Pepe leaving?

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

With the greatest possible respect - one of the dumbest posts I have seen for a while. Leaving aside the randomly comparing a couple of stats to judge two players angle, they are actually quite impressive stats. For comparison, Marc Overmars scored a goal every 4.9 games for Ajax (one ever 4 for us)

Ivorian wingers who score one in every two and a bit in France are ****. Fact.

I wouldn't want us to buy another one - certainly not for top dollar. Coni and William were woeful signings. I'd have loved him to come good, and he came off the bench and turned a game for us near the end of last season. Great equaliser and then assist for Laca in the dying seconds. But in France, other than penalties, his goals were basically all from being the main man for a counter attack. He was never gonna replicate that for us.

Though I guess that if he scored 1 in 5 for us in the league, then given Iwobi got about 1 in 10 and was sold for 35m, 72m for Coni seems about right.

Maybe we should flog him to Everton?

It is nice to have had 2 decent transfer summer windows on the trot. {Though getting Saliba back and playing this well is a real bonus, esp as it allows White to cover at RB fairly seamlessly.} 8 first team level players in two summers is good. Would still like a 9th.

[Luis Anaconda]

Ivorian wingers who score one in every two and a bit in France are ****. Fact.

I wouldn't want us to buy another one - certainly not for top dollar. Coni and William were woeful signings. I'd have loved him to come good, and he came off the bench and turned a game for us near the end of last season. Great equaliser and then assist for Laca in the dying seconds. But in France, other than penalties, his goals were basically all from being the main man for a counter attack. He was never gonna replicate that for us.

Though I guess that if he scored 1 in 5 for us in the league, then given Iwobi got about 1 in 10 and was sold for 35m, 72m for Coni seems about right.

Maybe we should flog him to Everton?

It is nice to have had 2 decent transfer summer windows on the trot. {Though getting Saliba back and playing this well is a real bonus, esp as it allows White to cover at RB fairly seamlessly.} 8 first team level players in two summers is good. Would still like a 9th.

I think we will get one more player in - no idea who though

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

I think we will get one more player in - no idea who though

Hope so. As I say, Saliba's been the icing on the cake. We needed a decent striker to replace Auba and Laca and we've got one. {Also, I think Eddie proved last year that he's good enough to get top 4.} The problem was the injuries to the FBs. Zinchenko covers the left but Saliba's looking like he could be a really top drawer, GG {him, not me} level CH and allows White to cover RB in exactly the way Arteta wants.

If Viera 2.0 is as good as hoped, then we've added 8 first XI level players in two windows. A 9th would be perfect. Being able to bring on 5 subs all of whom we'd be happy to have seen starting will be a real change to last year.