The 27 players Arsenal are looking to buy, and the five they are selling

 

 

• It is likely that we will start next season not knowing which club is in which division
• The effect of refs and seasonal change is probably more than you think

By Sir Hardly Anyone.

Each year we collect the names of players that the esteemed British media tell us Arsenal are looking to buy.  The highest level of accuracy in these stories was last season with 3%.  So the media is now in a race to if they can possibly manage to get four predictions of the hundred or so they will make between now and the traditional window slamming in September.

But it could be another tough summer for sales for Arsenal – so says Substack, which is rather odd given the level of buying in the last few windows and the rise in the team’s fortunes that has emerged from there.

Here in case you have forgotten is how the season’s have ended for Arsenal of late…

 

	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Pos	FAC
2018–19	21	7	10	73	51	70	5th	R4
2019–20	14	14	10	56	48	56	8th	W
2020–21	18	7	13	55	39	61	8th	R4
2021–22	22	3	13	61	48	69	5th	R3
2022-23	26	6	6	88	43	84	2nd	R4
2023/24*	24	5	5	82	26	56	1st	R3

* 4 games to play

So with those four to play Arsenl need two wins and two draws or better, to beat last season’s points tally.  Seven goals to beat last season’s goal tally.   And fewer than 17 against to have a better defence than last season.  I think we can safely bet that the defence tally will be bettered.

Arsenal have (according to pundits) a pretty long list of deadwood they would like to move on, getting fees for them could be tough.   And we have already had warnings.  For example Scott Willis noted on X that “It could be another tough summer for sales for Arsenal – Arsenal have a pretty long list of deadwood they would like to move on.”   Hmmm .   “Another”???

But we have already had a novelty posting with TBR tipping Arsenal to buy a player and then saying no Arsenal won’t because his personality is wrong.  These bloggers eh?   What are they like?

So we now have 27 players coming to Arsenal and five leaving.  That squad is already looking rather overfull, given that we actually had a 25 list this season of, well, counting it up, 25.

But I am sure it will all work out in the end.

 

No	Player	From	Source
NEW	Leon Bailey	Aston Villa	Teamtalk
2	Franceso Camarda,	AC Milan	FFC
3	Eduardo Camavinga	Real Madrid	Caught Offside
Update	Ousmane Diomande	Sporting CP	Express   The TrivelaEffect  Also Newcastle
5	Éderson	Atalanta	Sportwitness
6	Alexander Isak.	Newcastle Utd	Pain in the Arsenal  Just Arsenal
7	Mikayel Faye	Barcelona	Hard Tackle
8	Santiago Giménez	Feyenoord	Inside Football  TBR Sport Witness
9	Leon Goretzka	Bayern Munich	Football Espana
NEW	Bruno Guimarães.	Newcastle
11	Victor Gyokeres	Sporting Lisbon	Pain in the Arsenal, Football London, Just Arsenal, TBR  FFC
NEW	Joshua Kirkzee	Bologna	London World
13	Manu Kone	Borussia Monch’	Caught Offisde
14	Hugo Larsson	Eintracht Frankfurt	442  Sport Witness
15	Rafael Leao	AC Milan	Weallfollowunited
16	Arthur Melo	AC Milan	Sport Witness
NEW	Michael Olise.	Crystal Palace	Football Fancast Football Insider
NEW	Samu Omorodion	Atletico Madrid	London World
Update	Victor Osimhen	Napoli	TBR, FoLo
NEW	Willian Pacho	Eintracht Frankfurt	Metro
21	Benjamin Sesko	RB Leipzig	Caught Offside, , 90 Min
Update	Georgiy Sudakov	Shakhta D	HITC Sport Witness
Update	Ivan Toney	Brentford	TBR, Sports Mole  London World  AFC Wont Buy (TBR)
NEW	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	FoLo
NEW	Estevo Willian	Palmeiras	Hard Tackle (Chelsea also want him)..  CanonStats, Goal
Update	Martin Zubimendi	Real Sociedad	TeamTalk,  Express  Metro
Update	Joshua Zirkzee.	Bologna	Pain in the Arsenal, Sky Sports, Football Talk Arsenal Station, Caught Offside, FoLo  Standard  Teamtalk  FoLo(2)
	Leaving
NEW	Mo Elneny	LA Galaxy	Avalon
Update	Jorginho,	Barcelona, LA Galaxy	Teamtalk   Avalon
NEW	Cedric Soares	LA Galaxy	Avalon
Update	Kieran Tierney	Celtic	Glasgow World  Not leaving as he is injured
5	Charlie Patino	Fulham	Hard Tackle, Football Espana Standard