Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions
Arsenal are reportedly ready to buy players for next season. Ivan Toney and Morgan Gibbs-White were targeted by Arsenal. If you look at Arsenal, many transfer players from the EPL. This means they buy players who already have experience in the EPL. They don't want to risk the adaptation of failed players. These two players also have not bad statistics, they deserve to join Arsenal. I think Arteta didn't choose this player wrong either.
Source: https://www.footballfancast.com/arsenal-looking-to-sign-another-rice-in-morgan-gibbs-white/
Source: https://www.footballfancast.com/arsenal-looking-to-sign-another-rice-in-morgan-gibbs-white/
Arsenal have been signing quality players lately so there is possibility that they could sign the both players. One thing that improves a team is signing tactical players rather than maintaining the old ones and now that Arsenal is looking forward to a premier league trophy after many years of dead luck it would be good if Mikel Arteta starts looking for quality players to add to the squad in other to improve more in their performance next season
What do you mean by maintaining the old ones? Do you mean players that are already there or players that are old in terms of their age?
I think there can be a good reason to try to maintain the squad over the course of several seasons if possible. The top teams mostly had a certain core of players that played for the same club for a longer period of time. The list of examples is long. Real Madrid, Manchester City, Barcelona for a very long time, Bayern Munich. It is no coincidence that they tried to maintain their core players for a very long time while adding some salt to the soup over time with new players or some top stars if available. But yes at the moment Arsenal is on a good way, but before we praise them too much, I prefer to see how they finish this season.
What I mean is maintaining only the previous squad without signing new players, those teams you mentioned though retained their previous players but you can't tell me that they didn't make any signing within those years so that's actually what am talking about. Okay for example, Leicester city, after they won the premier and still maintain same players without adding much signing instead went ahead to sell some of their players what happened to them? Where they active again as compared to when they won the league? Obviously not!
Arsenal's fate is still swinging yet as their possibility of winning either the league title or the Champions league isn't certain yet but I can assure you that these boys are eager for a title this season that was why they flopped and at a time they picked form again so it wouldn't be a surprise if they take home a trophy this season.
The best move has always been to buy top performance players from same league or from one that plays similar style of football, not to buy from a different league and hope the player catches on fast and delivers on the pitch.
For wenger then, he believes in training players and nurturing them until they are great and then sells them. His ideology was more of a manager and business man as compared to the ideals of Mikel Arteta who is more of a coach than a manager. He understands that what it means to buy young, hungry and talented players like he did when he got Rice, and Martinelli and well it was a good coaching decision which has helped his career excel so far.