Morning.
06.45am: The coaching floor footage recreation is now a longtime Arsenal fan custom. First up, you’ll be able to see who’s in them and who isn’t, maybe giving us an perception right into a participant’s health if there’s some uncertainty. Then there’s the bib side as we attempt to work out if that provides us a clue as to the beginning XI for a specific recreation.
Now there’s a brand new recreation: Media Day Footage. Arsenal’s befell yesterday, with the head-shots and motion pictures of gamers within the new package forward of the brand new season, and one specific absence has induced some hypothesis. Whereas there are footage of Kieran Tierney and Reiss Nelson, for instance, there don’t seem like any of Eddie Nketiah.
What does all of it imply? What’s the delicate or not so delicate conclusion we will draw from his absence? I don’t know. Possibly we’re not posting any Eddie snaps as a result of we expect he’ll depart or he’s on the verge of leaving. Possibly Eddie had a cheeky Nandos and it was a dodgy Nandos and he’s ended up with a dose of the splats and couldn’t make it in for the photo-shoot. Or maybe Stuart and Dear have been referred to as away on an emergency to take footage of Edu’s BBQ after he reverse-seared a tomahawk steak to perfection and wanted skilled pics to seize the second for all eternity. Your guess is pretty much as good as mine.
07.30am Replace: I’ve simply seen footage of Eddie. Drama over. I’m glad he didn’t have a dodgy cheeky Nandos, no person wants that.
I’m curious as to what’s going to occur with Tierney, by the way in which. There hasn’t actually been an replace on his health, principally as a result of Arsenal appear replete with left-back choices, together with the emergence of a younger expertise in Myles Lewis-Skelly who everybody could be very enthusiastic about. There are nonetheless a few weeks to go within the window, but it surely’s exhausting to envisage any membership coming in with a proposal to take him on a everlasting foundation. After witnessing him undergo that harm on the European stage, you’ll be considerably cautious about spending on him, and I believe the perfect case situation is that he finds a mortgage transfer earlier than the window shuts.
Whether or not that’s inside the Premier League, or overseas, who can say? It wouldn’t in any respect shock me if, as issues went down the wire, we had a name from Celtic about him. That’s based mostly on no data, by the way in which, only a intestine feeling, but it surely appears clear that he – like others within the squad – must go elsewhere to play regularly. The very best case situation is one other PL group the place he can play properly and keep match for sufficient of the season that they may are available in with a everlasting bid subsequent summer time.
In the meantime, as Brooke Norton-Cuffy finalises his transfer to Genoa, I ponder what will occur with Charlie Patino. He’s had loans at Swansea and Blackpool the place he has performed fairly a bit, however not likely proven sufficient to make you suppose he can lay declare to a primary group place at Arsenal. The truth that he wasn’t concerned in any respect in pre-season with a really younger squad tells you one thing about his prospects, and Ethan Nwaneri’s arrival onto the scene has just about put paid to any slim probabilities he might need had.
At 20, he’s nonetheless bought all of it forward of him, and typically a participant has to take a step-back to go ahead. I believe he’s most likely in the identical bracket as Norton-Cuffy and Mika Biereth, younger gamers who aren’t fairly on the stage we’d like, however who we’ll let go for one thing within the area of £3m-£5m – with sell-on clauses included so in the event that they do make actual progress we’ll stand to learn down the road. Let’s see the place he finally ends up.
Elsewhere, Arsenal have reportedly rejected a mortgage transfer from Ajax for Aaron Ramsdale, preferring a sale. I simply don’t know who’s the marketplace for a no 1 goalkeeper within the Premier League, as a result of what Arsenal apparently need when it comes to a payment makes it a reasonably prohibitive deal for many golf equipment outdoors England. One other one the place issues may come right down to the wire a bit.
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