Arsenal fans are patiently waiting to see what steps their club takes in the summer transfer market.
You can now have full trust in Mikel Arteta and Edu Gaspar to make the right calls because they have been doing it for years now.
Yes, many people, including Arsenal fans, initially question the club’s methods in the transfer market.
From keeping Granit Xhaka when he had a falling out with the fans to signing the now-important Kai Havertz. They have all created drama, but in the end, Arteta’s judgment call has proven to be the correct one.
After Arsenal missed out on the Premier League title on the last day of the season, you feel the club has to go again to find that extra 1% to get over the line.
But that may require Arteta being ruthless and pushing certain players from within the squad out of the door.
One of those players includes the very popular Emile Smith Rowe, who has been riddled with injuries during these past few seasons and is now a bench player.
Perry Groves made it clear that Smith Rowe is ‘too good to be a squad player’ and he simply ‘has to go’ this summer, as he told talkSPORT (02/06/24 at 4:45 pm).
The 23-year-old has come through the academy and, at one stage, was a key player for Arteta, but those days are now long gone.
Emile Smith Rowe’s future at Arsenal
“He has got to go,” responded Groves about Smith Rowe. “He is too good to be a squad player. At the age he is, he has got to be playing regularly and this isn’t because of the Profit and Sustainability rules, it is because, at the moment, he is not good enough to get into Arsenal’s XI, so he has got to go and play.
“He can play as a 10, he can play on the right-hand side, he can play on the left-hand side, and if you think before he had his groin injury, he was one of the main players. He had a brilliant spell probably about 18 months ago where he came in, hit the ground running, got into the England squad and scored a few goals.
“Since he got injured, he couldn’t get back into the team, and I think as well, Mikel Arteta will be saying to him, ‘you need to go and play games’. The bonus is because he has come through the academy, it will all go on the PSR.”
Arsenal profit from selling Emile Smith Rowe
Arsenal have got to a stage where they are so close to winning the title and Smith Rowe has played little part in it, so they can do without him.
Plus, if they were to sell him, for however much, he would generate pure profit and it would help the club in the long run when it comes to financial play rules.
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So, if Arsenal could sell the likes of Smith Rowe, Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah – all for pure profit – then that could be used to bring in that much-wanted midfielder and striker – sources have told HITC that the Gunners would demand £40 million for Nketiah.
And everyone is the winner because those players get to start regular games, which they need to start doing and Arsenal get what they need.
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