Exercised the entire arsenal: is this the turning season for the Gunners?
Three years after he returned to London as a technical director, Edu's project is reaching a boiling point - and after spending 132 million euros on acquisition players, more than any other team in the world this summer, expectations accordingly.
This is what the revolution of the biggest spender of the 2022/23 season looks like
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07/26/2022
Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 12:00
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Arsenal defeats Chelsea 0:4 in a friendly match in the United States (Sport1)
Arsenal could not have ended the 2021/22 season in a worse way.
The Gunners were in the picture for fourth place for many weeks and the decisive rounds came when everything depended on them, but Arsenal, as we have become accustomed to in recent years, kicked the bucket - and it was especially ironic that the fate of the Gunners was decided by the city and sworn rival, Tottenham, who advanced to the Champions League at their expense.
The North London derby between Tottenham and Arsenal was supposed to be held four months earlier, in January, but the outbreak of Corona in Arsenal led to a storm - young people went out on loan in those days, at the same time the team claimed that it did not have enough players to field a squad for the game and at the last minute the derby was postponed, to the dismay of The roosters.
The revenge of Antonio Conte and his players was served cold with a resounding 0:3 on May 12, when the derby was held and North London was painted white.
As mentioned, it was a victory that boosted Tottenham to fourth place and determined that Arsenal will not play in the Champions League for the fifth season in a row.
A painful end to last season.
Kane is above Saka, and not only in the table (Photo: GettyImages, Julian Finney)
A week and a half to the opening whistle of the Premier League season which will open next Friday in the meeting between Crystal Palace and Arsenal, the project of technical director Edo and coach Mikel Arteta is reaching its peak.
When the Brazilian - who starred in Arsenal's midfield in the early 2000s - was appointed to the position in the summer of 2019, he stated that for him it was a project that should bear fruit within five years.
A few months later, Arteta joined him, after three years as Pep Guardiola's assistant at Manchester City, and together they set themselves the goal that 2022/23 would be the turning point.
So far, it looks promising.
Arsenal is the team that spent the most on acquisitions this summer.
132 million euros were paid by Arsenal's owners for the purchase of Gabriel Jesus (52 million euros), Oleksandr Zinchenko (35 million euros), Fabio Vieira (35 million euros) and also in addition to Matt Turner (6 million euros) and young Marquinhos (3.5 million) Euro) - the only one over the age of 26 is Turner who came to be a backup for goalkeeper Aron Ramsdale.
Bayern Munich, in a crazy summer for them, bought players for 117.5 million euros and ranked third is the second top English representative, Premier League champion Manchester City, who bought players for 109 million euros, but the difference between the three teams is that Arsenal lost 118 million euros this summer, while Bayern lost of 50 million euros (in light of the sale of Lewandowski) while City has a profit of 51 - thanks to the sales to Arsenal.
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The big spender of the summer.
Zinchenko and Jesus with Odgor (Photo: GettyImages, Mike Ehrmann)
Arsenal started the pre-season games with a 5:3 over Nuremberg in Germany, then the Gunners went to the United States and beat Everton 0:2, beat Orlando City 1:3 and the last game was the most impressive of all and ended with a crushing 0:4 against Chelsea .
Gabriel Jesus scored in three of the four games, Gabriel Martinelli and Eddy Anketier excelled, Martin Odegur and Bocayo Saka also continued the great ability from last season and that's even before the acquisition players Vieira and Zinchenko got involved.
Arsenal are not only the biggest spenders in Europe this summer, but also one of the teams that paid the most to part with players.
Only in the last year and a half, Mesut Ozil and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, two of the highest paid players in the club - who received compensation to move on - were released.
"When a great player delivers performance and numbers, his salary is not a problem," said Edo in an interview he gave this week, "the problem is that a player after the age of 26 doesn't deliver the goods, that's what kills you.
The season of the turning point.
Edo, Gabriel Jesus and Arteta (photo: official website, Arsenal)
"When a great player doesn't succeed, you can't sell him. He is comfortable staying in a team like Arsenal, in a city like London, with excellent conditions and a huge salary - how many players like that did we have on the roster? Maybe 80 percent of him," continued Edu, "sometimes you have to pay to to get out of the situation, also because these players block the possibility of adding other players.
"Now, as part of our plan, we don't want to deal with situations like this anymore.
Arsenal is not another club that can afford to compete for entry into the top 4. We cannot accept that.
Now we are making necessary changes and the mentality is good - with the goal that we will really compete for titles," he concluded.
About three years ago, after he arrived and one of his first decisions was to appoint Arteta as the next coach, he assured Arsenal's leaders in closed conversations that "the 2022/23 season will be the season in which we will see a lot Better."
Will Edo's long-term project be defined as a success? Soon what has been marked as the turning point season is underway.
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