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What makes you think this?

Agreed it's ridiculous.

Absolute amateur hour dealing with Sullivan. This is why they avoid bidding wars; you end up dealing with bell ends who are more interested in dick swinging.

Maybe a way to bow out gracefully. They offer £95m knowing the answer will be no. City offer £100m and then Arsenal can say "we weren't willing to go that high, City are ruining football". Everyone's a winner.

sorry if I'm not being clear. What I mean is 1/ You always have to start below where you're willing so as to anchor the conversation (£80m) 2/ Then they always have to reject the first bid to look strong. So if we start at £100m they'd be obliged to reject it and we'd have to go higher. Some...

Would be so difficult to defend against because an attack can spring from anywhere across the back. It's a bit like the False 9 concept in reverse.

There'll be a tactical evolution to a double pivot. Or, Rodri will become a latter day Yaya.

Tbf I think this is normal. Remember the Grealish saga. Same with Mahrez. This time there's another bidder.

I find negotiation a bit tiresome but some people love it. To me it's obvious that a package totalling £100m will do it and that City are prepared to go there. But to satisfy the ego and PR management of the West Ham leadership we have to go through this charade to make them look like masters...

Hey hey hey hey hey. Don't make it about the lattes!

I can't understand a word he says either. "awight lads it's up the apples and pears to bedfordshire for me" ... how is he supposed to integrate if he won't learn the language?

It would make sense if we went double pivot to have both Rice and Rodri. I said on here recently that Madrid are basically building a team of giants and sonic the hedgehogs so it would make sense for us to also invest in our own giants and sonics.

Still struggling to believe this one will happen just because we have Rodri, but for us to have properly bid at all is a big deal. We know the way the club execs operate is to check with the player's camp first.

Hearing a different perspective isn't necessarily "cosying up" is it. The forum is more interesting when there's a diversity of opinion and ideas on it. When any opinion other than "City are the bestest team in the whole wide world and I hate everyone else" gets shouted down with "fuck em", it...

I think only a die hard Arsenal fan would disagree with this. Yes he has maybe chosen the family factor if he wants to stay in London and that is fair, it's different priorities for different people. But if you really want to maximize your football talent then playing for City under Guardiola is...

The thing is though he will make a fairly reasonable post and half the board gets wildly offended and calls him a **** and says fuck off for no reason. Certain City fans have become hyper sensitive with success. It's gotten so opposition fans can't even come on here and offer a perspective...

Sure, "lied" is probably too strong a term tbf, it would be better to say that we've been told "yes" by plenty of people before who have then chosen to go elsewhere, so I'm not getting giddy. Do you mean it would negatively impact the wages because they'd take the transfer money out of the...

Being given that indication wouldn't necessarily mean anything as we've been lied to before. I'd be surprised if he turns down the chance to work with Pep but stranger things have happened.

Not sure if this could just be West Ham trying to spook Arsenal.

Yes they liked the benefits of globalisation and free market Capitalism when it suited them but when the boot's on the other foot it's not fair.