‘SMART SIGNING! Why Mikel Merino and Federico Chiesa are good Premier League transfers | ESPN FC

we're not djes we got more quick hits yes uh what is djes is M Marino to Arsenal on Monday Rob and I disagreed somewhat about how Etta will use him I saw him as more in a playmaking role he sees him he sees Dean rice sitting in front of the back four perhaps and and marinho more on on the left hand side um what's your prediction yeah I think he's going to I think he's going to play as a number eight on the left hand side with the guard on the right and rice behind that's the idea that's why they signed him he can do different things as you're right and I think that versatility to play higher up on the pitch maybe more as a playmaker to play even on other guard side or even deeper was also part of the appeal but for 32 million euros uh player of his caliber attitude the work ethic obviously winning the Euros with Spain can't do any harm in the summer Champions League experience will associate that not much but still enough there to um for him not to be discovering it with Arsenal I think he's a really smart signing and he famously had some photos when he was a kid about with Arsenal shirt on that they obviously kind of reproduced now that he's old nice sign for the club to say that he was always a fan I don't know if he was always a fan but I like the fact that he was super Keen to come to England to come to Arsenal and I think it's just is going to add value and and talent to this team which in that position kind of needed somebody since Chaka left the club so it's it makes a lot of sense Des signing from everywh you look at it and he's played in England before as well which course he speaks very good good English too so federo kza joh Liverpool not for much money gab no like we told you this is a typical situation of a guy on on a very big salary uh at least we we the club were at the time who got a year left on his deal um the fee should come in around I think 13 million EUR again not a lot of money a lot will depend on what whether this is a good deal or not I think it's going to depend partly on how big a contract we know I think it's the four years that he signed for um not much Clarity on the fee will try to find out uh sorry on the uh on the wages um my guess is he will have taken a pup from what he made at U which is around 200 Grand a week so the question is for to be a good deal is how big a pay up what are the bonuses and so on because ultimately at least initially he's coming in to be Muhammad salah's backup um he is versatile I wonder about the numbers with Liverpool because they obviously have so many forwards Nunes and gako and Jan um di Lis Diaz Harvey aliot can be up there too salaka I wonder if they're thinking one last move and maybe shift one of those guys and uh maybe get some help in Midfield where zui never showed up um but then I'm thinking that probably won't happen because they let Stefan bashiti or I thought maybe the clue that they might happen is they let Stefan basich go who I'm a big fan of and they saw could have been part of that rotation we'll see there's not much time left if they do pull it off but this is pure speculation on my part meanwhile Raheem Sterling is still at Chelsea along with his pal Ben chilwell Jaden Sancho still a United from an accounting purely accounting bean counter amortization perspective this one is a new brainer do one of those Mega swaps where then you tell me yeah no these are separate deals and so on um like doesn't really make sense from a football perspective does it from a football perspective I mean certainly the Sterling swo deal swap I don't I really don't get it I don't see it um for Chell I guess United while Luke show is is injured you could do with a left footed pullback if you want instead of having Masari playing a left back or Jo godal playing a left back at least you've got a proper left back in there but then when when luk show is going to come back luk show is better than Ben Chell so then you get Chell as a backup yeah maybe but the sun show Sterling swap would not make sense outside of as you said Financial reason which is fair enough everybody does it so they would be stupid not to do it but if you were Sterling going from Chelsea to United right now I'm not sure this helps you and I'm not sure you would play more at United than you would have had Chelsea so if this one happens um from from a players point of view I don't really get it to be fairly point of view I'm assuming from Sterling's View and I mean I don't think this is going to happen either but if it does happen he may need to take a um a pay cut but I think youd look at United's Wingers and you would say Okay um on the right-and side if I want to if I want to play on the right I I FC see my chances I've got you know Ahad yalo Anthony I got a shot there and okay garach on the other side and there's garnacha and rashford on the other side what but I I I think maybe Sterling the Sancho to to Chelsea just doesn't fit their model at all and would make no sense which is probably why they might do it now just kidding just kidding more Chelsea they continue to be linked with Victor oan uh who has also offers from Al Hali and in Saudi Arabia sorry they're also linked with Ivan Tony who also had guess what some offers from alali and Saudi Arabia Napoli and brenford both need to sell can I just find an agreement somewhere gab that where the players want to go they can go yeah so Chelsea says like oh we'll take Tony alak you go and take Osan no I don't think it's GNA work uh like his agent Carlo khinda has been talking incessantly with Chelsea I think the issue again Chelsea who are you uh are you done with the big wages oan is a phenomenal player like he's better than Nico Jackson they say I think n Jackson been good but um are you going to want to take on really really big wages again we're talking an excess of 200 Grand a week that's what he would want to to to have he says he wants to stay in Europe um I think it's a tricky one if there's somebody else who needs to Center forward I think they should step forward now because oan would would strongly consider you Ivan Tony he's painted himself in a corner I feel a little bit teeny tiny bit sorry for him and frankly for brenford um I think brenford could use the money apparently the fees now gone down to 35 million some are reporting people were talking 80 million you remember last January when arsenal were linked to him uh um but again it's a reflection of where the market is right now attico Madrid were held to a Neil nil drive home by espanol Jules I thought they were good in the first half te obviously thought differently because he took of julan Alvarez at the break yeah he did I don't know if that was a consequence of Elo not being happy with the first half because I thought you're right they played really well in the first half and I thought Alvarez didn't do badly either I thought overall they were quite good they had 25 shots five big chances I mean Juan Garcia made seven saves or eight saves I think in the Espanol goal and it was just one of those nights where they could have probably played for hours and never scored it was just like that and now Morata has left I know Alvarez has come different different profiles different forwards that efficiency would have to come the clinical clinical no it doesn't have to be clinical because they had enough shot and enough chances to score just one and win this game they need to find those goals from somewhere else and they just could not in that game maybe advise was just a question of managing the minutes he hasn't come back he hasn't arrived that long ago at the club he's probably still trying to get fully fit or fully match fit after a busy summer so this is maybe the reason but but I don't think it was yes two points dropped of course uh but overall I didn't think it was a bad performance from from atleti all all around so no reasons really to be too worried I think I would worry about the only living short loss in captivity either the Times report that UFA won't allow the sale of Club assets to a related party in his financial sustainability calculation gab this is not good news for Chelsea and what does that mean exactly yeah this is really not good news so what it means is um Chelsea well first of all Chelsea say oh no don't worry we're going to be we're going to be compliant so on last year's accounts obviously um they they they reflected the sale of the hotels to gluco which is their holding company um the premier league has yet to approve whether they allow that whe they're going to allow that that sale to count towards uh the club accounts um they obviously also later on June 28th they also uh sold their women's team to uh blueco um so we'll see if that gets included but you know if UEFA are saying we're not even going to consider this stuff then you know you have a hole there of about what 78 million pounds plus whatever the women's team plus the fact that they were in a hole anyway uh in this transfer window like I said unless to B's got a magic box somewhere I think it's going to be really really tough [Music]