So RIP to the cord Charles! Will feel like an end of an era

Kimmich could easily play at high high level til he is at least 36. He has the class and tenacity to take our squad to an entirely different level. Him holding, Rice in the 8, and odegaard in the attacking midfield position would be a midfield to be reckoned with. This is the type of player we need to really get over a team like City. We must also recognize the fact that we need to win titles NOW. Kimmich is in his prime - physically, mentally and technically. His versatility and experience would be critical to our success. Would allow Odegaard to not have to drop so deep to receive the ball either.

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Charles, the Kimmich disrespect by this fanbase is genuinely embarrassing. The pool of CL winning leaders is tiny. We would be lucky to get him. If he signs for City, they will be clear favourites for the title again.

Hi Charles, it's an absolute yes to Kimmich. He immediately improves the squad, can play in multiple positions, experience, leadership and most importantly he is a serial winner

In regards to your conversation about the kids - I feel like a lot of our fanbase have some absolutely bizarre perspectives on how old these players are and how far along their development they are. As you pointed out we haven't lost anyone significant off our books outside of Omari and he was a Chelsea fan so you can put that down to extenuating circumstances. We've brought through Eddie ESR Saka etc... during quite a barren run for our youth academy outside of these players. At the end of the day we haven't been pumping infinite resources into the academy like Chelsea or City have been for a while now - so our fans are latching onto players (like Reull) who just didn't cut the mustard and saying "why isn't he playing! City play kids!". If he was at City he wouldn't be playing either. Then last year I saw loads of people comparing Oscar Bobb getting starts to Nwaneri. Oscar Bobb made his debut at the age of 19. If Nwaneri made his debut at the same age we wouldn't see him play until the 2026/27 season. Our fans need to be way more aware of players ages and what can be expected of them at that age rather than crying about them not getting minutes in pivotal season where we can't afford to drop off if we want to compete for trophies. Hopefully with the promised increase in funding into academy talent we will start seeing more players come through over the coming years - but playing a load of kids in the league cup, most of whom if they pan out we could sell to a championship club for a million quid isn't going to change the trajectory of the club so please stop moaning about it

Kimmich and Eze would be 2 incredible midfield signings. The flexibility and cover in all areas we would have with those 2 would be exactly what we have been missing the last few years. Kimmich will play at a high level still for a long time- and Eze is just hitting his prime.

Kimmich would be a huge signing but 375k a week is possibly too much

Yes, so the Italian coach is saying exactly what we're observing. When we dominate possession, it's OK to have Jorginho playing but when there is more of a contest he is not as energetic and able to compete at the level needed.

Hey Charles, love the content! I think that kimmich would be an incredible signing for next season. The experience he brings as well as the versatility would be a huge plus. I think we could end up seeing a lot of interchangeable movement between him and white with him inverting which would cause massive problems for other teams. Only concern would be potential wages but other than that I have no qualms about it at all! Keep up the good work! Lewis

Maybe I see things differently, but kimmich ia a given. He replaces Jorginho, who replaced Elnenny. And to boot, he gives us incredible technical ability across multiple positions. Add in Bruno, Eze, Kadioglu and Gyokeres and I think we dominate next season. COYG N5 AFC

Thanks for the updates as always Charles. Was getting curious about the Gyokeres situation as it's been constantly coming up in my "Arsenal news" (aka "latest Arsenal meaningless crapola") searches. Hadn't seen anything though from reliable sources such as yourself, Arseblog, Ornstein, or Fabrizio Romano (lately aka the "Chelsea Transfer News Channel").

Do your vid from the Bathtub, Charles. Its all the rage. (Good acoustics, too).

I think this would be massive as a signing for Arsenal in my opinion

Sustainability of squad kind of merits a younger player than Kimmich coming in this summer, especially as Sambi Lokonga has not worked out. It’s a transfer that doesn’t make sense based on what the club was saying regarding plans ahead of this window. That said, if it happens I’m with you Charles, I won’t object, and the transfer setup at Arsenal has credit in the bank for trust this summer window.

We need to improve our sales, the effect of playing our young guns in the Carabao Cup means they are in the shop window. We've got a lot of players that will not get a look in and ther value will not increase, this gives proper experience at a good level and shows other teams the talent we have, improving our ability to sell. Increased sales ability brings increased recruitment availablity and leads to a better more competitive team.

