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In Stark Contrast to The Last International Break, There Is A Genuine Feel-Good Atmosphere Around Arsenal At The Moment.
Instead of Going Into The Long Break Off The Back Of A Devastating Loss At Anfield, The Gunners Are Sitting Pretty The Top Of The Top Of Premier League Table Thanks to A Routine Win West Ham United and Chelsea Scoring a Last-Minute Winner to Take All Three Points Off Liverpool.
Moreover, There is Now Talk of the Emirates’ Capacity Being Expanded in the Not-Too-Distant Future, and in Yet More Good News, David Raya Is Reportedly Getting A Pay Rise To Reflect His Importance to The Squad.
The spaniard More Than Deserves His New Terms, But He Isn’t The Only Player Mikel Arteta’s Squad Who Should Be Getting a New Contract.
Interestingly, While Reports New Payment Terms Mention Of The Inclusion Of The Inclusion Year’s His Contract That This New Deal Does The Number of Standard Years Standard Standard Has Left Has the Club.
That Might Sound Rather Odd To Some, and There Is Certainly An Argument to Be That It Is, But There Are A Few Reasons Why This Pay Rise More Than Makes Sense.
Firstly, Unlike When Brentford Ace was first signed and there were the element of Doubt?
Therefore, It’s Only Right That His Wage Reflects His True Importance to the Squad. At The £ 100k-Per-Week Heek Earning Before These New Terms, He Making Less Than 14 other players, Including Mikel Merino, Gabriel Martinelli, and noni Madueke.
Second, in Addition to staring Most Side, The 30-Year-Old Is Undoubtedly One of the Very Best in His Position In the Premier League, IF Not Europe.
For example, he’s Golden’s Golden’s Golden’s Both Last Two Seasons, He moths in the Top 4% of Keepers in Europe’s Top Five Leagues Percentage, The Top 8% Clean Sheets, The Top 8% Save Percentage and More 90.
Finally, From a Purely Social Perspective, It Keeps Happy And Shows The Other Players Will Be ReWrded, Which in turns in Hells Foster A Better Atmosphere.
Raya’s Scout Report | ||
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Statistics | Per 90 | Percentile |
Goals Against | 0.78 | Top 2% |
Post-Shot Expected Goals | 0.92 | Top 4% |
Crosses Stopped% | 12.5% | Top 4% |
Clean Sheets | 0.39 | Top 7% |
Clean Sheet Percentage | 39.2% | Top 7% |
Save Percentage | 76.2% | Top 8% |
Def. ACTIONS Outside Pen. Area | 1.78 | Top 10% |
Crosses Stopped | 1.25 | Top 14% |
With All That Said, There Is Another Player in The Squad Who Deserves The Same Treatment.
The Good Thing for Arteta and Arsenal Is That, Following The Slew Of New Deals in the Summer, There Aren’t Many Players Who’s Claim to Claim Thy’re Currently Underpaid In The Squad.
However, there is one international Who could make an argument, Someone Who at The Very Least Deserves A Raise, IF Not a New Deal: Jurrien Timber.
Yes, the former Ajax Gem, Around the Club for £ 38m in the Summer 2023, Is The Player People’s Most at The Moment, and Based on Reports This Month, It Does Seem Like HE Soon Get Them.
Being a right-back, and One That Does Tend To A As A Trent Alexander-Arnold or Jermaine Frimpong, Means The Dutchman Doesn’t Get The Wider Footballing Community.
But synkey from His ACL injury, What Ruled Him Out The Entirety Of The 23/24 Season, The 24-year-Old Has Been Incredible, And This Season His Performances Are Making Him Harder and Harder to Overlook.
Like Declan Rice in Midfield and Bendyo Saka On The Wing, The Monstrous Defender Very Rarely, If Ever, Puts in a Less 7/10 Performance and More Often Than Not Does Than.
In the Words of Arsenal Podcaster Adam Keys, He’s Like a “Dementor Wingers” Thanks to Brilliant Anticipation, Footballing IQ and Surprising Physicality. Yet, Especially This Season, He has also begun to play His ATTacking, with the performance Against Newcastle United Arguably HIS Best Offensive Display Joining The Club.
Unsurprisingly, The Utrecht-Born Titan’s Underlying Numbers Than Back Up The Eye-Test and Prove That He’s Hitting A Level Few IT.
According to FBREF, Hey Mits Of The Premier League and Expected Non-Penalty Goals, Progressive Passes and Tackles, The Top 7 Shots and Pass Completion, The Top 11% in Touches in the Opposition’s Penalty Area and More, all per per 90.
Timber’s Scout Report | ||
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Statistics | Per 90 | Percentile |
Goals | 0.34 | Top 2% |
Goals + Assists | 0.52 | Top 2% |
Non-penalty goals | 0.34 | Top 2% |
XG: Expected Goals | 0.31 | Top 2% |
NPXG: Non-penalty XG | 0.31 | Top 2% |
Progressive Passes | 6.38 | Top 2% |
Shots on Target | 0.86 | Top 2% |
Passes Into Penalty Area | 2.07 | Top 2% |
Through Balls | 0.86 | Top 2% |
Shot-Creating ACTIONS | 3.28 | Top 2% |
SCA (Shot) | 0.69 | Top 2% |
Gca (shot) | 0.17 | Top 2% |
GCA (Fouls Drawn) | 0.17 | Top 2% |
Tackles won | 2.41 | Top 2% |
Tackles (Mid 3rd) | 1.55 | Top 2% |
Tackles (to 3rd) | 1.03 | Top 2% |
Tkl + you | 5.34 | Top 2% |
Touches (ATT 3RD) | 23.10 | Top 2% |
Penalty kicks won | 0.17 | Top 2% |
All Stats Via FBREF for The 25/26 PL Season |
Ultimately, Considering All Factors, It’s Hard To Disagree Respected Analyst Ben Mattinson’s Claim That Timber Is “One of The Best Signings to Emirates.”
Therefore, Like Raya, He Should Get A Pay Rise As Soon As Possible, or Better Yet, A New Contract Altogether.