paxtonwolf
John White
And that's how you do transfers. Wasnt too bothered about signing him either, but the point is, Arsenal fancied him, got it signed, no stupid bids, sorted, job done
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Leandro Trossard
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Their first choice did just get snatched by Chelsea at the last minute.
Gazza
Nick Barmby
But the fact that they were prepared to back their manager to that sort of money initially ... says it all. They got structure and a plan to back their manager. We got haggling and loans
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
They didn’t back him
That’s why they didn’t get him
We wanted Bastoni- couldn't get him in last summer as the price was too high, like Arsrnal with Mudryk, so moved on to our plan b in Lenglet.
People will moan about the club even when it's doing what they want it to
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Tbf they are spending the money they didn’t use on the player they wanted to buy other players
I actually think it’s better business too
Maybe, they had a primary target who you'd think was going to be a starter given the valuation, they missed out on him because the price was too high and have bought a much cheaper option who you'd think isn't going to threaten the starting positions.
Can't help but think that the same circumstances for us would see criticism, not the praise that some are giving them
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Oh our fans would have had kittens
But then we’re not too and everything isn’t rosey for us
Hell whoever we sign they will be brick for a lot of fans
The Juve two were rejects don’t forget
braineclipse
Willie Hall
We've spent quite a lot of money in recent windows. Let's see what this window actually brings before concluding on what we got?
braineclipse
Willie Hall
I would have been happy with Trossard for the kind of cut price deal we tried to make happen. I would not have been happy with us paying what Arsenal reportedly paid for him. Not because he's not good, he is good, but he's not worth that to us with the number of other positions we need to improve on.
Bullet
Luka Modric
Agreed, every player has a "good value price" and USUALLY we should not go far over that, especially for someone with Trossard's record/age.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
There’s a rather big gap between A and B there.
In both instances, except for us it's a loan so we can revisit Bastoni/other starting XI targets rather than settling and being tied in to him for a 4 year contract.
Bastoni is out of our league at the moment I'm afraid. If he left, CHelsea, Man C and various others would be in for him. Ditto Barella, Chiesa, Hakimi and a few other names which pop up on here regularly
Except it's Paratici that does the deals now, not Levy, but don't let that stop you putting the boot into Levy. And in fairness to Paratici, I'd hope Trossard was well down our list of targets and he was/is after those higher on the list.
I'm not bothered about Trossard, but am amused that no one in the football world takes Levy's humming and hawing even remotely seriously anymore - even the agent of some rando like Trossard calls us out for the way we do business.
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
I'm not bothered about Trossard, but am amused that no one in the football world takes Levy's humming and hawing even remotely seriously anymore - even the agent of some rando like Trossard calls us out for the way we do business.
Its a great fake quote though
Its literally shown nowhere else, quoted absolutely nowhere except 101 goals which uses this tweet as the source.
Fake News
metalgear
Nayim
What is our league?
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
Nope.
100% real, sorry to say.
Although to be fair, it isn't exactly as described. The specific bit of the article -
In the last 24 hours everything has accelerated. “On Wednesday I myself called Edu Gaspar, the Brazilian technical director of Arsenal,” said Comhair. [....] Marseille were interested and I also talked to Tottenham. But they wanted to wait.
On Thursday morning, Arsenal contacted Brighton and they sat down around the table. Thursday evening [...] a delegation from Arsenal went to pick up Leandro in Brighton for a medical check-up."
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DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
I have zero idea if Paratici is doing our deals or banged up abroad at the moment - but I know this behaviour when I see it, it's Levy's hallmark and has been for all 22 years he's been here. Hell, it was why we spent ages haggling over a player Conte didn't even want in Djed Spence - I think it was reported at the time that it was Levy doing that deal.
I agree on Trossard, but we have concluded the third week of this window with fudge all happening while everyone around us has made moves, so I'm doubtful there is someone higher up on that list.