Morning.
06.45am: The coaching floor photos recreation is now a longtime Arsenal fan custom. First up, you may 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 facet as we attempt to work out if that provides us a clue as to the beginning XI for a selected recreation.
Now there’s a brand new recreation: Media Day Footage. Arsenal’s came about yesterday, with the head-shots and motion photographs of gamers within the new package forward of the brand new season, and one specific absence has triggered some hypothesis. Whereas there are photos of Kieran Tierney and Reiss Nelson, for instance, there don’t look like any of Eddie Nketiah.
What does all of it imply? What’s the refined or not so refined conclusion we are able to draw from his absence? I don’t know. Possibly we’re not posting any Eddie snaps as a result of we expect he’ll go away 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 Expensive have been referred to as away on an emergency to take photos 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 nearly as good as mine.
07.30am Replace: I’ve simply seen photos 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, largely 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 may be very enthusiastic about. There are nonetheless a few weeks to go within the window, nevertheless it’s laborious to envisage any membership coming in with a suggestion to take him on a everlasting foundation. After witnessing him endure that damage on the European stage, you’ll be considerably cautious about spending on him, and I feel one of the best case state of affairs is that he finds a mortgage transfer earlier than the window shuts.
Whether or not that’s throughout 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 information, by the way in which, only a intestine feeling, nevertheless it appears clear that he – like others within the squad – should go elsewhere to play frequently. The most effective case state of affairs is one other PL group the place he can play properly and keep match for sufficient of the season that they could are available 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 probably not 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 obtained all of it forward of him, and generally a participant has to take a step-back to go ahead. I feel he’s in all probability in the identical bracket as Norton-Cuffy and Mika Biereth, younger gamers who aren’t fairly on the degree we want, 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 profit 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 #1 goalkeeper within the Premier League, as a result of what Arsenal apparently need by way of a charge makes it a reasonably prohibitive deal for many golf equipment exterior England. One other one the place issues would possibly come right down to the wire a bit.
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