In honour of the season being over and the transfer mayhem beginning, here are five storylines you need to keep your eye on in the summer window! Can Matheus Cunha be the key for Man United next season? Will Arsenal sign Gyokeres to solve their striking issues? Have Liverpool won the transfer window if the Kerkez, Frimpong and Wirtz transfers get done? Today on FourFourTwo, Matt gives you the break down.
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00:00in honor of the season being over and the transfer mayhem beginning here are five storylines that you
00:07need to look out for in the summer window right first off and basically this has been a storyline
00:12for the past few seasons where will arsenal go to scratch that striker itch it's been pretty clear
00:18that a goal scoring center forward would have helped them in their quest for a trophy in season
00:22has gone by and despite michael marino doing his best rendition of a striker towards the back end
00:27of the campaign he isn't one and you don't win titles without someone taking on the lion's share
00:31of the goal scoring burden well except for the time that man city won the title with ilkay gundwana's
00:36top scorer that there's always an anomaly in the data so who will be the answer to arteta's prayers
00:42well jokeres seems like the most realistic and sensible transfer and in lieu of any other
00:46competition they seem to have a clear run at signing the swede he's been on absolute fire since signing
00:52for sporting two years ago and with over a goal a game and at 26 years old he's coming into his
00:56prime oh and if that wasn't good enough 60 million for a top striker these days is pretty good going
01:01if they don't manage to get that deal done though someone like cesco or watkins could be a good fit
01:06as both a much-needed goal scorer and a target man what would also be interesting off the back
01:11of this though is who of the attacking options would be let go and for how much money gabriel jesus seems
01:16like the obvious choice to depart but won't really fetch too much of a hefty price tag given his injury
01:20record in the past few years and apart from him they don't really have any big name players that
01:24they'd be willing to sell there then would also be the question of whether kai havertz fits into
01:29this new arteta system if they are building a future around a bona fide number nine the next
01:34story though revolves around the club as a whole and it's manchester united and it's basically what
01:39on earth they do in the next three months just when ruben amourim thought he had a big job on his
01:43hands it's now arguably got even bigger having missed out on european football with that europa league
01:48final loss it means that they miss out on the attraction of offering champions league football to new
01:53players and the money that comes with playing in europe's elite competition it now also means that
01:57whilst amourim will have his plans of who he wants to bring in and who he wants to kick out there's
02:02also the question of whether or not the club see him in charge for the long run and therefore will
02:06they be backing him in the transfer market the signing though of matthias cunha from wolves is a good
02:10start in general i always felt like in amourim's system the likes of garnacho and diallo really weren't
02:16the best at playing that supporting role behind hoyland and xerxi they're almost too much of a wide
02:21player to be that central but not wide enough to be in the wing back role where they'd be slightly
02:26too defensive but tex cunha though really fits that central attacking role perfectly he's played
02:32up front for wolves but also in support of strand larsen and just fits the middle of the pitch better
02:37i feel like it also allows the united to play bruno deeper if they want without then sacrificing
02:42their creativity further forward because cunha can now pick up that slack if he can add goals to this
02:47united team which given his 15 premier league strikes at wolves last season there's no reason to
02:51believe he can't it might take a bit of the spotlight away from the fact that hoyland and
02:55xerxi can't put 15 together between them i mean if you really just want to see how bad things are in
03:00front of goal for the club look at the fact their top scorers in the league are diallo and fernandez
03:04with eight goals each that's half of what cunha is bringing to the table and something that i've no
03:08doubt united will be keen to address just out of interest the third high scorer was garnacho with six
03:13who's now been told that he can find a new club and the next big story to look out for is whether or not
03:18liverpool can improve on an unbelievable first season for anna slot in fact we spoke about this
03:24a few weeks ago just how good they have been in the dutchman's first season in charge and you can
03:28find that video right here they seem to really have taken a leaf out of manchester city's book in the
03:33last few years by not only resting on what they've achieved but continuing to build for the next season
03:37and future seasons to come look out for the incoming frimpong kerkesh and even florian verts on their way
03:43into the club early summer but don't rule them out even stopping there i'd go as far as saying
03:48another forward could be on the way depending on whether or not darwin nunez leaves the club
03:52the main issue they'll face here is the transfer fee situation whereby no club in their right mind
03:57would pay anywhere close to the potential 100 million euros that liverpool paid for the uruguayan
04:02back in 2022 in all honesty a loan deal for him might actually work out best i mean look what it did for
