This summer season has been an thrilling one for Arsenal followers to look at. Gone are the times of Edu dragging issues out and lacking out on key targets; Andrea Berta has are available in and been aggressive within the window.
The Gunners have solely performed two pre-season video games however have already signed six gamers.
That being mentioned, the saga that revolved round new centre-forward, Viktor Gyokeres, was actually a tiring one. That wasn’t Berta’s fault, nevertheless.
Arsenal had predominantly earmarked two strikers this window; Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko. Nevertheless, regardless of approval from most at Arsenal, Sesko’s agent priced him out of a transfer and the Swede was pursued as an alternative.
The Gunners are little doubt pleased with their enterprise. It is a participant who scored 54 targets in 52 video games final season. Even half of that tally in 2025/26 and this can have been a profitable acquisition.
However, what’s subsequent? Nicely, Berta is already onerous at work.
What’s subsequent for Arsenal after Gyokeres
It is seemingly that for a short time, Arsenal will deal with transferring gamers out of the membership. The arrival of Gyokeres took their spending to over £200m this summer season, so gross sales could be crucial.
Fulham are mentioned to be in talks to signal Reiss Nelson however there’s additionally curiosity from Crystal Palace, and that is the place Arsenal’s subsequent deal might take them.
It is no secret that the north Londoners are eager on signing Eberechi Eze this summer season and in line with journalist Ben Jacobs, they’re now in talks with Palace over a transfer.
Up up to now, there had solely been an settlement between Eze and Arsenal on private phrases.
There have been loads of developments over the weekend, nevertheless, with Soccer Transfers noting that Mikel Arteta’s facet have agreed to pay an preliminary £30m for the England worldwide and talks are actually centered across the cost construction of the remaining £38m of his launch clause.
The Unbiased’s Miguel Delaney studies that sources near the participant consider that he’ll turn into an Arsenal participant within the subsequent few weeks, assured {that a} deal will get performed.
The Emirates Stadium outfit are mentioned to be Eze’s best choice this summer season, however Berta and Co hope to have the ability to agree a payment of round £60m for his providers.
Why Eze may very well be Arsenal’s new Tomas Rosicky
In the course of the days of Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal, the staff was crammed with technical geniuses. Not forgetting the likes of Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry, the later years of the Frenchman’s tenure noticed gamers like Jack Wilshere, Santi Cazorla, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez come to the fore.
There have been others too. Assume Andrey Arshavin, the scorer of 4 targets at Anfield, Alexander Hleb and a participant reduce from the same fabric, Tomas Rosicky.
Signed from Borussia Dortmund for a payment of simply £6.8m, he arrived as probably the most thrilling younger attacking midfielders on the continent.
The Czech Republic worldwide had a fierce ball strike on him, one thing we noticed when he cracked residence his first objective however he additionally possessed the flexibility to dazzle defenders, dribbling previous them with ease and explosively driving ahead.
As Wenger as soon as mentioned: “He all the time makes issues occur, not with particular person dribbling however with particular person acceleration and his passing. I feel when he arrived right here he was much less of a tactical participant and extra the ‘Mozart’ from Prague – he was purely a inventive, offensive participant.”
Accidents actually destroyed Rosicky’s profession in London, finally which means his numbers did not look notably spectacular, scoring 28 targets and supplying 23 assists. But, his qualities are nonetheless remembered fondly by supporters of a sure era.
Take accidents out of the equation, and Eze has been in-built the same lab. As The Telegraph’s Sam Dean says, the Palace sensation is a “magician” and the “precise form of participant Arsenal have been lacking.”
It is onerous to dispute that declare. Like Rosicky, he is inventive, he is a goalscorer and like Wenger famous, he is a little bit of a Mozart on the ball.
Eze’s first sport of pre-season showcased precisely that, practically scoring a exceptional solo objective. Just a little like Rosicky, he bursts ahead in possession of the ball. What occurred subsequent was audacious, practically chipping the goalkeeper.
£68m please, Berta, that is all it will take to convey this inventive genius to the Emirates Stadium this summer season.
Arsenal have loads of gamers who put enjoyable into soccer. Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard are chief amongst them. But, what Arteta has performed since arriving at Arsenal is construct a staff of giants.
Mikel Merino steered that “we [Arsenal] appear like a basketball staff” when he first moved to the Premier League and inside that, a number of the technical aesthetics have been misplaced.
Eze’s Crystal Palace profession (all comps) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Season | Video games | Objectives | Assists |
2024/25 | 43 | 14 | 11 |
2023/24 | 31 | 11 | 6 |
2022/23 | 40 | 10 | 4 |
2021/22 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
2020/21 | 36 | 3 | 6 |
Stats through Transfermarkt. | |||
Eze, nevertheless, would convey that again to Arsenal. He was the scorer of 14 targets and the creator of 11 assists in 2024/25.
That wasn’t a one-off both. He is hit double figures all through the final three campaigns and is barely getting higher. Final season was his most interesting within the crimson and blue stripes of Palace thus far.
He is a Premier League-proven star and like Declan Rice, would absolutely settle into issues on the membership with ease.
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