Sell Raphinha. Spend the Phillips money on a replacement. Spend Raphinha money on a striker. Please God no to another winger. Just play James and have Summerville in reserve.
As Ive been saying £5m is way too much for an 18yo with a handful of U23 games. He goes into our 23 squad and at best will be behind Bate in the pecking order unless hes a good DM and will replace Jenkins. This £5m is part of the Phillips deal
This is where a smart guy like orta will earn his corn. We’ll out fox this guy’s agent by sending him an email. Get out of that one, sucker!
So MC pay us £45m for Phillips, as part of the deal we pay them £5m for a player worth £1m. So in reality they get Phillips for £41m.
Let's wait and see. It's all about recruitment from now on. Kristensen looks a solid player. Roca and Aaronson have question marks over them physically but hopefully they brush them off quickly.
I thought the same tbh but thought it was me just being thick. They underpay for Phillips. We overpay for Darko. Everyone is happy because its creative accounting. please log in to view this image
I don’t think anyone actually knows do they? Maybe the deal ‘worth’ £5m means we actually pay a peppercorn for a player valued at that. or maybe we’ve been double shafted
I think aaronson is a Duracell bunny, so although he looks like the runt of the litter I’m not so worried by him. Roca can clearly play but on paper at least he doesn’t look ideally suited to the rigours of a cm role in the PL. time will tell.
All I know is we are losing 2 of our best in Phillips,Rapha and we were lucky to stay up with them around. we are also losing another 2 who were regulars in Dallas and Ayling, God knows when they will be back or in Dallas's case will he ever come back and be the same player?. the rest of the recruitment has to be really good. it will be survival again the objective.
So you believe that we actually paid £5m for an unknown 18yo when these kids listed are worth less than him? Even James McCatee is only valued at £2.5m and hes played first team Man City. Florian Balogan £3.5m and he plays league football not U23. troy Parrott and Levi Collwill are worth £4.5m and you think that we broke records for a kid nobody had really heard of when his older team mates who Orta wanted like McCatee are worth only half…. Believe what you want
Arsenal have pulled out of the race for Raph..... This Saga is going to run on till the end of the transfer window and then We'll have an unhappy Brazilian on the pitch giving very little effort or a last minute bargain bin signing.
No I don't believe any of it, that's why I was asking questions when you decided to reply in the manner you did. So you can f**k off with your self important attitude and leave me out of it.
