Jesus back in training

Castor you should at least read back on the page

comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Tu Meke (U3732)
posted 18 minutes ago
Monaco close to agreeing a fee for balogun
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Great! hopefully we can include a sell on clause or something.
Kudus has one for West Ham so I don't see why we couldn't get one
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We do for all players.

comment by Sheriff John Brown - Arteta IN!!! (U7482)
posted 2 hours, 16 minutes ago
What baffles me is it's not like Pepe had a terrible loan spell. Was a regular starter for Nice last season till he got injured and absolutely nobody will take any chance on him. His record for us is no worse than average for a wide player (better than average even) though certainly not worth the fee we paid for him.

For some very weird reason, Arsenal constantly have problems shifting deadwood that other clubs don't seem to have. With us, it's a consistent pattern. The number of signings we've released on frees over the years is pretty shocking and a major reason we have the most abysmal record of player sales in the league and have very high net spends.
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There is literally an article on the Man Utd board today highlighting how they struggle to make money in transfer fees.


I mean, we could sell Saka for £150m to appease the "we never get good money" crowd

This is the Arsenal thread pal

I'm not your pal, buddy.

I mean, we could sell Saka for £150m to appease the "we never get good money" crowd
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It's such a small club mentality. Who cares? If players are good, why would we sell? And if they are not, then obviously they won't command big fees.

Iwobi and Ox for £65m was elite bantz

And the 20m+ for Theo

Ox and Iwobi both forced a move away. Ox was fed up playing wing back and Iwobi wanted more wages. Similar to what's happening to Balogun.

Does show how bad Everton were at buying. Chelsea today?

Back further we somehow got £17m for Hleb, €30m for Adebayor, €20m for Kolo, €28m for Nasri, €19m for Song, €16m for Vela, €20m for Vermaelen.

Lil' Joey Willock cost close to €30m as well.

https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1694728804835766777

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 15 minutes ago
Ox and Iwobi both forced a move away. Ox was fed up playing wing back and Iwobi wanted more wages. Similar to what's happening to Balogun.

Does show how bad Everton were at buying. Chelsea today?
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Iwobi didn't force a move, he didn't want to go at all.

Clubs knew that we needed to sell in those days. We were the archetypical selling club, first to develop and then to pay off the stadium.

Wish we had kept Willock. Is he really worse than Vieira?

comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 15 minutes ago
Ox and Iwobi both forced a move away. Ox was fed up playing wing back and Iwobi wanted more wages. Similar to what's happening to Balogun.

Does show how bad Everton were at buying. Chelsea today?
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Iwobi didn't force a move, he didn't want to go at all.
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He was offered between £120k-£140k a week wages, which we could not match.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
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comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 15 minutes ago
Ox and Iwobi both forced a move away. Ox was fed up playing wing back and Iwobi wanted more wages. Similar to what's happening to Balogun.

Does show how bad Everton were at buying. Chelsea today?
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Iwobi didn't force a move, he didn't want to go at all.
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He was offered between £120k-£140k a week wages, which we could not match.
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I thought we wanted to sell him anyway

comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
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comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
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comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
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comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 15 minutes ago
Ox and Iwobi both forced a move away. Ox was fed up playing wing back and Iwobi wanted more wages. Similar to what's happening to Balogun.

Does show how bad Everton were at buying. Chelsea today?
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Iwobi didn't force a move, he didn't want to go at all.
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He was offered between £120k-£140k a week wages, which we could not match.
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I thought we wanted to sell him anyway
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Similar to Balogun. Do we want to pay him a lot of money to sign an extension as a no.3?

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 3 minutes ago
Clubs knew that we needed to sell in those days. We were the archetypical selling club, first to develop and then to pay off the stadium.


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But we still got good prices. Cesc and Nasri were in the top 3 PL transfers the year they went, only Aguero was with them.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 3 minutes ago
Clubs knew that we needed to sell in those days. We were the archetypical selling club, first to develop and then to pay off the stadium.


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But we still got good prices. Cesc and Nasri were in the top 3 PL transfers the year they went, only Aguero was with them.
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Absolutely we did! Top dollar.

Iwobi went because Pepe came in and Wobes didn't want to be pushed down the pecking order when a club was offering him starting XI place.
He probably also saw the likes of Nelson and Saka developing and knew his future with us was short.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 9 minutes ago
https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1694728804835766777


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How many downplayed that tiff with Klopp after being subbed.

It goes back to my point. Really, if you want good money, you have to feel pain when a player leaves. And I mean real pain and not that fake stuff Pete feels for Tierney.

If Balogun goes on to score 30+ for the next two seasons in France and Monaco sell him for £120m to PSG, I don't think a 10% sell on clause is going to make up for the regret.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 9 minutes ago
https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1694728804835766777


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How many downplayed that tiff with Klopp after being subbed.
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A move would make Salah equally paid like Ronaldo rumours said which make a move very attractive to Salah. It remains to be seen if Liverpool is willing to let him go.

They would have to bring Darwin in to start, Diaz, Jota and Gakpo backing up. Not that bad tbf.

Still a good strike force but without Mo ...mmhhh lovely I would say.