summer '22 transfer craziness and stupidity

[I am invisible]

Barca are selling Auba to Chelsea for 12m plus a player, ffs.

Absolutely mental Arsenal are just giving them another player. Hopefully they've at least insisted on a sell on clause of some sort for when Barca flip him to another club for more free money.

That’s because Auba took a 50% pay cut to go to Barca - if we were trying to shift him on £160k/wk instead of £320k/wk then we might have been able to get a fee. (Barca have also massively lucked out with Chelsea’s batshit crazy nee owner!)

The problem we have is the only teams who can afford our players’ wages are other PL clubs, and none of them are interested - the only market there is for them is Europe and those clubs are all skint after the pandemic. Getting them off the wage bill might be the best we can do.

None of this is a problem with selling - it’s a problem with being bad at buying and utterly shit at contract negotiations.

[Marc Overmars]

2nd bid for Luiz incoming according to Ornstein. Stop being cunts Villa.

[Marc Overmars]

That’s because Auba took a 50% pay cut to go to Barca - if we were trying to shift him on £160k/wk instead of £320k/wk then we might have been able to get a fee. (Barca have also massively lucked out with Chelsea’s batshit crazy nee owner!)

The problem we have is the only teams who can afford our players’ wages are other PL clubs, and none of them are interested - the only market there is for them is Europe and those clubs are all skint after the pandemic. Getting them off the wage bill might be the best we can do.

None of this is a problem with selling - it’s a problem with being bad at buying and utterly shit at contract negotiations.

Think the problem was that we were dishing out CL contracts without having CL income. These were contracts most of the squad Arteta inherited were coasting on because it’s money they wouldn’t have got anywhere else.

The number of players just let go shows what a mess we were in. Glad we seem to have got a hold on that now.

[KSE Comedy Club]

2nd bid for Luiz incoming according to Ornstein. Stop being cunts Villa.

Apparently personal terms are already agreed and he is pushing for the move to happen (behind the scenes of course)

So a question of when not if now, surely?

[KSE Comedy Club]

Villa want £40m apparently.

Villa asking price for Luiz revealed

Arsenal will submit a second offer for Douglas Luiz worth £25million according to reports from Sky Sports.

However, it is understood Aston Villa want almost double this to sell the midfielder.

The Independent's Miguel Delaney has reported Steven Gerrard's struggling side want as much as £40m for him.

[Mac76]

Villa want £40m apparently.

that's ridiculous we should tell them to stuff it, we're not that desperate

[Gooner23]

Yeah they can do one, hope they bomb this season and lose him on a free next summer

[Gooner23]

Think the problem was that we were dishing out CL contracts without having CL income. These were contracts most of the squad Arteta inherited were coasting on because it’s money they wouldn’t have got anywhere else.

The number of players just let go shows what a mess we were in. Glad we seem to have got a hold on that now.

I was hoping we'd hold firm on getting a fee for Bellerin as a point of principle, but I suppose getting his wages of the bill is more important.

[Mac76]

Fulham have signed Willian

[Marc Overmars]

Villa want £40m apparently.

40m for a player who doesn’t want to be there and can speak to other clubs in January anyway?

No thanks.

Come on Douglas, force it through.