Arsenal’s final week of pre-season has suddenly become rather busy.
Reports suggest Arsenal have agreed terms with Paris Saint-Germain for France international defender Elisa De Almeida, potentially answering the centre-back question we’ve been asking throughout the summer.
Nothing has been officially announced by either club at the time of recording, so Roberto looks at what we actually know, why another specialist centre-back makes sense for Renée Slegers’ squad and what the move might tell us about Arsenal’s ambitions this season.
There’s also the small matter of a football match nobody was allowed to watch.
Arsenal reportedly beat Everton 6-1 in a behind-closed-doors friendly played over three 45-minute periods. Neither club has published a match report and Roberto certainly isn’t going to invent one, but a Trailblazers follower has provided the apparent Arsenal goalscorers.
That information hasn’t been independently verified, so we treat it accordingly, but if correct, six different goalscorers following five against Charlton gives us another interesting clue about something we’ve been watching develop throughout pre-season: more movement, more positional rotation and potentially more places for Arsenal’s goals to come from.
We also look ahead to Friday’s UEFA Women’s Champions League draw and Sunday’s WSL opener against Brighton, when pre-season theories finally have to survive an actual competitive football match.
Plus, there’s a first little preview of the next Trailblazers player profile: Géraldine Reuteler.
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