Morgan Rogers Update
• Morgan Rogers has given preference to joining the English champions. Other clubs are still actively in the race but acknowledge the player's current preference.
• Morgan Rogers has respectfully communicated his desire to leave to senior figures at Villa (significant).
• Personal terms have been explored and are not a hindrance at all.
• Morgan Rogers is sold on the Mikel Arteta project and plan for him.
• Morgan Rogers was on the shortlist of attacking reinforcements Arsenal discussed last summer.
• My understanding is that Villa and Arsenal are in contact through unofficial channels regarding any potential deal. Remember my words: the fee is key to this deal. The player is fully on board.
• Andrea Berta has asked to be kept fully informed about any other club making a move for Morgan. If Arsenal do make a move, there will be another update.
Chelsea, in particular, have been pleading with Morgan to showcase their plan for him, but as of today, the response is "Arsenal." Manchester United have also explored the situation of Morgan, with Carrick being a big fan.
Bradley Barcola and one other player are also of interest to Arsenal. Details on that in due time.
Arsenal are also in direct contact with multiple midfielders, as recently as a few days ago. The likes of Bouaddi, Scott, Kone, Larsson, and two others. As I mentioned yesterday, we are yet to make contact with any club officially while Berta explores personal terms with all of them. One of these players is convinced he is joining Arsenal. It's important to remember that Livramento also felt the same way, but it highlights how strong the conversations are.
Arsenal are also monitoring the Madrid midfielder situation. Tonali was offered to us in January; talks have never surpassed personal terms as of today. These clubs are using Elliot Anderson's deal as a market scale. Newcastle want crazy money, as do Palace for Wharton.
Personally, I hope its Ayyoub Bouaddi we accelerate a move for!
Taking a very short holiday. I'll be back!
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@AFCYop_ Bit worried about us getting him because of how we would use him from what I’ve seen good press, good final third tackling , late runs into box, drops deep to help build up, press resistant…. Remind you of someone?
People have been asking me where I’ve been, here’s where…
For the past couple months I’ve been working a dream job as a First Team Scout for Como 1907.
“There’s always a Ben Mattinson tweet” has gone professional. Only God!🙌🏽
To not only land my first role at a club, but for it to be Como, a project I’ve spoken about so much, I’m over the moon. My first Arsenal shirt had #4 for Cesc Fábregas. Now he’s the manager at the club I work for. Surreal.
I always had aspirations to work in football but didn’t know how to achieve it. Just over 2 years ago I started using my personal Twitter account to post threads on upcoming players as a portfolio of work in hope that I’d one day land a dream job. What I didn’t expect was to be a part of a great community, connect with so many amazing people and meet some lifelong friends.
My goal has always been to showcase an eye for talent and constantly strive for development to improve my process along the way. Learning never stops. A platform like this enabled me to learn from great minds.
It’s never been about engagement, likes or followers etc. It was about being obsessed with identifying and analysing talent but most importantly, being consistent.
For anyone looking to go down a similar route, I can’t stress this enough… SHOW UP. When you don’t feel like it, show up. When it’s the last thing you feel like doing, show up. Consistency is everything.
I would spend time watching games of a player, making notes, write a thread on them, collect videos and photos, only for it to get 5 likes. But my consistency meant I didn’t care, I knew the constant content would compound and ‘force’ my goals to happen.
Anyways, thank you all for the support along the journey. We’re just getting started.
Garnacho should be 45M minimum with heavy sell-ons.
His market price is 50-55M. Brennan, Elanga, Madueke, Gordon etc.
Shave off a few for the desperation to let him go.
Understand Kiwior waiting for green light to travel to Porto for medical.
All club wants a swift completion of deal, and Porto pushing for it to be done today.
@Ak0320p Purple patch merino saved our life but I agree however we don’t know the extent of havertz injury could only be out for a month, we get two players on loan that’s 10 attackers ( Nelson, trossard, havertz, gyokeres, saka, madueke, downman/ethan, eze, + 2 players on loan.)