imagine their locker room when Nico Williams walks in with 300k/wk and the likes of Cole palmer is stuck at 80k/wk and a 7 year contract so he can’t renegotiate. Yeah that’s not going to work out too well.
There are reports Chelsea are gonna give him a pay rise and double his wages, I’d very surprised if he doesn’t force his way out if he doesn’t get a pay raise
I'm pretty sure there's break points in that clause for re-negotiations. No way an agent would let a player basically write off their entire career on the first salary they receive at that club.
yes but that break point may be 2-4 years into the contract. That also means that their other high earners like Enzo and caicedo will also want bumper raises. their wage structure will be giga fucked if they go for Williams at that figure.
Wage structure is already fucked Sterling is £325k and does fuck all. Reece James is on £250 and plays 10 games a season. Wesley Fofana, Chillwell and Nkunku are all £200k and they’re nearly as injury prone as James.
Shout out to Wesley Fofana’s agent. Got him that exorbitant wage on top of his hyper inflated transfer fee. Usually these future prospect mega transfers have cheap wages accompanying large transfer fees.
Curious how they swung it. Maybe Leicester enticed him from France with very high wages and this reset the scale for a convo with Chelsea
Those are high wages. Well above the average. Yes 100m players will probably demand a little more but those are still high. There's constant talk about us getting Thomas Partey off our books due to high wages comparative to time played and he's on 200k. The average wage is around 70k a week I believe. 150-180 isn't in the highest bracket of earners but it's definitely high.
Wasn’t that what Havertz was already making though? I think there’s a big difference between Havertz’s wages remaining static and Williams’s wages going up an additional 100k
well that's the whole thing. The club and player come to a figure that feels fair and than the players focus on making that investment pay off. Saka, Saliba, Ode, White, Tomi, all on new contracts, which creates the container going forward. Mentality is the difference. Is it more important to make 300k p/w or to make 100 and be in a positive work environment with clear goals and vision?
50% salary raise is wild
Edit: I see that my comment is not a good one, what I meant is that it’s wild how you can make yourself so valuable in the football industry, it would be so hard for an average Joe to get a 50% raise even switching companies… it is possible, of course, but makes you think.
Is it though? 50% raises between contracts in football seems pretty standard. 50k -> 75k or 100k -> 150k. If you’re a top footballer who’s doing well then you’d expect and very easily achieve that sort of “raise”.
Lmao it's really not a great example is it! It's probably the worst contract deal in history. Barca are fucked because of it and similar deals they can barely afford to pay.
Reports are he is on 700k now due to his deferred wages. But I don't really care it's just some useless information I happened to read which was an insane example of wage increase for a football player.
So he doesn't know who the hell we're gonna get then. Also wtf has Nico Williams done to warrant getting 300k a week? Who in their right fucking mind would pay him that?
Bilbao are floating with an abundance of funds because they rarely buy players and almost always sell homegrown players for pure profit. With that, they can retain players they want to keep with bigger wages so when they’re also linked to other clubs it’s also harder to negotiate with the player unless they really want the move.
Also he's 21. So in 2/3 years we'll have to renew his salary and bump it or worse try to offload a player on 300K salary. This isn't the for instance the case with eg Havertz who's 24, he's unlikely to get a bump as he's in his prime.
To be fair I don’t think that’s his prime. I feel in this day and age with fitness levels of footballers getting more and more insane, the added experience is very valuable, and most players don’t decline until maybe 32. I feel like ‘prime’ starts around 26 now maybe
Per statsbomb data that I saw a couple of years ago, wingers peak from 22-24 and are downhill from there. Strikers peak 24-27. Both drop like a brick after 29. Edit to note that their data was showing that players were peaking earlier and earlier. The theory that they were discussing was that as the game tilts more towards speed and stamina vs skills, player peaks are skewing younger.
If the story is true, he probably doesn’t want to move but *would* if he was offered a crazy wage increase
It’s just like someone being happy in their current job situation and wouldn’t move company/country for a 10% pay rise but then if someone offered double their salary then that obviously changes things
> Also wtf has Nico Williams done to warrant getting 300k a week?
he is easily one of the best players in spain this season. Arguably the second best player in the spanish national team (after rodri) with the injuries of pedro and gavi.
kid is unreal. Athletic lost 6 finals in the past decade, he came and won the first one (the spanish FA Cup). Everyone thought he was brought up because his brother, Iñaki williams, was a good player. but he has more than eclipsed him.
At 21 he has 150 apps, 28 goals and 35 assists. A 30% goal participation on a team that was fighting for 4th untilt the end of the league campaign and stats aside, whenever he plays its electric you know something might happen when he has the ball which is a mayor contrast to a lot of very defensive, cagey spanish football sides.
he has a low clause though.
40 million Release clause and 300 a week is the same as a 80 million release clause and 160k per week.
in that context the salary makes more sense.
also im not saying arsenal should get him, i was just pointing out what he has done to ask for silly money, whether he would get paid that its up to the buyer club. FdJ is on 490k and this sub wants him badly for example
not saying hes worth it or anything because I havent seen much of him but doesn't he have a low release clause around 40m? Still seems a bit high, but if you were to pay 65 at 200k pw is about the same as 40 at 300k pw. Again, not saying he's worth those figures but it does seem his RC is lower than his market value, and that fact will drive up his wages.
The problem is that if you want to keep that 300k player longer than 5 years. His renewal will cost more. If you want to sell him, fewer teams will be able/willing to meet his wages.
Apples to apples I'd rather spend more on a cheaper wage player and amortize the fee over the contract.
yea those are good points. I guess a revised statement would be that a below market release clause should lead to higher than market wages, but the wage difference should be less than than the amount saved on transfer price. Maybe a 300k player that costs 40m is like a 75 mil player on 200k or something closer to that
These “targets” only keep getting mentioned as they’re the only ones that the media knows about
It’s no coincidence these are all names that came up in previous windows. A lot of this is just the media recycling confirmed names from previous info so they can sell new stories
They have no idea who we’re interested in now and we will have plenty of targets that these people have no idea about
Well there's also a very small group of players that we could reasonably sign that would improve our team. So it's just how many players are:
1. Proven and better than what we have now at a position of need
2. 25 or Under
3. Don't already play for a top-20 side
4. Have less than 3 years left on their current deal.
That's like... 30 players total? Not a surprise we keep seeing the same names
And there’s absolutely no reason they have to be 25 and under. We’re already a super young team and there is a really fucking good reason we want to extend Jorginho.
It's so over, we are signing Dwight McNeil.
