Ornstein reckons Gabriel has already signed and has just been in isolation, seeing out his quarantine - club just waiting for that to be over before making the announcement.
Sounds like that’s probably true - there’s been zero new news on him for a good few days now, so I guess all the other clubs that were after him have moved on.
Yeah, everyone's talking about it like it's in the bag
https://www.theguardian.com/football...P=share_btn_tw
Thought this was a shoo-in since seeing his reactions on Twitter from winning the Community Shield.
You just don't react like that when you're still in theory at another club.
Great news if true, I know its short term but these sort of deals could become more common anyway. He provides some much needed quality on the ball in midfield.
It buys us time to deal with at least one problem on a different day - obviously if we do nothing else with the midfield this summer then we should have pushed harder to sign him now, but if this is what let's us go after players like Partey and Aouar (still not sure what to make of that one) then this is a good deal for us.
Got a horrible feeling his price will probably have doubled by next summer, but, you know... that's a 'next summer' problem.
could be we're shifting Ozil...
https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/footbal...ub_412455.html
It will have to take something insane like that for him to go because I have no doubt he's happy to sit out his final year here.
Something has obviously broken down in terms of relationship with the club hierarchy, it's not just footballing reasons anymore.