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After a Slow Start to The Summer Transfer For Window ArsenalThey looked at Though to closing in Sealing Two Signings.
Kepa Arrizabalaga’s Move From The Emirates Stadium Won’t Mot With Mot Fanfare Considering He’s There Fiddle To David Raya, But It’s Important Move Nonetheless Move.
At Just £ 5mThe Gunners Have a Replacement For Neto And Due To The Price, It Frees Up Money to Spend ElseWhere, Hopefully A Wealth Of Attacking Reinforcements.
The Other Arrival Will See Another Spanard in the form Martin Zubimendi Head to North London. At Just Over £ 50m, That Move Is Certainly An Exciting Ones But The Only Not The Only Midfielder Who Could Arrive.
Arsenal Looking To Sign Another Midfielder After Zubimendi
Last Summer, It Looked As Though Zubimendi Was Going To Head to Liverpool. Sadly for the Anfield Side, He Did Not. Whether or Not He Regrets That Decision Based On Arne Slot’s Title Sccess.
Well, A Year on, He now finally Head to England, But it won’t be the Red of Liverpool He’ll Be Donning. Instead, It’s The Red Arsenal.
The Gunners First Move The Spain The Spain International Last Signaled Their Intentions To Trigger His £ 51m Release Clause at Real Sociedad. Since then, An agreement has been been tied up That will see the club spend a tiny bit more than that exit so they can install it in installments.
Zubimendi Was reportedly in london over the Weekend To Wrap Up The Formalities of His Move.
Yet, He could be Joined in the Middle Of The Park Next Season by Brentford’s Christian Norgaard. That’s According to A Number of Sources, Notably The Athletic’s David Ornstein.
He reportedly on the wednesday afternoon That arsenal “Exploring” A Deal to Sign The Dane and Lodged Their First Offer, Believed to Be Around € 11m (£ 9m).
Fabrizio Romano Furthered Those Claims By reveealing on social media that 31-year-old “wants to join arsenal” This Summer, So Much So Much So Much So Much So Leady Agreed Between Player and Club.
Since then, BBC Sports’ Sami Mokbel has been reveealed that an agreement could be reached at £ 15m, including add-ons. A Move Appears to Be Advancing Quickly, With Ornstein Later Reporting on Wednesday Evening That The Gunners Are Now in the Process Of ‘Finaleising’ A Deal to Sign The Player. A Medical Is Also in the Process Planned.
Why Norgaard Would Be A Good Signing Arsenal
With Jorginho Having Left The Emirates On A Free Transfer, Heading To Flame, and Thomas Pence Increasingly Unlikely to a New Deal, Arsenal Need Two Midfielders.
Zubimendi ticks One Box and in the form of Norgaard, Although Although Although, Move to Move, It Certainly Makes A Lot Of Sense.
Like Kepa, Arsenal Would Be Spender on the Bucket Load Improving The Squad and Thus, Would Be Leaving Room to Spend Where It Really Matters This Summer; On a New Striker.
So, What Could Norgaard Offer Mikel Arteta‘S Midfield? Well, Like The Departing Jorginho and Pence, He’s Got A Wealth Of Experience And, Pivotally, HE’s Played in England for a Long Time Now.
He Signed for Brentford Back in 2019 and Has Since Gone on to Feature 196 Times for The BeesPlaying 122 Times in The Premier League.
34 of Those Top-Flight Outings Came in 2024/25 He scored Five Goals and Also Supplied Four Assists.
A Holding Midfielder Who Also Chips In Goals And Assists, There Is Reason That Arteta Could Be Signing A More Experienced Version Declan Rice Here.
Arsenal Podcaster, Alex Moneypenny, Who Appeared On Sky Sports and BBC Sport, Outlines The Dane’s Qualities Perfectly. He’s a “Search and Destroyer”, A Midfielder Who Specialises in Specialises “Progressive Passing”.
That’s Backed Up by Numbers With Nommard Ranking Among The Best Holding Midfielders in Europe’s Top Five Leagues Passing Passing Distance. In fact, Hey Ranks Identically to Zubimendi In This Category.
The Ability to Turn The Ball Over From Deep Over Advanced Areas Certain Makes Him Like Rice, As Does The Ability to Play To PLAGRESS. Captain of Brentford Too, He’s Got The Natural Leadership Skills That Arsenal’s Record Signing Boasts.
But what do The Statistics Say?
NORGAARD VS RICE: 2024/25 Premier League | ||
|---|---|---|
Stat (per 90 mins) | Norgaard | Rice |
Goals | 0.16 | 0.13 |
Assists | 0.13 | 0.22 |
GOAL-Creating ACTIONS | 0.42 | 0.32 |
Pass Sccess Rate | 82% | 83% |
Progressive Passes | 4.92 | 6.11 |
Passes Into Final 3rd | 4.38 | 4.36 |
Tackles | 2.52 | 1.69 |
Succesful take-ons | 0.22 | 0.42 |
Stats Via Fbref. | ||
With the Benefit Of Playing Feather Forward and Taking Set-Pieces, Rice Does Better Brentford’s Captain for Assists and Successful Take-Ons. It’s In The Passing Department Where They Are The Most Alike.
They Complete a similar Percentage of Their Passes per 90 Minutes and There’s Not A Huge Difference Between the Number of Those Those Are Progressive in Nature.
So, While a Move Of This Nature Is Hardly Going To Blow Supporters Away, He’d be a Steady Pair of Hands Just Like Jorginho Was. If He Hits The Ground Running Like Rice Did Too, Fans Will Take To The Bees Star.