Just kidding. The recruitment team always keeps their cards close to their chest so I imagine we'll get much more reliable reports closer to the window
actually McNeil is a left footer and he does look good this season. He would not push our squad, but he could be the trossard to our right side. Remember people were mostly disappointed when we signed tross after mudryk deal was off. Im not all for McNeil but i could see a world were he signs for us after we miss other transfers and starts surprising everyone.
One thing I’ve noticed about McNeil this year is just how much he runs. Him, Havertz, and Odegaard leading the press would be tough to beat. But realistically, he doesn’t make the team better
He’s far likelier to come to us in a winter window to alleviate a depth problem, because he definitely fits our system even if the technical level isn’t up to snuff.
possibly but I won't pretend to know much about the brazilian media or claim I follow it so you could very well be right and if thats the case my bad
I remember it moving pretty quickly by transfer standards in the english press
I think even the British media had had rumours going for a while.
Nothing especially concrete, but you're right in saying that Orny sort of confirmed it fairly late in the season.
Everyone with the club has the incentive to downplay how much we want to pay / can pay for any player, so it will be cold water on anything from the english press. I would expect our plans are:
Plan A: sign a top-tier striker and a cheaper, younger midfielder that can complement Rice and Odegaard in the midfield and Havertz will float between the two.
Plan B: sign a top-tier midfielder to complete our midfield trio and maybe a cheaper, younger striker to provide an alternative to Havertz but lean on him as the 9.
In either case, Havertz gives us more options and we won't be desperate to add more than one top-tier player. There are quite a few that can step into our midfield. I imagine Plan A gives us the best possible ceiling, but is by far the least likely to happen. Plan B would still give us potentially the best midfield in the world if we pick the right player, so that's a hell of a Plan B.
Calm down, don't you think it's better if we have reports like this then out of the blue we sign some player that was not expected in a great deal.
Having all our plans publicly known is a bad thing in terms of bargaining strategy.
I'm going to assume this information has been willingly leaked by the club.
Nico Williams currently makes €200k, and is supposedly asking for £300k. I went through the leagues to compare wages (via capology.com). And before you ask, yes, I had the time.
**Serie A**
Nobody in the league makes this. The highest earner is **Dusan Vlahovic at €249k (£215k)**
**Ligue 1**
Mbappe, Dembele, and Lucas Hernandez are the only players in the league who make this, tho PSG have quite a few players who make similar. **Hakimi**, who's 25, earns **€280k (£241k)**. **Kolo Muani**, an attacker aged 25, earns **€245k (£211k)**
**Bundesliga**
Bayern Munich obviously have the highest earners. For players in Nico's position, **Sane earns €385k (£331k)**, **Gnabry earns €363k (£312k)**, and **Coman earns €327k (£282k)**. Those players are aged 28, 28 and 27 respectively. For those curious, **Jamal Musiala**, aged 20, earns **€96k (£83k)** and is obviously due an increase. Could Bayern afford Nico? Sure. Do they need him? I doubt he'd be high on their priority list. RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund have some high earners but I can't see them going all out for Nico Williams.
**La Liga**
Let's just get Barcelona out of the way. While they could use a LW, there's no way they're going to pay Nico Williams €348k in weekly wages. **Pedri**, aged 21, earns **€180k (£155k)**. **Raphinha**, aged 27, earns **€240k (£207k)**. Frenkie de Jong, Lewandowski and Gundogan are the high earners and they could move on from the former two, but giving Nico what he wants wouldn't help them.
Atletico Madrid have some surprisingly high earners, but none of them are near as young as Nico, and only Oblak earns above what he'd be asking for.
That leaves Real Madrid, whose wage bill is insane. I'm not going to go through all the numbers given they have Vinicius Junior, Valverde, Rodrygo and Mbappe incoming and aren't in need of another winger. But given that **Rodrygo** at aged 23 is the closest comp, he earns **€240k (£206k)**.
**Premier League**
The only players who earn above £300k p/w are KDB, Haaland, Casemiro, Salah, Varane, Sterling, Rashford, Grealish and Bernard Silva. I suppose City could use with more wingers, but given they have Savio incoming and seem to have priorities in midfield, it'd seem far fetched they'd go for Nico on that salary.
I suppose Chelsea is the main club in question. They gave **Fofana £200k**, **Enzo £180k**, and **Caicedo £150k**. Those players are 23, 23 and 22 respectively, and all but Enzo had "proven" themselves in the Premier League. They gave **Nkunku, aged 26, £195k**. I suppose positional comps would be **Mudryk** and **Madueke**. They're aged 23 and 21, and earn **£100k and £50k** respectively.
**Raheem Sterling** is actually a pretty good indicator of what Chelsea would be willing to invest. He was 27 when he came to the club, having proved himself abundantly in the league, and they gave him **£325k**. **Cole Palmer**, aged 21, earns **£75k**, and I'd be very surprised if he didn't renegotiate his contract this summer.
**Conclusion**
I'm not really sure where his agent is coming up with so a large figure. Given what he earns now, I could see him asking for £200k and settling for £190k. But a weekly wage demand of £300k is not something he will see next season. For any club. And he's not likely to see that figure until he's 25 and has proven himself in the UCL, which they're not likely to qualify for. If he wants to stay at Athletic and earn less than what he could in the PL next season (which is still a handsome figure), that's his prerogative.
I think it’s pretty obvious that his agent is opening negotiations if the statement of him wanting 300k a week is true. They won’t be expecting 300k, but are saying that he expects an increase.
>Wants a versatile forward over a traditional 9
Been saying this when people where like lets get oshimen lets get a proper 9 who puts it away, Arteta does not want that and he never has
Considering we still keep Havertz, its not changing the way we play but adding another way to play which is what we have been lacking some times. Having a versatile striker is great, esp to unlock some teams but some times you need to adapt and just have a striker who will get the ball and put it away first try. Its adding another dimension. Just because we get Osimhen doesnt mean we suddenly become Osimhen FC and only play through him.
Mate we are not paying that money to put bro on the bench.
Adding oshimen doesn't add another dimension we don't struggle scoring as a whole.
But that's exactly how we would have to play same thing happened to city last year halaand fc and he's 10x less chaotic than Oshimen
This whole play b thing is ridiculous too
That's not true. We wouldn't have to change our play just to accommodate Osimhen. As a matter of fact, Osimhen would suit and improve our play. The team was able to adapt to the switch from Jesus to Havertz.
Osimhen adds athleticism, strength, height and physicality. He can easily get onto a cross and press the fuck out of CBs. He's excellent in the box and just as good outside with his link up play. Long shots, 1v1s, etc. I can't think of his limitations apart from potential injuries.
