Sami Khedira

anyone have any knowledge on the injury that kept him out of most of last season? that's the only real worry for me.

It was an ACL, same as Theo.

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Originally Posted by Steve French

I'm just off Arseblog. They think it might be because that is the net figure that is demanded. At a marginal tax rate of 40%, the real cost is significantly more.

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Ah, not so great then - probably nearer double that gross, which is worse than we were expecting?!

I'm not convinced it'll be anywhere close to that though? I suspect that might just be the figure that Khedira and his agent chucked at Madrid as what he'd want to stay on there - could just be a ploy to persuade them to sell?

Doesn't help that Chelsea are in the mix as well, we know they could trump anything we offer. I find these reported wages for him crazy but this is just what we have to deal with now, if we want to continue shopping in this market for premium players.

You also have to remember that he is a CL and WC winner from this season alone so he does have a certain amount of bargaining power when it comes to his wages, I suppose :shrug:

If we do sign that German fitness guy and Wenger is genuinely looking to shake up the fitness approach through him, he could be the most important signing of the summer.

Do you think Chelsea are genuinely interested in Khedira though, or is it just the papers adding an easy, slightly credible twist to an otherwise straightforward story, so they can drag it out into a mini soap opera? I haven't seen anything concrete from Chelsea yet, and I kind of think it would already be done if they really wanted him (or he wanted them)?

(Obviously, if we do sign Khedira, then Chelsea were definitely 100% after him, and we beat them to it. He was probably their main target in fact.)

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

I read somewhere and Gazidis and Dick Law have taken a much more hands on approach now with transfer dealings. Wenger says who he wants, they go out and do the business.

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Yeah definitely seems as if our approach has changed. Our pursuit of players seems a bit more open these days too.

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Originally Posted by Kano

If we do sign that German fitness guy and Wenger is genuinely looking to shake up the fitness approach through him, he could be the most important signing of the summer.

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I thought we already hired him ??

Can anyone confirm

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Originally Posted by Kano

If we do sign that German fitness guy and Wenger is genuinely looking to shake up the fitness approach through him, he could be the most important signing of the summer.

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German fitness guy already confirmed pre world cup afaik, there was an article about him being our biggest signing of the summer.