In the real world, we are at capacity on foreign players in the squad at the moment (due to having 5 non club trained home grown players when the limited is 4, which means one uses up a foreign spot) - we are in a one in one out situation, and clearly we’re trying to ship out Zin for a left back. Tagliafico seems most likely at the moment. Thats the realistic part.
Aouar may prefer us to Arsenal, but we’d have to move another player on to bring him in - and that just isn’t realistic at this stage of the window given the wages we pay without caving to some ridiculous Sanchez loan to Inter type deal where we pay £200k a week for someone to play for another club.
We are a business, and our owners pride themselves on running us as such. All this chat about players like Mendy sitting in the stands collecting their wages for doing fuck all just isn’t realistic. Proper clubs just don’t treat their players like that - and aren’t that financially reckless.
Alaba - by all accounts - has no interest in coming to the PL. I really can’t understand why anyone is suggesting him as a serious option. Pini Zahavi is clearly playing his games at the moment, with a view to getting his client a better deal, but i don’t see any of the noise about Alaba coming from our club.
And you have absolutely no basis to claiming Dias wasn’t the player we had planned to sign. None. In fact, it seems we’ve been tracking him for a couple of years, and when his fee came down from the €100m release in his contract after Benfica got knocked out of the CL 2 weeks ago - we got him for a price we were willing to pay.