This week’s edition of the Arsenal Canon transfer review is brought to you by our lord and savior in the transfer season, David Ornstein. On Saturday, David Ornstein confirmed that a £15 million offer was rejected by Celtic for their left back Kieran Tierney. This confirms Arsenal’s long rumored interest in the Scottish left back, with further rumors surfacing that a second bid closer to the £20 million mark was also rejected. This next week will be the breaking point for this deal. Celtic look like they will be holding firm on their £25 million valuation of Tierney. That represents a significant chunk of Arsenal’s transfer kitty without sales. Let’s figure out if Tierney is worth that amount for Arsenal.
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In the past couple of years, Arsenal fans have been looking at their Liverpool supporting counterparts through envious glances. They have everything that a Gooner has been craving the past 10 years. They have a charismatic manager who plays a breathless brand of football. Their entire fanbase is unequivocally behind the club. They have meticulously assembled a team, without the backing of a sugar-daddy owner, that can compete with Europe’s best. There’s a feelgood factor around every aspect of the club, and there has never been a better time in the last 30 years to be a Liverpool supporter. So how did they manage to turn things around? Their journey to a champions league triumph at the end of a record-breaking league campaign, was fueled by a combination of managerial skill, intelligent executive oversight, and frankly a bit of luck to help the final pieces fall in place. In this article I’m going to dive into how Arsenal can replicate one aspect of Liverpool’s success, i.e. player sales.
This season’s transfer window has been a slow burn so far. Besides Real Madrid, other clubs seem to be biding their time until the right dominoes fall in place to make their moves. As Arsenal fans we’re used to being linked to everyone under the sun who has ever kicked a football. This season is no different, so far we’ve been linked to inexperienced players from the untapped reaches of Latin America to players in the Chinese super league looking to revive their careers. In this weekly transfer-themed segment of Arsenal Canon, I examine the player most heavily linked to a move to Arsenal in the previous week, Yannick Ferreira Carrasco
Unai Emery’s first season at Arsenal ended with a whimper. They collapsed from a commanding position in the league to finish outside the top 4 and produced a spineless performance in the Europa League final to clinch another season of Thursday night football. Murmurs of Emery Out are already starting to emerge amongst the Arsenal fanbase, but out of the cornucopia of problems that is Arsenal football club, how much of this falls on the shoulders of our head coach, Unai Emery? Let’s put recency bias aside, look back at his season as a whole, and come up with an overall grade for his first season at Arsenal.
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