On this episode of the Cannon Stats Podcast, Adam and Scott dig into the fallout of the Mykhailo Mudryk transfer to Chelsea. Was this a miss for Arsenal or a bullet dodged?
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Adam on Mudryk :
Scott on Mudryk:
We talk about the breaking internet for Declan Rice, before also going into alternatives for Mudryk.
Adam’s post on Trossard:
This is the list of Premier League Attacking Players:
Additional Alternatives:
Adam taking a look at Ferran Torres as an option:
A stats scouting post from Scott on Raphinha from the summer:
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Podcast: Moving on from Mudryk
Citeh made it work with Rodri and Fernandinho and are now making it work with Philips are they not?.......who will have gone to Citeh knowing he wasn’t first choice. But also knowing Pep rotates?
Why can’t Rice and Partey be used the same way Rodri and Fernandinho were? That will surely provide Rice, assuming he likes the Arsenal project the impetus to sign for us. There is no way Partey will play a full season and that risk increases with each season doesn’t it?
I’m not saying CL is the silver bullet btw. But why can’t rotation and attractiveness of project work as it has done with Citeh?
I love your stats Adam, but in terms of Rice and Partey I think you are try to solve for a problem that won’t exist. Partey has got, 1 or 2 years left at the elite level. We are likely to be competing in the CL next season.
To my mind this is the perfect time to find, bring in, and coach his replacement. Enter Rice. That’s succession planning. We can’t wait for Partey to be too old or injured to secure his long term replacement. That would be a terrible mistake in my mind.
With CL in the mix I can see Rice and Partey rotating the #6 position both in game and game by game quite happily. Yes Rice will want first team football but I think that can be offered enough of the time for him to be interested in the project.
On that basis I don’t see paying circa £400k pw on that position as an issue and with CL revenue it’s a no brainer in my mind. Thoughts?