move, but everyone here has two balls and none made of crystal.

[u/JeffBroccoli → u/only1arsenewenger]

Gabi Jesus contributed basically zero productive or minutes worth talking about last season, relax.

Trossard has been replaced by Tzolis

Martinelli hasn’t been directly replaced, and that’s the main issue. Eze will likely pick up minutes there this season. Nice contribution on the goal yesterday.

[u/c4geron]

This just sucks. Sucks we missed out on Vini. Sucks we can’t just create a player and pay $150M to improve the attack because what we need doesn’t exist on the market.

Sucks we sold a loyal, essentially home grown winger who despite a bad contract at least offered pace and workrate that at the very least showed up in the champions league.

Sucks we went into this window hoping to take the next step as a club and all we did in attack was balance the books.

Maybe we start using Calafiori at winger and Hincapie at LB as the alternative to Tzolis/Eze

[u/proshon]

Emergency loan bomba when

[u/hikingbeginner]

Atrocious attacking recruitment, or lack thereof yet again. Not surprised though.

[u/RosesAndTanks]

Why tf did we sell Martinelli then? We made our attack worse and squad smaller while not adding the mArQuEe players we embarrassed ourselves for.

[u/tambini1]

Fucking awful stuff

[u/Ordinary_Material175]

Terrible window. The Arsenal galacticos era is now a failure before it even started. If the club cannot sign galacticos then it should change strategy and invest in the future. I am afraid that missing out on both Rogers and Barcola because of valuations will end up being a huge mistake.

[u/thedarlingtonknight]

I can see the sense in this. Doesn’t make Martinelli’s exit look very wise though imo

[u/Tiemen10]

What a fucking joke

[u/snowkarl]

Disaster

[u/lVlisterquick]

Arsenal’s biggest problem has always been…. Arsenal

[u/Rhiyuu]

fuckin shambles

[u/jubbing]

So what happens when Tzolis definitely gets injured oncr we run him to the ground?

[u/Impressive_Past1846]

A January signing could help refresh our attack like Semenyo did for City. Let’s hope our attacking players stay fit

[u/Hag_bolder]

Why did we push martinelli out then

[u/Pig-E-Wig]

Not going to overreact here, but am disappointed, seeing city bolster with Ndiaye for a relative low fee is upsetting, think he could have been good for us. Lots of games to play, not many wing options when so much of how we play revolves around that position, should have kept one of Martinelli or Trossard

[u/thatswavy → u/Pig-E-Wig]

lol Ndiaye for 65M british pounds is a low fee. With the way we sell players we would be stuck with him for 4 years.

[u/pauwerofattorney]

Eze’s performance yesterday must have given them reassurance enough to feel comfortable without breaking our valuation on Fofana.

[u/thejonkdon → u/pauwerofattorney]

They don't base these types of decisions on singular games...

[u/maidentaiwan]

less of a bomba and more of a me sitting on a whoopee cushion

[u/Blue_winged_yoshi]

Powder dry…. Heard that one before after the notorious Petr Cech and that’s it summer. Gazidis classic!

No pressure Tzolis!

[u/ruta2019]

Somehow even worse off at LW then when they entered the summer lmao

[u/pureeyes]

That's not very bomba of you orny

[u/Pascalini]

Oh to have trossard back eh

[u/l3tt3r-l3tt3r]

Tzolis get ready to play every Possible game of the season buddy

[u/Available_Cattle2092]

Very disappointing

[u/DefactoOverlord]

Crazy and completely unnecessary risk taking, half of this attack will be injured by Boxing Day.

[u/bardeh]

Shoulda kept Trossard then.

[u/ObviousGeologist3000]

I wish I didn’t open this thread. We can be so fucking reactionary is so pathetic man, some of yall are really greedy af. We have rice, bruno, the captain, zubi, merino and MLS for midfield options. We have saka, dowman, tzolis, noni and now eze for the wings. Gyok/havertz and again merino for ST, when saliba and timber comes back that’s 9 mix of world class defense and promising talents in mosquera and salmon. How can you be miserable and not satisfied with that? You the same lot that will be coming for arteta and berta’s head if say they signed someone just for the sake of signing and things end up not working out.

It’s been two fucking games with 2/2 wins and clean sheets without our starting best cb in the world, yet yall just yapping away. There’s literally no available LW out there that’ll come in and be a level riser for us.

[u/FCOranje → u/ObviousGeologist3000]

Absolutely agree. Plenty of squad depth. The only sale I disagree with is Trossard. The rest has been perfectly fine, considering the amount of players back from injury (ie saka; odegaard; and havertz).

