Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

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Originally Posted by Boss

It's hardly shit given that the money never came as he isn't an Arsenal player right now. For what reason the money didn't come is up for debate (whether Wenger didn't want him or the board held him back) but we didn't bid the amount of his buyout clause so he didn't come.

If the board is as tight as claimed on here, I don't see how they would sanction a 17M euro bid for a 17 year old kid (Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain) but not a 19M/25M euro bid for an established Spanish international playing for a top side. If anything Mata would be the better buy simply because he'd reach his peak sooner and would thus be able to be sold on faster for more money. Mata is also Spanish which means we'd have the pick of the world to choose from if/when we sold him on whereas it's unlikely Oxlade-Chamberlain would want to move abroad as he's English.

Wenger said he'll only sign if super quality is available and it'll improve the side. The only player better than Mata on the open market (ie available for transfer) is Sneijder. Now I'd be happy if we passed up Mata to buy Sneijder but we all know that's not happening.

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have we actually paid for the Ox? Is it installments or mainly on future happenings?

I heard Oxtail-Chambermaid cost around £6m up front and the rest is dependent on future success. So the likelihood is he'll cost around the same as Theo did, given we're unlikely to win stuff over the next few years.

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Originally Posted by Kaiser

I heard Oxtail-Chambermaid cost around £6m up front and the rest is dependent on future success. So the likelihood is he'll cost around the same as Theo did, given we're unlikely to win stuff over the next few years.

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That seems pretty reasonable.

There were many different claims of what the fee was - £10m, £12m, £15m. It probably makes sense that we paid something like £6m up front with £4m being likely and achievable (plays 20 league matches), £2m maybe based on more difficult but achievable targets (plays as full england international) and £3m based on team goals (Arsenal win league or whatever once in next 3-5 years).

It'd be nice to know one way or another though. I'm not sure we know how much Walcott's transfer was, even after all this time.

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Originally Posted by Jam Persie

That seems pretty reasonable.

There were many different claims of what the fee was - £10m, £12m, £15m. It probably makes sense that we paid something like £6m up front with £4m being likely and achievable (plays 20 league matches), £2m maybe based on more difficult but achievable targets (plays as full england international) and £3m based on team goals (Arsenal win league or whatever once in next 3-5 years).

It'd be nice to know one way or another though. I'm not sure we know how much Walcott's transfer was, even after all this time.

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Yes, he cost £undiscolsed+vat

Walcott cost £9.1m in the end. Southampton needed the money as they were gonna go broke (before the Billionaire dude came up) so we made a compromise instead of followin the original deal while could've gone up to £12m.

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Originally Posted by The Wengerbabies

Mata or Oxo for a similar price and he goes for Oxo. He's a cunt and needs to piss off before he ruins us further.

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6mil and £28mil arent that similar really

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Originally Posted by GunnerFan4Life

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I remember he was on trial at Spurs and they thought he was shit.

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Originally Posted by Punchinello Beezo

6mil and £28mil arent that similar really

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Hardly, he was available at a cut price amount in July due to his contract after a specified date that price clause no longer applied.

Also Oxo didn't cost 6 million, the fee is supposed to be 12 million plus adds ons, think Mata was available for 15-20 million Euros due to the clause in his contract.

So yeah he was right.

Chelsea paid full price as they bought him after the contract clause expired.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

Hardly, he was available at a cut price amount in July due to his contract after a specified date that price clause no longer applied.

Also Oxo didn't cost 6 million, the fee is supposed to be 12 million plus adds ons, think Mata was available for 15-20 million Euros due to the clause in his contract.

So yeah he was right.

Chelsea paid full price as they bought him after the contract clause expired.

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hmmm so Valencia had the option to sell him for 15-20mil or wait a bit longer and get £23.5mil from Chelsea or whoever, jeez that must have been a hard business decision.

Also we have paid £6mil for Ox plus future clauses.