Morning Charles, as I sit here in an un-slept daze in Basildon hospital, after witnessing the birth of my first child (daughter) - I can always rely on you for an 11 am Arsenal update to provide some equilibrium - As the old saying goes - Death, Taxes and a Charles Watts morning update Ps thank you to my baby girl for not holding out till Sunday! 😂 Cheers Dan

Rice has coverwd more distance than anyone else in the Euros. He is pivotal to this England side. Make no mistake about it

What happen to the 115 charges against City?

HIGH WATTAGE ⚡⚡⚡

Hey Charles, Liam Delap was sold by City for 20 million pounds! And a 20% sell on clause. I know he played well for Hull but still that is quite a large sum of money. Credit to City, they sell well. Sometimes I wonder whether transfer sums are for the book and the money is moved around underhand. I'm not accusing anyone or anything but just thinking generally and certainly not related to the above point.

Hi Charles 👋, I hope all is good 👋 👦 ☺️ 👍 😊 🙏. The England 🇬🇧 squad needs to believe mentally they are the best in Europe 🇪🇺.

TBH, if Ramsdale is not sold, I would expect him to take a short break and try starting in our preseasons.

Meaning arteta will be even more ruthless in picking who play

Hi Charles, Quick question! What’s the difference between a loan with an obligation and a permanent transfer with the fee spread over the player’s contract or over X amount of years? Cheers, Lee COYG

Love Arsenal....but the value for the fan watching games in the pre season in USA is impacted with the absences......

This could be one of our most underwhelming windows in a while

I don’t understand why we would agree to a loan for Lokonga without a mandatory transfer. He just had a reasonable season for Luton in the premier league. There must be a bigger market than just Sevilla for him.

It is presumptuous and preposterous to believe Arteta will not be supporting Spain, and why shouldn’t he? He is a Spain National 🇪🇸

We all know Sevilla are not paying it. It’s a poor deal from Arsenal. Unless he becomes one of the best midfielders in La liga (doubtful) he will be back next summer when he will be sold for about £4m as he will have a year left and Arsenal will be desperate to just get some money in.

Hi Charles. Not Arsenal related but I think we should do everything we can possible and try and get Jurgen Klopp to replace Southgate next. Just imagine what he could do with this group of players and the levels that he would take them up.

Imagine if Southgate came up with something crazy in the final and shocks the football world

Hey Charles, Have you watched the season in review part 1 that arsenal put out on their channel? It’s very interesting to see how different the team was at the beginning of the season. One of the main standouts was Eddie. He was scoring goals left and right to include a hat trick. What do you think happened for him to lose his spot/after seeing his performances in the early season does that make you wonder whether we should integrate him into the squad or stick to the 50mil price tag? Also Viera, zinchenko, and some others played a lot more than I remembered early on and looked great. Makes you appreciate/value the squad depth. Would like to hear your thoughts

I thought Lokonga’s loan had a mandatory clause to buy as long as he hits agreed performance targets….? Arsenal would be idiots to agree to just a straight loan again and lose yet more money while doing yet another club a favour, surely 😢

hi CW hope all is well great content as always. Everyone keeps saying we need a CF but i think we need a winger more, someone like M Kudus from West ham given the fact that Arteta like he's versatile can play wherever he's required. what's your thoughts. keep up the great work . Ashwon from Cape town

People can't resist the opportunity to dump crap on Arsenal players. I don't understand this hate. Rice has been decent in most games and I'm sure no one would have said anything negative about him if he were still at West Ham.

Declan Rice has been genuinely shocking, his SHORT pass completion is at 93.8%. That means he’s misplaced 15 SHORT passes. Mainoo was at 96.6 for example playing just over half the minutes of Declan Rice. Out of 530 attempted passes only 4 were key passes. Mainoo made 3 in 203 attempts. Rice contributed 0.5 expect goals + assists all tournament compared to Mainoo 0.8. Declan rice 3.5 tackles and interceptions per 90 against Mainoos 3.4 (playing further up the pitch as well). Rice tackle completion was at 62.5% whereas Mainoo was at 80%. Top it of with the eye test looked like a deer in headlights for 70+ minutes a game. I think he had moments were he did things other England players couldn’t do, and I agree hes our best DM, but don’t peddle this nonsense that he was even at least average this tournement. If you watch the full 90s again and watch the moments England lose the ball in the middle third it was usually Rice. Trying to blame Mainoo for rices poor moments just embarrassing. Im not even a United fan. When 90% of the world is telling you he was bad and the other 10% is Arsenal fans you surely have to take a look at yourself.

@charles Knowing the Euro and Copa tournaments were going to be taking place this summer, I would have expected the club to have identified targets and have had transfer plans in place well in advance-similar to the manner in which the Declan Rice transfer was handled. I don’t think the first team needs much improvement, and the focus is most likely on improving the second team, but it just seems we are lagging-AGAIN!

