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Yesterday’s blog touched on the rumours surrounding Eddie Nketiah, and later in the day those became something more substantial with David Ornstein reporting (£) that Arsenal were set to let him go to Marseille on loan for the season. On its own, not particularly exciting, but the fact there’s a €30m obligation makes it far more interesting and, I have to say, a pretty good deal all things considered.
The fact that he’s being sold outside the Premier League is a major factor of course, but when you consider we got €30m from Monaco for Flo Balogun off the back of a 22 goal season for Reims, I think it’s decent money for Eddie. He makes the move at the end of a 6 goal season for Arsenal, when his last goal of the campaign came in December 2023, so while he’s a more established player than Balogun, I still think that’s a good fee. He has never scored more than 5 goals in a Premier League season, and his scoring rate in general – which I realise includes many late substitute appearances so it is skewed a bit – is about 1 goal every 4 games.
The mechanics of why the deal is being done like this I don’t exactly know. It feels something akin to the way we signed David Raya from Brentford, but ultimately the fact it’s an obligation means that is money we can bank on and overall I think it’s a good sale. I had a quick look back at what I predicted when me and James did our traditional bit on the Arsecast Extra, and I said around €15m. I also said about €20m for Emile Smith Rowe, so Edu will – when all is said and done – have brought in double what I thought we’d get for these two players.
‘Chapeau’, as they say.
Obviously now, there’s more room in the squad for another attacking to be brought in, and as I keep saying, the likely departure of Reiss Nelson makes that kind of addition even more important. It’s a funny old market though. I’ve seen Sp*rs just spend £65m on Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth, and…
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Publish date : 2024-08-10 07:34:06
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