Why don’t we swap Giroud for Batshit, then sell him to Dortmund?
Why don’t we swap Giroud for Batshit, then sell him to Dortmund?
It's not really stupid on their part. Unlike our situation with Alexis, Aubameyang still has 3 or 4 years left on his contract. Dortmund don't have that risk of losing him for nothing so they can afford to just say no if they don't have a replacement first. And why shouldn't they?Originally Posted by Jeebus
We shouldn't have waited until the eleventh hour to make a reasonable offer. If we offered £60m on the 1st of January the deal would have been done by now and Dortmund would have enough time to bring in a replacement. We're the stupid ones.
Have we managed to fuck it up AGAIN?
From Ornstein.
But they aren't going to lose him for nothing as an offer is on the table that they have agreed to. They have dropped him twice this season and the directors want him gone from the club, so their stance of only letting him leave if they find a replacement is stupid as we would be in the same situation on the 1st as we are in now - waiting for them to find a replacement.
I know time scale is a factor but it doesn't change the circumstances of the situation.
Ideally everyone wants to find a replacement, but most clubs sell, then start shopping.
Basically we hold all the cards, if we sell Giroud to Chelsea, then Batshit can replace Auba and everyone is happy.
We paid 12m for Giroud (i know it was a long time ago but still) and Chelsea have offered 18m, which isnt bad for a second choice (3rd choice if Auba comes) striker.
This is too funny, we won't sell Giroud until we sign someone (which was odd as Dortmund were willing to sign him and we said no, almost as if to scupper the deal). Chelsea baulking at the asking price for Giroud which considering he's 31 and not much of a goalscorer is understandable.
We can quite feasibly mess up the deal for Aubameyang and then look like the innocent party to many fans (le'ts face it, that's probably what we want, what other reason did we have for not wanting to sell Giroud to Dortmund).
I'll laugh my head off if we fail to sign Aubameyang after all this hype, if we'd offered enough money in the first place Dortmund would have all the time to sign someone, instead we messed about giving them two days to find a replacement (and let's face it no club wants to sell someone and not have a replacement in January
We're well and truly messing this up
Zim I’m pretty sure no fan is going to view us as the innocent party if we don’t get him.
The club will be crucified.
I'd agree with you but there seems to be a group of Arsenal fans with every excuse under the sun (those that have stuck with Wenger), as I've said what we're doing here is the bare minimum in reality, we're not spending any money really, just money from player sales, considering the ticket prices and cost of everything at the club and the net spend over the years that's not really enough.
Obviously it would be great to get Aubameyang, but we should expect that after losing Sanchez and selling Ox, Coquelin, Walcott, in fact we should expect more in reality, somehow the club seem to have turned this into some massive deal and proof that things have changed without actually spending any money.
Another false dawn IMO and I'm not falling for it, but mark my words many will, that's one of the reasons Wenger has been in charge so long.
It's like Bale/Ozil situation again. Everyone's waiting for the other to make the first move so all the dominos can fall into place. No one's prepared to make the first move.
Don't like selling Giroud to the Chavs for so low but if that's what needed to complete the Aubeymang deal then ffs go for it. I don't think people realise just what an improve he is to all our current forward options.
It's easier said than done from my laptop screen, but we should not have allowed the Aubeymang deal conditional on Dortmund finding a replacement.
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