ESR is probably not doing it in training and I reckon his injury is a lot worse than we know.

Hey Charles, I was only arguing with a friend of mine who is a United fan the other day about Rice being the 2nd best 6 in the world under Rodri and my friend said Kimmich and I had to give it to him. It's great to be on that list of clubs he wants to play for but Partey or Jorgie would have to go to fit him in. It's a no brainer for me, we will win the league with him Rice and Odegaard in the middle.... As well Kimmich under Tuchel has been an inverted full back so he can step in there if needed as well. I really hope this happens now

Joshua Kimmich would be an interesting signing from a win-now or win-soon perspective. He could fill two roles: in midfield and at RB. He played under Pep so is familiar with positional play. I don't mind signing some older players, as we could use some more experience in the squad. Main issues are his age and salary.

The Eze release clause structure has nothing to do with PSR and purely just impacts club cashflows. For PSR purposes the £60m release clause stretched over a 5 year contracted is still £12m in PSR due to accounting principle of amortization regardless of the exact structure of payment. Similarly, I believe with all Spanish release clauses they would have to be paid in full up front so similarly would have potential cashflow implications but not necessarily PSR implications. Cashflow questions can be fully covered by KSE however so it's just a matter of if the Kroenke's want to cover that potential cost up front.

I commented on one of your videos like 3-4 weeks ago saying why Eze would be perfect…it’s obvious that he’s a great fit. I bet we’ll wait and see if we have any injuries to address before pay £50m up front. Plus to the guy that said he’s the same profile as ESR, he is not. He’s much more like Odegaard with a bit of Saka

Charles just a quick note on the financial point. There is no connection between when the money is paid and whether it can be amortised over the life time of the contract. You can pay the whole thing on day 1 and still amortise the expenditure so it’s spread over a number of years. The club would have to find the actual cash in year one though, so that might mean interest charges etc and there might be cash flow reasons to not want to do this.

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Hey Charles, we family and we've seen you do one in your car. So no stress there. 😊

I’m currently on paternity leave and I would genuinely lose track of the days without your daily videos, keep up the good work! I think kimmich is a better option than de jong for a better price (and similar wages?). He can play in the midfield and would be an improvement over partey at the inverted rb role. He’s also a proven winner, has experience playing for a big club, and has many good years left in him. For me it’s a no brainer if we can get him. COYG!

Hi Charles. People claiming Eze can play on the wing are basing this off his FIFA card more than his performances. I wonder if they watch Palace very much at all. Palace fans will openly tell you he is very poor on the wing. Eze is best through the middle.

Eze is totally different to ESR. They can play left 8 or from left flank yes, but thats where the similarities end, people who say they are similar obviously havent watched Eze

Eze 100%, nothing left out, we need to find the money Crystal Place wants upfront.

Loving your work Charles. Do you think whenever we do decide to buy a new number 9 it will be a taller, stronger 9 (like havertz, sesko etc) rather than a smaller quicker striker? This comes after seeing some exciting play by openda for belgium but not sure arteta likes that profile…

would love to see him at the club

Kimmich would be an elite signing, he’s a leader and winner, is very intelligent on and off the ball, very versatile and would compliment Rice so well in the midfield, the only sticking point would be the wages.

Charles, Xhaka is 31 and just seems to be getting better and more influential for all his teams. Kimmich would be that player. Class is permanent.

Hi Charles. Questions about ESR. There is a lot of talk about his skills/abilities, but do you think part of the reason why Arteta doesn't use him is because he is too weak in the duels? Havertz is taller than ESR but not that much more muscular, but puts a hell of a lot more in every duel. Ødegaard may not be that strong in a duel, but he runs and works like a madman. From everything I've seen of ESR, I feel he lacks something in both of those areas. And is this more mental thing?

Hi Charles, what is your thoughts on Dani Olmo? with a €60m release clause surely he must be a realistic option for further strenthening our attacking and midfield options. Would love to hear your thoughts on this as he has been exceptional and one of Spains standout players so far in the Euros.

Charles, during the last 24 hours,we have been linked to Mikel Merino and Guirassy. They are good players, but doesn't seem to fit that age profile Arteta and Edu set up. If they are seen as Trossard type players(quality squad player), i wouldn't mind. Definitely not a ceiling raiser type of signings.How do you think of this links?

great to see Kimmich in joining us.

