Chelsea take on Arsenal this weekend in their first big test of the new Premier League season, and all eyes will surely be on Morgan Rogers.
The England international was notably a top target for the Gunners for much of the summer transfer window, before the Blues quickly pounced to get a deal done for a whopping £117m.
With Arsenal later also missing out on ambitious targets such as Vinicius Junior and Julian Alvarez in attack, it ended up being a hugely frustrating summer, and there’ll be many Gooners wishing their club had been more decisive in paying up for Rogers.
Still, as fans look into how to buy Arsenal vs Chelsea tickets for tomorrow’s big match, perhaps it’s also worth reflecting on an Arsenal player who got away from Xabi Alonso’s side.
Bruno Guimaraes would’ve been perfect to replace Enzo Fernandez at Chelsea
Arsenal may not have signed that game-changing forward or winger this summer, but they still had a strong window by bringing in proven Premier League winners in the form of Bruno Guimaraes and Ezri Konsa.
Guimaraes is one of the best midfielders in the Premier League and cost just £75m in a summer when clubs were over-paying for similar or inferior players all over the shop.
One such deal was Enzo Fernandez, who left Chelsea for Manchester City for a staggering £125m, joining Elliot Anderson (£116m) and Ayyoub Bouaddi (£86m) at the Etihad Stadium.
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Crucially for Chelsea, by the time they sold Fernandez it was too late to sign a replacement, with many of the big midfielder deals already being done and dusted.
Any one of Anderson, or perhaps Sandro Tonali or Carlos Baleba, could surely have been a good signing to bolster Chelsea’s midfield, but Guimaraes would’ve been the cheapest and probably most ideal signing to not only replace Fernandez, but arguably give the Blues an upgrade in that position.
Interestingly, Chelsea were also linked with another Arsenal player in Martin Zubimendi at various points, and that’s a sign of just how good the Gunners’ squad depth is now as he’s probably fallen behind Guimaraes in the pecking order.
Some time all those srastatics work many times it fails what I am saying is Morgan Rogers Bruno Gumareas Anderson are all good players but don’t be surprised they can be swallowed by there present clubs because some players strive in a smaller clubs than in a bigger clubs the mindsets of players matters so we will all fold our hands and watch them some time before saying they good, better or the best every season a new players emerge we all can remember the transfer of Eden Harvard to Real Madrid or Nicolas Anelka from Arsenal to Real Madrid the two aforementioned players are very good players but by the time they they left there old clubs to the new ones they never remain the same it do happen we all can also remembered Alexander Helb to Barcelona from Arsenal it didn’t work environment can change the mindset of some people let us watch them for the season whether they will improve more than they are before or not.