And it's not just the money. If Partey leaves and they get Rice for the 6, Xhaka has left and it looks like they want Havertz for the 8 (?), those are two HUGE positions in this system. The way City have generally done it for those types of spots is a gradual handover or with other players that can play the position. I don't think Arsenal have that and i think it's gonna be a mini-miracle if those two immediately hit the ground running.This is a great point; it puts major pressure on them from the get go in a different way to last season.
They are a really good team but they had a bit of an anomaly for half a season where they trended for 100 points and then they defaulted to their average.
Havertz and Rice really good signings for them though given where their weak spots were.
Wages mate, wages. It’s a non-starter imhoTrow all that money at FdJ
Trow all that money at FdJ
I think we have been here before, if reports are correct we went for McGuire and Koulibaly before we settled on Dias because we weren’t prepared to be rinsed. Look how those two did compared with DiasPep wanted Jude
Pep wanted Rice
We've failed to get his two top targets, he's going to be a little disappointed, like khaldoon said in the interview Peps already thinking about next season, he wanted one of those and he hasn't got either.
We have missed out on his targets before but we've then got plan B, this time we've missed out on plan A and Plan B.
Hes not on 600k a week. His contract was leaked a while ago. I wanna say it was 220k but could be wrong. The issue is with Barca and defered wages. They owe him (and a load of others) a shit ton and if he (they) move they would forfiet it from what I remember. I reallt dont know why players seem to wanna still go to them under their current guise. Flase promises then screw you over.I keep seeing this… he’s on £600k pw, no chance we will ever sign a player like that lol
Dodged a bullet cucarella comes to mindOut of race, we move on