Should Arsenal be paying 50m for an inexperienced 23 year-old?
It would appear that Ben White is Mikel Artetas top target to help improve on Arsenals already respectable back line, that ended the season with the third best stats in the Premier League. But it has to asked whether 50m is a very high price, considering that White has only played one season in the Premier League. He did earn the the Player Of The Season award from Brighton in his breakthrough EPL season, after having helped Leeds earn promotion from the Championship the previous season on loan. The Arsenal legend David Seaman, who knows a good defender when he sees one, thinks that White would be good addition to the Arsenal team: Hes got everything [needed] to go and take hold of it and give it his best shot. Seaman told Goal. Hes got the physique, hes got the temperament. At Leeds its a high-press, high-tempo game, so his fitness is also not in doubt. But well just have to wait and see, because hes not played in them yet. Hopefully he will go on and play for England and when he does that, hopefully he will carry on [with his development]. No, not at all, not now, he continued. Its like when you see the England team now, you look at Mason Mount and Phil Foden, those sort of guys. They are young guys and they are just getting on with it. At that age, they just have no fear. They just want to play and enjoy it.