Adam Rae Voge

@adam.cannonstats.com

One half of www.cannonstats.com, your blog for all things Arsenal and numbers. I won’t rest until people understand the transfer market.

I know he’s two years older but getting Bruno G for £75m flat when Tonali was £90m+ feels like a negotiation W for Arsenal. Now it’s all about what they win while he’s here, because this is a new high water mark for this age + position combo

Yep! I don’t even engage with this criticism thoughtfully anymore. It should be pretty straightforward to understand why you’d want to back a club that does Smart Things that will allow them to do other Smart Things down the line. Even the newest Arsenal fans have experienced the downsides here

Scott Willis@scott.cannonstats.com · 2d ago

In Defense of Caring What It Costs. On budgets, opportunity cost, and why fee analysis is squad analysis. www.cannonstats.com/p/is-it-comi...

Clicking into this and the comments are people arguing about how bad the sales price is and how mad he should be at Arteta for not relying on him more. lol, some things never change

David Ornstein@david-ornstein.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨 EXCL: Everton reach agreement in principle with Arsenal to sign Christian Norgaard. Still needs formalising but 32yo midfielder set to join #EFC from #AFC for in region of £7m. Expected to undergo medical next week ahead of proposed move 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...

It is fully not a good deal in the traditional sense but Arteta and Berta are essentially banking on the highs being so high that it will not matter in the least. And honestly that’s not so crazy given the foundations they’d be adding to

Scott Willis@scott.cannonstats.com · 5d ago

If the final Bruno fee is £77m plus add ons, I don't think that's a great deal (if that matters). A "fair" price is probably 25-30% lower, if you think that he moves the needle on another PL title or winning the CL I think that is just about up to the price that you can justify.

Omg. FC Thun were up 3-1 on aggregate in CL qualifiers. Then a red for DOGSO, and it all imploded from there. Such a cool story winning the Swiss League in year one after promotion, but won’t be in the CL.

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When evaluating whether a winger is good in the press, I don’t recommend leaning on defensive actions numbers much. Once I saw Leão had higher numbers than Martinelli I became woke to this concept.

A lot of questions this morning but chief among them - How would Arsenal fans reconcile their undying need for rotation with how angry Vini gets when being taken out of games?