Hello Charles, I enjoy your posts and try to listen in as much as I can. I however think you completely misunderstood my comments regarding Arsene taking advantage of the League cup. Did playing our younger players boost performance levels and therefore value of our academy players? Yes. Did it enable the club show the young ones they were in the managers plans? Yes. Wenger never saw the League cup as must win so I think you shouldn’t make it seem like that was the club’s set target.

Kimmich's Mentality is 🔥. We need that

Charles, Did you look at your car when you said " even if I have to do it from my car " ? 😂 I think the viewers deeply miss the car videos so it may just be for the greater good. Also I'd rather we won the league cup next season, as its during the season & motivates the squad even further towards the final hurdles. Lastly I think Yunas Musah , Donyell Malen & maybe Ismael Bennacer would of been a few youth players that springs to mind that I'd liked to have held onto wiser with smart loans, best of luck to Amario. Cozier-Duberry.

No point keeping ESR if hes not in Arteta's plans, would like him to stay but need to move him on in order to have another player hes confident in

Hi Charles! Heard from TNAT that we are looking for 40M for ESR, in that case wouldn’t a swap deal with Eze makes a lot of sense? 40 for ESR and 65 for Eze looks fantastic for both teams on account books

Hi Charles. Seeing as the decorating is happening, will a cable tidy be deployed on the TV cables? I think this is the key Arsenal related issue this summer. Yours hopefully, Chris

I would take Kimmich but would probably be as a upgrade to zinchenko. Steep on the wages though is the only thing that puts me off!

Hiya Charles, I would love to know more about the role an Agent plays in a transfer. I often see rumours of very large agent fees for certain transfers but not others (e.g. Zirkzee) but I'm not sure what is actually dictating these agent fees. Do you feel agent's have got a little out of hand now and are dictating transfers too much, should there be more regulation around this? Just wondering what your thoughts are. Keep up the great work Charles. From Luke

Let's have an old skool car based vid, Charles 😁

Hi Charles, I wonder how do you feel about us going into the new season with Kai Havertz as our main striker. I feel like we should really prioritise on getting an out and out lethal goalscorer such as Gyokeres as I still think we can’t rely on Havertz throughout the season despite the revival he had during the 2nd half of last season. We could see how it helps Germany when Kai doesn’t come through with the goals as they can bring on a different option in Fullkrug with more aerial ability and directness towards goal. It also helped Madrid in the semis vs Bayern when Joselu came through. Financially i think we should keep Partey if we can’t get a midfielder we want for the right price and we could use Jesus as a back up wide attacker as he has done well there for city.

The way Charles defends the Arsenal youth policy. Such a company man. A little bit ridiculous

I dont think we need another 8. Arteta should use creative goalscoring half 8 and half 10 in ESR and Odegaard. Rice can comfortably play 6 on his own with Saliba and Gabriel begind him. I think the players we need to win the league are a replacement for Saka and a super 9

As I’ve said before: Kimmich would be perfect as long as he plays as a CDM and not a RB. Makes sense in a lot off ways: age (as the market isnt amazing now, give him a 3+1 yr deal), xp, price, versitility and QUALITY (we are ready to push for titles now)

Should be no stone left overturned for the Eze deal. £60 million release clause get it done. We have so many squad players we can use as leverage in this transfer window or sell for complete profit. Wouldn't be shocked if Ornstein wasn't aware of this deal as no journalist had a sniff of the Fabio Vieira deal from Porto

Charles: after the Brazilian performance tonight. I’d rather take Partey playing 15 games a season than your guy Bruno Guimares fully fit a whole season.

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£20m a year for a 5 year contract is the same as buying a 100m player and amortising over 5 years - personally would prefer to take Neves for 100m but I can see the case for Kimmich

This Kimmich news was reported a couple months ago, nothing new added to it.

Hey, any thoughts on Charlie Latino?

If we got Kimmich and Eze i can definitely see us going very close to winning the title. I would sign him in a heartbeat but his wage demand maybe an issue as I think he will hold out until next season to leave Bayern on a free and get a huge signing-on fee, so I can actually see him going to either City or Barcelona, but you cannot have too many top class leaders in your team and Kimmich is one of them.

