Zaha

Samir, Zaha has been playing for Palace. A team that is there or there abouts above relegation every season. Its clear to see for most how good Zaha is.

Emery wants to play with width and i think Zaha would be deadly for us.

I am only saying to sell if its a huge offer and that from a non prem team.

Auba is 30. He has scored 3 league goals against the top 6 since joining arsenal. 2 of those goals were penalties.

His general play is very sloppy and he is extremely weak physically and doesn't offer us the option of hold up play if required.

Saying all that I would be over the moon if we buy Zaha who could then link up with Auba.

comment by Samir - Bottlers FC (U2630)
posted 12 minutes ago
Castor, there are also plenty of other examples of that happening and it not working out so well. Even if it's a Premier League player, there's no guarantee of them stepping up at a higher level. You just never know how successful a signing will or won't be.

8bit, I strongly disagree with you. Zaha has never scored more than 10 league goals in a season and you think he 'could' be used as a make-shift striker? Do you not realise how ridiculous this sounds? You want to lose a top striker and spend £80m on a good but not great winger, who can maybe play up front?

You talk about improving the balance of the squad, I would argue this will make the balance of the squad worse, not better.
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Zaha wouldn't be coming to Arsenal to be a makeshift striker. He's coming to bolster our attack in the weakest area of our squad: the wide positions. He offers far greater menace there than any player we have and he'll bring greater balance to a team that can look very predictable with our skewed lineups where we depend on the likes of Kolasinac and Maitland Niles to provide width in a width-less team.
Ideally, nobody here wants to lose Aubameyang, but we're skint and have hard choices to make as to our priorities. And I believe we'd look a better team with Zaha and Lacazette in it than one with Aubameyang and Lacazette. I believe we'd have looked better in the 'Ropey league final with Zaha in it than the lineup we had.

If we got lucky to get like £70m for Auba (from Man U, China or wherever) and invested it in Zaha, and also went all out for someone like Ziyech for £30m or so as being peddled, we'd be looking far stronger in attack for a £30m+ net-spend, than if we just spent that £30m+ on Ziyech to join the team and still retain the lop-sided lineups trying to squeeze Laca and Auba in the same team.

We have no wingers of any decent quality and two top strikers and it's clear our preferred formation is to play with one up front, so how does trading a striker for a winger make the squad balance worse. Wingers are our biggest priority by far.

Zaha has led the line for Palace btw that's why I said he can play there.

I have never said I would be averse to the Zaha signing, I am averse to to it if we fund it from selling one of Lacazette and Aubameyang or if we end up spending almost all of our transfer budget on him. For where we are right now as a club, it isn't worth doing that.

Part of the reason Aubameyang and Lacazette struggled together was because Emery kept putting Aubameyang on the flanks, when he isn't a winger. When we played a 3-4-1-2 or a 4-1-2-1-2 (some of our better performances) with a fit squad, they combined well and looked menacing.

I know we had issues with width last season, but we hardly had a problem scoring goals. The problem was letting them in. How is Zaha going to make the defence do better?

Let's say we sell Aubameyang and that money gets reinvested in the Zaha signing. We have Lacazette as our only established striker, when we have 4 competitions to compete in. Then what do we do? Put Nketiah there? Put Zaha there? Are they going to make up the 30-goal shortfall?

We'd be sorting out one problem and then getting rid of another.

Football is a squad game and we need depth in all positions. I don't believe we can fix all our problems in one Summer window, but we can be smart about how we approach this.

We need another centre-half, a box-to-box midfielder, a winger, a left-back and a back-up right-back in order to be taken seriously as a top 4 competitor. We can get 3 of those positions sorted if we're smart, possibly 4 if we do well from player sales (lol). We can't do this if we splash it on one player through selling our best goalscorer.

I know we need quality out wide, but I don't think spending obscene money on Zaha is the solution.

comment by Sheriff John Brown - Wenger Till I Die (U7482)
posted 1 day, 3 hours ago
We have the worst wingers/wide options among the top 6 BY FAR, and worse options there than many teams like Leicester, West Ham, Bournemouth. Iwobi is pretty much our most reliable option there and he's less creative than several fullbacks in the league, nevermind wingers/wide forwards. And people are turning their noses up at Zaha.

As I've said earlier, it reminds me of years ago when posters here ridiculed me for suggesting Mane at Southampton would be a good signing for us. So much snobbery.
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Arsenal fans tend to look down on targets who aren’t messi level players

I heard Ziyech is available for as little as £28M. I thought he’d be going for £50M+

If I could trade Auba AND cash for Ziyech and Zaha I’d do it. Can you imagine what it would be like having / quality wide man in the team, never mind 2 💉🤤

Despite Zaha pleading to the Palace hierarchy about sorting out a deal with Arsenal, they are apparently demanding £100m for Zaha due to the 25% sell-on clause United have. That, and the fact they don’t want/need to sell their best player. So we’d effectively be overpaying whilst giving United an extra £25m in this deal.

I am telling you now, it is not worth selling an asset and then blowing our entire budget on one player. It is such an irresponsible use of money.

Ziyech would save us about £50m and he’s rumoured to be going to Sevilla. I have no idea why we’re not even in the running for this. He’s a very good player and it’s a cost-effective move.

This article is almost as stoopid as comparing Willock to Ramsey... Almost.

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