No deals done are good deals we over pay for players most times and under sale our players if Sambi and Nuno were at Chelsea no way will they’ll be sold for that low. You can’t explain how Chelsea academy players are sold for more than our 1st team squad players. We need to overhaul the transfer team sack the negotiators and hire new someone competent to handle our transfers.

Hi charles, thanks for the good work. Are you certain we'll sign a striker?

Declan Rice has been a monster in the Euros, apart from the Xavi goal for which he was culpable, he has been one of the best dms in the tournament. He hit the post twice in a couple of games, had he scored, these casuals would have been singing another tune.

With Sambi, there’s a €3m loan fee too so if they do trigger the release clause then it’ll be €15m total which isn’t too bad

Hello Charles, do you think Bologna demands of €50M, bonuses, and sell on clause for Calafiori deal could make Arsenal pull out of the deal and do you see Ferdi Kadioglu as a better alternative to him. Dr Kunle from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Hi Charles, if you had to pick just TWO more players who would you prefer out of Kimmich, Merino, Eze or Gyokeres?

HEY BABY, WAKE UP, CHARLIE HAS DROPPED A NEW VIDEO

Hi Charles, greetings from Atlanta, Georgia. Has there been any update on Charlie Patino? It seemed like he was doing well on loan and so I thought it was a lock for Swansea to buy him at a decent price.

Hey Charles, how do you feel about the la liga president getting involved in transfer business for Barcelona. He made comments about the Nico Williams situation. Very inappropriate in my opinion.

Hi Charles who do you think arteta would b backing in the finals? England with the arsenal player or spain . I wanna see saka rice and ramsdale win

8:00 profit! No it doesn’t. Amortisation affects the balance sheet and not profit and loss.

I really hope that Rice and Saka gain a reputation as being rubbish. Then they will be Arsenal players until the end of their careers.

What would Charles video be without an apology? 😂😂

I wonder if Villa will go for Smith-Rowe next. You all must take a look of the figures some clubs in the prem who have sold 1st team & youth team players for. Crucial to have a minimum of 20% sell on clauses for player sales. Some laughable 15-30+ mill signings taking place.

Are you sure about Sambi, Charles? Several outlets have reported that it will turn into an obligation after a certain number of games.. If it's just an 'option to buy' it seems like pretty rubbish business to me,

Declan Rice has had a fantastic tournament for England and was a defensive stalwart that was crucial to our (Arsenal) run for the Title. However there is a little truth in the criticism albeit that it has as usual been hugely overblown… Declan rice has the talent for hitting short medium and long progressive passes with incredible accuracy. However it is not his natural instinct to do it when playing as a No 6 and tends perhaps 8 out of 10 times to play safe short sideways and backwards passes which frustrated me a teeny bit in parts of last season. The defensive part of his game though was as good as it gets! I was however much happier overall when Partey (King of progressive passes!) returned and he Declan played as an 8 and was a revelation In summary when playing as a 6 Declan can play progressive passes but tends not to as it’s not his natural instinct

There is too much transfer mistakes since Arteta became as Arsenal manager

Tavares and Lokonga on the way out, seems that Nelson, Eddie and Smith will also be sold in the next few weeks!

Would like to know your best starting lineup for the Spain game?

Watching Spain vs England, Saka is definitely not world class compared to Spanish winger. Rice was excellent as was Henderson. Kane is a has been

All talks no action for two months.

Oana for 50m!!! Not worth it. Wow Villa are mugs.

Clearly they have some weird ideas ,all the expected midfielders we need have been sold but none have chosen Arsenal .... What's going on ????

No Charles we are not good enough this is why repeated the same mistakes to throw away the title

I just laugh at the anti-Arsenal Rice slander. Take him out against Switzerland or Netherlands and we don’t reach the final, replace him with Mainoo and Gallagher (ffs 😂) on Sunday and we lose 5-0.

1st and im not even an arsenal fan

Villa getting onana done in hrs and we have the usual three week pissing around negotiations for a player that could have been wrapped up in no time. Yes they owe 50% months of the sale to fc Basel so pay up and get it done! Literally sick of edu and his long winded transfers every summer which doesn’t change neither does he in anything he does it’s players paid to leave or some pointless loan we all know won’t turn into an actual transfer. You can all say let’s not rush blah blah blah we needed six through the door this summer it’ll be three at most and it’ll take to long as usual. Edu’s on thin ice and he’ll get found out eventually.

Arsenal have been very poor in this transfer window, they are still negotiating to sign Calofiori rather they were supposed to continue to other important targets striker and midfielder. Manchester united almost signed Zirkeze just in one week but Arsenal are still negotiating Calofiori for more than two weeks. Arsenal need strong midfield player who can play with Rice but now we heard Astonvilla will sign Onana who was target for Arsenal for just 50MP.

Hi Charles! 👋 What's your favourite type of cheese? 🧀

Why are you constantly sucking your teeth? Its jarring mate