With Kimmich it depends on price and wage demands. When you pay over the odds it denies another signing opportunity. I'm still of the mind that any signing isn't going to radically improve us because as you get better the margin of improvement is smaller- we lost the League by just 2 points, basically 1 game out of 38 needed to be better. That's why although these connections pique my interest I actually don't care because all i hope for is Arteta and Edu get the players they want most- and we have no idea who they are because we don't really know how Mikel will tinker with things based on recruitment next season.

I see where you’re coming from Charles but the Kimmich deal is a no brainer for a club that needs to be in ‘win-now mode’ especially if you can get him cut price with a year left. He would give us a tempo control option in the six that also has optimal capabilities as a destroyer therefore freeing up Rice as the eight if that’s what Mikel wants. I also feel it legitimises our depth at six with a reliable world class talent like him with Partey and Jorginho as back ups. In all likelihood we’d even have to move Partey on but then that’s where with Kimmich being more reliable physically you can integrate Lewis-Skelly closer to the first team knowing you have the insurance policy of Kimmich being available week in week out anyway

Kimmich must have had a word with Havertz about Arsenal

I would love Kimmich to join Arsenal. Can cover multiple positions, and I believe his personality will fit perfectly. Age, not an issue, speed is not part of his game, and he has a good injury history

I would defo take kimmich in a heart beat to be honest anyone that can bring experience to this squad is what we need now

We have a vibrant young team, very good chemistry. Why bring in a 29 yr old "last big payday" risk to that chemistry? Resting on laurels, etc is a bad apple.

Let’s goooo King Charles

Howdo Charles If Olise heads Bayern this must mean one or some of their established wingers could become a great market opportunity Who do you think it could be and who would you like it to be if we were to be interested in signing them? Cheers as always for the content Peace & Light Ben Randm🙏🏾💗🙌🏾

Hello Charles. Maybe you could skip tommorowa video because as you said, the news is a bit dry because of the euros. So you could combine the news of the past 2 days and make a better quality video

Kimmich is obviously a legend and an elite player. But I highly doubt we will break our age and wage structure to get him.

I have a question about the Arsenal youth players. Seems like there's a lot more talk in the last couple years about youth players. However with how high the level is at the club and Arteta's seeming lack of interest in giving playtime to subs in the first team like ESR, Nelson, and Vieira (let alone youth players), do you think there's a realistic path for Arsenal youngsters to get in the first team? If so, what is it? It seems like a lot of the prospects like Biereth or Patino would rather just go somewhere else and get assured play time than stay at Arsenal. -Cody

Get Kimmich in I say, still a class player with some years left and plays about 4 different positions

Will they decorate that cable away Charles? 😅

Kimmich is pure class! However, his age and salary might be a worry. We might get 2 to 3 good years out of him, but at what cost? I would rather go for a younger player with sell-on value, or develop one of our fringe players/youngsters into that position.

On sell on value for Kimmich; it doesnt matter as he would be cheap. No real downside in my mind

Why go for Kimmich while Zubimendi is available?

We have white making 25 and timber . Tomi and kiwior. Upgrade Rosiak and give these academy boys chance.

And what is Omari Hutchinson doing now at Chelsea?Young Players leave clubs for a variety of reasons, can't blame the club for that. We wish them all well. There are many mitigating reasons. Haven't seen any of these young players who left become top class players in the leagues around Europe so a bit of perspective is needed.

Arsenal have Eberechi Eze in person of smith Row

I'd love to have Josh Kimmich join us. We could look for a swap deal too as apparently Vincent Kompany would like to bring Zinchenko and Lokonga to Bayern Munich I'd also like us to resign Serge Gnabry.

Everyone wants us to be a top, title challenging club but they also want us to be giving every potential youngster a consistent run of games in the first team to develop and become incredible. Unless your youngster is mbappe or bellingham every club that plays lots of unproven youngsters in their first team is middle of the table at best. And yes when it pays off it looks great and they make lots of money, but no one talks about how the others didnt work and that a club like brighton is sitting mid table and never considered to be a potential titlw challenger. What do we as Arsenal fans really want? I want the title

A mf trio of Declan rice, Odegaard and Kimmich is mind blowing

We need ready player like kimmich to win us the PL...i would go for Kane too.😅😅

I wouldn't mind if Arsenal upper brass will be acquiring Kimmich, despise his age.

