Arsenal have announced that Marquinhos will spend the majority of 2025 on loan with Brazil Seria A side Cruzeiro.
The 21 year old forward will spend the duration of the Brazilian season – which runs until December – with the Belo Horizonte based side.
It’s his fourth loan away since joining the club in 2022. He had spells with Norwich and Nantes, before spending last season with Fluminense, where he made 29 appearances – scoring 2 goals and providing 2 assists.
He has made 6 appearances for the Gunners, scoring a goal and making an assist on his debut in a Europa League game against FC Zurich.
Good luck to him on his latest loan adventure.
He has just used his air miles to buy a new air fryer.
Every cloud and all that…
Is he Cruizing to Arsenal door?
Well, if he isn’t able to get in the squad when we’re threadbare in attack… When?
The answer is never
If you want to put a positive spin on it linked to the blog today… we are undeniably threadbare in attack and this is a guy we could have brought back who’s had 20 games this season in a first tier division, so is well ahead of any of our academy options. So the club must be confident they can do something in January better than this, otherwise you’d have held off in case the last resort was bringing him back to bolster numbers.
The worst signing that the club have ever made. Oh! I forgot about Sterling!
If we’re including loans surely Denis Suarez takes the crown.
He was a low risk punt that didnt work out. I dont think he even cracks the top 10 of worst Arsenal signings. Squillaci, Mustafi, Park Chu-Yung, Chamakh, Denis Suarez, Andre Santos, Runarsson…
Bischoff
Kallstrom
1. Free transfer on minimal wages
2. Half season loan
But you’re only looking at fees/money. I was considering other things. For me, in 2014, probably more than any other recent season, was the year we should have won the league. We were pace setters, flying high, and when we needed that boost of talent and energy to get us over the line, the only January signing we made was a player on loan with a broken back. That signing didn’t cost us a high transfer fee. But for me it cost us the league. Had we signed somebody who could have contributed, we could have been premier League winners.… Read more »
Stepanovs, Willian, Pepe…..
I think Mustafi was arguably the most damaging signing made by any big club in England in the last 10 years. Catastrophically bad player in a position we had no other options for a price that was, at the time, a huge deal. Only competition for the crown was Pepe, but Saka came through and made his failure irrelevant.
This is an extremely arsenal centric view. Have you not seen United recently?
I thought the thread was about Arsenal worst signings?
He called Mustafi the most damaging signing made by any club in the past 10 years, which might be the greatest hyperbole I’ve ever heard.
The worst signing Arsenal have ever made on value provided to money invested is Nicolas Pepe, and it’s not close. When you spend that kind of money, it’s because you think you’re getting several seasons of a game changer profile. Pepe became a rotational player by season 2, and accrued no transfer fee on his way out. Complete disaster. Mustafi was bad also but the money involved was half of what we paid for Pepe, and he played a lot more games than Pepe. Wasn’t as bad as you make him out to be either, but of course Arsenal wasn’t… Read more »
For legal reasons we can’t discus why the club paid double the price that Pepe was worth.
Not forgotten haddock face Silvestee
chamakh wasn’t very good, but people criminally underrate him. he had 8 goals in 40 premier league appearances (and a lovely lob for us to win 7-5 against reading at the carling cup). that’s a better goal ratio than reiss nelson (4 in 50), nketiah (19 in 116, a cf btw), iwobi (11 in 100) and the same as pepe (16 in 80). which have all been acclaimed by football experts in this comment section as “greatly underrated players that could become the best 8n their position”. for a more recent comparison, trossard has 16 goals in 72 matches, just… Read more »
Maybe I associate Chamakh too closely with a time we were mostly awful. He had nice little run early on were he scored most of those goals. But I distinctly remember how awkward and unconvincing he was, and that he needed a tonne of chances before he put one away. It was a lovely chip though! And what a game that was! Stayed up late to watch it the night before my o level maths exam.
he did not pass the eye test at all! looked a bit clueless most of the time, but hardly out worst player ever. glad you remember that game though, it was a weird one but holds a special place in my memory. cheers!
Pal bloody Lydersen, pal. Pal bloody Lydersen.
How about “Postman” Sanogo?
Young? Asano, Nwakali etc.
Willie Young?
Willie vs Paul Allen. One of the all time great fouls.
Yep.
Paul Allen. 17 years old. Through on goal in the FA Cup Final and just about to make it 2-0 to West Ham and become the youngest ever FA Cup Final goal scorer.
Then Big Willy does his stuff.
“Sorry, son, you’ve got to go.”
*WALLOP
It was wonderful, wasn’t it?
Willian sends regards
I wish, I could say Mudryk but he never came.
Jeff Blockley.
I’ll raise you a John Hawley
I’ll give you a Ray Hankin.
And I’ll raise you a Lee Chapman.
Pepe surely the worst value Arsenal signing and must be in the top 5 for the PL overall.
Juan Sebastian Veron, Eric Djemba Djemba, Paul Pogba (juve to United) and Mykhalo Mudryk are all worse signings than Pepe for me.
There should be one more somewhere.
kai havertez is the worst. highest paid player salary per week and is horrible in front of goal
You’ve got massivle downvoted, Royal, but you may just be right. Kai Hevertz may well turn out to be Arteta’s Waterloo. Everything was going so well for Arteta until for some crazy reason he decided to invest a huge amount of the club’s money into a player that did nothing to improve the team. Instead, Havertz became a white elephant that couldn’t be dropped but didn’t provide anything important for the team. I’m absoutely certain that the main reason why Arteta won’t buy a striker is that he assured Josh that Havertz was the answer to all Arsenal’s problems. He… Read more »
That’s a strange thing to be certain about
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No, he is not horrible in front of goal. He has produced 24 goal involvements in 2024, which is on par with some big names.
