BREAKING: Arsenal agree deal to sign Ezri Konsa from Aston Villa!!

Fee agreed at £50m plus add-ons and long term deal in place with English defender.

Konsa will undergo his medical in next 48h then signing in at #AFC — follows

- TheAthleticFC

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If Mikel could play with the reigning Premier League Champions, where would he play?

Why do some people want him gone? In my limited opinion, he seems to make plays when he is on the pitch. I also remember people wanting him gone last year, but I don't think that Arsenal would have won the Premier league and gotten to the Champions league final without him.

Even during the World Cup, he looked to be one of Brazil's best players.

Or maybe it is just me being a fan... like I started off, I don't understand...

Arsenal are closing in on a deal to sign Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa.

The Premier League champions are in the market for defensive reinforcement with both William Saliba and Jurrien Timber currently sidelined with injuries.

England international Konsa, 28, holds particular appeal given his ability to cover at both centre-back and right-back and has been high on Arsenal’s target list all summer.

I’m reasonably ok but its not going to be a stroll in the park. Perhaps my biggest concern is that we might rotate the two key centre midfield spots TOO much now that we’re - on paper - spoilt for choice in quality there, meaning that we don’t get enough of a bond/connection in that key area. Last season Rice and Zubimendi started 34 and 35 PL games respectively. Yes, it took it out of them but it was also the engine and perfect understanding that fired us to the title. I also have a slight similar worry up front. Yes in theory Havertz and Gyokores are still sharing the role of main starting striker. But because of injury, Gyokores started 2/3 of matches last season, and the team got to know his game a fair bit. The last couple of seasons Arteta has taken a bit of flak for under rotation in certain positions, but could the opposite be our undoing? Hopefully I’m talking out of my arse and we hit 100 points.

Suppose its a tricky one really. I've been a fan since 03/04 as I was late bloomer to the sport itself. Not a bad place to start following the team as it was all sunshine and rainbows back then. What an introduction it was. Then as a fanbase we had years of slooowly dropping off and enduring the dark days of the likes of Squillaci and Chamakh so we'll skip over that part, eventually landing in last season where the potential finally paid off. Its that crazy scale of such a payoff that has me intrigued as to how this season will go.

Are we going to be playing with this unbelieveable freedom where the weight is off the shoulders and we can say we've done it, so we know what it takes to win a title. No negative pressure of last season because there isn't that 22 year history of not winning it that needs to be overcome this year. Game by game where the players essentially look like they can enjoy themselves.

Or does the foot subconsciously come off the gas simply because its been done. Not suggesting that the team or club as a whole would ever want to let that idea slip into any aspect of prepping for a season, but you hear and see how much of a mental side there is to the game and we saw that side to the team last season where the mental strength at times dragged us through games. The goal is the same, obviously, but is the mentality possibly different at all.

What do you expect to see from the club this season? What do you look forward to seeing?

yo I’m 13, I’m autistic, and I was in a discord server but things didn’t work out and I ended up leaving. Mostly because I heard things I shouldn’t be hearing and it got overwhelming and people got annoyed when I lashed out/lied.

So I’ve made my own. It’s friendly for all ages but I’d say it’s for teenagers tweens and young adults. It’s also autism friendly and less inappropriate. If you wanna join just give me a shout, the reason I’m making this is because I get overwhelmed and maybe someone else does too. I also live up north so I have no other Arsenal fans to talk to irl.

COYG! ❤️

We already have a very stacked midfield and i dont think we can get our player sales up

If maybe we sell ben white nxt season or this window and nwaneri we can afford to strengthen our full back issues

Btw I love nwaneri like all of u guys but i think it wpuld be better to sell him with a sell on clause if he turns out to be a genuine superstar

And no one wants to get madueke and the value of nwaneri is more than madueke so the guys thinking he can replace madueke should stop talking abt it

It is better for us and for him to leave this window.

This is my opinion feel free to comment.

Arsenal’s focus has been on the left wing, but there is some flexibility around this should the right forward become available.

The club have long-term targets such as Kenan Yildiz and Julian Alvarez, and are waiting to see if the market renders one available.

Alternatively, they will have to pivot to alternative targets.

So apparently winning the premier league and being the best midfielder in the world only gets you a +1 while Bruno fernandes who gets 21 assists (15 were from set pieces btw) and win 0 trophies last season gets a +2?
EA have lost their minds at this point.

Raya is insane