Ollie Watkins

[Drummond]

He used to follow Arsenal, but now he's a Villain.

He works under the best manager going, and his career is thriving, he'd be daft to want to move.

[brontebilly]

He used to follow Arsenal, but now he's a Villain.

He works under the best manager going, and his career is thriving, he'd be daft to want to move.

Arsenal throw enough money at him/us and it might happen. They know we are under PSR pressure and that they won't win a PL with Jesus as their main striker. It seems inevitable we will lose one of our big hitters this season, which is hard to take given the season (and a half) under Emery.

Ollie has been a great player for us, never injured, brilliant pro. He's one of the few I was really keen on us signing at the time, just thought his profile was perfect for us though the price was very steep.
Can't recall the poster on here that wanted us to sign him years before that again, can anyone remember? That was some scouting!

Trying to replace Ollie would be incredibly difficult but at 28 the timing might not be awful either.

[kippaxvilla2]

A lot of the rags aren’t running with it.  One is the others are quoting them.  He’s not for sale.  If you believe Heck we will be nicking Salah.

[pauliewalnuts]

A lot of the rags aren’t running with it.  One is the others are quoting them.  He’s not for sale.  If you believe Heck we will be nicking Salah.

Salah has clearly mentally checked out of the Premier League.

[Rigadon]

A lot of the rags aren’t running with it.  One is the others are quoting them.  He’s not for sale.  If you believe Heck we will be nicking Salah.

Salah has clearly mentally checked out of the Premier League.

I'd be very concerned if we were contemplating signing Mo Salah.  So I'm content that we aren't. 

[Mellin]

One every three years for 100m seems a good way to keep PSR at bay. But I think Watkins and Martinez should be off the table.

It'd need to be more than 100m anyway. If defensive midfielders are going for 100m then the statistical best centre forward in the league (even without pens) is costing you, what, 130m? No one's paying that and we aren't selling for less. Move on with your day.

[pauliewalnuts]

If we need to shift someone for big money, it should be Dougie.

Martinez would be the stupidest one. Keepers don't fetch that much, and he's the one we'd struggle most to replace.

[kippaxvilla2]

Olsen is an adequate repl….

[Percy McCarthy]

He used to follow Arsenal, but now he's a Villain.

He works under the best manager going, and his career is thriving, he'd be daft to want to move.

Arsenal throw enough money at him/us and it might happen. They know we are under PSR pressure and that they won't win a PL with Jesus as their main striker. It seems inevitable we will lose one of our big hitters this season, which is hard to take given the season (and a half) under Emery.

Ollie has been a great player for us, never injured, brilliant pro. He's one of the few I was really keen on us signing at the time, just thought his profile was perfect for us though the price was very steep.
Can't recall the poster on here that wanted us to sign him years before that again, can anyone remember? That was some scouting!

Trying to replace Ollie would be incredibly difficult but at 28 the timing might not be awful either.

We’re not really under PSR ‘pressure’. And it’s not a case of sackcloth and ashes if we sell someone. Unai, Monchi and the owners will be deciding if they want to spend about £200m on the team, in which case we’ll need to sell somebody for about £60m, at a rough guess.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Can't recall the poster on here that wanted us to sign him years before that again, can anyone remember? That was some scouting!

Trying to replace Ollie would be incredibly difficult but at 28 the timing might not be awful either.

The God-like genius of Brian Green. He was probably also the first to see the true skill of Benteke. I'm just waiting for him to say cash in on Watkins and get Gonçalo Ramos off PSG for half the price. Brian knows a striker when he sees one, just ask Pongo Waring!

[Risso]

If we need to shift someone for big money, it should be Dougie.

Martinez would be the stupidest one. Keepers don't fetch that much, and he's the one we'd struggle most to replace.

Agreed, I'd hate to see Luiz go, but I think as a team we could live with it. If not him than Ramsey, but I think JJ's injury would put paid to any possibility of a move. Martinez and Watkins are integral to how we play, losing either would set us back massively. I think it would be a huge task, even for Emery, to find somebody who could come in and replace what Watkins does, after three years of him as our only real striker.

[PaulWinch again]

Notwithstanding the fact that we won’t want to sell and even if we were open to it I imagine it would be an absolutely huge fee. But if you’re a high profile player, particularly one coming off an all-timer of a season, I imagine you’d probably want to see how Liverpool adapt post Klopp before moving there.

[Dogtanian]

Arsenal ought to be more concerned with what they're going to do now that the word 'gooner' has a new meaning amongst the youths.

Unless they want to refer to their own fans as drooling wankers, I mean it's a bit on the nose.

[pablo_picasso]

[sarcasm]Now they have used the word "braced", I am shitting myself over losing him...[/sarcasm]

[Dave]

An idle thought on Ollie's not-quite-so convincing England performances.

Last year there was the popular theory that one of the reasons for his Emerenaissance was the sale of Ings, which meant that he knew he was the indisputed first choice striker, so confidence came from that and he was able to play free of the pressure of worrying about his place in the team.

So given his current role is not even indisputed first-choice striker, but "try and outperform this other guy that you're in a race with to be second-choice striker", he's mentally back in his pre-Emery days of competing with Ings for his role. And his performances suffer because of it.