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I wouldn't really have Eze down as a left 8, He's much more of a 10 or a winger not sure why everyone seems to have him as a midfielder.

What is the point of selling a 30 year old party to replace him with a 29 year old ?? Doesn’t make sense. This won’t happen. Ede even gave a short term deal for Jorinio

100% if can get Kimmich should get Kimmich.

Kimmich very poor against Swiss, last night. Came up against sort of tactics we get week in, week out in Premiership, so do not feel he is the answer!

Kimmich sorts this club is all we need in this squad. Keep the squad together add kimmich. We are good

How about a summer competition? Who gets to write the letters AFC in the funniest way, in the funniest place. With flowers in the garden, with beer cans in the square, with seashells in the sand. Or an Arsenal hat on the little mermaid, 10 feet tall Lego letters........ Submit, a photo and win. Was it an idea during this PL break. 😃

Hi Charles 👋, I hope all is good 👋 👦 ☺️ 👍 😊 🙏. I would like Arsenal to keep Emile Smith Rowe and give him minutes and I would like Arsenal to sign Eze too because he is amazing on and off the ball. COYE to bring it home 🏡 God willing. Arsenal rocks 🏆 🙏 🤲 🪨 🎸 😎.

I wonder if the people would still be talking about esr if we were to sign wirtz or musiala

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We still need another midfielder even if Kimmich signs. I actually don't want him. He's probably only good for another 2 years before the rapid inevitable drop that comes with age. Look at Son, Kane etc. Kimmich also has an attitude problem and tends to blame and yell at his teammates on the pitch. He won't have the same pull at Arsenal as he does at Bayern. I can actually see Arteta and Kimmich butting heads. This is going to be a poor decision imo. I get people want him for experience, but if that comes at a cost of disrupting the squad, he's not worth it, let alone the high wages as well

ESR, EDDIE, NELSON, for me these players have missed their opportunity and have got very Complacent like they are happy just to take a wage. Time for new blood

You always having a go at the manager. He's doing a good job!!

On giving young players chances, I believe arteta should NOT play young players in the cups. Arteta should put out strong teams in the cups, and try to WIN the damn trophies. once we have consistently won the cups 3-4 years in a row, maybe in the 5th year we can think about blooding in young talent via cups. But we cant talk like the cups dont matter and we can start academy players in them. We have not won a trophy for 4 years now. I'd be livid if Arteta started academy graduates or even players like Fabio Viera in the cups, unless we are playing a team from League Two or non league maybe, then we can think about starting Fabio Viera.

If you can't do your show at home, you should try doing it in front of The Emirates.

anyone having an issue with sound? Just tested with/withought headphones on other vids and its all fine but this latest one isnt putting out sound

Eze is actually an Arsenal fan so am sure he will live to come here! Having said that we have ESR

I really can't understand the argument to play our first team in the League Cup, it is meaningless, winning it won't award anyone with any credit as it is considered worthless, compared to other priorities and you can't challenge for all four honours with this squad, especially since there will be even more game congestion with internationals in the form of WC qualifiers this season coming. We simply can't risk fatigue or worse still injuries in the "Teacup" which could derail our potential title charge. It is imperative we prioritise PL and CL imo. Until this team and Arteta win one of these two major honours they will not be considered a success and your peers in the media will undoubtedly agree with this sentiment as well. Arteta already won an FA Cup and still not respected by rival fanbases. PL title and they will have no choice and tbh having now been 21 years since the last title, it is massively overdue and the least the fans deserve after such a huge drought and especially frustrating period in the latter part of Wenger's tenure.

The "it's not my money" stance that fans take doesn't wash with me at all. Yes its "not your money" but its the clubs money and especially in the PSR era that means that using it poorly prevents other opportunities. Wouldn't mind us sigining Kimmich, not becuase "it's not my money" but because I think it would be a decent usage of the clubs resources. The club could spend 200m to bring back Yaya Sanogo for all I care in terms of my personal finances - but it would hamstring them sporting wise for years to do so. This is why I do care about what the club spends money on and the "its not my money" cope that fans come out with is just silly