Would he though?
Saliba and Timber are out potentially long term.
Mosquera and White are lesser players than Quansah. Hincapie is maybe in the frame, but Quansah would potentially fill in beside Gabriel before him.
He would get a lot more game time than you suggest.
Really stupid decision on our behalf to let him go.
He may have made it known he has no intention of coming back here from how he was treat.
I absolutely think he was relieved to get away from Slot, but I would have thought with the change of manager - and shortly Hughes as well - that would no longer apply?
I mentioned him on here ages ago after seeing a video of him, but I didnât know much else of him.
Interesting that PSG are looking at targets with potential to replace Barcola and Mbaye, maybe itâs something we should have considered as there is no one that can replace Moâs output atm.
I mean, theyâre buying replacements for their backups, as their first-choices are fixed with some of the best players in the world in their positions.
Our needs are different.
Yeah, that was stupid; I still think we did it because Slot didnât trust him and preferred Frimpong instead. But Hughes ultimately signed off on it and pushed it throughâit was completely shortsighted. We shouldnât hold it against Quansah if he seizes this opportunity now; after all, we were the ones who pushed him out the door. Still, itâs going to take a few million more for Leverkusen to agree to it.
So we are replacing Mo with one of their replacements who isnât good enough to start and is being replaced by a replacement for half the cost?
Quansah will jump at the chance to sign for Arsenal. Why wouldnât he? He maybe a regular starter for Leverkusen but theyâre a small club compared to Arsenal and heâll probably be offered more money as well. As someone has already said, it was a stupid move by us to let him go, really stupid.
Theyâre buying a player with no real expectation on him to play, do you think that player is good enough to start for us?
At least Barcola has a high-profile body of work on which to judge him.
What I canât understand is why we didnât loan him rather than sell him?
Or was it all about the pure profit on the spreadsheet!!!
I donât believe it was ever a plan. It was more a hedge against the most annoying outcome of being forced to sell player who the manager just wouldnât use but who we rated.
This was not an inexperienced guy who needed to experience how different first team football was to make the next step of his development. He was a player with 50 first team appearances already and an England cap. The gap between that and a guy who justifies spending 60+ million on does not require he gets sent away to go and get games to develop. A guy with that experience who is one good season away from being THAT GUY is good enough to get the games here he needed to make the next step of his development, especially when considering our CB options as they were. The ONLY reason you have to send him away is because you have a manager telling you he wont play him.
A loan deal wouldâve been the sensible thing to do, I agree. I can only think Hughes and Edwards were trying to claw back some of the money we spent last summer.
Yet that manager is gone now, the guy who sold him is leaving, Arsenal seem to be wanting to buy him for roughly what we sold him for - and we have a fee-matching clause we donât intend to exercise.
So, what gives?
Exactly!
PSG are in an interesting place that they maybe feel with the lower pressure of the french league, and frankly the number of games they are allowed to lose and it have no impact on achieving their seasonâs ambitions, they are better able to âincubateâ and take risks with young talent than a prem side is. Itâs no skin off their nose if it doesnt work out and in 2 years time they roll the dice again. But the upside is obviously huge.
Agreed, but it still doesnât negate that we are looking at paying 100m for one of their squad players and not a guaranteed starter
Probably because in his absence we have already made moves to bolster the back line and the profile of the group doesnât lend itself to spending that much money now on another player, or of his age/experience profile
Maybe this thread or another but I said it is my feeling that both Leonie and Jacquet have a potentially higher ceiling and Ndukwe has also impressed.
Early to mid-20s, homegrown, capped international, 100+ first team appearances⌠even if he hadnât been our player already before, I think youâd be hard pressed to find better value in the defender market for circa ÂŁ40m, considering how weâre at (arguably beyond) the limits of our non-HG quota currently.
I just hope itâs a negotiating tactic, Arsenal trying to get Villa to lower their demands for Konsa.
Yes, weâve brought in some very, very talented young players, but I can easily imagine Iraola preferring Araujoâsimply because he knows his style of play well and fits perfectly into what Iraola likely wants. And a return for Quansah was presumably never even on the cards anymore.
But , tbh our planning was simply poorâas weâre seeing now with Ndukwe, too. It was just really shoddy work, completely lacking foresight. Someone really should have insisted more forcefully that Slot needs to use our homegrown players more, or at least shouldnât be getting rid of them to that extent. It was all a mess; Iâll be glad when Hughes is gone.