04:08anthony normally i'd say they need another striker even if nunez doesn't leave because relying on one
04:13player like salah isn't really sustainable for all of their goals however this is mo salah we're
04:17talking about he's just that good he's just that consistent and he's just that reliable it's fair
04:23to say that liverpool are also heading into a bit of a transition period trent is out robertson could
04:28follow time will catch up with van dyke alisson and salah eventually but if they can come out with it
04:33with some of the signings i mentioned earlier having not fallen off in terms of performance or trophy
04:38winning we could be looking at a new premier league era of dominance for them moving on then and
04:42to the fa cup winners crystal palace who will be busy building their squad to fit in with their
04:47new european schedule oliver glasner has led the club to europe as a result of winning the cup
04:52and he's a man who's very familiar with the competition so you feel like he'd be pretty
04:56busy this summer at selhurst park sadly though and it just seems to be the way it goes in these
05:00money-spinning transfer windows the focus may be on who is leaving more than who is coming in
05:05of course they've got players who'll be buzzing to be in europe but if a champions league club comes in
05:10with an even higher level of european football and the money that comes with it we could see the
05:15likes of ese sarge and wharton all choose to make the giant step up ese in particular is one who has
05:21been linked with every premier league club under the sun but will likely be the most expensive player
05:25to prize away from south london mark gay was subject to a huge bid from spurs in the january transfer
05:30window and given their lack of depth in defense don't be surprised if they reignite their interest
05:35the one thing that palace always have on their side though is that being a premier league club
05:40for quite some years and now being in europe too they don't really have to sell for financial reasons
05:44i mean they managed to hold on to wilf zahar throughout his prime years because nobody would
05:48pay the 70 odd million that they wanted whether you think zahar is worth that is neither here nor
05:52there for this matter and video it's more the fact that they could afford to say no to anything less
05:57without desperately having to grab for the cash as for the others i can't see them really being in a
06:02rush to leave but let's keep it positive for palace they're now in europe this means they'll be able to
06:07attract a caliber of player that they may not have been able to in the recent seasons of course i'm
06:13not saying they're going to go for the brand new most expensive shiniest toy out there but being in
06:18europe does open a few more doors as for the final big story to look out for this summer it's spurs and
06:24another sliding door moment in the club's history the last one was in 2019 where after losing to
06:29liverpool in the champions league final they didn't really spend well in the summer and build
06:33on what pochettino had done in the preceding years but as fortune would have it they have another
06:38opportunity to do so now as european champions having won the europa league it's fairly easy to
06:43draw the parallels with man united in this case as you could argue that some incoming players may not
06:47be given a hundred percent guarantee that the manager will even be in charge for very long and the
06:51club do need a big squad overhaul but unlike united they now have the money and prestige of
06:57champions league football to offer prospective signings i've mentioned mark gay before and i
07:01think it's unlikely that he'll sign for spurs but heading into another season when they've got four
07:06competitions on the books they definitely need another defender christian romero is still the
07:11subject of a lot of transfer talk mickey vanderven can't stay fit for a whole season ben davis looks
07:16like he could be leaving the club at the end of his contract and radu dragerson has been let's call
07:20it unspectacular that basically just leaves kevin danso on top of this though another forward is needed
07:26to supplement dominic celanke's efforts he isn't as prolific a striker as you'd need to get into
07:31the top four in the league and without a solid replacement he'll also be running to the ground
07:35if he's leading the attack two or three times a week for the next 10 months but champions league
07:39talk aside nobody at the club will want to be flirting with relegation next season either meaning
07:43a busy summer at the tottenham hotspur stadium is something that definitely could be on the cards
07:48when it comes to who and for how much i think it'll be more a case of a numbers game and bolstering the
07:53squad as opposed to a one-in-one-out policy with the injuries that spurs face this season they can't
07:58afford to be fighting on all four fronts with a patchwork squad again in the last few transfer
08:02windows we've seen the club go for a promise and potential with the likes of gray bergval udogi
08:07odber and tell and celanke is the only standout big money transfer of last summer so don't be surprised
08:13to see them go in the opposite direction and bring in a little bit more experience this time around
08:17i'm not saying go full evan perisic like under conte but a player or two with champions league
08:22and premier league experience seems more than likely so with all that said and done which one
08:27of these clubs do you think is going to be the biggest mover in the summer transfer window and
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