Nicely good night my associates. I’m pitched up at a pizza restaurant in Shoreditch fascinated about how my I miss London and the way a lot a love transfers. Take into consideration how bizarre all of us are – we spend 40% of our waking hours considering and speaking about males we’d prefer to see in our crew. Is that ordinary? Who cares.

We’ve had a little bit of a weekend off massive information. Right here’s the place we’re:

Jorginho put an image on his IG of himself and Kai making cheeky faces, mainly giving the sport up. Arteta additionally mentioned in an interview; as regards to Kai, that we like younger gamers with distinctive expertise. Appears like he’s going to be the primary participant to drop. Rumors are he did his medical in Spain and he’ll be introduced this week. It is a nice signing, even higher for me that Chelsea followers are doubting his expertise, as a result of I worry this one goes to backfire on them.

Ethan Nwaneri is trying much less and fewer prone to signal a brand new deal. Rio Ferdinand is advising him, Chelsea wish to convey him into their academy to nowhere, and it’s fairly clear the choice goes to be all about cash.

Now, that is attention-grabbing as a result of it’s clear what’s going on right here. There may be now a shift in soccer in direction of directing BIG cash into one of the best of one of the best 16 yr olds. It’s mainly what we did in the course of the Wenger years with a + + +. Chelsea piled massive money into their academy children – then blocked their pathways. However on the quiet, Manchester Metropolis has been placing eye-watering numbers into their children and so they’re mainly smacking up the Premier League 2 league (U23) with infants. They received the league by 13 factors with a squad that had a median age of 19.

Have a look at the worth of a few of these gamers – Taylor Harwood-Bellis is value 20m euros!

What I’m getting at right here is there’s a new arms race kicking off on the child stage. Ethan Nwaneri may not ever make it to the primary crew, however he would possibly get a contract elsewhere that secures him for all times. Chelsea has been going massive, so has Metropolis, I’m undecided Arsenal is there but, however the actuality is that if they wish to proceed churning out Saka-like gamers, they’ll must get into the combat to verify we’re not shedding all our laborious work to individuals who will simply purchase it.

The Timber deal is trying ever extra possible. He posted an IG story and made the music monitor Gunna. Very intelligent. It looks like the gamers solely needs to affix Arsenal, knocking Bayern Munich out of competition for a second participant in two weeks.

What excited me about our defence shifting ahead is we might conceivably promote Kieran Tierney and never signal anybody else. Tomi can play left-back, so can Kiwior. Timber can participant proper again and centre again. We’ll have so many choices heading into subsequent season which might very effectively alleviate the necessity for Arteta to overplay his faves.

Greater image – I wrote years in the past that Arsenal ought to grow to be one of the best place for younger children. 2023, each younger participant on this planet needs to play beneath Arteta. That is great thing about being trustworthy about who you’re as a membership. Arsenal is a MASSIVE model, we’re based mostly in London, and we now have one of the best younger participant developer on the planet. We’re not a vacation spot membership. If you’re 21-24, Arsenal is prime of your listing. Declan handed on Metropolis, Timber and Kai handed on Bayern, we’re fucking large.

Emile Smith Rowe scored a good looking objective from a left-side 8 place. The motion, the velocity, the precision of the strike – it was all there and all of it pointed in direction of him taking over the 8 opp subsequent season when Granit leaves. I feel his success subsequent season all depends upon his robustness post-op. If he can deal with it, why would we transfer him on? If he can’t, effectively, that’s life.

Talking of the Euro children Championship. It’s value noting that Mudryk was relegated to the U21s and he hasn’t landed a single minute but. You HATE to see it. Feeling much less like a mismatch of golf equipment and nearer to a complete dud signing for Chelsea. Let’s face it, Poch is absolutely conscious his new possession group has ZERO time for managers figuring out a brand new course of. If Mudryk ain’t it immediately, laborious to see how he lands minutes.

Do you keep in mind final 12 months after I mentioned Koulibaly at 31 was a poor signing for Chelsea? And all of the Italian soccer nerds mentioned I used to be flawed? Nicely, he’s simply exited Chelsea after one season to go to Saudi. I’m doing victory laps.

Okay, that’s me finished. We’ll be again with a podcast tomorrow. If you’d like some additional Arsenal content material, take a look at Johnny’s newest rap beneath.