Players whose values are going to zero or close to it:
1) Nketiah (leaving)
2) AMN (leaving)
3) Pablo Mari
4) Partey (here until he's 32 on £200k pw)
5) Cedric (£80k pw)
6) Pepe (£140k pw)
Honourable mentions: Torreira, Saliba, Holding.
Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Marsbar100 wrote:6ls in 15 and a minus goal difference mear Christmas shouldn't be accepted as our standards.
Becoming a pattern now. Even emery hadn't lost this many when the players downed tools
Marsbar100 wrote:6ls in 15 and a minus goal difference mear Christmas shouldn't be accepted as our standards.
Ach wrote:Marsbar100 wrote:6ls in 15 and a minus goal difference mear Christmas shouldn't be accepted as our standards.
Apparently this is much better than expected though lol
You have to ask what was expected if this is much better
theHotHead wrote:jayramfootball wrote:Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Players whose values are going to zero or close to it:
1) Nketiah (leaving)
2) AMN (leaving)
3) Pablo Mari
4) Partey (here until he's 32 on £200k pw)
5) Cedric (£80k pw)
6) Pepe (£140k pw)
Honourable mentions: Torreira, Saliba, Holding.
We don’t need any of those players.
Unless Kroenke is going to keep his chequebook closed, the players value is not relevant.
As we have seen with Auba it is unwise to give into player demands.
Tell me what you would do if a player demands more than they are worth in wages and either refuses to leave or can’t find another club to offer them what they want?
Interested to hear how you’d solve it.
Would you make the player sign a contract on lower wages than they want or move to another club at gun point or something?
It’s the players who have the power and if they want to run their contracts down they will.
Nice skirting around the issue Jay. This has noting to do with a player's demands, it has to do with a manager coming in and discarding perfectly good players because he is incapable of working out how to get the best out of them.
You yourself was Nketiah's biggest champion on the forum, he couldn't stop scoring for the England U21s, he has played a bit part for Arsenal so its hard to expect a player to perform to his best while not getting game time. Instead of him dwindling away on the sides he should've gone out on loan.
AMN is leaving because he feels under-valued, no shit Sherlock. He is not Arsenal level, but he is better than Xhaka and can do more than Elneny although Elneny is more dependable.
Pablo Mari, why the hell did we buy him ? Again, a purchase that Arteta made and now is clueless as to how to play him. Just more of Arteta's scattergun approach to football management, pure trial and error.
Partey, an absolute beast in La Liga, comes to Arsenal with Arteta's brand of football and looks like he was plucked from a Sunday kickabout in one of the parks around Holloway.
Cedric should never have been bought, another useless Arteta purchase.
Pepe, a player all Arsenal fans were excited about when we were linked with him, especially because of the price and then his last season in France you could see why he came with such a high price tag. Currently reduced to sitting on the bench. Been an unused sub 7 times this season, 3 of which we lost. Arteta has no freeking clue how to play him, Arteta is so one dimensional its a joke.
Torreira was a perfectly good specialist DM, Emery out of spite for Ozil tried to make Torreira more offensive, it backfired massively. Arteta came in and Torreira got no love and was shipped out. Many people have been saying we need a defacto DM - we have one, Arteta is just too stupid to work it out.
Then you have Saliba, one of the most expensive teenagers in history, shipped out to France because Arteta didn't think he was ready, but he immediately started putting in MoTM performances and has been acknowledged as one of the best defenders in Ligue 1. Arteta's limited skillset means he is unable to develop players - or by the look of it - coach them !!
Any decent manager could get Pepe, Partey, Torreira and Saliba firing, I'm gonna leave it at those 4 for now.
Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Marsbar100 wrote:6ls in 15 and a minus goal difference mear Christmas shouldn't be accepted as our standards.
Becoming a pattern now. Even emery hadn't lost this many when the players downed tools
Nuggets wrote:Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Marsbar100 wrote:6ls in 15 and a minus goal difference mear Christmas shouldn't be accepted as our standards.
Becoming a pattern now. Even emery hadn't lost this many when the players downed tools