Mohamed Elneny (25)

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Turkish clubs are all broke, so forget about getting a decent fee from them.

Elneny should stay, he's not on a huge contract like so many of the Wenger era holdovers. He's good backup for Xhaka and good enough to start for early stage EL, LC and FA Cup games.

Unrealistic to think Xhaka can start 50 games/year. He will pick up a knock sooner or later.

[KG3]

If we get 10M+ for him I’d sell, I like him as a squad player but seeing as we can’t get offers for Guendouzi and we need to raise funds it makes sense.

[Sims]

Elneny takes up a non-HG spot

Guendouzi doesn’t

Think that’s all departures will come down to eventually

[Angelito]

Turkish clubs are all broke, so forget about getting a decent fee from them.

Elneny should stay, he's not on a huge contract like so many of the Wenger era holdovers. He's good backup for Xhaka and good enough to start for early stage EL, LC and FA Cup games.

Unrealistic to think Xhaka can start 50 games/year. He will pick up a knock sooner or later.

Until Walcott extended his contract, not a single Arsenal player was getting over £100k. Ozil came in and was on £140k a week. Alexis was on £130k.

We started handing out big contracts after that Xhaka/Mustafi summer. Mustafi was allegedly on £90k and Xhaka and Kolasinac on £120k. Ramsey also signed a contract worth £120k iirc.

We hit the £200k mark for the first time when we signed Mkhi. Ozil got that £350k contract during the same time and we paid Auba £180k.

Lacazette was Arsenal's highest paid player at £160k until Mkhi arrived. Before Laca, it was Ozil from the time he signed until the time we got Laca.

Wenger usually paid most in the range of £40-90k, hence, the ill-famed, "socialist wage structure."

When Rooney was earning £350k flat at ManU, our highest earner was on £90k a week. When Man City had every top player on £160-250k a week, we still were paying van Persie £90k a week.

You're right about the financial situation of Turkish clubs. Not just them, in relation to the stature of their domestic leagues, the likes of Spain and Italy are struggling financially as well.

[gooney]

If we get 10M+ for him I’d sell, I like him as a squad player but seeing as we can’t get offers for Guendouzi and we need to raise funds it makes sense.

10 million? If we get 2 million for him we done unbelievably well. Turkish clubs will only offer loan at best. They are more broke than most championship teams

[DiamondGooner]

Neither player, Elneny or Xhaka, should be Arsenal players in reality, the fact we are having this discussion at all shows how far we have fallen in terms of quality. Xhaka is like a shit Stefan Schwartz and Elneny is like David Batty without the aggression/attitude, a David Batty Lite.

Difference is .......... Elneny is 2nd option, squad player to help us avoid injuries and play in easier games and is cheap on wages.

Xhaka is 1st choice.

In that vien Xhaka is not good enough imo however I can't argue that he has improved but still the roles of these two players is different squad wise.

Lastly we finished 8th, we have the income of an 8th place team regarding cup income and we have an owner who is happy to spend less on his club than I do on a night out in town so of course we have the squad to reflect that ........... in fact if you look at our front line we actually have a far better squad than we deserve, who else is around 8th and has Laca, Willian, Pepe and Auba?

[Nuggets]

We will end up keeping him and why not he seems to have improved his game a lot.

[theHotHead]

Neither player, Elneny or Xhaka, should be Arsenal players in reality, the fact we are having this discussion at all shows how far we have fallen in terms of quality. Xhaka is like a shit Stefan Schwartz and Elneny is like David Batty without the aggression/attitude, a David Batty Lite.

Difference is .......... Elneny is 2nd option, squad player to help us avoid injuries and play in easier games and is cheap on wages.

Xhaka is 1st choice.

In that vien Xhaka is not good enough imo however I can't argue that he has improved but still the roles of these two players is different squad wise.

Lastly we finished 8th, we have the income of an 8th place team regarding cup income and we have an owner who is happy to spend less on his club than I do on a night out in town so of course we have the squad to reflect that ........... in fact if you look at our front line we actually have a far better squad than we deserve, who else is around 8th and has Laca, Willian, Pepe and Auba?

Your last paragraph should serve as a reminder to anyone that thinks Arsenal is not a big club, our standing in world football affords us opportunities to sign big name players.

[KG3]

Done what he had to do as usual won’t stand out as a world class performance but he won’t be rubbish either just ok

[Sims]

Done what he had to do as usual won’t stand out as a world class performance but he won’t be rubbish either just ok

good squad player in all honesty

low wages, seems happy to be around, knows what to do in our system

[DiamondGooner]

If we had Partey as 1st choice, Elneny as 2nd with Aouar as 1st and Ceballos as 2nd.

That would be a good 2 man CM set up for sure.

........... and then there's Xhaka.

[Dejan]

Needs to go at any decent offer

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[themessiah]

We ship off 3/4 players by Friday and bring in creative mid inshallah in mean time. We then push for starter DM till deadline day BUT if we aren’t getting Partey we need to recognise this quick and bring in a similar profile. We all know Elneny is squaddie not starter

[KG3]

Though he would be the one to miss before he took it lol

[KG3]

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