Arsenal: Max Meyer, Aleksandr Golovin indicative of unwanted future

Arsenal’s midfield is as set as set can be, so any names being tossed about now tell of a future that we don’t want to see come to pass.

Arsenal‘s preseason opener got all of our hopes up, naturally, because that’s all it can do when you win 8-0 with all of your star players running rampant all over the place.

It just solidifies Unai Emery’s sentiment that, right now, there really isn’t a pressing need to sign anybody else, given how packed the personnel is at every position. But no where is it more snug and secure than in the midfield.

As such, seeing more links to the likes of Max Meyer or Aleksandr Golovin is not something that gets me as tickled as it once did.

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There was a time when there was nothing I wanted more than Max Meyer in the red and white and I felt as though I knew it was going to happen. It was the perfect fit. Just like Golovin was later on down the road.

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They were the perfect replacements for Jack Wilshere. But the problem in that belief was that Wilshere didn’t need replacing, he needed improving. That’s what Lucas Torreira provided.

Any ties that Golovin or Meyer now have to the club have to do with someone else’s demotion or departure. The way I see it, that means one of two things. Either Aaron Ramsey gets bounced, which is the worst outcome in the world, or Matteo Guendouzi is docked into the youth side of things.

The former is possible, but I refuse to think about it. The latter is unlikely given the fee that was paid and the skill that he has.

Not to mention that both of those options aren’t very appealing. And one or the other has to happen if Meyer or Golovin is going to make any sense whatsoever. Six is a party with this midfield, seven is most certainly not. This is much the same argument that I used in protest of Jean Michael Seri being pitched as a “miss.”

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Being linked to just about any midfielder at this point is a foundation piece of a future we don’t want – a future likely without Ramsey.