Nketiah, Ramsey, Almiron, And Leno In Brief
Oct 10th, 2018 by 'holic
The international break has arrived a match short of a quarter of the way through the season. We actually go into it as the form team in the Premier League with six wins on the bounce and having displaced the Middlesex Nomads for fourth place. Two points behind the top of the League is quite the place to maintain if we can.
Elsewhere the excellent Jeorge Bird is reporting that Eddie Nketiah was selected to train with the full England squad for the second time today. This must provide a big lift for the young man with the growing reputation. Hopefully we stay in all of the cup competitions where he is likelier to get first team minutes. It would be fantastic if we could develop a top goalscorer through from the academy.
The Daily Star, often well informed about what is going on at the club, are among those reporting that we are expecting bids from Liverpool and Manchester United for Aaron Ramsey in January. I’m not a lover of transfer speculation as I have often said, but if we have made the somewhat surprising withdrawal of a new contract offer then having more than one club in for him in January could be beneficial in terms of a ‘bidding war’.
Now that assumes that Aaron won’t sit tight and go for free in the summer to the club of his choice and trouser the transfer fee himself. Or indeed it assumes that we do not go back to Aaron with another offer. If he can follow-up his performance on Sunday with a sustained run of good form I’m sure we will be happy to revisit a new deal for him.
One possible replacement, Atlanta United winger Miguel Almiron, appears less likely to be Arsenal-bound according to reports coming out of the States today. We were believed to be negotiating a bid of around £11m but Atlanta’s president, Darren Eales is saying we will have to come up with considerably more.
“It would take at least triple that,” the Englishman told the 92.9 Game sports radio show.
The Arsenal would surely baulk at such a figure for a 24 year old late developer from the MLS?
Finally congratulations to Bernd Leno and former Gunner Serge Gnabry who have been called up by Germany as injury replacements for their Nations League matches against France and the Netherlands. Leno has impressed after replacing the injured Petr Cech at The Arsenal and this will be a real boost to his confidence.
That’s it for today. Come back on Friday or Saturday for a book review of Dave Seager’s latest offering. I shall now watch the remainder of Albania v Jordan, yes, really.
Cheers all.
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Thanks for these updates Holic. The interlull is boring but I’m in America next week and don’t want to miss a proper match so internationals can suffice .
I really rate Eddie Nketiah . Danny Welbeck is likely to find no offer of a new contract because of his trajectory. Eddie gets goals and I hope he will get lots of chances this season. There is a new toughness about negotiating with those out of contract and if we are to lose players let’s hope we can get decent cash or a Mkhi type part exchange for them. I don’t think we will relent on Ramsey or Welbeck , well though they both played at Fulham. You can’t fit both Ozil and Ramsey into Emery’s preferred shape ( you might not be able to fit either of them!) and Welbeck is a very useful option but is due a long injury soon if his career record is anything to go by.I do hope I’m wrong on that .
As for Leno I am a fan. He is not just a sweeper- keeper he is an athletic shot-stopper. The save he made from Vietto early on was brilliant on Sunday .
Nice post H. Interesting and thought provoking reading.
With Leno now in place I do wonder if that is virtually the end of Cech. I can’t honestly se why we would pay £19 million for a reserve keeper. If he maintains any kind of decent form then I think he will stay as number 1.
The Ramsey situation I find very disappointing. You would have hoped that we would have learned this lesson by now. In today’s market Ramsey would have had a value of £50 million plus. Especially when you see what others went for in the summer. The fact that we are now in a situation where he can very soon walk away for nothing I just find bizarre. Having pleaded poverty for so long I just think it’s incredibly poor. Especially when we appeared to have started to make strides in the right direction in the transfer market. The cynical in me wants to ask how much of a part old Ivan has had to play in this?
Let’s hope that Eddie keeps making progress. I’m sure opportunities won’t we too far away if he keeps on scoring goals at the lower levels.
Thank you TTG. Have a great trip.
Hello Steve, I think we may be seeing more players running down their contracts and not just at The Arsenal. Agents and players were slow to pick up on what Sol did when he signed for us and trousered the transfer fee.
I do think we will go back to Aaron with an offer but I doubt we will meet his demands or those of his agent. I also think Emile Smith-Rowe’s development is such that he may well save us having to spend big money on a replacement.
Interesting if brief Interlull filler H
No idea on the Rambo front if he does leave,but cannot see him going overseas with a young family,a bit like the Wilshere saga,and look where he ended up.