Pity his head couldn’t have got involved with the ball in front of open goal Tuesday night…
No one will agree with me, but I’m convinced Ozil was the most damaging signing we ever made. We went from having stone cold killers like Henry and Bergkamp being the main men of our team, to everything revolving around that spineless whining little boy. I think the way he was indulged infected the whole team, and we didn’t recover until Artera kicked him out. Pepe cost us money. Ozil cost us our culture.
Even if I agreed, which I don’t, there was a very big gap between Ozil and Henry (not counting 2012)/Bergkamp. A gap filled with a lot of other players of varying degrees of success.
True, but I think Ozil – or at least how Wenger indulged him – was the thing that finally broke any connection we had to the mindset the team had in the Henry / Bergkamp era.
Mkhitaryan or Gervinho. I was gutted when we lost Sanchez and he came for 5 mins and Gervinho, his boots were made of Toblerone
To unearth another Martinelli you have to risk a Marquinhos on the way. I hope we “waste” £5-10m on a kid every summer given our current 50% success rate!
Fully agree. Although top talents are mostly going to Spain.
Or Portugal
Off topic, addressing the consternation about results and transfer activity. Results wise, we are 5 points worse than last season from the same fixtures, with much worse injury and red card luck. Liverpool have only played 3 of their top 12 most difficult away fixtures, while we’ve played 10 of ours. The last game against Newcastle was hugely frustrating, but not because we were second best. It’s football, and the better team doesn’t always win. Transfers wise, Arsenal are said to have about 150 million in head room before PSR regulations become an issue. That’s about what it’s going to… Read more »
The Athletic’s JJ Bull released a video yesterday but did not convince me with his suggestions.
I enjoyed Nico Williams during last Euro but I agree it does not seem like a huge upgrade.
To be fair I don’t see who we could get that who be an instant upgrade without costing 100+ millions..
This might be unpopular but I like Hudson-Odoi as an attainable target on the LW. He’s going to be entering the last year of his contract soon. He’s got a nice mix of passing and carrying ability and strikes it really well on that right foot when he cuts inside. Was once a blue chip prospect before his big injury, but staying fit in the PL consistently now and still just 24. Doesn’t take people on that much but a big threat with a cross or shot from the edge of the box. I also like Burnley’s Koleosho just for… Read more »
With the greatest respect, they might be solid midtable players but are not what we need. We didn’t sell ESR, Nketiah, Nelson to replace them with weaker players. We need attacking reinforcements but anyone we sign must be an upgrade on Martinelli, Trossard, Jesus, Havertz etc
I might very well be wrong about these players. That said, I think player scouting is about projecting skillset to needs, as well as profiling fit, and then make all of that work within a budget, so these are not aspirational targets so much as doable options that could really help. CHO gives quality decision making and ball striking in the final 3rd, which are Martinelli’s greatest weaknesses, so they complement each other well. Koleosho gives electric pace and take ons in volume, which are both lacking in the squad. And I think both can be had for < 30… Read more »
Here’s some helpful context on Koleosho. These numbers are not be all end all but he’s in pretty good company with Savio, Yamal and Garnacho. Being top 5 at anything in your age group is nothing to sniff at.
CHO and Koleosho have both flashed briefly on my radar, and the latter’s stats look great. My pessimistic view is that whomever we purchase we are back to facing a low block and playing tippy-tappy in the final third. One possibility which I would like to see is a change of philosophy so we can take advantage of players’ pace and take-ons albeit with less control. Another possibility is an “Isak” (eventually) who will improve our efficiency in front of goal with the current system. Ideally, I would like to see more fast-paced football AND a killer striker. This doesn’t… Read more »
Both are ok for me although I think only CHO would have an immediate impact. I don’t think he would want to leave Forrest tho.
I don’t think we’ll find someone this month but will go for someone like Mbeumo, Williams, Kudus in the summer.
So you’re actually saying we were the better team against Newcastle? Seriously? Are you part of the club’s PR team or something? Your “takes” over the last few weeks have been ridic…”we will beat everyone by controlling the shit out of games…we don’t need a goal scorer etc etc etc”
The discussion is after a very frustrating game, and so yes, negativity plays a role. The excuse is that we don’t have Saka, and we had three players who just recovered from a bug. But our style of play has not been great this season. We are second in PL and on a good run in CL, and no one would say that’s a disaster, though, people are talking about how to go one position higher. Talking about easy and hard fixtures, I would say this Liverpool with 10+ points margin will have the energy and eager to win every… Read more »
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but Liverpool’s current margin is 9 at best.
That’s true. I meant once they get to that point…
Your point about the away games Liverpool still have to play is so much more significant than people seem to realise. The top teams drop very few points across a season. The majority of the ones they do drop come in the games Liverpool haven’t played yet. It’s the midway point of a race where we’ve been running up hill while they’ve been running down. They might be ahead now, but they still have the uphill part to come.
I think a big margin plays a big role in confidence and druve to win th league. There have been counterexamples, but I would rather not to remind them.
Pepe has to be the worst.
I don’t know what it is, but I’m starting to think this guy won’t be making it at Arsenal