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They’ve spent because they’ve sold big too - Maguire, Ndidi, Mahrez, Kante etc.
The asking price was a laughable £40m, but I wonder how substantial a bid this was. If it was in the £25m range, then turning it down was ridiculous.
Looking at how Italian clubs were moving that summer I have doubts how substantial or even immediate that payment would have been. We gave them Miki for nothing and they haggled over Smalling all summer for 15 mil.The asking price was a laughable £40m, but I wonder how substantial a bid this was. If it was in the £25m range, then turning it down was ridiculous.
Biggest mistake we made was that we made was that instead of spending an extra £10m and buying a world class player we decided to pay pay top dollar for potential and basically every player turned out to be a huge flop.
Xhaka - if we paid a bit more we could've gotten Saul or Kante.
Mustafi - if we paid a bit more we could've gotten koulobaly
Laca - if we paid a bit more we could've gotten auba the first time around. And spent the remaining £50m on Mahrez
Basically we wanted our cake and to eat it...it didn't pay off and it's set us back 10years.
Arsenal have just never sold well, thats the only difference. Leicester have also spunked money away on players, all clubs do it.
Silmani, Musa, Silva, Iheanacho, Benkovic.. thats nearly 100M.
Our big issue became players running their deals down, weird actually because in the old days we sold well.Arsenal have just never sold well, thats the only difference. Leicester have also spunked money away on players, all clubs do it.
Silmani, Musa, Silva, Iheanacho, Benkovic.. thats nearly 100M.
Confused with someone else.Where did Ndidi go?!?!
Our big issue became players running their deals down, weird actually because in the old days we sold well.
Wow what a good observation, never thought of that you dickhead.
It's easy in hindsight to say the club should have sold players earlier. Some were worse decisions than others.
I remember Arsenal fans going into uproar at the prospect of selling Joel Campbell after a decent World Cup with Costa Rica. We as fans aren't exactly great judges of when to move a player on either, to be fair.
Great stuff from merson as always after we bought Partey Willian and Gabriel he tipped us finishing top 4 now we midtable after few games. Seem non of our ex players want us to succeed.
Change his opinion many times i swear if we somehow win against Wolves and Sp**s he'll tip us finishing 3rd againI loved Merse as a player. He's an awful pundit though and seems a genuinely stupid person
He's been heavily complimentary of Arteta all summer, he's a joker.I loved Merse as a player. He's an awful pundit though and seems a genuinely stupid person
He's been heavily complimentary of Arteta all summer, he's a joker.
It's his style though, he just says all sorts for shock value and I've noticed that with a lot of pundits.
Great stuff from merson as always after we bought Partey Willian and Gabriel he tipped us finishing top 4 now we midtable after few games. Seem non of our ex players want us to succeed.