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Ridiculous Adam's hasn't been carded like, he couldn't complain if he'd walked for that challenge on Bruno

Thought this was dead canny

Calvert-Lewin's a big handsome bastard which I think is being underplayed here. Wilson going drops us a few points and Big Dom's the perfect replacement.

Chris Wood too

If DCL is willing to sit on the bench he'd be a no brainer if his wages are reasonable. Howe showed with Wood he can use a proper target man, he'd give us a proper plan B and would stop us having to sit so far back when shattered without an outlet.

Not many videos of him and he seems to have bulked up a lot which most of the highlight videos don't show, this is a better look at him.

Wiki heights are unreliable, no chance he's 5'11. The other lad is meant to be 6'2 (which could also be wrong). Dibling looks like he'll be a physical player imo, he's not as tall but has that Vardy/Delap type stature from the little I've seen.

Buying Elanga for 50m is a great example, not a chance he came in and improved us in hindsight, although most of us would have had him in to replace Murphy even at that price. If we did we'd not be 4th imo. That's sort of luck though, this 11 won't keep winning and our squad needs better backup in most positions, doing so lessens the pot for the RW, GK and CB we'll eventually need, and likewise splashing out on them leaves us short trying to bulk out the squad, it's hard to not feel like 2 steps forward and one back with every deal, and the looming feeling we'll eventually have to sell Isak or Bruno to fund the squad is vile.

It's absolutely absurd like, literally just a half dozen or so clubs in Europe allowed to participate in the transfer market

Must be nice being allowed to spend your money like.

I get wanting to take a chance on Man City cast offs, but did he show much in the Prem last season to suggest he'd be the solution to our RW? Genuine question as I never seen much of him. Cole Palmer never got a chance in the league until he moved away from City, and it didn't take him long to show his quality.

Agent Howe will oversee another Bournemouth result.

On both feet too, he was getting stick for a few misses on his left but they were still struck really clean

Imagine being one of them blokes who wanks themselves to sleep over Declan Rice when you've got this cunt in your bed?

He's played a total of 500 minutes for us fwiw

He's our 3rd choice LCB and 3rd choice LB. It makes sense keeping him unless he's replaced. He hasn't settled in well but there's no reason to shit ourselves and sell him for under market value, leaving us needing another defender.

Yeah his finishing was absolutely shite and he was sluggish challenging for the ball in the box which made people assume he was falling to bits. Howe used him well, he improved us a team and the stick the transfer gets is absolutely baffling, but I don't think service was the issue with his goal record here.

Possibly the greatest substitution you'll ever see

I'm explaining myself poorly here and it reads harsher on Rice than it needs to be. Rice is a great player, it's his price and their spendin in general that's the issue. They seem to have fucked their squad up during a time they could have spent wisely and kicked on.

He hasn't though, they were a much better team without him. Arsenal a couple seasons ago looked generally brilliant. I'm not saying that's his fault, but it's a consequence of what they did in the market and that includes buying Rice for £100m. Bruno and Tonali are not worth that either, it's only a handful of clubs who can afford to pay it, a team like Villa would be insane to spend that on either of them for example.

To expand on this, Arsenal thought they were pretty much a settled team, and like City were in the state of being able to improve their squad with huge buys every year. They weren't and they should have spent that £100m better.

They've overpaid because he hasn't improved them. I don't think his price was wrong in that market, it was just a bad buy in combination with what else they were doing.

I think Tonali will be a better player too. Bruno's a different kind of midfielder, has some obvious weaknesses, and isn't as 'complete', but Tonali can pretty much be directly compared. If offered now I wouldn't swap either for him.

It's funny because in that infamous draw which broke Arteta, where were were pressing teams off the park, went to the Emirates and had to resort to a low block and shithousing within 5 minutes as they played through us with ease. That Arsenal seems to have just disappeared. Arteta's clearly a good manager, but he's fucked something major up in the past year or so.

The James Ward-Prowse comment was a jibe at the fact Rice's most import quality has become his ability to whip a lethal ball in. Like I said he's a quality midfielder He hasn't improved Arsenal though, not that he personally would have been a bad buy in isolation but he was part of them spunking a load of money to go backwards.