[Football] Leandro Trossard **Sold To Arsenal 20/01/2023**

[Justice]

I would like to say "it won't last" but we are coming into warmer weather and isn't it the hive view that he generally only performs in Autumn and Spring?

Potter spent his time here playing him in different positions and never got the best out of him. I don’t believe it had anything to do with the time of year.

 

[Springal]

The one player we give away was our best attacking player IMO. £40m it should have been. Contract length will be mentioned although these days that’s not a deciding factor for forwards.

To be honest RDZ should have done better to keep him. Poor man management IMO

 

[Justice]

To be honest RDZ should have done better to keep him. Poor man management IMO

Replacing him in January with a player ready to go which I think RDZ has hinted at a few times would have been the ideal option especially looking at our position. Trossard was determined to leave judging by his actions.

 

[Swansman]

To be honest RDZ should have done better to keep him. Poor man management IMO

Keeping him was probably borderline impossible. RDZ probably did what he had to do in that regard.

Feeding the scavenging hyenas that are the press with the whole debacle was less clever as it put the club in a really shit situation at the negotiation table, but in the end it turned out great for Trossard, good for Arsenal and ok for Brighton.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

The fact Mitoma was on fire took the heat out of the sale of Trossard. Shame he went as it would have bolstered our attacking options until the end of the season. He was superb for us up until the world cup break.

 

[Silverhatch]

To be honest RDZ should have done better to keep him. Poor man management IMO

The Champions-elect come calling for a player who’s been with the club for 4-years and wants a new challenge. Poor man-management?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

To be honest RDZ should have done better to keep him. Poor man management IMO

How long do you think RDZ actually had with him? He arrived at the end of September and within a month or so, he was off for the World Cup. When he came back, it was obvious he wasn’t trying = see Charlton.
What exactly do you think RDZ could have done? Remember he has no influence on contracts and wages.
Arsenal would’ve doubled his wages, and top of the table.

 

[Springal]

The Champions-elect come calling for a player who’s been with the club for 4-years and wants a new challenge. Poor man-management?

Selling in January wasn’t the time IMO.

Also says any player can down tools and force through a move.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Selling in January wasn’t the time IMO.

Also says any player can down tools and force through a move.

Yeah Caicedo looks great in that Arsenal midfield after his transfer request.

Trossard’s was the best outcome all round.

 

[Springal]

Yeah Caicedo looks great in that Arsenal midfield after his transfer request.

Trossard’s was the best outcome all round.

I just don’t think selling your top scorer in January is a great move IMO. Whatever ‘happened’ surely could have been fixed

 

[Silverhatch]

Selling in January wasn’t the time IMO.

Also says any player can down tools and force through a move.

That’s patently not true because Caicedo (and his representatives) were put firmly back in their box when they looked like trying to holster their hammers. We all have opinions but the only ones that matter are the club’s and they reckon it was the perfect time to extract up to £27m quid for a player with 6 months + an option left on his contract, who wanted a move and was being usurped by a red hot Japanese winger and an Irish centre forward.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

To be honest RDZ should have done better to keep him. Poor man management IMO

Really? Maybe he'd seen enough of Trossard to know a move was the right thing for all parties. Therefore GOOD man management. Let's face it, we're doing alright without him!

 

[Wardy's twin]

If Trossard was still here , who would drop out the first 11? Ferguson . Mitoma, March ?

When he was here he was up and down , why he was like that is unimportant, yes he was brilliant on the good days but anonymous in many games. Caicedo is far more important to the team and we kept him.

The club was forced into a position by the player and yes we could we have got more possibly but we didn't in the same way we sold Cucurella for farmore than some clubs thought he was worth. Its the football market. To be fair I am more concerned we only got £13million for Burn.

Yes he is playing like a £40-£50 million player but he he has moved the best team in the PL , not surprising that he looks very good is it.

 

[GT49er]

That’s patently not true because Caicedo (and his representatives) were put firmly back in their box when they looked like trying to holster their hammers. We all have opinions but the only ones that matter are the club’s and they reckon it was the perfect time to extract up to £27m quid for a player with 6 months + an option left on his contract, who wanted a move and was being usurped by a red hot Japanese winger and an Irish centre forward.

Basically agree - but have no idea what holstering hammers is all about!

 

[Silverhatch]

Basically agree - but have no idea what holstering hammers is all about!

Down tools

 

[GT49er]

Down tools

OK thanks. A new one on me though.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

He was excellent today, probably should’ve scored himself too. At the heart of all they did well in that first half.

Don’t care. Great for us, but again, treated ny club like dirt, so, he can piss off. Shame it ended that way but I’m done with players showing lack of respect.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I just don’t think selling your top scorer in January is a great move IMO. Whatever ‘happened’ surely could have been fixed

Given you’ve stated “whatever happened “ it’s hard then to assert “ it could have been fixed” …some th8ngs just aren’t fixable …who should we drop for him to play?

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I think it's undeniable that we'd be better off with a pre-world cup, post Arsenal move Trossard. He's an excellent player who is a game changer. The more of them you have in your team/squad the better.

Unfortunately the Trossard we got back form the world cup was a Trossard that didn't look like he wanted to be here. His lack of effort was disappointing but perhaps understandable given his age, contract length and desire to play at the highest level possible.

It's a shame. I was hopeful that with him playing so well and the team looking so good he might see out the rest of the season and decide his future in the summer. I was even hopeful that if we made it to Europe he might consider being a key player with us as a better option than moving to a big six club and risking getting lost in the shuffle. Sadly it wasn't to be.

If he really didn't want to be here, which as an outside observer it appeared to be, then I don't really know what else the club could do? If he performed like he had in the immediate aftermath of the world cup he would bring no benefit to the team, his value wouldn't increase so how do we win?

We can't, so we sell him for as much as we can get. 27m seems fair in the circumstances. Yes he's a circa 50m player but that's if he has the contract length. In the same way that Cucurella isn't really a 60m+ player but that was what Chelsea had to pay because of his contract situation the reverse is true for Trossard.

I do wish he was still our player though.

 

[JetsetJimbo]

Complete speculation on my part, but I suspect Trossard wasn't in a great place mentally when he left us. He was expecting to be a star of a Belgium side that went far in the world cup, but he didn't play much and they didn't get very far; at his age and at this stage in his career, his last chance for a big-money move to a Champions League club looked to be slipping through his fingers. Arsenal's interest in him was as unexpected as their title charge, so he suddenly found himself presented with the opportunity he craved. He kinda had to go.

I don't think we would have had the player we're seeing now in an Arsenal shirt if we'd managed to keep him; we would have had the moody, disruptive guy that was in danger of derailing the whole squad.