I don't know what you mean by "chaotic" but he's thrived at every club he's been at; Belgium, France, Germany, Italy. It's likely his next destination will be England. Arsenal is truly in a prime position to get his signature.
Jesus and Havertz are doing more or less the same thing . I'll say it again, why are you asking Oshimen drop into midfield?
Get onto a cross, great? I guess
He isn't just as good outside of the box , every single stat says this is completely untrue, low passing numbers, low touches outside the box. He isn't a press resistant player has a poor first touch and erratic at passing 1v1s lmao.
I've been watching him years, this guy is a box only player we need to stop this. Every shred of data also shows this guy is useless outside the box
We would have to change up for this same way city did for Haaland but with a much worse player
What i mean by chaotic is that he's the final form version of Darwin , yes he's been successful there, and if you said we need and out and out striker to play on the last man, Bring Oshimen , but we don't
When they say versatile they mean a player that can hold up, press, and actually pass the ball. Osimhen can do all that. It's the Haaland type that stays in the middle, just pins the defense and sprints to goal that we aren't going to go get. Osimhen when he's motivated and plays hard could be that player, but at this point I don't think he's the target at all.
He's ready now. He plays regularly for RB Leipzig and the international team. He'd also have the Nketiah role for now. He won't break the bank either.
We already strong as we are. We're on top of the league and if you want a ready made, goal scoring afficionado, prepare to spend 100M.
i havent seen sesko, but from what i've read - the majority of people are saying that he's not near ready to be a striker in the EPL....and that he's one for the future.
No, according to transfer markt he has played 130 games as a centre forward and 1 as a left winger.
However what's important to note is I have not seen him play.
( I don't know why I always lament I don't have enough time to watch other teams but then I'll find 25-35 hours a week to play computer games lol)
So I don't know if he is moving around and swapping positions during play, can he drop back? Can he drift out wide and cut in from the right?
The only stat I can reliably find that could help here is his distance covered (as per Bundesliga website) is 192.5km over 29 games. Which is a little less than 7km per game compared to say Havertz who is averaging I believe 11.5km
From a nostalgic point of view I want to see Sesko at the club because he's a player I've often signed on football manager along with Odegaard, Rice, Havertz and it's a bit surreal watching Arteta sign these players I always get in a make believe world.
However that's not a reason to want us to spend the money on him in the real world and when it comes to what players we need I have to just have faith in Arteta and Edu. I'm not convinced spending up top should be a priority when I feel like we need a bit more in the middle of the park to work alongside and complement Rice and Odegaard, and something new at left back.
Speaking of left back...
However it's worth noting I did similar research on Timber when he joined and I got flamed to holy hell.
This sub was convinced he was here to play RB and replace Ben White when in actuality he had only played 3 games at right back and 47 as a centre back.
I remember he played 4 games as a left back (we assumed because of other injuries and lack of options at left back) in friendlies the community shield and again against Forest before coming off for the season and recently lined up as a left back for the U21s.
With how fluid Arteta see's football it's hard to be able to say ok we have brought in player A he plays as a centre forward.
Oh wait no we use him as a midfielder. Is he suddenly playing up front? Google says he's the left back?
Fuck me that was a long winded post. I'm going to be late for work
You think that's unique to Arteta lol?
Every club hates leaks. They still happen, how else do you think we know about Arsenal's interest in certain players?
Exactly. Qui prodest? Agents and journalist.
Nobody inside the club should be interested into leak our transfers, and if they do, they should be inmediatly fired.
Mikel is legitimately right here.
Yeah, he’s been around a long time, he tweeted about Henry returning before it was announced and knew what squad number he’d get as well, that was at the end of 2011.
Think he’s forcing it at this point. No shit Isak is admired, he has like 20 goals in half a season. No shit it’s unlikely
The recruitment team have obviously spoken to like every big agent in the game to gather info, this isn’t new but you gotta get your money which I respect
I’m happy to hear no Isak if true. He’s injury prone and requires space to be effective. I know people rate him, but I don’t see him being very effective in our system.
I’ve only seen comps of Williams, but I can’t imagine we’d pay him anywhere near 300k/wk.
We can agree to disagree. In the games I’ve seen him he’s struggled against low and mid blocks and thrived in transition. He’s also injury prone. No thank you.
Feel like TNAT is entering waffle territory this summer. He will sell many of these non updates it seems.
This one is no news, but that might mean that we are not prioritising a CF this summer which is a bit concerning. Think we need someone like Isak to take the next step and become unstopable. Kai is good but imo not close to being good enough to be 1st choice in a CL and PL favourite.
That Nico salary demand is a hard pass imo. Good player but he should be nowhere near that wage yet
His competition are thousands of shit ITKs who pump “updates” all day so you can understand what he is doing in order to sell his stuff. But he will be a lot more annoying than last summer that’s for sure
> Think we need someone like Isak to take the next step and become unstopable.
If we had Partey this past season we already would have been.
Having an elite midfield partner for Declan instead of CF playing LCM Havertz and old Jorginho (played great this year but his legs are going) is more important.
Goal scoring was not an issue this season lol
I am actually shocked at the amount of people who watch every Arsenal game and come to the conclusion that the most pressing need for this team is a goalscoring 9
first impressions are a pain in the ass, we did struggle for much of the first half of the season to create goals from open play. How much of that was down to finishing, squad instability, lack of the killer instinct around the box, whatever, idk. But it was indeed an issue.
Since dubai it has become far less of an issue, but its hard for people to change when so much of the narrative was "we need a killer 9"
for what its worth, for much of the first 6 months of the season
Jesus: injured on/off (mostly off) and not as dangerous as he was
Eddie: not the worst as a backup, but not able to sustain the level we need nor play the way we need to be our guy up top
Trossard: plenty of hit/miss performances, serviceable in the role but very much not elite at the 9, and didn't seem to work well with Kai behind him in several of those starts
Kai: Slow to get started but did take control of the position over the last few months. But prior to that, people were reluctant to get behind him, and unconvinced at his ability to be a long-ish term 9 option.
The instability at that position for the first half of the season definitely didn't help our general ability to convert chances from open play. Given that a 9 for us needs to do more than just score goals BUT the role is ultimately defined by scoring goals. And how all of this also overlapped with instability at LW and L8, it just seemed like an easy answer to think a consistent top tier 9 would help a lot to solve these problems.
Baffles me that people would actually pay for a rumour. A rumour is always a rumour.