So my feeling is it will be another PL club,and Liverpool would make sense with his mucker Chambo already there,or possibly Chelsea,which means he wouldn’t have to leave London.
TTG
Very encouraging news re our youngsters,with no less than eleven of them selected for upcoming Interlull Internationals,at under 17/18/19 and 20’s levels.
With both our under 23 and under 18 teams currently 2nd in their respective leagues,Freddie and Per must be very happy with the way the season is progressing so far.
Evening H.
My opinion is that They will only run down their contracts if we allow it to happen. We know when everyone’s contract expires. Negotiations should commence in good time. In Rambo’s case I believe that a date in the summer should have been set for the conclusion of negotiations. If a new contract is not agreed by said date then we sell him. For me it’s as simple as that.
Clive,
It’s very enjoyable seeing players come through from our own academy .
On Sunday it was gratifying to see Bellerin and Holding do well ( especially the latter) and above all to see how Iwobi is flourishing. The blokes who sit behind me destroy Iwobi in every game but you can see a really talented and determined player coming through this season. Maybe Arsene’s style which worked so well for some players isn’t ideal for a young player like Alex who might need stronger guidance. I sense Iwobi has been encouraged to use his pace and strength much more and is believing in himself. He and Holding look very different players from the lads we saw last season and as Holic says the emergence of ESR shows that we are prepared to promote players rapidly. That’s always been the Arsenal way and it is an approach we clearly both love to see. I suspect we may see some of the other young fellows like Eddie and Willock unleashed against Blackpool. I bought a ticket for that game today mainly with that hope in my mind
Evening H and other fellow patrons.
Very valid re agents but I do think we are at fault here. We know when players contracts run out. We should have thought about Rambo’s contract a year ago. We then sent a final date in the summer. If a contract is not agreed by this date then sell him. The fact that we have allowed this to happen again for me is just unacceptable. We should not be wasting that amount of money regardless of how good the kids coming through are.
Like Clive and TTG above, it’s always incredibly rewarding to see players progress from the junior ranks.
I mentioned I will be in Miami next week and immediately on my return I’m heading off to Tuscany with my family including the grandsons. I’ve got tickets for Fiorentina v Cagliari on Sunday week and it will be interesting to compare Serie A with the Premier League. Fiorentina have just lost 2-1 away to Inter Milan. How bad must they be ?
I’ll see your Albania v Jordan and raise you Afghanistan Premier League T20 on Freesports 🙂
I would see your APLT20 on FS and raise you CONCACAF women’s Trinidad & Tobago v U.S. but it seems not to be part of my cable package. :((
In the department of Torreira’s importance to Arsenal, I can’t verify these statistics but a website called Arsenal Mania says:
“In 442 minutes WITHOUT Torreira on the pitch, Arsenal have scored nine goals but conceded 10 in total.
By contrast – in the 548 minutes WITH Torreira on the pitch, the Gunners have scored an incredible 20 goals and conceded just three.”
If so, or even remotely close, thank Jove we signed him.
I think bt8 wins the interdull challenge. U.S – 7, T&T – 0, including the U.S. scoring 6 goals in the 17 minute period around HT. Too bad the match wasn’t included in your cable package!
Regardless whether Emery fancies Ramsey in his system, the club have fucked up yet again with allowing his contract to run down. Saying that Aaron should play for free given the time and money the club and Wenger fave him, while he recovered.
Poor planning and a selfish self absorbed greedy player/agent.
I think Welbeck will get a new deal, well I hope so.
And as for the Atlanta player, it seems the club owner has created this transfer speculation to engender a bidding war and promote himself and the club.
At least one good thing about
Stan’s silence is that we don’t
read ridiculous stories with him
saying we want 3 times more
than that for our players.
I’d give Danny a new deal too,
he’s a useful squad player.
But if I was Danny I’d leave
and look to be a 1st XI player
somewhere. I suppose he
wants to be at a big club but
I don’t think he’ll ever be a
first choice CF for any of them.
With Aaron, it seems that once
Ivan went our stance changed.
Could be coincidence but maybe
Raul just doesn’t rate him that
much. As for ESR, potential looks
high but would we really change
our minds on the back of 3 or
4 performances.
Danny does so many things well including the 100% effort he puts in at both ends of the pitch for the entire time he is on the pitch. His goalscoring production is disappointing but that is about the only drawback to his game. A squad player compared to the likes of Lacazette and Aubameyang (just look at the stats) but not a player to send on his merry way in my opinion.
