Arsenal have reached an agreement in principle with Chelsea to sign forward Kai Havertz. Deal for 24yo Germany international is worth around £65m. Personal terms are already in place, attacker’s medical will follow in due course @TheAthleticFC #AFC #CFC
65mil is too much. I don’t agree that he’s shit, but around 40 seems more reasonable after the season they had and that they need to off load a lot of players.
Yeah it’s a heck of a lot of money, but hopefully Arteta can get him firing. Hard to think of any players that have really been exceptional at Chelsea in the past few years.
Reece James maybe
Arteta: I can fix him.
I’m convinced his next tweet will be “the deal for Havertz has been delayed. I sneezed and now they are trying to figure out how someone got in the walls. I can hold my breath for 2 minutes, this should blow over, and medical will follow after this”
Steep cost, especially with how he’s performed the last couple of years.
What I’m doing is pretending we’re signing him straight from Leverkusen where he’s coming off a season with 12 goals in the Bundesliga and 4 in the Champions League.
This is the dumbest deal of all time. Imagine paying that amount for a Chelsea failure.
Let’s not write him off before he’s played a minute. Remember how people thought Jorginho was a shit signing? He’s yet to play in a system that plays to his strengths. Arteta has earned the benefit of the doubt
People are looking at this the wrong way…
Kai is currently in the same spot Xhaka was a few years ago. A player struggling to adapt to a role he isn’t suited for. Did Xhaka become a better player, or was he put in a role/position that suited his skills?
Given another role in another team, I fully expect Kai to do very well and I don’t think 65m is over priced (a high price, but not over priced). Chelsea has struggled for years with their attackers, and I think his inability to succeed at Chelsea is more to do with Chelsea being a shit show, rather than Kai being shit. Werner, Pulisic, Lukaku, Ziyech, Sterling, Auba, Felix, Fofana, Cucu, Koulibaly have all struggled immensely at Chelsea and each one of them has had recent success at other teams. They aren’t bad footballers, they are just in a really shifty situation.
Personally I think he will succeed at Arsenal. He can fit in anywhere in the attacking 3, and I think Arteta would be crazy enough to try him in the 8 role against weaker teams who park the bus.
How many dud transfers have we seen over the last couple of years? None I can point out.
So, I’ll give our guys the benefit of the doubt, and hope Havertz turns into a gunners legend!
