Last night saw the PFA Player of the Year awards. Long time readers of the blog will know I do not care much for individual honours such as these or the Ballon d’Or.
For those interested, Phil Foden won POTY for its Cole Palmer name Young Player of the Year.
David Raya, Willliam Saliba, Gabriel, Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice all made the Team of the Year. But ultimately it means nothing if you end the season without a trophy.
Eddie Nketiah was linked to Nottingham Forest as Arsenal rejected a £25m offer.
As with the Marseille deal, this lead to some complain that we should just accept the deal. But in an era that is seeing Armando Broja leave for £30m, I think Arsenal are right to stand by their valuation.
Marseille’s offer was £17m upfront with £6m of add-ons. Nottingham Forests was £20m upfront with £5m add-ons.
I do laugh when the same fans that criticise the club for underselling players and then calling for the club to undersell a player.
With Dominic “one good season” Solanke going for £65m, we need to maximise or transfer fee. Put £30m upfront on the table and the deal will be done.
Eddie clearly does not not expect to be at the club next season. He has relinquished his club box, which was being cleared out earlier this week.
If Nketiah departs, we will need a new forward. But that does not mean we need a new striker.
We play one up top, so only really need to strikers. In Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus we have that.
Across the front three though we have 5 men for 3 positions (without Nketiah or Reiss Nelson). That is one short.
So either we sign a striker, and Jesus becomes a more regular option on the wing, or we buy a new winger and Jesus’s primary job continues to be Kai Havertz competition and cover.
As predicted earlier this summer, Aaron Ramsdale is likely to exit us on loan, with Wolves making an offer.
Any deal will see the buying club pay 100% of his wages and a loan fee of around £4m. Those numbers will ensure Ramsdale does not cost us a penny this season.
With Arsenal holding out for £40m for England’s number two, the loan should not be surprising. Most teams do not have that sort of money to spend on a keeper, especially one who has not played for a year.
Spending the next season on loan should see his value increase again and we should expect to sell in 12 months for £30m+. That will see us bank a nice chick if PSR book value profit.
Enjoy your Wednesday.
Keenos
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 
Absolutely ridiculous how unambiguous you are.
20 years without PL
never won CL
No.domestic cup.for 5 years
and ypu think we don’t need forward players.
We need AM, RW and striker as well as LCM just to.challenge to win.
this current squad has proven it will win nothing
KSE.parasite owners OUT
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@Free, we could have had a much worse ownership, perhaps you prefer a Chinese owner that is not business minded? Or what about structural chaos like Chelsea? I want Arsenal to be unpredictable and I want our goals to come from all kinds of positions.
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question for you, if a player goes on loan, where does his PSR ‘Book Value’ go ?
does it stay on the loaners club books ?
does it transfer to his temporary club ?
or does it temporarily ‘vanish’ ??
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It doesn’t vanish. The transfer fee needs to be amoritised yearly no matter if a player is with the club or out on loan. But what you would try and do is raise a loan fee that is the equivalent (or more) or the amortisation cost, so that player doesn’t cost you anything or you even make a small profit for that year on him
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cheers, hence why we now have loan fees I guess, although, it’s another way of distorting the system, as it was originally intended to give young players a chance of first team football at, quite often, a slightly lower level than their current club.
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That is why FIFA bought in a rule that you can only have 6 players on loan at foreign clubs. Every other player must be domestic. That should see a reduction in clubs hoarding players and then parking them elsewhere
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