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AIPROPX ReportYahoo Sports · 59m ago
Make North London Brazilian
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Just when I was starting to get disillusioned with Andrea Berta's transfer barbecue, he reveals a Wagyu steak was sizzling away all along, hidden from view.
I'm not bitter about Morgan Rogers I promise, despite Chelsea's attempts to rub it in. I had doubts about him as our marquee addition. I like to think of myself as more of a purist: holding out for Alvarez or a miraculous Vini Jr.
Spurs have just spent £100m apiece on two midfielders who are half as good as Declan Rice. Which begs the question, is the Premier League now rich enough as to be immune from consequences? Is, 'good enough to be better than last year' worth £100m now? If Spurs think so, and Chelsea, why should Arsenal hold themselves to a different standard?
Because we are better than everyone else: A fact that is currently completely and incontrovertibly true.
This logic was sustaining me until the news of our interest in Vinicius Jr broke a few days ago.
Read - what next for Vinicius Jr?
Do we need to dream big to win big? In Budapest, it felt like our ceiling was simply the sum of whatever a collective heave could muster. It was nearly enough. PSG's stars didn't sparkle all that brightly, but you always felt they could get out of jail if they needed to. In fact, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was marshalled really well by Christhian Mosquera, until he wasn't.
Admittedly, Liverpool had a summer we all thought was setting them up for domination last time out, and look what happened to them. Ambition in the transfer market isn't always rewarded. But you don't often get the bargaining position being champions affords. Surely now is the time to go for it.
Vini Jr is one of the best in the world. He is also very much the antithesis of Arsenal up to this point: unflinching, determined, perhaps a little unglamorous.
Maybe that give, that room to dream, is what will take us from very good to great. And the idea of him and Bruno Guimaraes is a fantasy in itself: Let them join the ranks of the dancing Gabis, make North London Brazilian.
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