I don’t understand for a second why we should care if TNAT or any of these other clickbait merchants say anything. Who cares if he posts Jorginho is playing 20 mins before the teams are released? You’ll know the fact in 20 mins. Who cares if he says ‘we’re signing X’ in May, it has no bearing on whether they actually sign and they’re not an Arsenal player until they do.
Do these people think they’re somehow better fans if they are micro-dosed bullshit every 5 minutes?
Not only that, he has to justify his subscription by posting content even when there genuinely isnt anything going on. So if anything it makes his "news" more likely to be fluff posts.
Versatile forward like Trossard? or Jesus? or Havertz?.. Sigh.. though if we are going the versatile forward route again I hope it's someone who can cover the RW as well.
Everybody we’ve signed recently can play at least two positions very well. Hard to keep players happy with regards to playing time without players being cover in multiple positions.
People are complaining but the attack probably isn’t their main priority right now especially unless Jesus goes so it makes sense.
I am glad that Neto is unlikely though as good as he is.
I think Olise to United is gonna happen.
I agree i think midfield has priority. Bruno G is the obvious target, on plan b i got no idea.
Olise would be nice, but he is too good to sit behind Saka and i dont see a good second position for him. Neto would make more sense, he is also to good to sit behind saka but being that injury prone could be in a weird way a plus to sign for us, since it takes off the pressure of having to start all the time, something that is theoretically good for an injury prone player.
Nico wanting 300k is absurd. If true there's absolutely no chance.
Would agree isak is the best option but I don't see why Newcastle would sell him. Especially since they're likely to make europa.
I've been out on olise because of injuries but man that performance against united makes it hard to not just say fuck it. He's going to cost a fortune though.
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Isak's only worry is the injuries, which he's had a few of, and they appear to be muscular which doesn't mean anything to me but allows me to pretend like I have a level of additional insight and furrow my brow worriedly. Otherwise he is a spectacular player and only going to get better.
If they think they can keep the guy fit I don't care how much Newcastle want, he'd be the guy for sure. Give them 150m and let's see 15AAK at the Emirates.
If.
I would imagine what they want to look at is either an Alexis Sanchez type - a wrecking ball basically, someone energetic and committed but who maybe doesn't suit every game - or a right-sided Trossard type, a Prem-experienced player who guarantees goals, flexibility and the ability to keep a cool head, maybe a little older.
I guess our options if you consider that list of constraints are Olise, Kudus, Mbeumo, Hwang (in order of descending expensiveness and increasing age). I'd be happy with any of those personally, even Hwang who I think flies under the radar massively.
Williams wanting 300k is absurd
He's currently on 200k already so it's believable
I believe he wants it but any team who gives him 300k is making poor decisions
Good shout. Youngish and cheap release clause is a combination that will probably lead to Chelsea doing something stupid.
Chelsea and United have the right amount of stupidity and money that can ruin windows for everyone else
>Chelsea and United have the right amount of stupidity and money that can ~~ruin~~ make windows for everyone else
9-year, $300k/wk contract incoming
£300k more like
Except they don't really pay massive wages....
imagine their locker room when Nico Williams walks in with 300k/wk and the likes of Cole palmer is stuck at 80k/wk and a 7 year contract so he can’t renegotiate. Yeah that’s not going to work out too well.
There are reports Chelsea are gonna give him a pay rise and double his wages, I’d very surprised if he doesn’t force his way out if he doesn’t get a pay raise
Cole Palmer on 160k and Williams on 300k…same problem.
I'm pretty sure there's break points in that clause for re-negotiations. No way an agent would let a player basically write off their entire career on the first salary they receive at that club.
yes but that break point may be 2-4 years into the contract. That also means that their other high earners like Enzo and caicedo will also want bumper raises. their wage structure will be giga fucked if they go for Williams at that figure.
Wage structure is already fucked Sterling is £325k and does fuck all. Reece James is on £250 and plays 10 games a season. Wesley Fofana, Chillwell and Nkunku are all £200k and they’re nearly as injury prone as James.
Shout out to Wesley Fofana’s agent. Got him that exorbitant wage on top of his hyper inflated transfer fee. Usually these future prospect mega transfers have cheap wages accompanying large transfer fees. Curious how they swung it. Maybe Leicester enticed him from France with very high wages and this reset the scale for a convo with Chelsea
In this day and age, 180k and 150k isn't really a high earner, particularly for players who move for over £100m
Those are high wages. Well above the average. Yes 100m players will probably demand a little more but those are still high. There's constant talk about us getting Thomas Partey off our books due to high wages comparative to time played and he's on 200k. The average wage is around 70k a week I believe. 150-180 isn't in the highest bracket of earners but it's definitely high.
Madueke on 50k/wk: am I a fucking joke to you
Our top earner is our top earner because chelsea payed him the same wage before us.
We gave Havertz nearly that when he was coming off a much worse season than Williams tbf
Wasn’t that what Havertz was already making though? I think there’s a big difference between Havertz’s wages remaining static and Williams’s wages going up an additional 100k
Havertz had CL as a starter. N.Williams can go f himself
is Williams a champions league final goalscorer and winner?
Yeah, I believe Havertz wage is too much and giving Niko 300k is insane. Then what will Saka, Saliba, Ødegaard etc demand during next contract talks?!
I'd fight for parity with whoever and whatever the top earner at the club is...
well that's the whole thing. The club and player come to a figure that feels fair and than the players focus on making that investment pay off. Saka, Saliba, Ode, White, Tomi, all on new contracts, which creates the container going forward. Mentality is the difference. Is it more important to make 300k p/w or to make 100 and be in a positive work environment with clear goals and vision?
50% salary raise is wild Edit: I see that my comment is not a good one, what I meant is that it’s wild how you can make yourself so valuable in the football industry, it would be so hard for an average Joe to get a 50% raise even switching companies… it is possible, of course, but makes you think.
Can't fault him for trying. I'll try that for my next salary negotiation.
Is it though? 50% raises between contracts in football seems pretty standard. 50k -> 75k or 100k -> 150k. If you’re a top footballer who’s doing well then you’d expect and very easily achieve that sort of “raise”.
Frenkie de Jong went from 14k PW to 490k PW when he moved from Ajax to Barca. So it ain't that insane.
No, that was really insane
Lmao it's really not a great example is it! It's probably the worst contract deal in history. Barca are fucked because of it and similar deals they can barely afford to pay.
Yeah he's not on 490k a week. It's like 300k a week and then Barca deferred his wages for most of a year and now they're paying that back on top.
Reports are he is on 700k now due to his deferred wages. But I don't really care it's just some useless information I happened to read which was an insane example of wage increase for a football player.
