its gourcouff who's been offered to arsenal not gouffran, and he does only have 6 months left on his contract were not going to start too high. but i would off thought that the offer would be slightly higher.
For once this is a clever ploy by Ashley. He publicly states we are after Gourcoff. Arsene and 'Arry take an interest and attempt to steal in. then Mike says "oh sorry, I meant Gouffran - oh and by the way, he's already signed!" Job done!
i think his previous manager described the condition as embarassing