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

[Clive Walker]

Good riddance.

Pleased with the deal to be honest. We now need to start seriously thinking about bringing in some quality replacements though or I fear the worse.

Fantastic how we’ve coped since the loss of White, Burn, Bissouma and Cucurella but let’s be honest, you add Trossard, Caceido and Colwill to that list we are going to be seriously short by the end of the summer.

We’ve done some fantastic business (almost £200 million in sales) but let’s not fool ourselves that we don’t need to seriously invest a serious chunk of that back into recruitment to keep the club on an upward trade trajectory.

We’ve been very lucky on the injury front so far this season. An injury to Moises, mitoma or perv and we look very weak.

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

Now he's going, who's gonna own up to putting the ink around his binoculars that he held up after each goal?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Yeah maybe, but I don’t necessarily mean stroppy in a refusing to play kind of way, just that he never exactly comes across as a beacon of enthusiasm and I suspect it’s not really the first time he might have been phoning it in at training etc. That kind of stuff can have a low-level impact around the feeling of the club and we could easily just have not known about it before.

Yeah ok. None of us can really know that though.

De Zerbi has made several comments in regards to training.
In one of his early press conferences he said he was surprised the players get a day off.

I think he has very high standards expects the maximum from his players.
His comments about Trossard can get even better results, may be code for him thinking he isn't putting enough into training.
Or not.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Has anyone left us (under a cloud or otherwise) and actually become a better player?

Everyone I can think of has disappeared into squad obscurity at best, and Lincoln City at worst.

 

[Swansman]

He's from the Flemish (Dutch) speaking part of Belgium.

Tbf that means that he with 99.9% certainty speaks French as well (unlike the Walloon blokes who rarely bothers to learn Dutch).

 

[timbha]

Great! Another player that precious fans can boo when he comes back

Quite right. Where would we be without these fans?

 

[dwayne]

We’ve been very lucky on the injury front so far this season. An injury to Moises, mitoma or perv and we look very weak.

As long as maccer is playing we can just about live without Moises. Just.

Mitoma and perv are irreplaceable at the moment. We have zero cover at left back for perv.

 

[Salty_Seagull]

Has anyone left us (under a cloud or otherwise) and actually become a better player?

Everyone I can think of has disappeared into squad obscurity at best, and Lincoln City at worst.

Recent leavers:
Ben White has done well and probably upped his game.
Dan Burn has kept his level of consistency up.
Maupay, Cucurella, Bissouma all definitely regressed.

 

[Hudson Hawk]

As long as maccer is playing we can just about live without Moises. Just.

Mitoma and perv are irreplaceable at the moment. We have zero cover at left back for perv.

How's the Polish fella going on loan?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Tbf that means that he with 99.9% certainty speaks French as well (unlike the Walloon blokes who rarely bothers to learn Dutch).

My dad speaks French and he's never flounced off the training ground.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Overflowing with motivation perhaps

 

[Swansman]

My dad speaks French and he's never flounced off the training ground.

Clear evidence that he is just pretending to speak French but you can't notice the difference. You're living a lie.

 

[severnside gull]

Happy with the deal tbh. He will do well at Arsenal and will contribute, perhaps more consistently than he did here. Who knows?
He clearly threw his toys out of the pram when we told him we would apply the one year option in his contract as he saw an early lucrative move put on hold.
The result is he gets what he wants and we make another significant profit.
His place in the side is already filled and as so often if late we move on with little or no detrimental effect.
Win:Win

 

[Seagull27]

Has anyone left us (under a cloud or otherwise) and actually become a better player?

Everyone I can think of has disappeared into squad obscurity at best, and Lincoln City at worst.

Ben White an obvious answer. Arguably Steve Cook and Tommy Elphick as well, though we since caught up and overtook them.
Glenn Murray definitely.

 

[Change at Barnham]

It would be good if the next Albion transfer news wasn't someone leaving or a new WSL or U23 player joining, but a first team ready player, as I fear the squad is getting a little too thin if we suffer a few injuries and suspensions at the same time.

Hold your nerve @studio150. The big man (who is actually quite small) has never let us down yet.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Can't wait to see the Bluds and Bruvs responses when he goes missing during a game.

And what about the fams?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Recent leavers:
Ben White has done well and probably upped his game.
Dan Burn has kept his level of consistency up.
Maupay, Cucurella, Bissouma all definitely regressed.

Murray, Zamora, Stevens, Robinson, Lawrenson, Gregory, Saunders

 

[Goldstone Guy]

Seems a decent fee. I'll miss the binoculars goal celebration though.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

He’s done very well for us - that hat-trick at Anfield. A pure class goal in the 3-2 home defeat of Citeh, and plenty of others. One of my favourite players.

personally I’ll be sorry to see him go, but can see him doing ok at Arsenal. If he’s not going to fit in with RDZ, I’d rather see him leave, and we do ok out of it. We win, he wins, Arsenal win.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Yer mental how we pulled that deal off in hindsight

4 years at Watford and did FA so really strange that he has turned out so well.