Emiliano Martinez, Piero Hincapie, and Alexander Isak (Photo by Richard Pelham, Lars Baron, George Wood/Getty Images)
Busy Deadline Day ahead for Arsenal
Deadline Day at Arsenal is expected to be a fairly busy one.
Piero Hincapie arrived yesterday and that deal should be wrapped up and announced a bit later on, providing there are no late hiccups of course.
And that will mean Jakub Kiwior will complete his move to Porto.
But there will be other business being done, centred around outgoings.
You never want to rule things out because we all know anything can happen on deadline day, but I’d be very surprised if there were any other incomings aside from Hincapie.
But there should be exits, with Sambi Lokonga expected to complete a move to Hamburg and the likes of Fabio Vieira, Reiss Nelson and Oleksandr Zinchenko potentially also heading out the door.
Arsenal have been working to get deals done for all of those players throughout the summer, with Fulham and Palace both having held talks over Nelson and Vieira attracting interest from several Bundesliga sides. West Ham are also said to be looking at the former Porto man.
So it should be a busy final day at Arsenal, which will be in keeping with how the summer has gone as a whole.
Mikel Arteta’s tactics against Liverpool didn’t work – it was a missed opportunity for Arsenal
I can understand some of the frustration that has followed Arsenal’s narrow defeat at Liverpool on Sunday.
But having that said, I think the narrative that seemed to be being pushed even as the game was going on was wide of the mark.
I don’t believe for a second that Arsenal went to Anfield just looking ’not to lose’ as Gary Neville and the rest of the Sky Sports team seemed determined to make us all believe.
They went to win and Mikel Arteta picked a team he believed could do that, but it just didn’t work out.
Ibrahima Konate and Viktor Gyokeres in action (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)
It was a really tight game between two teams who cancelled each other out. I don’t really get how it was Arsenal who were just looking for a draw. If that can be levelled against them, then it has to be levelled against Liverpool as well.
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