Use this thread for general daily football discussion.
This thread can also be used to discuss Transfer rumours and to post Tier 4 sources.
Use this thread for general daily football discussion.
This thread can also be used to discuss Transfer rumours and to post Tier 4 sources.
It’s sounding like at least one of Smith Rowe and Vieira will be leaving this summer. There had been a lot of chatter about other English clubs going in for ESR. But now Porto are sounding very keen on Vieira.
Personally, if we have to lose one or the other, I’d prefer to lose Vieira. He’s a very gifted player, but I don’t think physically he’s a good fit for the PL. It’s not his height (there have been plenty of shorter players who have excelled in the PL - Zola, Foden, Sterling, and our own Santi Cazorla). It’s more that he looks like a mild breeze would knock him over.
Same, but different reason. Fabio somehow is trusted even less than Emile, and there have been reports that Arteta hasn’t been impressed with Fabio in training (which is a bit of a death knell in this current Arsenal iteration).
I do think they were overly cautious with ESR after his injuries, us crashing out of tournaments don’t really help with increasing his game time either. I hope he doesn’t leave, but at the same time he deserves to further his career if Arsenal can’t give him the opportunity
Coldest take ever but Emile was so unlucky as well this season with the few minutes he got. I can’t help but think he’d be more willing to stay if he’d just scored one goal after coming back from his groin injury, just to prove to himself that it can happen.
As you say, the last thing I want is for him to rot on the bench. And we’ve already done the loan thing, so he probably won’t agree to do it again.
Unlucky certainly is it, he did look good when he came on. But is it good enough in Mikel’s eyes?
Obviously there’s no way to tell, but it seemed like a lot of the problem MIkel had with him was in regards to training, and that seems to have largely resolved itself in the latter half of the season - it’s just that by that point we were firmly locked into a title race.
He was so damned unlucky with some of his shots on his return too.
0.13 xG per shot would be 6th best for this season, albeit with a very small sample size. If we lose him, we’ll always wonder what if…