Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
I personally think Lukaku is wishlist material now, our time to get him was from Chelsea. If he does move it will be for serious money and I suspect City and United will get involved, Wenger won't entertain any auction, he never does. Wenger has bought some world class players over the past few years so that isn't in question, however they have been players that have been pretty much publically made available as oppose to us going for them off the back of an ambitious bid.
As Doug says there's no way that Mourinho would have let us have Lukaku. We only got Cech because the decision was taken away from him - if he had his way, we'd probably still be starting Ospina in goal right now.

I kind of agree, if we becomes an auction we'll most likely sit it out - that's never been our style. But if for some miracle we matched whatever bid the others made and they were accepted, I'd like to think that working with Wenger and our stablity may just tempt him here (winning the title wouldn't hurt either!). May just be the glasses but he does seem like a pretty grounded and sensible kid.

On a seperate note, Roman must be fuming. That's both De Bruyne and Lukaku now, who due to the hopelessness of Mourinho to work with youth, they've let go for relative peanuts in today's market. What's even more hilarious is that it's also two players that they could really do with now given how poor Cesc and Costa have been.