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Football Thread 2017/18 |OT| Relegated to Community
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poor Arsenal
There'll never be a better time to up their offer by £1.
That's way too much though, would rather just put those funds towards a CB. We're fine with attacking players.
Unless there is some major economical crisis in the horizon, this shit will just keep getting crazier every year.
Consider this year madness and then remember that Real Madrid wasn't even fucking involved in anything. This will only get "worse".
EDIT - Betting houses are moving the odds on Mahrez to Chelsea to a point where it's almost impossible they don't know anything about it. It must be a done deal at this point.
McMoneyman
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I'd settle for a Winston Bogarde role.
You're already worth that much to me, Beefy.
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brokenbeans
Banned
Mahrez AWOLOLOLOLOL
Daffy Duck
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Yep, £92,000,001 it would be glorious.
Ocarina_117
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Jose was right. A year later and Pogba looks like a bargain.
I don't get why we haven't bid for Van Dijk yet. I mean yeah they keep saying he's not for sale, but just offer them £70m or whatever and see how it goes. If they tell us to fuck off then fair play, but we won't know until we put the bid in.
MoodyFog
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Fook you m8
Still a good few hours left yet. Expect crazy.
Guy is trash
McMoneyman
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Daffy Duck
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Maybe we have, maybe it's all being done behind the scenes with no tip offs to journos, or those in the know are told to STFU and not say anything.
It's standard Arsenal modus operandi, piss of the fans, then say oh look but we tried to sign this mega star player.
That don't sounds bad for Niang there.^_^
MikeBison
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Yeah my thinking. Fuck it, if we're gonna pass on Lemar at that price, chuck another 20 mill onto that 70 and blow Les Reeds balls off. They'd be able to spin it as 'we got the mind boggling sum we thought they'd never pay. Look at us go, bloody geniuses' and we'd get our man.
Lot of pennies riding on the hope that Virgil will knuckle down again at Southampton.
The Guardian are saying the Lemar deal is off (guess he turned them down?) and Sanchez is staying.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...mas-lemar-alex-oxlade-chamberlain-latest-live
The rumour has always been that Southampton warned us not to bid for him or they'll report us for tapping up. So we were waiting for other bids to go in and bid higher. Guess nobody else bid. Or stuff is going on behind the scenes (unlikely).
Another player that Arsene was so close to buying and didn't? The book is almost on the 3rd volume at this rate.
Good point.
Yeah I mean it's easy to say "no sale" when no bids have come in, but when you have a £70m offer on the table then it's a different matter.
Stead Fast
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£92,000,001 for the audacity of it is tempting, but I'm with the others that throw a number like that at VVD and see what's what.
It'd be hilarious is Arsenal's signing fans get their prayers answered, only if it will spur DT and Troopz to start singing each video.
Syder isn't that bad
nature boy
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I'm guessing PL clubs can't keep the spending spree going on every season. Big buys normally mean big salaries, if the transfer fee goes up why shouldn't salary go up as well? That's a bigger burden on a club than any transfer budget.
Also, Chelsea and Liverpool balked at that 70 million valuation, City didn't even bother despite needing a decent replacement for Kompany (Stones and Otamendi don't cut it, IMO), hey could be 100% wrong but don't see VVD getting 70 million next season. For Southampton fans like yourself it would be an amazing deal
McMoneyman
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According to that Kevin Palmer guy. Southampton didn't recieve one single bid for VVD this summer. That's incredible to me. Kick in the nuts for VVD too after all the BS he's done this summer, now he has to return back to Southampton and play for the fans he tried to screw over.
Reports that Arsenal's Lemar deal has already fell through. I think they'll be better off with Sanchez for 1 more year, than spending 92m on a downgrade now (assuming Lemar would be Sanchez replacement).
Market mightn't be fucked then and they might get CL. Plus City with Sanchez would be crazy strong.
Market mightn't be fucked then and they might get CL. Plus City with Sanchez would be crazy strong.
Does Serge Aurier count as a big signing? Because right now £24M seem quite small to me.
But if it does, my money is on him because of the constant off the field issues.
PowderedToast
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arsenal story has to be cover. if the deal can be done you get it done.
Mase Gumble
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what are we classifying as big? lindelofs looked shite so far but in this market he's the equivalent of a £12m punt 2 years ago.
Dembele at least at first is my shout.
McMoneyman
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I like Ox and I hope he will perform. But I can easily see him becoming a player ala Stewart Downing that people on Twitter will laugh about. "2 goals, 3 assists! And you paid how much for him again?!?" - @AlexisSanchezGirl2004
After the whole tapping up thing, he should've just kept his head down and got on with it. Liverpool literally said they wouldn't bid for him. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised.
I'm guessing PL clubs can't keep the spending spree going on every season. Big buys normally mean big salaries, if the transfer fee goes up why shouldn't salary go up as well? That's a bigger burden on a club than any transfer budget.
Also, Chelsea and Liverpool balked at that 70 million valuation, City didn't even bother despite needing a decent replacement for Kompany (Stones and Otamendi don't cut it, IMO), hey could be 100% wrong but don't see VVD getting 70 million next season. For Southampton fans like yourself it would be an amazing deal
TV deal is up in 2019. It's currently worth £100m a season for every Prem team. It will be even more in 2019. Money is crazy atm
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Why is Osvaldo so mental?
https://youtu.be/Y5zAZsfz08c
"We wouldn't have enough time to finish a deal" makes no sense if you're still making bids on the player, so yeah almost certainly is
Word on the street was that Liverpool already carried out a medical last night. So in the unlikely event that this is true we could still get him.
Also if we somehow sign VVD I guarantee all the ITK's who said we wouldn't sign him today will make out they were sworn to secrecy.
Dutch Gronk
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Where is my Mahrez
GoldenCrow
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All the noise seems to be coming out of the Arsenal camp and seems a lot like damage limitation.
Oveja Negra
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He'll be concentrated, but it'll be Vidal who saves our asses again
I just care about winning today, who saves our asses it's kinda irrelevant to me
But now they backed off because they don't have time to make a deal. They aren't a joke anymore.
My wild guess is: Let's make a £92M offer (leaking to the press) and when they refuse, we are free to sell Alexis because we tried to get a replacement. Oh shit they accepted it? We don't have time for this guys. Abort. Abort.
McMoneyman
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I think the story was that Liverpool had a medical team ready in Clairefontaine if a deal could be sorted. Seems like that didn't materialized.
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