Lyon claiming we are no where near their valuation...their chairman saus we've offered £40m. Grealish getting excited
It's worth mentioning that Aulas said that Mendy was going nowhere He was unveiled by Los Ladrones within a week...
What he said was that our first offer was €45m but talks have been ongoing since. Aulas is a very smart ****er, mate. He's the French Levy by all accounts. Though he's got previous with this type of talk, both our signings of Lloris and N'jie he made comments about deals being nowhere near complete and then within a matter of days they were Spurs players. I could be wrong, but I reckon Ndombele will be a Spurs player within a few days.
There's a theory going about that what Aulas is really doing is playing to the gallery about getting the best price, but in reality with Lyon £80m+ in the black for this financial/FFP year all he's really doing is keeping the shareholders happy by acting as if he wants to maximise their profit when what he's actually doing is waiting until the beginning of the next financial/FFP year before having one hell of a profit fall into his lap In short, wait until Monday, because that's when their financial/FFP year resets
Are/were Lyon in UEFA FFP trouble ?? Clubs are allowed cumulative debt of E45m max over a 3 yr rolling window.
Not with UEFA, but Ligue 1's own FFP rules As things stand, their business for the 2018-19 season has them €50.05m in the black (€42.05m spent, €92.1m recouped) so there is absolutely no need for them to sell Ndombele before Sunday - while their business for 2019-20 current has them €45m in the black (€8m spent, €53m recouped) so if you factor in that plus the fee they'll make for Ndombele (please please please please...) then they will have no issues whatsoever not only pursuing their widely reported interest in Lille's Thiago Mendes, but with Fekir entering the final year of his deal they'll have plenty of money to sign a replacement without worrying about any potential FFP pinch coming from it even if they end up selling him for peanuts
Levy is really doing his best to force Arsenal to spend all their budget on a player who wouldn’t even immediately be able to play for them. ****housery at its finest.
I thought that was a done deal, but it cost the Goons an extra 8m. Any ITKs on this one (love it if true) ??
From what I’ve gathered, Arsenal have agreed terms with Saliba but not agreed a deal with St Etienne. My guess is that Arsenal are trying for a deal that sees them pay probably around £10m right away and then the rest in instalments whilst St Etienne probably want most of the fee up front. So Levy is either genuinely making an offer because perhaps Poch sees him as a long term successor to CB OR Levy is just being a **** and saying “hi lads, here’s £20m up front” which forces Arsenal to either match or better it which then results in the majority of their budget being used up. Either way it’s funny as ****.
While it's tempting to say Atletico are overpaying for Joao Felix, in reality they aren't - for all the the plaudits they get for their scouting, they regularly pay top dollar for players Vieri - £12.5m Juninho - £13m Aguero - €20m Simao - €20m Forlan - €21m Griezmann - €30m Falcao - €40m Diego Costa (second stint) - €56.9m Lemar - €70m It's also worth mentioning that Lemar is the 20th most expensive player in transfer history while Costa is the 44th While some of those fees sound small in today's market, at the time they weren't - Vieri and Juninho were back in 1997m Aguero was in 2006 and Simao in 2007, at a time where for most clubs those would be record transfer fees - case in point, Los Ladrones paid £37m for Luis Figo in 2000, yet while broken that record six times since (Zidane, Kaka, Oily Rat, Bale, Rodriguez...Jovic?) the closest we've come to spending that in the 19 years since is the £36m we paid for Sanchez a couple of years ago ...and before anyone asks, the €75m quoted for Ndombele would put us in 18th, paying the same fee in Euros that Barca paid for De Jong and The Sheikh Mansour Team paid for De Bruyne, but higher overall due to the exchange rate being affected by some blonde twat and a bus...
and they make serious profits on them when sold (players who generally have provided good and long service to the club) .
Not all the time, given they made a £13m loss on Juninho (at a time where £13m was a significant outlay), and €11m loss on Forlan, and a €19.1m loss on Simao - and they're going to be taking one hell of a bath on Diego Costa, too Of course the real way to break down these players is by their age when they signed Aguero - 18 Lemar - 22 Griezmann - 23 Vieri/Juninho - 24 Falcao - 25 Forlan/Simao - 27 Costa - 29 Aguero, Lemar and Griezmann all had/have time to become assets that would generate profits Vieri, Juninho and Falcao were a risk as there was less time Forlan, Simao and Costa were/are only ever going to decrease in value The middle three is the interesting one: Vieri was profitable as Serie A was wash with cash at the time so there were going to be plenty of suitors willing to pay top price, Falcao was a risk but Atleti got lucky because Monaco won the Euromillions, while Juninho was a bad signing motivated by Jesus Gil wanting to show off he had money to spend rather than thinking through the club's transfer business Considering how Arsenal have a track record of signing players other clubs don't want, notably Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan, surely we could offload GKN on them?
Wikipaedia has already has Clarke as a Tottenham player - its true! Wiki said so : On 26 June 2019, Clarke undertook a medical at Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur after Leeds agreed a fee in the region of £10 million fee with the club, the fee would also include Leeds having a first 'loan' option on Clarke and also sell on clauses.[28]signed for Tottenham Hotspur in a deal worth up to 10m No shirt pic yet.