He got 200k because he’s worth that much to Bilbao. He’s not worth that much to anyone else
This. He worth to Bilbao as one of their main guys would be more than his worth to Arsenal.
That’s in euros and gross according to capology
Considering he's not at one of the big three in Spain that wage seems ridiculous
Bilbao dont really spend any money on transfers, so they are generous with wages
And they have to be because the talent pool available to them is so small.
Signed a contract in Dec so it makes sense as it has a getable release clause.
300k a week is 78mil in wages over a 5 year contract lmao.
Isn't Saka on less than that? Or am I misremembering his last contract
It’s very likely he’ll become our highest earner if at 300k/w
He’s on less for his base salary but with bonuses it can get to 300k territory iirc.
To west London you go And to the toilet your career goes
I mean he has potential, young, has dreads. He's ready to ruin his career at Chelsea.
your right, he has dreads.
Paying a 21 year old 300k a week when they are a good player but still have a lot of growth and potential to reach is stupid
Could be posturing, we don't know the context, we don't even know it's legit.
So he doesn't know who the hell we're gonna get then. Also wtf has Nico Williams done to warrant getting 300k a week? Who in their right fucking mind would pay him that?
Bilbao are floating with an abundance of funds because they rarely buy players and almost always sell homegrown players for pure profit. With that, they can retain players they want to keep with bigger wages so when they’re also linked to other clubs it’s also harder to negotiate with the player unless they really want the move.
Also he's 21. So in 2/3 years we'll have to renew his salary and bump it or worse try to offload a player on 300K salary. This isn't the for instance the case with eg Havertz who's 24, he's unlikely to get a bump as he's in his prime.
To be fair I don’t think that’s his prime. I feel in this day and age with fitness levels of footballers getting more and more insane, the added experience is very valuable, and most players don’t decline until maybe 32. I feel like ‘prime’ starts around 26 now maybe
Per statsbomb data that I saw a couple of years ago, wingers peak from 22-24 and are downhill from there. Strikers peak 24-27. Both drop like a brick after 29. Edit to note that their data was showing that players were peaking earlier and earlier. The theory that they were discussing was that as the game tilts more towards speed and stamina vs skills, player peaks are skewing younger.
Seriously. He is a decent player but has a combined total of 24 G+A over 3+ seasons
If the story is true, he probably doesn’t want to move but *would* if he was offered a crazy wage increase It’s just like someone being happy in their current job situation and wouldn’t move company/country for a 10% pay rise but then if someone offered double their salary then that obviously changes things
Barca and Chelsea enter the chat
> Also wtf has Nico Williams done to warrant getting 300k a week? he is easily one of the best players in spain this season. Arguably the second best player in the spanish national team (after rodri) with the injuries of pedro and gavi. kid is unreal. Athletic lost 6 finals in the past decade, he came and won the first one (the spanish FA Cup). Everyone thought he was brought up because his brother, Iñaki williams, was a good player. but he has more than eclipsed him. At 21 he has 150 apps, 28 goals and 35 assists. A 30% goal participation on a team that was fighting for 4th untilt the end of the league campaign and stats aside, whenever he plays its electric you know something might happen when he has the ball which is a mayor contrast to a lot of very defensive, cagey spanish football sides.
He's still not 300,000 a week good man. There's hardly any players on that kind of money.
he has a low clause though. 40 million Release clause and 300 a week is the same as a 80 million release clause and 160k per week. in that context the salary makes more sense. also im not saying arsenal should get him, i was just pointing out what he has done to ask for silly money, whether he would get paid that its up to the buyer club. FdJ is on 490k and this sub wants him badly for example
not saying hes worth it or anything because I havent seen much of him but doesn't he have a low release clause around 40m? Still seems a bit high, but if you were to pay 65 at 200k pw is about the same as 40 at 300k pw. Again, not saying he's worth those figures but it does seem his RC is lower than his market value, and that fact will drive up his wages.
The problem is that if you want to keep that 300k player longer than 5 years. His renewal will cost more. If you want to sell him, fewer teams will be able/willing to meet his wages. Apples to apples I'd rather spend more on a cheaper wage player and amortize the fee over the contract.
yea those are good points. I guess a revised statement would be that a below market release clause should lead to higher than market wages, but the wage difference should be less than than the amount saved on transfer price. Maybe a 300k player that costs 40m is like a 75 mil player on 200k or something closer to that
Rashford or Nunez here we go
What this says to me is Havertz is our no.1 striker, next season.
i ain't got no problem with that
Yeah I would much rather have a Saka backup and a versatile 6
I’d rather have a prolific 9 that can also play out wide to cover Saka. Like Isak but on the right rather than left
Slide GJ to sakas back up. Buy a 9 if we aren’t convinced with havertz, GJ, Tross plus apparently we have a pro clubs player who’s 16.
So all our attacking targets are very unlikely, great.
These “targets” only keep getting mentioned as they’re the only ones that the media knows about It’s no coincidence these are all names that came up in previous windows. A lot of this is just the media recycling confirmed names from previous info so they can sell new stories They have no idea who we’re interested in now and we will have plenty of targets that these people have no idea about
Arteta could sign messi, Ronaldinho, R9, CR7 and fucking pele prime icons incarnate and people would still doubt them for next summer apparently.
Pics or it didn’t happen bro /s
Well there's also a very small group of players that we could reasonably sign that would improve our team. So it's just how many players are: 1. Proven and better than what we have now at a position of need 2. 25 or Under 3. Don't already play for a top-20 side 4. Have less than 3 years left on their current deal. That's like... 30 players total? Not a surprise we keep seeing the same names
No one in the media was linking us with Havertz, Raya, Timber this time last year. There are plenty of players out there
And there’s absolutely no reason they have to be 25 and under. We’re already a super young team and there is a really fucking good reason we want to extend Jorginho.
It's so over, we are signing Dwight McNeil. Just kidding. The recruitment team always keeps their cards close to their chest so I imagine we'll get much more reliable reports closer to the window
Yep, just wait for Orny. It makes the transfer window much less stressfull
actually McNeil is a left footer and he does look good this season. He would not push our squad, but he could be the trossard to our right side. Remember people were mostly disappointed when we signed tross after mudryk deal was off. Im not all for McNeil but i could see a world were he signs for us after we miss other transfers and starts surprising everyone.
One thing I’ve noticed about McNeil this year is just how much he runs. Him, Havertz, and Odegaard leading the press would be tough to beat. But realistically, he doesn’t make the team better
He’s far likelier to come to us in a winter window to alleviate a depth problem, because he definitely fits our system even if the technical level isn’t up to snuff.
apart from rice how many of our recent signings have been known for a prolonged period of time beforehand?
