Can see him being kept, at least until January. He could be useful in the wide role beside Watkins or could even see him in the RM role if Emery want's a more traditional winger there in certain games.
Henderson is going from about £7,280,000 per year (about £3,640,000 net after tax) to £36,400,000 per year tax free, literally 10x the amount. It might not be "life changing" but it's a significant increase.
They wanted rid of De Jong but he just no i'm staying. Nothing Barca can do other than freeze him out of the team. They offered him a contract, he want's to honour it.
Why are people saying he doesn't do what Watkins does? That's probably the reason why he's being kept, Emery himself said he want's players that offer different things.
Will not have done his chances any harm so far in pre-season. If he keeps putting in good displays will give Emery something to think about. With how inconsistent Bailey and Traore are, it will do no harm to keep him about to January at least, with the Conference he should get some minutes.
Who have they signed? A few lower league players and some unknowns from Europe.
Luton might grind out some points from draws and narrow wins. Burnley will get slaughtered if they try to play Pep style football with Championship players.
Except Sevilla, they’ve won several Europa Leagues doing just that, and with our current President of Football Operations as their Sporting Director no less.