Who were Edu’s three worst signings for Arsenal? Here’s my choices

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·8. November 2024

Who were Edu’s three worst signings for Arsenal? Here’s my choices

These three were the worst signings of Edu’s tenure at the club.

Arsenal fans have already come to terms with the decision taken by Edu Gasper to leave his role as our Sporting Director recently. Although it came as a shock to the club and the Arsenal faithful we will have to simply respect his decision to move on to “bigger” things than the Arsenal job.

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Not everyone shares the same sentiment regarding his dismissal given how divided our fanbase have been over whether or not he should’ve left the club. I for one was a massive fan of the Brazilian due to how he has helped get us back into mix for major honours again. However with that said, I fully recognize that he got it wrong sometimes.

He has made some really good signings for us, utilising his good negotiating skills to great effect in his time at the club with so many players getting easily enthused about our project due to how good he is at selling the project to them.

Not all of them end up coming good so sometimes we get these transfers wrong so with that said, in my opinion these are the three worst signings Edu made during his time at club:

Willian; it’s hard to tell whether he had a significant part to play in this transfer because he was then the Technical Director when we made this swoop back in 2020, however he definitely had some say in a transfer that probably was the worst in our recent history. To say the Brazilian was a flop would be an understatement, barring the fine performance he produced in his very first game for the Gunners, he didn’t offer anything noteworthy which says a lot about his time at the club. The terrible performances aren’t the only reason why the transfer was a huge mistake, the fact that we handed a three year contract to a then 32-year-old Willian is also another reason why it was a huge transfer mistake from Edu Gaspar.

Fabio Vieira; this might be a controversial one among the Arsenal faithful but taking into account his fairly high transfer fee along with his time at the Gunners so far, it’s safe to say it was a very bad signing for the Gunners. The Portuguese, who’s currently on loan at Porto, has certainly flattered to deceive during his time with the Gunners so far with arguably the biggest weakness that kept him underperforming being his physicality, or lack thereof, which greatly affected him anytime he lineup for us in the Premier League. With the price tag, I just think we would’ve been better off investing the funds into other areas of the pitch at the time of his transfer in 2022.

Alex Rúnarsson; I’m pretty sure most gooners would have forgotten about even having the Icelandic international in the squad but we did, signing him from Dijon back in the summer of 2020 for a measly figure (football wise) of £2million. We brought him in as a replacement for Emiliano Martinez to provide cover for then first choice keeper Bernd Leno. To say he had an awful spell with us will be doing him a favour, in his very first game against Man City in the EFL he made two direct errors which led to goal in what was the worst debut performances of an Arsenal player in recent history. He made 6 appearances in all competitions for Arsenal before getting loaned around for a few seasons since 2021, he eventually had his contract terminated earlier this year which brought an end to a very disappointing Arsenal career. Considering we let Martinez go that summer, this was an even worse signing. We let currently the best keeper in the world go back then only to replace him with Rúnarsson!

Who do you think is the worst signing made by Edu at Arsenal?

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