Driving so fast + What is Fabio Vieira?

Good morning, how’s it going?

Are you accelerating towards your goal today? That is one of the new transfer buzz words, and it has become part of the lexicon in a big way of late. For example: “Arsenal are accelerating a move for Mikel Merino”, or “Talks between Arsenal and Marseille accelerated over Eddie Nketiah.”

Everyone’s accelerating all the goddam time. Pedal to the metal. How long before the transfer guys start their Tweets (which give you no new information about a potential deal other than it’s accelerating) with a VROOM! … which they’ll then trademark, and a load of blue tick wankers on Twitter who hang on their every word will buy the merchandise? Not long, if you ask me.

Anyway, based on what we’ve seen so far this summer, most of these deals have accelerated far beyond their destination and now to have to do a U-Turn and come back the other way. That must be the only explanation for why lots of them haven’t been done, despite all the high-speed movement in the right direction. Perhaps the transfer highways need better road-signs.

The latest on Merino is that he returned to San Sebastian yesterday to report for pre-season training with Real Sociedad. Much like his potential counterparts in North London, he had extra time off having gone all the way to the final of Euro 2024, so that’s fairly normal. Whether anything goes down this week, we’ll have to wait and see, but I feel pretty relaxed at the moment. I also have a sneaky feeling – based on no inside info or anything like that, just to be clear – that Arsenal might do something unexpected before the end of the window.

I could be wrong, but I just think the idea of bringing in a signing who is a bit of a bolt from the blue could be the thing to really invigorate the squad going into the new season. That kind of player would likely be a forward of some kind, which I think most people are expecting anyway if the likes of Eddie and Reiss Nelson go elsewhere, but perhaps…

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Publish date : 2024-08-06 06:32:25

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