• Marshyq@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Annoyingly this feels like a really good signing, shores up a major area of their squad

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      1 year ago

      This place needs flairs 😂 What do you mean “annoyingly”, it’s perfect you mean, right?

      • ABCDE@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Depends who you support! Great signing for them, makes them competitive for a few years with how the club is being managed at the moment. There is a lot of top… Seven competition now.

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      1 year ago

      It seems like they’re going to be changing a decent amount if their starters in one window. With Xhaka and Partey potentially leaving presumably they need to sign another midfielder in addition to Rice?

      Timber, Rice, Havertz minimum as new starters.

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Lokonga’s almost certainly gone too.

        As it stands, our starting central midfield will be:

        Havertz - Rice - Odegaard

        With backups being:

        Smith Rowe - Jorginho / Elneny - Vieira

        Probably still need at least one other midfielder. I know Lokonga wasn’t playing last season so good departure should be a net zero loss. But we now have CL and need more able bodies. And of our backups, Smith Rowe has been struggling with injuries, Elneny is past his prime and not competing for a starting place, and Vieira still seems to be struggling with the pace of the game every other match.

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          1 year ago

          Can’t say I really get Havertz playing deeper but Mikel obviously knows his stuff and sees potential there.

          Its inevitably going to take a while for the midfield to gel though.

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            1 year ago

            He wants to leave and I don’t think Arsenal are going to stop him.

            Juve and a Saudi Arabian club are the rumoured interested parties.