Quote Originally Posted by budesonide View Post
No one suggested arsenal should splash that kind on money on messi!

we are not in the position to. But we can do far better than the dross we have been signing. As cripps said, if spending 30million on a quality striker or defender makes us go under, then fuc*K, we can't call oursleves a top football club or charge the ticket prices we do.
This was your "question": Would you be surprised if messi went for 250million?

I merely took that as if it were Arsenal who paid that sort of money.