Winter Transfer Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[Letters]

Twats like Felix, like Felix.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

You'd think this would mean Chelsea are no longer trying to get Mudryk.

[IBK]

Pushing 20m for a 6 month loan with no buy option.

Madness. Glad we're not getting involved in that.

This.

[Marc Overmars]

Chelsea are taking on his full salary and he’s also signing a new contract with Atleti to protect his value too.

Mugged off good and proper. As much as I would have liked him in the squad, I’m glad we avoided this deal.

[IBK]

Chelsea are taking on his full salary and he’s also signing a new contract with Atleti to protect his value too.

Mugged off good and proper. As much as I would have liked him in the squad, I’m glad we avoided this deal.

Yes - no option to buy - WTF! Glad this wasn't us.

[selassie]

But they are not really that ridiculous are they? Pepe, like Mudryk was a winger who was an unknown quantity in the EPL, but had been outstanding at Lille - scoring 23 goals and registering 12 assists in 41 games in the season before we signed him. Pepe - like Mudryk appears to be now was sought after by other clubs. Pepe, like Mudryk would be - was a club record signing who represented a risk for AFC.

I accept that the big difference is that our manager at the time - Emery - did not want to sign him (he wanted Zaha), whereas Mudryk seems to have been identified by Arteta and Edu as a player who fits into the Arsenal project.

But the fact remains that Mudryk is young and relatively untested - particularly in our league - so he represents a risk. The question is not whether he would represent an exciting, and unedeniably promising signing but whether we should pay way over our valuation (with all the knock on issues that would represent) for a player who would not even be first choice in his position (at least initially). Young and untested players are usually cheaper because of this. For me, smashing our transfer record in a bidding war with the basket case that Chelsea is currently is something that needs to be considered very carefully, and if the club decides that this is not worth it, then I'm good with that.

I agree. Mudryk if anything is not even established as Pepe was when we signed him. The difference with Mudryk is that he has performed at a really high level in CL this season. His ceiling looks a lot higher than Pepe's too. Despite all that I question the amount Shaktar want for him, to me it seems totally excessive considering we are his only suitors and he seems desperate to join us.

I think this deal will get done, from the bits I've been reading, it seems the issue is related to the upfront fee v add-ons which I am sure will get resolved but most likely not until the end of the window.

[selassie]

Chelsea are taking on his full salary and he’s also signing a new contract with Atleti to protect his value too.

Mugged off good and proper. As much as I would have liked him in the squad, I’m glad we avoided this deal.

Yep, Chelsea have been taken to the cleaners. Their transfer strategy if you even want to call it that is a complete and utter shambles IMO. They are just picking up random players, good ones mind, but I don't see how these players all fit into their system. Felix is similar to Havertz IMO.

[Letters]

11 Million Euros for a loan till the end of the season?!

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Do we have any updates on Mudryk....or any other signing, the wait is becoming irritating.

[Mac76]

We need more bodies in that squad, even if they are just loans (although not on Felix terms obvs)