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if Eze would rather join Arsenal than us, maybe we should have wasted about a month trying to sign him.

 

With the greatest respect, your last sentence holds a critical error.

The whole world and his dog knew that Eze was a youth player at Arsenal until the age of 13 and has supported them since he was a kid.

These things have always been true, they didn't become true when Havertz got injured yesterday.

Which means we've spent 10 days negotiating with a player who we knew would never choose us over Arsenal in a month of Tuesdays.

Which means we either made a massive mistake approaching him in the first place, or we didn't do enough to to tie the deal up quickly.

There is no scenario in which Levy emerges from this looking clever because we just about managed to dodge accidentally signing an Arsenal supporter at the last moment.

 

How could we tell other than by giving him the option?

 

The most annoying part for me is that we just become the banter club again. All the rival fans, especially Arsenal fans will be loving this.
What I meant is we do have a lot of good players with some young players that I hope can start to reach their potential this season. But we have to get another couple of quality players in I completely agree.
I started to listen to the Chris Cowlin podcast on YouTube just now but it was too depressing!!

 

My second thought is, Eze was always going to go for Arsenal if they came in, and was probably primed in his meetings before to wait for Arsenal's call.

I actually think Levy had less control over this than even he thought.

Eze is an Arsenal fan. Given the choice, he was always going to go there.

Havertz injury is unfortunate, as that's what's pushed it firmly over the line.

Levy has been played. He could offer more money, but I doubt that'd turn Palace's head.

The only thing to do now is sign a replacement that is SO good, that we can move forward. I dunno who that would actually be at this point,

 

Plenty of pictures of a young Harry Kane in an Arsenal shirt. Ornstein says that Eze will play for Palace tomorrow...proves my point that signing him earlier wasnt an option. Same as Guehi.

 

Eze must have said at some point he would join Spurs so I don’t think the club have wasted time by trying to sign him.

The issue was when Arsenal came along, Spurs probably didn’t anticipate Arsenal joining the race for him.

 

it’s known that he’s an Arsenal fan, and they were interested, and have been for some time. You have to ask why are we trying (and for so long) to sign someone who supports our rivals.

 

“We want to win the Premier League”.
“We want to win the Champions League”.

Yeah I can see how hard you’re striving for such, Daniel.

 

regardless of who the situation, Arsenal have wrapped this up in a matter of hours after one of their players got injured. We’ve ****ed about for too long. Again.
But at least he wasn’t stolen at the medical stage.

 

He has literally agreed terms for two of the best players in the PL only for both to turn us down at the last minute.

 

We had around two weeks to get the Eze deal done.

Arsenal got it done in about 5 hours.

 

He is allegedly playing for Palace tomorrow so Arsenal have signed him no earlier than we could have.

 

I don’t think anyone can answer this. It’d have to be someone who is out of our wage league. So in terms of calibre of player, Eze was about the best we could have hoped for. It’s rabbits out of hats now.

 

See my answer above. Palace were determined to keep him until their play off match.

 

Played like an old fiddle...twice

 

You are speculating this about both of them.

Gibbs-White the issue was the threat of legal action and fact that we didn't actually trigger a release clause.

Eze... wouldn't surprise me if he's turned us down, but Arsenal have offered a higher fee and better terms.

Multiple reasons probably at play for both. Some within our control to mitigate, some not.

 

For once I agree with you. Eze was unlikely to have left Palace before this week. So Palace and the player were always lucky to take the best offer. For them it seems Arsenal is that.

 

Ornstein says that Arsenal simply matched what we offered and Eze chose them.

But it is all speculation. If Eze doesn't play tomorrow then we did something wrong. If he does then it's fair to assume that we were told at the beginning that they wouldn't sell until after that match so there was no point in rushing to agree terms.

 

You cannot possibly know that. We’ve had weeks to get the deal done, had we gotten it done say 10 days ago, the conference league wouldn’t have even been in the thoughts of Palace’s minds. It’s more likely a case of we’ve taken so long to agree a deal that it reached a point where Palace have said “well we’re playing him on Thursday now” and in that time, Havertz has injured himself and Arsenal have gone straight in with what Palace demanded and got the deal done.