Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
I have no doubt they will respond if we increase our offer, they responded to West Ham's offers so I see no reason why they wouldn't follow suite with us. I personally think their stance is that they do not want to sell but would sell at a price they deem suitable to compensate themselves. Lacazette has a part to play in this too and if he wants to join us then he's going to need to go public about it.

I never suggested we increase our offer to what is their supposed valuation but we need to get serious if we are serious about the player and the player is serious about us. The 2nd offer should be somewhere near their valuation if they have one, I suppose what I'm trying to say here is that we shouldn't be sitting their waiting for Lyon to bend over backwards for us.

Edited to add: Rumours going around that offer was earlier in the summer for Lacazette so it seems it was a opportunist punt
We shouldn't wait around, that I agree with but you need to have dialogue to know where to come in next, otherwise you're just shooting in the dark, hoping you'll get what you want. I don't know if Lyon spoke with West Ham because that was all media talk and 99.999% of everything we read is absolute bullshit (unless I missed some quotes from Lyon). My feeling is if you want to sell, you reject and tell the buyer it doesn't meet our valuation. Then the buyer can ask what that valuation is and go from there - but with nothing to go on...well, that's a pretty hard thing to buy.