In an interview with the official website, Lacazette talked about Arsenal's potential captain: "There are several future captains in the team. Gabriel, for example, has a presence and leadership in the backline, and I think it will be more helpful when his English is more fluent.
Ben White is the same, he is relatively quieter, but when White is out, he can be a good leader.
Lokuna is also an individual candidate, and he has been a captain before, so it can be said that he can also be a good captain.
And Tierney, because I remember he was captain of the national team for a while. So you can see some future captain candidates. ”
Personally, I still prefer Tierney, but Lacazette actually moved Gabu and Lokunga out, and did not mention Ramsdale...
Gabe I think he's a good player and seems to have a good position in the dressing room, but he's not fluent in English, and I don't think he can be captain, not to mention that if he chooses a defender, Ben White seems to have an advantage as a local player.
As for Lokunga, although he used to be the captain, his performance and seniority are difficult to convince the public, and I think it is difficult to be the captain... Besides, if even a young man like him is brought out and said, then Saka and Lowe are not more qualified?
That's just Raqqa's point, but Arsenal's next captain really has to choose carefully.
Arteta on whether Arsenal can still attract big stars: "Of course, we have our own traditions and everyone wants to play for Arsenal. When I talked to the players and their camp on the phone, I didn't once encounter a situation where they didn't want to join, and that's for sure. Of course, if they choose to join other teams for financial reasons, that is another problem. ”
Having said that, at least Vlahović doesn't seem to want to join Arsenal at all, and people can't come in January... And it doesn't look like it's because of money, and Juve doesn't necessarily get better than Arsenal.
Personally, I think Arsenal are still attractive, but they are not the first tier anymore, and if they miss out on consecutive Champions League matches, it will be even more difficult to attract famous stars.
Although Arteta is sociable and good at drawing cakes, her personal attractiveness and prestige are far from being comparable to the previous Wenger.
Besiktas, Galatasaray, Lyon, Marseille, Valencia and Leeds United all offered Hernenne but were rejected because Arteta did not want to sell the midfielder and the Egyptian is still in arsenal manager's plans.
Elneney's contract expires in the summer.
Not only did the media report, but Elneney's agent also confirmed the matter.
Elnini's agent Alan Nazmy recently revealed that his client had almost left Arsenal in January, but Arteta blocked the deal.
Hernenni's current contract expires more than four months, though Alan Nazmy recently said Arteta was reluctant to approve the veteran midfielder's departure in January.
Nazmy told Mega FM 92.7: "Elnini doesn't directly follow information on social media, but sometimes people around him send him news or critical voices.
His contract expired at the end of the season, although Arteta rejected all offers from him, and Arteta asked Herneny to stay with the team.
Newcastle, Valencia, Lyon and Turkey's two biggest clubs, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce, all wanted to sign Herneny, but ultimately Arteta and Arsenal management refused. ”
How to say, from the perspective of staffing, it makes sense to keep Herneny, after all, the delay in the midfield position is not so abundant, but from the perspective of staffing, it is not more meaningful and necessary to keep Chambers and Niles? Niles is also a youth player, can play in multiple positions, and his contract is not expiring this summer after all!
So maybe there's some truth to keep Ernenni, but some of Arsenal's decisions are contradictory.
Nketiah, for the same reason, had to stay until the contract expired... In fact, Arsenal need to buy at least two strikers in the summer, can't buy a starting-level center in January, buy a substitute center is not a big problem, it is completely possible to sell Enkai, buy Players of Cabral's level to do rotational substitutions (that is, more than ten million, basically equal to the flat), and not a local new star free transfer...
Speaking of which, let's take a look at the statistics of professional organizations on Arsenal's recent sales revenue.
Swiss Ramble, a well-known Swiss football financial media, recently took Aubameyang's transfer as an example to analyze Arsenal's series of confused accounts in the past few years.
After Aubameyang joined Barca, Arsenal's transfer strategy and personnel team were once again questioned by the industry, as the club once again let a star who had spent a lot of money to leave the team in the form of a free transfer.
We can look at the players that Arsenal sold in the 5 years between 2017-18 and 2021-22, During this time Arsenal lost £163 million in cash (algorithm taking Aubameyang as an example, he joined aubameyang, the cost was zero when he left, so Arsenal lost 57 million, Iwobi was a youth training and did not spend money, so he sold him to recover 27 million, that is, a net profit of 2700, and so on), of which £136 million came from three transactions: Aubameyang of £57 million, No. 10 of £42 million and Mustafi of £37 million (all free transfers, the latter two were not introduced in the last 5 years, but left the team in the last 5 years).
In addition, during this period, Arsenal only had three purges worth more than £20 million: Iwobi joined Everton for £27m, Willock for £26m for Newcastle and Chamberlain for £22m for Liverpool (which is a bit different from the figures provided by some media outlets). The first two of them are Arsenal academy players, and only Chamberlain is a purchased player.
The question is, are other Premier League giants doing better than Arsenal's sell-out deals? We can compare this with numbers (Note: all the data is from the German transfer market, so it may not be 100% accurate, but it can be used as a reference)
In stark contrast to Arsenal, in the last 5 years alone, Chelsea made £199 million from selling people (the total cost of selling players during this period minus the cost of losing money transactions during this period, such as Pedro and Willian's free transfer, Chelsea lost 56 million in two deals, which is the cost of the two when they joined), of which Hazard joined Real Madrid for £72 million, Abraham for £36 million for Roma, Zouma for £32 million for West Ham, and Tomori for £26 million for Milan.
Liverpool have also had £93 million in selling revenue over the past 5 years (the algorithm is the same as Chelsea), mainly because the Reds sold Coutinho for £110 million, while academy player Brewster also netted £23m.
In fact, only Chelsea and Liverpool have achieved net profits in the top six of the Chinese Premier League in the past five years, but Arsenal's loss of £163 million is almost the worst in the top six, only Manchester United is comparable, and only one transaction during this period has sold more than the bid price, that is, Daniel James joined Leeds United, and even sold Lukaku to Inter for 67 million pounds and made them lose 10 million pounds.
In fact, this algorithm I think is not scientific, but it does not hurt to understand, in fact, Arsenal is indeed too generous in selling people, even if free transfer has become a normal phenomenon in the current transfer market (it is difficult to imagine messi, Wijnaldum, Ramos and even Mbappe will transfer freely a few years ago), but it happens too often on the Arsenal side, and too many players with high prices can only leave the team in the end, which must be a problem.
Needless to say that the next Lacazette is also equivalent to a total loss (according to this algorithm), Pepe must lose at least half if he leaves the team...