Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

[Niall_Quinn]

Raiola is a fat cunt who will get what he wants in the end of the deal is off.

He's like a banker or a lawyer or a senior civil servant or any of the other useless cunts who skim off working people. Shit like this rises to the top. Convenient for them, lazy of us to let it happen.

[AFC Leveller]

Mkhitarian is on 140k at Man U, ornstein confirmed it the other day. I don't think he will get 200k here but apparently that's what his agent wants and he knows we are desperate.

Good point about Jack being offered a new deal on less money, he is our future captain and should not be paid a lot less than the big earners.

[Cripps]

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Completely agree

Come on ivan

[Özim]

If the agent is deciding if he signs on doesn't say much about the players desire to play for us, surely a player who wanted to play for us would just tell his agent he's moving.

[Cripps]

Exclusive: Tearful Henrikh Mkhitaryan says goodbye to Man United teammates as Alexis Sanchez deal moves closer to completion https://t.co/JzRQ808g8y via @MailSport

[Özim]

Don't know about greedy. The club should always be looking to maximise the fees if we must lose the player. We've criticised them enough in the past for letting players go to cheaply.

The player is desperate to go, Utd seem absolutely desperate to sign him. So, when you leave aside how badly we fucked up the whole Alexis contract in the first place, we've been lucky to end up in a position where we have recovered a bit of bargaining power due to the desperation of the other parties. And we need to press that and take full advantage.

Of course if the extra 10 mill is just going to be added to Smaug's pile and not reused in the transfer window it makes no difference either way.

It's greedy in a sense that actually he's worth next to nothing seeing as he can walk free in the summer, but IMO we should just get this done as quickly as possible now, no more wasting time haggling.

This has been an absolute car crash and we've just been very very lucky Man U are willing to pay now, even City weren't, it's just pot luck, Wenger being lucky again basically. We'll probably screw this up in some way by settling for Mikhi a player who is a cast off for our best player.

Considering what's gone on, any other club would be hurrying to get the situation sorted and players signed pronto to minimise discontent, instead as usual this club drags it heels, in the end it might be too long and we may well miss out on these players we're supposedly after.

We've heard these kinda of rumours many times before, often seems like some sort of marketing ploy to sell season tickets or reduce discontent, rarely to any of these deals for these players come to fruition, it appears like we just want people to think we're after these players and just missing due to circumstances, most of the time the fans buy it, so why wouldn't they try again, we have Chuba Akpom after all.

[Marc Overmars]

Exclusive: Tearful Henrikh Mkhitaryan says goodbye to Man United teammates as Alexis Sanchez deal moves closer to completion https://t.co/JzRQ808g8y via @MailSport

Tears that he's being forced to play for us? Understandable.

[dostoy]

Exclusive @Carra23 column: Arsenal are crying out for change - and Antonio Conte is the man to deliver it https://t.co/LyH8XSVqTY

Completely agree

Come on ivan

I would love to see Wenger out full stop but I would love it even more if Conte became Arsenal manager.

I like him and he would do well here but then anyone is better than Wenger almost literally.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Not sure I’m that sold on Conte. He’s good but anyone is an upgrade on Wenger these days

[Cripps]

Conte would be excellent.

Tactically good, can motivate, psychologically strong.

Yes please.