David Villa

If we get 3 years of something close to his best it would be well worth £16m, but haven't seen him since he returned from injury so can't judge.

I would spend £20 million on Villa right now.

One leg break does not make a player injury prone.

So far this season he has scord 8 goals in 20 appearances. Considering he is not an automatic starter and he is hardly ever played as a proper striker, thats a pretty good goals return.

Personally i think 16 mil for a player of his quality who can give us 3 years good service would be good business. Even if he does lose some of his pace he will never lose his ability to get into goal scorer positions or finish off chances. That being said i still cant see us getting him

One leg break does not make a player injury prone.
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No it doesn't.

But it can mean that the player loses half a yard of pace that is absolutely necessary in a goal scorer. As Eduardo found out.

It's funny our fans now being reluctant for the club to spend 16m on a player (on David freakin Villa btw) but saying 10 or so would be ok. You're starting to think like Wenger and Gazidis. They've really done a number on you over the years!

That's true TheSkins, and I've thought the same thing myself. Why the f/ck should we even care about how much Villa would cost us? Just sign him and be done.

Trouble is can quite shake the feeling that if Barca are willing to let him go, there's something amiss about it all, and tbh I'm not sure I even trust Arsene being in charge of the purse strings these days after all the duds we've over the last four or five seasons.

Oh the irony.

*I CAN'T quite shake the feeling...

Back of the napkin calculation.

RVP is earning c£180k a week at Utd.

Giroud is earning c£65k a week at Arsenal and cost £11m.

Means if we had kept RVP would have cost us £18m-£11m = £7m over 3 years!

That means it would have only cost us £2.3m a year to keep RVP over Giroud.

If it costs us another £15m for David Villa who will demand at least £110k a week - at 31, after a serious injury!

Why didn't we just keep RVP?

Surely if we make a signing like Villa that will mean the end of Walcott's Arsenal career?
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How come? Walcott plays right wing + striker, Villa plays left wing + striker. More than enough room for both

We need a squad!!
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I don't disagree that there's enough room or that we need a squad but with our recent history with transfers I can't see us making a signing like this without someone like Walcott who is still yet to sign a contract leaving.

D'Jeezus

Chicken, explain what you meant with your first point. For, as an Arsenal fan reading a Spurs fans comment, it sounded as if you were saying Villa was not very good, and is only rated because he plays with quality.

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I was not saying anything of the sort. If anything i was praising an ex-Arsenal player in Eduardo by claiming he could have a better reputation if he had the same supporting players as Villa.

Oh i get it now, you've seen a comment by a Spurs fan & automatically assumed it was having a pop. All makes sense now.

Apart from that, have i missed something? Has Villa actually signed for Arsenal? If not, why are you taking any comments ive made about Villa to heart?