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David Raya

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monkeybarry said:
By signing a keeper that our new manager wanted?
Odd position.
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For some of our fans everything we do is wrong. If we'd have brought in raya we'd have been wrong cause he was too expensive. Vicario was available for less and we could have used the money elsewhere.

I have no idea if vicario is going to be great or not. Only time will tell. By the end of the season we'll have a better idea.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Isn't it a case like you have said about other players that they market conditions didn't demand the 40m+ they wanted? Give the fact they now are only getting 30m which we were reported to have offered? We moved on and the price dropped because we were likely the only kids at the party.

Can't imagine the players too enamoured to be fighting for playing time at Arsenal after being number 1 at Brentford for so long, but when you have shown your hand like he did and the club moved on, you stuff yourself
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How do we know they wanted £40m? Maybe he could’ve been secured for the £30m Arsenal have spent. All we do know is that we ended up spending £17m on a new keeper, maybe that was the limit of our budget?
 
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Finney Is Back said:
‘Seems perfectly capable’ isn’t the best endorsement. He may end up being brilliant (fingers crossed) but it’s pretty clear that Raya was our first choice target and was statistically one of the best keepers in the PL.
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That doesn’t mean “we messed up”
 
Finney Is Back said:
‘Seems perfectly capable’ isn’t the best endorsement. He may end up being brilliant (fingers crossed) but it’s pretty clear that Raya was our first choice target and was statistically one of the best keepers in the PL.
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Was he, Says who? Not being funny but rumours were that our head scout Gabbanini fancied Vicario more than Raya. Obviously we'll never know but we had two options, Brentford tried to start a bidding war and it backfired. We can't really gloat as we know Levy is the master at being difficult selling players, only for deals to fall through in the past so it's good to see it does happen to others sometimes too.
 
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Finney Is Back said:
How do we know they wanted £40m? Maybe he could’ve been secured for the £30m Arsenal have spent. All we do know is that we ended up,spending £17m on a new keeper, maybe that was the limit of our budget?
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Thomas Frank said in public that was their valuation. I mean we are all guessing here anyway
 
dingdongo said:
Was he, Says who? Not being funny but rumours were that our head scout Gabbanini fancied Vicario more than Raya. Obviously we'll never know but we had two options, Brentford tried to start a bidding war and it backfired. We can't really gloat as we know Levy is the master at being difficult selling players, only for deals to fall through in the past so it's good to see it does happen to others sometimes too.
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The fact that we made a bid for Raya before Vicario suggests that (although I suppose you’ll say there was no proof that we made a bid).
 
Grays_1890 said:
Thomas Frank said in public that was their valuation. I mean we are all guessing here anyway
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I thought he had, this was Frank's quote. 3m up front and 27m next year after wanting 40m suggests they were valuing him beyond the market conditions. Raya going to have a dog fight for a number 1 spot albeit at Arsenal doesn't seem an ideal outcome for one of the best keepers statisticaly in the league.
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