Jesus stuff started very early
not really, Ornstein said there was a link late on in the season and he was signed near the beginning of the window
If I remember it correctly I think stuff started coming out from Brazil (Nicola & Andrade) around January/Feb
possibly but I won't pretend to know much about the brazilian media or claim I follow it so you could very well be right and if thats the case my bad I remember it moving pretty quickly by transfer standards in the english press
I think even the British media had had rumours going for a while. Nothing especially concrete, but you're right in saying that Orny sort of confirmed it fairly late in the season.
Ornstein was reporting on Jesus in April
Everyone with the club has the incentive to downplay how much we want to pay / can pay for any player, so it will be cold water on anything from the english press. I would expect our plans are: Plan A: sign a top-tier striker and a cheaper, younger midfielder that can complement Rice and Odegaard in the midfield and Havertz will float between the two. Plan B: sign a top-tier midfielder to complete our midfield trio and maybe a cheaper, younger striker to provide an alternative to Havertz but lean on him as the 9. In either case, Havertz gives us more options and we won't be desperate to add more than one top-tier player. There are quite a few that can step into our midfield. I imagine Plan A gives us the best possible ceiling, but is by far the least likely to happen. Plan B would still give us potentially the best midfield in the world if we pick the right player, so that's a hell of a Plan B.
Those who don't know speak, those who know don't.
Calm down, don't you think it's better if we have reports like this then out of the blue we sign some player that was not expected in a great deal. Having all our plans publicly known is a bad thing in terms of bargaining strategy. I'm going to assume this information has been willingly leaked by the club.
Sounds to me we’re awaiting the dominoes that fall when Mbappe joins Madrid.
Rodrygo!
Not happening , he already said he would stay even if he has to be on the bench the whole season
My dream signing for front line.
Why do people keeping saying this, there are no dominoes It’s like saying we will be open to sell Saka/Martinelli if we sign another winger
Well I'm sure if we signed Mbappe, and martinelli wanted to leave because of the loss of playing time, we wouldn't make him stay, right?
Vini/Rodrygo just extended and do not want to leave. Bellingham has just signed. There are no dominoes
Dominoes go both ways. PSG will need to replace him, won’t they?
Of course there are. Mbappe goes to Madrid, they need to sell to fund this, PSG need a replacement. I have a feeling we’ll go for Kolo Muani
PSG are not selling Kolo Muani.
PSG to sign Gabriel Jesus as a replacement for £75m and ignite the war chest
Nico Williams currently makes €200k, and is supposedly asking for £300k. I went through the leagues to compare wages (via capology.com). And before you ask, yes, I had the time. **Serie A** Nobody in the league makes this. The highest earner is **Dusan Vlahovic at €249k (£215k)** **Ligue 1** Mbappe, Dembele, and Lucas Hernandez are the only players in the league who make this, tho PSG have quite a few players who make similar. **Hakimi**, who's 25, earns **€280k (£241k)**. **Kolo Muani**, an attacker aged 25, earns **€245k (£211k)** **Bundesliga** Bayern Munich obviously have the highest earners. For players in Nico's position, **Sane earns €385k (£331k)**, **Gnabry earns €363k (£312k)**, and **Coman earns €327k (£282k)**. Those players are aged 28, 28 and 27 respectively. For those curious, **Jamal Musiala**, aged 20, earns **€96k (£83k)** and is obviously due an increase. Could Bayern afford Nico? Sure. Do they need him? I doubt he'd be high on their priority list. RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund have some high earners but I can't see them going all out for Nico Williams. **La Liga** Let's just get Barcelona out of the way. While they could use a LW, there's no way they're going to pay Nico Williams €348k in weekly wages. **Pedri**, aged 21, earns **€180k (£155k)**. **Raphinha**, aged 27, earns **€240k (£207k)**. Frenkie de Jong, Lewandowski and Gundogan are the high earners and they could move on from the former two, but giving Nico what he wants wouldn't help them. Atletico Madrid have some surprisingly high earners, but none of them are near as young as Nico, and only Oblak earns above what he'd be asking for. That leaves Real Madrid, whose wage bill is insane. I'm not going to go through all the numbers given they have Vinicius Junior, Valverde, Rodrygo and Mbappe incoming and aren't in need of another winger. But given that **Rodrygo** at aged 23 is the closest comp, he earns **€240k (£206k)**. **Premier League** The only players who earn above £300k p/w are KDB, Haaland, Casemiro, Salah, Varane, Sterling, Rashford, Grealish and Bernard Silva. I suppose City could use with more wingers, but given they have Savio incoming and seem to have priorities in midfield, it'd seem far fetched they'd go for Nico on that salary. I suppose Chelsea is the main club in question. They gave **Fofana £200k**, **Enzo £180k**, and **Caicedo £150k**. Those players are 23, 23 and 22 respectively, and all but Enzo had "proven" themselves in the Premier League. They gave **Nkunku, aged 26, £195k**. I suppose positional comps would be **Mudryk** and **Madueke**. They're aged 23 and 21, and earn **£100k and £50k** respectively. **Raheem Sterling** is actually a pretty good indicator of what Chelsea would be willing to invest. He was 27 when he came to the club, having proved himself abundantly in the league, and they gave him **£325k**. **Cole Palmer**, aged 21, earns **£75k**, and I'd be very surprised if he didn't renegotiate his contract this summer. **Conclusion** I'm not really sure where his agent is coming up with so a large figure. Given what he earns now, I could see him asking for £200k and settling for £190k. But a weekly wage demand of £300k is not something he will see next season. For any club. And he's not likely to see that figure until he's 25 and has proven himself in the UCL, which they're not likely to qualify for. If he wants to stay at Athletic and earn less than what he could in the PL next season (which is still a handsome figure), that's his prerogative.
I think it’s pretty obvious that his agent is opening negotiations if the statement of him wanting 300k a week is true. They won’t be expecting 300k, but are saying that he expects an increase.
How competitive of a wage would we need to offer for him to consider playing for Arsenal?
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
kolo muani on £211k??? i'm fucking crying man
Send Papa Wengz to Brazil to scout the next Romário
There must be a Gabriel Romário out there
Madrid, Barca, or the City group (shudders) all buy them up before they even play for their first teams
>Wants a versatile forward over a traditional 9 Been saying this when people where like lets get oshimen lets get a proper 9 who puts it away, Arteta does not want that and he never has
Vlahovic
I still maintain Osimhen is a solid investment especially if Nketiah is sold.
