🗣️| Emmanuel Petit on Arsenal: “They need at least 3 or 4 players if they really want to compete for the title. I think they need more wingers & another option as a striker. I like Jesus, Saka, Martinelli, Ødegaard, but they won’t be able to play every single game.” [CompareBet]
🗣️| Emmanuel Petit: “Especially after the World Cup so they’ll definitely need one striker, one winger, they need more competition for Saka and Martinelli. And of course, if they can add one more midfield player, and one more central defender.” #afc
🗣️| Emmanuel Petit: “I think they are short of central defenders – if [William] Saliba or Gabriel are injured, who’s going to play, [Rob] Holding? Really? I’m not a big fan of Holding. So overall, they need three or four players.” #afc
🗣️| Emmanuel Petit: “If they can avoid injury or suspensions that would be great, but even then most of the players are involved in the World Cup so they’re going to be tired mentally and physically as well. So they definitely need to be active in the next transfer window.”
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🗣️| Ben Jacobs on Danilo: “The other name that people are talking about from Arsenal’s perspective is Danilo as well. And a bit like I suppose Tielemans and Leicester over the summer, it’s a case of trying to get a fee that Arsenal feel is of value,” [@GiveMeSport, @JacobsBen]
🗣️| Ben Jacobs: “and not make that mistake of paying more than they have to. I think that Danilo is going to be a bit more of a kind of bargain fee from Arsenal’s perspective. If they do proceed, Palmeiras are probably looking for around £20m, maybe even a touch less than that.”
🗣️| Ben Jacobs: “And I think that for a player of his potential and quality, that would be very worthwhile from Arsenal’s point of view, and Arsenal have been there before with Danilo; they’ve offered, or they’ve certainly considered, around £20 million before for the player.”
🎙️| @charles_watts on Arsenal and Bukayo Saka’s contract:
“Edu’s got a big job on his hands when it comes to sorting out his future. This World Cup is probably going to put even more money on the table, in terms of what Arsenal are going to have to pay him.”
🎙️| @charles_watts: “And that’s why any agent in the world would be mad if they’re committed to a new long-term contract before the World Cup. I’m talking about Martinelli, Saliba and Saka here. It just wouldn’t have made sense.”
🎙️| @charles_watts: “Because, why would you commit before he goes there [World Cup] and does it on the world stage and performs well? You’re just going to have a much stronger bargaining tool. I’m sure Arsenal would have expected that.”
🗣️| Bukayo Saka: “I remember my uncle came to my house around the age of six and he said ‘oh, you're playing football a lot. You should try and go to a local team’. So we researched our local team, which was Greenford Celtic, and we went there.” [@England]
🗣️| Bukayo Saka: “I was there for around six months to a year when I started to get a lot of scouts contacting my parents and I started going to trials at different clubs. There were quite a few. Arsenal, Chelsea, Watford, Tottenham and there were more.”
🗣️| Bukayo Saka: “Watford were the club closest to me so I went there for a while. I used to train at the Harefield Academy and sometimes would play matches at their London Colney training ground, which is next door to where I train now with Arsenal.”
🎙️| Simon Jordan: “Saka is one of those players that’s on the cusp of launching what will be potentially a stellar career. We move into the territory for the purpose of what you value players at, how good players are often determined by their price tags.” [@talkSPORT] #afc
🎙️| Simon Jordan: “What [Saka] is, is a player that has unique ability, he’s on a journey where he can probably write his own ticket. When we talk about ‘what is a £100million footballer?’ You look at Jack Grealish because he is the incarnation of it.” #afc
🎙️| Simon Jordan: “In the economics of football, which is ‘La La Land’, you would be able to make a case, not just off the back of the fact that he’s done well in one game, but the component parts of what he’s achieving at Arsenal.” #afc
🎙️| @charles_watts on Nicolas Pepe: “Arsenal just need to find a way of selling him at the end this season, need to cut the losses. Look, they’re not going to get much money for Pepe, it’s clear. At the end of this year, he’s only going to have a year left on his deal.” [YouTube]
🎙️| @charles_watts: “They’ve got the wages that they need to try and sort out, so any club who are going to be coming in for him are going to have the issue of trying to take on the wages that he wants.”
🎙️| @charles_watts: “So Arsenal, I imagine, are going to have to do some pretty clever negotiating to get him off the books. But there is no future for Nicolas Pepe at Arsenal.”
🗣️| Gary Neville: “Arsenal fans come at me every single week, every single week, because I will still continue to question them until I don’t see a moment like I did with five or six games to go last season & they get through those moments and they finish in the top 4” [Overlap]
🗣️| Gary Neville: “They [Arsenal] haven’t proven it yet. It’s like a boxer who hasn’t won a title. You have to question them. But what you can’t question is that was a really, really good performance [against Chelsea on Sunday].” #afc
🗣️| Gary Neville: “I want to see it over 38 games and we’ve seen recently Arsenal found it tough in the last part of the season. That is not being overly negative. It’s just saying let’s see what happens in 20 games time. I do think they’re bang on to finish in the top-four” #afc