Totally unreliable whispers a deal is agreed. 

34 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Totally unreliable whispers a deal is agreed. 

For some reason that is pretty funny.

14 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

For some reason that is pretty funny.

Some Arsenal correspondent who is followed by both Ornstein and Jacobs. 

1/10 skybet

35 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Some Arsenal correspondent who is followed by both Ornstein and Jacobs. 

Hmm odd an Arsenal guy would have inside knowledge in a none Arsenal deal...lol

13 minutes ago, coco said:

1/10 skybet

Got some money on it Coco?

Romano talking about Broja as makeweight. I could live with that. 

Brighton will find a way to screw us over again. As much as I like the player, getting a reasonable deal with them is almost impossible. We may have to look into Levia or whoever else out there, just not putting the eggs into their basket.

2 hours ago, ozboy said:

Romano talking about Broja as makeweight. I could live with that. 

Would not myself. Think Broja will be useful to us. 

Good move for Broja though, they would sell him to a big club in 2 years for 80 to 100mill

15 hours ago, SwedishEntity said:

Is that the new club slogan?

Funnily enough citing "win ratio" is the kind of 'data-driven' nonsense that made the club end up in this mess to begin with

 

We can probably expect another bid soon. 

Aurelien Tchouameni as the Caicedo alternative? - Real Madrid do not wish to sell but recovering the money spent last year would go a long way towards topping up the Mbappe pot. Chelsea were blocked from completing negotiations for the player last season and he would be their first choice if available as they seek two such players for this summer. Real Madrid has spoken to with Chelsea about him...AND as much as I think Caicedo is a decent player is he worth the same as Tchouameni?

I'd be careful of buying anyone from RM until Hazard is well out of their memory.

4 hours ago, strider6004 said:

I'd be careful of buying anyone from RM until Hazard is well out of their memory.

We sold them a dud ... Imagine the nerve Maria had to sell them such a hopeless fellow for over  a 100m. Take a bow Maria... You outdid yourself withthat transaction 

get as much sales sorted before June 30th as possible, and then we can focus on the rest of the sales and making a few signings July 1st onwards

6 hours ago, d-one said:

We sold them a dud ... Imagine the nerve Maria had to sell them such a hopeless fellow for over  a 100m. Take a bow Maria... You outdid yourself withthat transaction 

No, we sold them legitimately one of the best players in the world. 

They f**ked up in managing his injuries

We've got to get this done asap.

If Man City end up taking Rice (Making a bid today) then Arsenal will be back in for Caicedo.

Edited June 22, 20233 yr by Luca Vialli

Yep, clearing out is all good and well but we need to land our targets for the summer to be a success. Rice and Ugarte are already gone for us, if we lose out on Caicedo as well then that's bad.

8 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

No, we sold them legitimately one of the best players in the world. 

They f**ked up in managing his injuries

True. Coupled with the fact that, at heart, Eden loved playing football but it wasn't a passion, a be-all-and-end-all. His life away from the pitch, his family, were always more important. Never a great trainer, not one for a diet, he got by on his sublime natural skills. Good on the fella.

I think we better get a move on with this one because the team that doesn’t get Declan Rice are gonna be on the hunt.

I just hope we are not deliberately stalling until July just to have it show on next year’s account for FFP purposes.

In the next week I think a Champions League team offering  Caicedo similar terms to us would probably swing it in their favour, especially if we plan to hold off until July.

Hate the term but we've already done a lot of the 'ground work' that Arsenal still have to make up should they revert back to Caicedo. 

 

 

16 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Hate the term but we've already done a lot of the 'ground work' that Arsenal still have to make up should they revert back to Caicedo. 

 

 

I know what you’re saying but clubs can go from nowhere to done deal in a couple of days easily enough.

This is my worry.

Edited June 22, 20233 yr by 2211

4 minutes ago, 2211 said:

I know what you’re saying but clubs can go from nowhere to done deal in a couple of days easily enough.

This is my worry.

This was never in Arsenal's nature. They always dilly dally. 

2 hours ago, 2211 said:

I think we better get a move on with this one because the team that doesn’t get Declan Rice are gonna be on the hunt.

I just hope we are not deliberately stalling until July just to have it show on next year’s account for FFP purposes.

In the next week I think a Champions League team offering  Caicedo similar terms to us would probably swing it in their favour, especially if we plan to hold off until July.

I'd like to hope a player won't be so short-sighted to make a decision based on what could be six games.

23 minutes ago, Argo said:

I'd like to hope a player won't be so short-sighted to make a decision based on what could be six games.

I mean this is genuinely the same scenario as Kante back in 2016 when he had to decide between Arsenal who had Champions League football and us who didn't have any European football.