Take my word for it?..well yeah you will because its a fact.
So says you... Ok, why not just answer this directly: Do you honestly think £30m is a fair price, 12months left or not?
We can do worse actually, Arsenal can move on and sign someone else.
I've already pre-empted that. £30m(and his wages most likely) in this market could be matched by multiple clubs elsewhere in my view. Again, there is plenty of time left in this transfer window, not all clubs do their business early. The bigger hurdle could be how Jesus views the other moves in my view but I doubt Arsenal are the only suitable club. I don't see why you're insisting it's Arsenal or bust.
I am not interested when or if we sell him,
See you say that but...
If that happens we are left with a pissed off player on our books for 12mths who then goes for nothing. Its all well and good thinking Arsenal will crack, its all a game of poker.
You certainly seem concerned that we'll end up stuck with him if Arsenal don't get him for £30m. I'd also say, everything I've seen from Jesus, tells me even if that did happen, he wouldn't kick up any fuss. I don't see why you're insisting he would. He's got a better chance of making the WC squad but there's no saying he couldn't make it if he stays at City and performs well when he is called upon.
City rarely play hard ball on outgoing transfers and its preferrable to get a deal done and dusted nice and early and not be pissing about all summer.
"Pissing about all summer" is your own take on it(it's a normal part of transfer business) and weirdly emotive for someone who's not interested if or when we sell him.
Where are you getting this idea we do all our outgoing deals "nice and early" from anyway? I'm sure we'd like to but that's not what we usually end up doing in my opinion.
Incoming deals I'd agree with but to my mind, we struggle with outgoing players because buying clubs tend to take the piss and sometimes the player wants higher wages than they are willing to pay plays a part too.
We don't sell many high profile players like Jesus either. Not players that we would be happy to keep(we would IMO) but have asked to leave. For example: Just last summer Bernardo asked to leave, the club said fine as long as the right offer comes in. What happened? City didn't accept any joke offers, the player stayed and got on with it and had a great start to the season if anything. City at least try and avoid players with the wrong mentality for situations like this.
The last one I can think of that actually went through is Sané. Unless you count Torres but as I remember it, the initial fee was the one we accepted. Either way everyone seemed happy with that bit of business on City's side. With Sané, we actually did play hard ball, trying to get Bayern to offer us what we wanted and even played him in a game(community shield) that we probably shouldn't have, where he got injured as a result. So we had to keep him for another season.