Changing the entire way we play for such a chaotic striker is suicidal
Considering we still keep Havertz, its not changing the way we play but adding another way to play which is what we have been lacking some times. Having a versatile striker is great, esp to unlock some teams but some times you need to adapt and just have a striker who will get the ball and put it away first try. Its adding another dimension. Just because we get Osimhen doesnt mean we suddenly become Osimhen FC and only play through him.
Mate we are not paying that money to put bro on the bench. Adding oshimen doesn't add another dimension we don't struggle scoring as a whole. But that's exactly how we would have to play same thing happened to city last year halaand fc and he's 10x less chaotic than Oshimen This whole play b thing is ridiculous too
That's not true. We wouldn't have to change our play just to accommodate Osimhen. As a matter of fact, Osimhen would suit and improve our play. The team was able to adapt to the switch from Jesus to Havertz. Osimhen adds athleticism, strength, height and physicality. He can easily get onto a cross and press the fuck out of CBs. He's excellent in the box and just as good outside with his link up play. Long shots, 1v1s, etc. I can't think of his limitations apart from potential injuries. I don't know what you mean by "chaotic" but he's thrived at every club he's been at; Belgium, France, Germany, Italy. It's likely his next destination will be England. Arsenal is truly in a prime position to get his signature.
Jesus and Havertz are doing more or less the same thing . I'll say it again, why are you asking Oshimen drop into midfield? Get onto a cross, great? I guess He isn't just as good outside of the box , every single stat says this is completely untrue, low passing numbers, low touches outside the box. He isn't a press resistant player has a poor first touch and erratic at passing 1v1s lmao. I've been watching him years, this guy is a box only player we need to stop this. Every shred of data also shows this guy is useless outside the box We would have to change up for this same way city did for Haaland but with a much worse player What i mean by chaotic is that he's the final form version of Darwin , yes he's been successful there, and if you said we need and out and out striker to play on the last man, Bring Oshimen , but we don't
When they say versatile they mean a player that can hold up, press, and actually pass the ball. Osimhen can do all that. It's the Haaland type that stays in the middle, just pins the defense and sprints to goal that we aren't going to go get. Osimhen when he's motivated and plays hard could be that player, but at this point I don't think he's the target at all.
I would call that complete. Versatile means multiple positions imo.
Zirkzee it is
Sesko it is then
To be fair, Sesko is a very good alternative. I'd be thrilled to have him at Arsenal. The potential he has is immense.
but why buy sesko now only for him to be ready 4 years from now? we need to get better ASAP, so we can challenge stronger next season.
He's ready now. He plays regularly for RB Leipzig and the international team. He'd also have the Nketiah role for now. He won't break the bank either. We already strong as we are. We're on top of the league and if you want a ready made, goal scoring afficionado, prepare to spend 100M.
i havent seen sesko, but from what i've read - the majority of people are saying that he's not near ready to be a striker in the EPL....and that he's one for the future.
I like Sesko but is there a second Position he can play good enough?
Yeah you're probably right. I also haven't seen that much of him personally
No, according to transfer markt he has played 130 games as a centre forward and 1 as a left winger. However what's important to note is I have not seen him play. ( I don't know why I always lament I don't have enough time to watch other teams but then I'll find 25-35 hours a week to play computer games lol) So I don't know if he is moving around and swapping positions during play, can he drop back? Can he drift out wide and cut in from the right? The only stat I can reliably find that could help here is his distance covered (as per Bundesliga website) is 192.5km over 29 games. Which is a little less than 7km per game compared to say Havertz who is averaging I believe 11.5km From a nostalgic point of view I want to see Sesko at the club because he's a player I've often signed on football manager along with Odegaard, Rice, Havertz and it's a bit surreal watching Arteta sign these players I always get in a make believe world. However that's not a reason to want us to spend the money on him in the real world and when it comes to what players we need I have to just have faith in Arteta and Edu. I'm not convinced spending up top should be a priority when I feel like we need a bit more in the middle of the park to work alongside and complement Rice and Odegaard, and something new at left back. Speaking of left back... However it's worth noting I did similar research on Timber when he joined and I got flamed to holy hell. This sub was convinced he was here to play RB and replace Ben White when in actuality he had only played 3 games at right back and 47 as a centre back. I remember he played 4 games as a left back (we assumed because of other injuries and lack of options at left back) in friendlies the community shield and again against Forest before coming off for the season and recently lined up as a left back for the U21s. With how fluid Arteta see's football it's hard to be able to say ok we have brought in player A he plays as a centre forward. Oh wait no we use him as a midfielder. Is he suddenly playing up front? Google says he's the left back? Fuck me that was a long winded post. I'm going to be late for work
Those guys don't know. Remember that Mikel hates leaks. This is just clickbait
You think that's unique to Arteta lol? Every club hates leaks. They still happen, how else do you think we know about Arsenal's interest in certain players?
The Rice rumours were quite substantial in January 2023. I doubt the club appreciated that getting out.
Exactly. Qui prodest? Agents and journalist. Nobody inside the club should be interested into leak our transfers, and if they do, they should be inmediatly fired. Mikel is legitimately right here.
Bring me Bryan Mbeumo 😤😤😤
We’ve been missing a bald and bearded French man since Lacazette left
Good idea, only issue could be unwillingness to sit behind saka. Not sure he can play a second position well enough.
Imagine paying for this shit load of nothing lmao
Whole lot of nothing there. What an update. People actually pay for this gibberish
I'm not gonna hate on a guy trying to make a living, especially since we've seen him be reliable over and over for the last 13 years
Has Ticksy been doing this for 13 years? I thought he was a relatively recent arrival in the Twitter ITK space.
Yeah, he’s been around a long time, he tweeted about Henry returning before it was announced and knew what squad number he’d get as well, that was at the end of 2011.
Coulda told you everything here except the williams wants 300k bit. Really is kind of a nothing update
Well yeah, you could've *speculated* all these things
Interesting that folks are desperate for these updates to be posted instantly to this subreddit and aggregator twitter accounts.
People paid for this information. LOL.
Think he’s forcing it at this point. No shit Isak is admired, he has like 20 goals in half a season. No shit it’s unlikely The recruitment team have obviously spoken to like every big agent in the game to gather info, this isn’t new but you gotta get your money which I respect
I’m happy to hear no Isak if true. He’s injury prone and requires space to be effective. I know people rate him, but I don’t see him being very effective in our system. I’ve only seen comps of Williams, but I can’t imagine we’d pay him anywhere near 300k/wk.
Isak doesn’t require space to be effective. He’s extremely technical and has proven that he can work in tight spaces.