Interesting discussion on players in the final year of their contracts and on the extent to which Arsenal has ‘learned their lesson’. How far back to we need to go?
We could say it started with Sol – Arsenal win.
I think Hleb was next up. He didn’t like London weather so upped and offed to Barcelona and demonstrated he wasn’t CL class. Arsenal win.
The little lad inside whispered and orft RVP went to ManU for £25M and £250k/w after Hill-Wood announced to the world that Arsenal “wouldn’t break the bank to keep Van Persie”. (I think Stanley would have sanctioned the salary increase). Arsenal loss.
Nasri next. Troublesome, if talented, somewhat gutless little lad. Won the league twice at $iteh, so he did OK. Did we really miss him? Arsenal draw.
Vermaelen and Song to Barcelona. Repeat of Hleb. Arsenal win/win.
Ozil. Stayed for £350k/w. Arsenal win. (But at a price – and Cynic wouldn’t have paid 350k gob-stoppers).
Sanchez. To ManU in exchange for Mkhi. Sanchez was poor for his last 18 months with us and has performed like a poisoned toe at OldT. Arsenal win.
Ramsey. I suspect he’ll go in January for £40M equiv. Arsenal draw.
I didn’t include Cesc. Not really an end-of-contract situation but, for me, huge Arsenal loss.
I’m not sure what we did or didn’t learn other than that agents and footballers make out like bandits while us lesser souls struggle by hoping to get Steve to buy us a pint 🙂
just to say i’ve just had two fine pints at the coach and horses, convent garden: a pint of hand-pulled london pride, and what they claim to be dublin guinness (rather than the export version). i have no clue to the veracity, but it was much better than the black stuff we get stateside. all while getting compliments on my 1971 yellow and blue fa cup shirt from the locals (though they could have been taking the mick, it being an irish pub 😉 ).
dublin guinness all around, maestro, and an extra one for cynic, who must ache at every mention of özil’s ducats).
Heh, scruz. Always thought you belonged in a convent. Have fun but watch out for the nuns! 🙂
If nun, write nun; if monk, write monk, as we say here at Castle Ned.
The only winners where Ozil is concerned is him. And his agent.
All them conkers…
heh, he said convent. ttg’s spillchucker in full farce 😉
I am late on the Jewish calendar for this but following in the tradition of Snir Geuli I would like to ask forgiveness for any offense I have given in the past year in the drinks. I was a dunce but will try to do better.
Which is not to say that Snir Geuli was ever a dunce in the drinks, which to my memory he certainly was not. Where are you Snir. Gathering transfer tidbits?
by, snir married the love of his life last year, and completed his studies. he’s settling in to a home, with the wife and two dogs…i know his heart is arsenal, but he has had many other distractions the past four years or so!
bt, doh! phone spillchucking again.
I’m not the biggest fan of Ramsey or his hamstrings in particular, but these quotes from the Torygraph are sheer class. Well done fella. “Everything has been going great with the club,” said Ramsey, whose existing contract expires at the end of the season. “We thought we were in a position where we had agreed a deal, but that is no longer the case.
“So I just have to carry on playing my football and do my best for Arsenal this season and I’ll leave the rest with the club now.
“That’s a decision that they have made. Things happen in football and you just have to get on with it and carry on playing the best I can. That is all I am concentrating on and giving my best for Arsenal.”
Asked if he would stay at Arsenal for the rest of the campaign, Ramsey said: “Of course, yeah. I am contracted to Arsenal and I am going to do my best now this season to try and achieve something special.”
A very good week for Ramsey between those comments and that goal.
Nice quotes from Ramsey but I hope we can
sell or swap him in January. I don’t want to be
cynical but he must know that would be best
for Arsenal.
ScruzGooner
I can endorse your comments re the Coach and Horses. My friend is a close mate of the landlord and I often go down there with Irish visitors who can gauge the quality of the product! Apparently the late Richard Harris broke a dry spell of many years in that pub with ritual solemnity.
I also commend the Guinness at the Cheltenham Festival which is of high quality but often served in plastic. Having said that I’ve decided to swerve Cheltenham after over twenty years of attending simply because they are taking the piss with their pricing. Arsenal please note.
cheers, ttg. had another pint or two later that night over in kensal green and it tasted just like home. definitely different to c&h. we’ll be back there, for the black stuff and the killer hand-cut beef sandwiches (piled high and thick!).
Good to see you iBtM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>