Scored 15 goals from what I can see, seems a lot of money for a guy who's really only emerged this season, but who knows in the crazy world of football.Originally Posted by Jeebus
Scored 15 goals from what I can see, seems a lot of money for a guy who's really only emerged this season, but who knows in the crazy world of football.
Hmm that's what I thought. I honestly don't know much about him.
Hardly record breaking stuff tbh, and in the French league. Giroud was top scorer there the season before we bought him......
Of course he's not. He's a kid that has shown potential, like many that went before him. Circumstances will dictate whether he comes good. The wrong decision now, like going to Madrid, and he's fucked. Rodriguez, the last great whizzkid wonderkid next Pele, is about to be offloaded after a modest shift at that level. They signed some other youngster too a while back, some Scandinavian kid, wasn't it, for a ridiculous amount. Can't recall hearing his name in an age.
Look at Martial, another next big thing. Exploded on the scene. Silly money and now Maureen wants to shift him on. So 87mill is a ludicrous amount, but that's what football is all about, lunacy. It has become one big factory for shifting huge amounts of money from huge amounts of people and into the pockets of mostly mediocre men who have found themselves in the right place at the right time.
If Mbappe does make it and becomes the next Henry it won't be because he's had one good season in France, it'll be because he grafts for the next 5 years under the tutelage of a manager who knows his stuff. And most importantly of all, he needs to get game time.
In gypoland he'll be up against Aguero and Jesus. In chavland he might land the starting spot if Costa fucks off. In Madrid he'd be on the bench half the time and in a poisonous ego-hell, with us he'd likely start, but I bet on the wing. I bet.
Conte, starting for the chavs, PL champs, CL footie, big wages - that would be his best option I think. It's roulette at Madrid. Depends ifthe kid is in this for football or if he has already been corrupted by his agent.
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Wouldn't we be better spunking large amounts of money on experience and class though?
Oh, hang on, we've all been here before.
The Arsenal transfer carousel
Translation:Arsene Wenger's side have long-standing interest in the France international but are now set to lose out.
Reports in France suggest the Gunners have made an £87million bid for Mbappe, but with Real Madrid circling and Arsenal unable to offer Champions League football it is unlikely they will get their man.
Wenger dithered for years, signed Sanogo instead.
Wenger fucked it by not even managing to retain his coveted 4th place trophy so he could con serious footballers into a contract.
Wenger hurts Arsenal every morning he walks through the door.
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He looks the real deal to me. He scored a lot of goals in CL too against decent opposition like Citeh, Dortmund & Juve. Whoever gets him will have a future worldie on their hands.
The fee is crazy I agree, but the market is nuts right now.
I reckon any bid like that from us would be riddled with clauses and structured over a long period.
He's not coming here anyway, way too much heat on him. He'll end up at Real IMO.
Last edited by selassie; 02-06-2017 at 12:47 PM.
Vidal still pisses me off because it was such an obvious signing. But we still need a player like that.
Draxler was another horrible miss.
Both players went cheap in this silly market, we didn't even compete because Wenger was there telling us the players we already had were good enough. What a fool.
It's really hard to identify a single significant target now we have started to drop down the league. Multiple opportunities stared Wenger in the face and he let them all pass.
Hard to know what we could offer to persuade a serious striker to come here. Would have to be Chinese level wages I guess. And we can't do that with Alexis and Ozil demanding huge wages too, not without selling them off. Wenger has created a right mess. He's turned us into a second tier club and we are starting to experience what it's like to be chasing that gap between the elite clubs and the rest. This could be a long period in the wilderness.
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Yeah it's happened numerous times, top players reasonably priced and we've passed up the opportunity when we were crying out for players like that and let someone else get them for next to nothing.
To be honest you'd have to be a fool to come here now with the club as it is, there's no hope of picking up medals for the big prizes or even competing in them, few top class players to play alongside, tactics that are nonsense (as a striker you'll probably end up at full back) and money wise we're not going to compete with the big boys and if we did why would you choose a club on a downward spiral with a guy whose idea of successful management is a positive balance sheet, because realistically even if we were hypothetically going to offer higher wages, it would probably be £1 more.
A tin pot record breaking one though!
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