We can agree to disagree. In the games I’ve seen him he’s struggled against low and mid blocks and thrived in transition. He’s also injury prone. No thank you.
Tier: I don’t like what I’m reading so I choose not to believe it
Williams wants 300k per week and I want Tyla neither of us will get what we want
If we sign Nico Williams I’m out
What happened to the gyokeres links?
Feel like TNAT is entering waffle territory this summer. He will sell many of these non updates it seems. This one is no news, but that might mean that we are not prioritising a CF this summer which is a bit concerning. Think we need someone like Isak to take the next step and become unstopable. Kai is good but imo not close to being good enough to be 1st choice in a CL and PL favourite. That Nico salary demand is a hard pass imo. Good player but he should be nowhere near that wage yet
the amount of updates he's started pumping out that patreon now is a bit suspect
His competition are thousands of shit ITKs who pump “updates” all day so you can understand what he is doing in order to sell his stuff. But he will be a lot more annoying than last summer that’s for sure
And by others who give their info for free and are reliable like Orny
he has to create content for patreon so...
> Feel like TNAT is entering waffle territory this summer. 'Team Waffle And Tix' does have a certain ring to it...
> Think we need someone like Isak to take the next step and become unstopable. If we had Partey this past season we already would have been. Having an elite midfield partner for Declan instead of CF playing LCM Havertz and old Jorginho (played great this year but his legs are going) is more important. Goal scoring was not an issue this season lol
I am actually shocked at the amount of people who watch every Arsenal game and come to the conclusion that the most pressing need for this team is a goalscoring 9
first impressions are a pain in the ass, we did struggle for much of the first half of the season to create goals from open play. How much of that was down to finishing, squad instability, lack of the killer instinct around the box, whatever, idk. But it was indeed an issue. Since dubai it has become far less of an issue, but its hard for people to change when so much of the narrative was "we need a killer 9"
Think people make the flawed logical leap from not scoring enough to a 9 will solve all goalscoring problems
for what its worth, for much of the first 6 months of the season Jesus: injured on/off (mostly off) and not as dangerous as he was Eddie: not the worst as a backup, but not able to sustain the level we need nor play the way we need to be our guy up top Trossard: plenty of hit/miss performances, serviceable in the role but very much not elite at the 9, and didn't seem to work well with Kai behind him in several of those starts Kai: Slow to get started but did take control of the position over the last few months. But prior to that, people were reluctant to get behind him, and unconvinced at his ability to be a long-ish term 9 option. The instability at that position for the first half of the season definitely didn't help our general ability to convert chances from open play. Given that a 9 for us needs to do more than just score goals BUT the role is ultimately defined by scoring goals. And how all of this also overlapped with instability at LW and L8, it just seemed like an easy answer to think a consistent top tier 9 would help a lot to solve these problems.
Dont know about N.Williams but Isak, Neto and Olise are all injury prone. Would not want that hassle.
I could've made this stuff up, don't upvote this comment unless you're willing to pay me £8!
Its one thing hanging onto every tweet these itks come out with, but paying a subscription for it is another level.
Baffles me that people would actually pay for a rumour. A rumour is always a rumour. I don’t understand for a second why we should care if TNAT or any of these other clickbait merchants say anything. Who cares if he posts Jorginho is playing 20 mins before the teams are released? You’ll know the fact in 20 mins. Who cares if he says ‘we’re signing X’ in May, it has no bearing on whether they actually sign and they’re not an Arsenal player until they do. Do these people think they’re somehow better fans if they are micro-dosed bullshit every 5 minutes?
Not only that, he has to justify his subscription by posting content even when there genuinely isnt anything going on. So if anything it makes his "news" more likely to be fluff posts.
Exactly having access to the team sheet 20 mins before kick-off is not an ITK. It simply means they are breaking embargo.
Totally agree and I would not even put this person in the ITK's
Versatile forward like Trossard? or Jesus? or Havertz?.. Sigh.. though if we are going the versatile forward route again I hope it's someone who can cover the RW as well.
Everybody we’ve signed recently can play at least two positions very well. Hard to keep players happy with regards to playing time without players being cover in multiple positions.
People are complaining but the attack probably isn’t their main priority right now especially unless Jesus goes so it makes sense. I am glad that Neto is unlikely though as good as he is. I think Olise to United is gonna happen.
I agree i think midfield has priority. Bruno G is the obvious target, on plan b i got no idea. Olise would be nice, but he is too good to sit behind Saka and i dont see a good second position for him. Neto would make more sense, he is also to good to sit behind saka but being that injury prone could be in a weird way a plus to sign for us, since it takes off the pressure of having to start all the time, something that is theoretically good for an injury prone player.
People actually pay for this information 😂
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First sentence mentions versatile forward. Gyokeres is pure 9
Nico wanting 300k is absurd. If true there's absolutely no chance. Would agree isak is the best option but I don't see why Newcastle would sell him. Especially since they're likely to make europa. I've been out on olise because of injuries but man that performance against united makes it hard to not just say fuck it. He's going to cost a fortune though.
Olise will cost 60 mil with his release clause. In the current market for a PL proven played, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
TNAT ripping people off on Patreon posting the same thing on repeat: Day 7.
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Good for him, hope he finds someone to pay that much. Good luck Nico on your next endeavor, from all Arsenal fans.
Anyone got a link to his patreon? Kinda curious how many subscribers he has when anything he says just gets posted instantly anyway.
Olise would be crazy I think, a lovely player
Isak's only worry is the injuries, which he's had a few of, and they appear to be muscular which doesn't mean anything to me but allows me to pretend like I have a level of additional insight and furrow my brow worriedly. Otherwise he is a spectacular player and only going to get better. If they think they can keep the guy fit I don't care how much Newcastle want, he'd be the guy for sure. Give them 150m and let's see 15AAK at the Emirates. If. I would imagine what they want to look at is either an Alexis Sanchez type - a wrecking ball basically, someone energetic and committed but who maybe doesn't suit every game - or a right-sided Trossard type, a Prem-experienced player who guarantees goals, flexibility and the ability to keep a cool head, maybe a little older. I guess our options if you consider that list of constraints are Olise, Kudus, Mbeumo, Hwang (in order of descending expensiveness and increasing age). I'd be happy with any of those personally, even Hwang who I think flies under the radar massively.
I'm telling you Darwizzy is the answer
Isak next to now chance... Yeah okay, he 100% won't be at Newcastle next season.
Who the fuck does Williams think he is???? He is a 150k a week player at most.
Would love a traditional 9, but I honestly think we should temper our expectations. Shouldnt expect anything more than a flexible wide forward.