Lazio have confirmed that Nuno Tavares has signed on a season-long loan and that they must buy the player next summer if he hits certain markers. It’s been reported the fee could be as high as €8 million.
Tavares joined the Gunners from Benfica three years ago – a move driven by Edu – but his special brand of chaos hasn’t really worked out in Arteta’s era of precise and disciplined football.
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— S.S.Lazio (@OfficialSSLazio) July 15, 2024
To be fair, he’s not the only left-back at the Emirates to pay the price for not having a broader skill set. The arrival of Oleksandr Zinchenko, with his inverted movement and passing range, completely reshaped how supporters view the position and neither Tavares nor Kieran Tierney looked comfortable mimicking it.
That Zinchenko’s own role in the side is now in doubt – rumour has it a deal for Italy international Riccardo Calafiori is set to be completed – underlines the constant evolution taking place under Arteta.
After time in Portugal and France (Marseille), and with a year at Nottingham Forest under his belt, a move to Serie A represents an exciting new chapter for Tavares.
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— S.S.Lazio (@OfficialSSLazio) July 15, 2024
Given his age and the price paid (similar to what Arsenal will receive from Lazio), he was always seen as a low-risk option. No doubt, Edu will be relieved that the move will wash its face while suggestions we’ve inserted a sell-on clause mean we might even make a profit at some point.
Best of luck to Nuno in Rome, we’ll be curious to see how he gets on.
Season of sell on clauses,lol…we better be getting paid if Leeds is getting 40m for untested players….Amazing that Reiss nelson and ESR aren’t commanding premiums…
Our selling department is awful. What a shame !!
They can’t just magically make another club want to buy our players
The difference between the young Leeds player and our guys is one was playing regularly and impressing, while the other two (our guys) made a few subs and unfortunately did nothing in terms of goals/assists in those appearances. Remarkably players values don’t sustain, let alone increase when they don’t play. What we need is for these guys to light it up on loan, but we haven’t seen enough of that with our recent loanees; hence we continue to struggle to sell players at decent value.
Will never understand why players, especially black players, sign for this racist sh*thouse of a football club.
Probably for the same reason why black players signed for Chelsea: money.
They grew up with Opti Poba as their idol. They all want to follow in his footsteps
I always remember Palio di Canio’s indignation at being accused of racism. “I’m not a racist, I’m a fascist.” Perhaps his club, like his hero Mussolini, is “misunderstood.”
Wonder what those markers are. We’ll find out when their manager ensures his falling short of them. Regardless, hope I’m wrong on this cynical take, and things work out for Tavares.
In deals like this – where the club does genuinely want to buy the player but just wants the fee to count in next years accounts – the markers are the club not getting relegated. If I remember right that is what it was when we sold Guendouzi. And I think when PSG bought Mbappe it was the same.
I know the main reason we struggle to sell our fringe players, to clubs abroad especially, is that clubs can’t afford to match the wages they earn here. But why do we have to offer wages well above a player’s market value in the 1st place? Would Tavares or Lokonga really reject signing for us if we hadn’t offered double what they could hope for elsewhere? Do players really have to be bribed to play for us in particular? Why are Nketiah and Nelson supposedly on £100k per week each? It’s not like any of these players’ stock has fallen… Read more »
Why? Because Abramovich, the Dubai Group, and the Saudis fucked up football irreparably – and the best players demand absurd wages because of the imbalance those fuckers created. Hence, to compete for the signatures of top-class players you have to pay absurd wages. Football is a broken game.
For actual top class players where there is competition for their signature sure, but for guys like Tavares, Lokonga, Nelson, Nketiah?
If they played in any league other than the PL they’d earn half of what they do here. Just because we’re able to offer big wages to fringe players, doesn’t mean we have to, and they still won’t have more lucrative offers elsewhere
We just sign a player and think “they’re young, their value will appreciate, solid financial strategy”. But unless they really make their mark in the first team, their wages make them unsellable
Yeah, but as youngsters with potential you offer them good wages to prevent them from leaving, but as the team improves they struggle for mins and lose value and the big wages you once offered to keep them make it hard to move them later, but if you don’t lock them down then you get slammed for losing talent… Bit of a catch-22 innit?
Exactly, it’s always a gamble with young players whether you sell or keep them. You might say Eddie and Nelson’s stock wasn’t that high but as youngsters there were for sure PLENTY of clubs willing to pay a lot for them purely based on potential and being English. Their stock has actually fallen not because they performed worse, but because they haven’t developed and performed better in line with some expectations, and now they’re no longer youngsters full of potential but rather young-ish players who are probably close to the finished product.
That’s worth chewing on- it makes a lot of sense.🤔
Both nelson and nketiah had less than one year on their previous deals and the agents used this to their advantage, Eddie’s in particular as he is represented by the same person as saka (who also was up for renewal) and used this to Eddie’s advantage.
You can only imagine that they don’t want him around the training ground, as this is the poorest of deals.