![]() ![]() Havertz at Leverkusen was a brilliant talent. that’s all.Ĭhelsea players are good hunting ground – by some accounts Chelsea needs to sell 125m+ of players by June 30, or be in violation of FFP rules. if arsenal go down to 10 men, play him as a false 9. however, if it were me, i’d look to bring him in to compete with odegaard. no one will match that price point, allowing them to keep the player. so chelsea set the price at £75 million and won’t budge. he wants to leave but i don’t think pochettino wants to lose him. This transfer has a granit xhaka feel to it for me. ![]() there’s no reason for it at a club like arsenal. it could ruin a player’s confidence, which could cause irreparable damage to their career. it’s why i often warn about playing guys out of position. he is not a center forward and we’d be fools to make assertions based on his performances as a #9. however, giroud is gone and the likes of lukaku and aubameyang haven’t worked out so they threw havertz in up top…probably because he’s tall. despite all the money they’ve spent in the position, chelsea’s best center forward of the past 10 years has been olivier giroud. why is he playing with his back to goal as a center forward? because chelsea, that’s why. he was viewed as the heir apparent to mesut ozil. The bottom line is this kai havertz is a center attacking mid. the main reason being he was at chelsea the club that tries to ruin young players like mo salah, kevin debruyne, timo werner, mason mount, etc with poor strategy and player application. Kai havertz is probably the one player i wouldn’t be placing value on based on his stats from last season. I hope he is, because he can play RB and CM and gives us OPTIONS! But sadly, I don’t see anything reliable. What about Caicedo? I haven’t seen any reliable information that he is still an Arsenal target. What if you’re wrong? I’ll give you a 100% refund of your money. I think the main positions for Rice will be the CM and for Havertz the left half space. And with Champions League football adding more (serious) games to the table, we are going to need options. So, am I contradicting myself? Not really. But I know that only a few weeks ago I thought Rice might come in to play the Xhaka role. So, my simple answer is that he will play in the CM role that Partey plays now. I want Thomas Partey dropped from the team forever. No, I mean Declan RIGHT FOOTED Rice, where will he play? Look, I’m biased. Depending on the variety, and what I want the final dish to be like, I will sometimes soak it a bit first. What about Rice? I cook mine in an instant pot. They are also better adept at defending (theoretically) with their left foot, so can defend wide left better in one-v-ones. It’s an important part of his attacking and defending plan: left footed players on the left don’t have to pass across their body to play the ball out left – this changes the angle they can receive the ball and can speed up distribution, open up options for their passing. I’m not sure if we have the most lefties of any club but it’s a lot. Kiwior, Gabriel, Xhaka/Havertz, Saka, Ode, and Zinchenko. His first summer as a manager, Arteta bought Pablo Mari and Gabriel, both of them are left footed. You keep mentioning he’s left footed, why? Because it’s a big thing for Arteta. They must have seen something in this player (he’s left footed) to make them want him badly enough to invest huge sums. ![]() I mean, they aren’t perfect but Arteta and Edu seem to get things more right than wrong. I dunno where he’s going to play next season, honestly. If we pay him 200k (which is reasonable to expect) and give Chelsea somewhere more than 60m for him, it seems that he’s probably going to be a starter. He’s on 150k and Chelsea want 75m for him. Who cares? He’s a versatile LEFT FOOTED player who can play in the Xhaka role and also on the right and in the center. Where Havertz? My gut says he’s going to replace Xhaka on the left half space (I’m not using the term “#8” anymore because that’s a functionally dead term) but every time I say that I get someone saying “he’s never played there before” (not true) or “he’s coming in to play backup to Jesus as the false nein”. The only thing that I can point to and say is a definite plus in his book is that he’s left footed and Arteta LOVES lefties on the left side of the core. But they usually make up for it by being good at other stuff, like scoring or creating goals. Havertz is also not great at tackling and other defensive metrics, and again, Xhaka was bad at tackling and most forwards aren’t good at that stuff. But then again, so was Xhaka’s, before Arteta played him in the left half space behind the forwards. His scoring, shot creation, and dribbling are very poor. Kai Havertz? More like Why Havertz, AM I RIGHT? Who are Arsenal after? Looks like Kai Havertz and Declan Rice. ![]()
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