[u/ObviousGeologist3000 → u/FCOranje]

Trossard was on his last year and Arsenal were never gonna extend him again. Who says he’ll be fit and still firing next summer and that a turkish team will still be interested in offering him big wages even though he’s a free agent then? Arteta was clearly done with martinelli since last season despite all his contributions in the ucl, and he literally told him straight up that he’s not in his plans this season. How do you keep someone like that on huge wages all the while having a club willing to pay 70m for him? I legit scroll past any post about martinelli now because that’s how bad I hate the transfer, but when you put feelings aside and start thinking logically both him and trossard deals makes sense.

MLS 100% in midfield unless all 3 of cala, hincapie and big gabi are out is like a new signing, bruno is looking like he’s gonna end up being the best signing of the PL this season. With that in mind is a no brainer to assume eze days in midfield are almost done unless again injury hits us as usual. Trossard/martinelli out, tzolis/eze in. It’s that simple. We legit went for freaking vini, and now a lot of comments are trashing berta for not paying psg fucking 140m for barcola, you’d think he has already bagged 10 goals and 10 assists for Liverpool already🤦🏾‍♂️.

[u/TomCat610]

Well that's a bit concerning for the attack. Leo and Martinelli out and only KT in. I It may leave us light up front but I like the clubs direction of only spending on players that they're confident will take us to another level.

[u/luv2sploodge → u/TomCat610]

You bastard made me think think we had brought Tierney back for a stint on the wing

[u/biskutgoreng → u/TomCat610]

We got Kieran Tierney back?

[u/BrianThatDude]

Gross negligence. Bertas seat should be scorching hot.

[u/Stravven]

Midfield improved, defense improved, but attack did not and that is the line that needed improvement the most.

[u/readonly230]

I’m losing my shit just thinking about Noni on the LW

[u/joeproposition]

Elite ragebait from Ornstein with the language. Fairs.

[u/Living_Article_3741]

Powder dry? lol more like keep their tails between their legs

[u/DaddyBats00714]

There it is. 5/10 window for building 'dynasty' purposes.

[u/Johnga20]

If they don't have anyone they like right now it's the best decision. But the decision to let Martinelli leave is terrible, we don't have a pace LW anymore. I hope Eze can play better in the wing bit he doesn't have the work rate of Tzolis and Martinelli either.

[u/DenzelOntario → u/Johnga20]

Selling Martinelli was the right move, because this was literally the only time we could’ve cashed on him for that kind of money.

But we should’ve just held on to Trossard until the end of the window. And kept him if we signed nobody.

His selling value was small. Should’ve just kept him for 1 more season and then let him leave on a free.

[u/shekshack]

Really unfortunate, but I can understand their perspective. They need a star there, and anything else is redundant.

Every time Arteta and the team has stuck to their guns and held on to their principles it has worked out well for us. So I'm choosing to trust our leadership.

[u/IkeaKarma]

Winning the premier league gets you a 40 million euro left winger from the Belgian league and Eze, who was too shit to play there last year but now Arteta has to. We’ve actually regressed. Fucking idiots.

[u/MagicalAfrican]

[u/Agreeable-Bid-2895]

Oh

[u/yashymodi]

I'm hoping there's a reason we've not received OFFICIAL confirmation of Martinelli's departure. We can't sell him if we're not signing anyone.

[u/ICanSeeYourFuture]

So who do we think is getting a season ending injury in training on Thursday?

[u/krakends]

People were glazing Tzolis for those deflection goals and assists. He will struggle against better opposition.

[u/BigTheme4266]

Damn howwwwww did our Lw get worse

[u/priMa-RAW]

So we just decided to give up competing this summer… excellent stuff

[u/T3v95]

"Keep the powder dry" is not what I thought I'd read about our window this year

[u/Old-Being-732]

I’m fully behind Eze. He showed glimpses of a good Left winger yesterday and I’m sure Arteta saw this too. Hence the reason not to sign anyone today.

He just needs to copy Saka in his willingness to defend then we are all gravy baby.

[u/KA1N3R]

Dynasty, huh?

[u/Starbug91]

Shambolic window in terms of attacking recruitment and you can bet Arteta is extremely disappointed after this. Berta has to go, its as simple as that.

[u/reversepsyched]

Terrible terrible mistake. How have we managed to worsen our attack from last year? I didn’t even think that was possible. Hoping for a crazy gyokeres second season run at this point inshallah

[u/jaybizzleeightyfour]

Everyone knew our attack wasn't too great and needed to be strengthened, we were told we're going to act like Champions, be ambitious and not sit still, but instead we've let 3, very experienced attackers go and brought 1 moderately experienced attacker in.

Not impressed, at all.

[u/mmarkmc]

Most ambitious disastrous window ever

[u/ejac7]

Disappointing and I think we’ll come to regret not replacing Martinelli

[u/Glum_Dance5432]

We're weaker, and we might be in for a rough season.