He played a whole season for Brighton in the PL and didnt look like a 50m defender. Still young though and he is supposed to be talented
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Torres isnt going to sign for no Europe Arsenal. Not with United and Madrid looking at him
Fair enough. I haven't seen alot of him so I can't really judge.
positive discrimination. if he was called ben black people would be claiming 50m was cheap.
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Nordsjælland head coach Flemming Pedersen on Sulemana's current situation:
Apparently, Sulemana is making his choice between Manchester United and Ajax.
Maybe, but surely Ben White is not even the best option on the market? There are a lot of great ball-playing central defenders in Europe for similar price - bet someone like Andersen, Ginter, De Vrij give you same thing but for less money.
Throw good money at him (which Arsenal clearly have) and he'll play for them. Ben White is promising CB, but when you can spend that kind of money, you can go more ambitious route for a CB with European experience.
United did similar thing in LVG and Jose era.
These 3 players are the definition of average deadwood that we've tried to clear for the last 3 summers. No need to get new ones in.
I was thinking more that he'd be more highly rated if his name was Benjamino Bianco and he played for Atalanta.
Despair and confusion. Can't score a goal to save our life, blow 50M on a CB. I know Luiz needed to be replaced but yeah don't see the urgency in this one.
They must be very very very confident of securing other more important targets...
Dunk is their best defender and I'm glad they arent signing him. He would have been a dominant player in defence.
The issue for Arsenal and White is the transfer fee which he will have to deal with every time he makes a mistake. However on paper it's the right type of profile - good on the ball, has leadership qualities, physically adept, has been coached by two real tacticians in Bielsa and Potter and has experience of the lower league which will stand him well.
Read perfectly fine to me too to be honest
I don't know, Arsenal have already got burnt going the European route with Mustafi. Maybe the idea is to go for someone closer home even if it means paying a premium. Sort of the way Utd overpaid for Maguire but got a genuinely good CB. I'd say Maguire is a 50m CB and White is a 30m CB with the english/reliability premium.
I think he could have just worded it differently, like "the big day is upon us" or something like that.
Agreed, also at 23 he could still improve considerably.
£50mill for Ben White, jesus. Clubs should really stop buying English players, way too overpriced!
Wasn’t he supposed to be a really good prospect a couple seasons ago?
Was it Stoke he played for?
That wouldn't mean the same thing at all. He's basically saying the noises are all positive and there's no reason to believe it won't happen. He's not claiming it's going to happen today or tomorrow.
Both are correct. He's still a good prospect, but he went under the radar once Ben White came to the fore along with United showing greater interest in targets outside of England.
For the Chelsea fans:
What are you even on about? AC Milan literally just paid half of that for one of the best defenders in Serie A last season who's a black brit...
The fee is objectively crazy regardless
This is a case of Arteta imagining seeing something very special in him that no one else can see. And a case of Arsenal bying into Arteta being a super intelligent young manager. Also that no one else can see.
I was just mucking about, playing on the "big day" Redcafe joke.
This has been the slowest Chelsea window I can remember. Linked to Hakimi, with no bid… that is it. I guess the priority is to sell dead wood.
Double inception right there from Arteta.
we are very good at doing things quietly
I actually realised that about 10 mins later when I was wandering around the supermarket
God damn. That's crazy. He looks completely spent.
Tightening the purse strings.
Especially as they told Ramos to get fecked when he came back to accept their 1 year deal.
David Luiz + Mavropanos out could be why they're getting Ben White. We might also see a bigger role for William Saliba if this is the case.
feck me that's a great deal for Stuttgart. Mavropanos was really good in the second half of the season for them, getting him for 5m max is a steal.
It really is. That's an absolute bargain for them. That contract better have a large enough sell-on clause to make up for such a low fee. I can see Mavropanos doing well enough to attract bigger teams in the future.
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