Summer Transfer Window 2017/18 - Rumours & Signings

£35m? What happened to all the talk of £50-70m bids?
Robbo said:
It sounds like the Matic to Man Utd deal could be on for £50m, £35m initial bid rejected. A lot of money but he's a good player in a role we need to fill. We'll have a team of giants soon too!
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It probably won't get the headlines that other deals have but if you really do pay £50m for Matic, in real terms that's possibly the most expensive deal of the summer. He's about to turn 29 - you'd do well to get 3, maybe 4 good seasons out of him.
 
BaZ87 said:
£35m? What happened to all the talk of £50-70m bids?


It probably won't get the headlines that other deals have but if you really do pay £50m for Matic, in real terms that's possibly the most expensive deal of the summer. He's about to turn 29 - you'd do well to get 3, maybe 4 good seasons out of him.
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He only has a yr left on his contract so if that's the best they can offer, then we might as well take it as next year he can leave for free.
That's the problem with a player who only has a yr or so left on his contract, the danger is that they can leave for free the following year. Unless Sanchez decides to sign an extension then we can hold out for more but that's not going to happen by the looks of it.

PSG offering him wages of £500k a week reportedly as well lol. No way we can compete with that and seeing as he wants CL football, again something we cannot offer him.

Also 90% chance of Neymar leaving Barca for PSG as well according to reports coming out of PSG.
 
Im sure I read if they do get neymar by paying the release clause it will cause them to fail ffp

Like I said weeks ago big clubs don't care about fpp anyway
 
Yas786 said:
He only has a yr left on his contract so if that's the best they can offer, then we might as well take it as next year he can leave for free.
That's the problem with a player who only has a yr or so left on his contract, the danger is that they can leave for free the following year. Unless Sanchez decides to sign an extension then we can hold out for more but that's not going to happen by the looks of it.

PSG offering him wages of £500k a week reportedly as well lol. No way we can compete with that and seeing as he wants CL football, again something we cannot offer him.

Also 90% chance of Neymar leaving Barca for PSG as well according to reports coming out of PSG.
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I understand the theory but in the last few days all the talk was that PSG were preparing a £50-70m bid. Now it's £35m.
 
chroniclard said:
Not sure this leaving for free business is actually much of an issue to a top end club.

http://www.football365.com/news/arsenal-alexis-sanchez-and-the-diminishing-fear-of-bosman
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Interesting and I've often thought the same. It's not the financial disaster it's been previously. If Arsene and Arsenal get off to a flier, take the League cup and FA cup seriously and even get a couple more players in, who's to say that Sanchez won't sign a two year extension? With no CL football it could be a blessing in disguise.
 
MissChief said:
Interesting and I've often thought the same. It's not the financial disaster it's been previously. If Arsene and Arsenal get off to a flier, take the League cup and FA cup seriously and even get a couple more players in, who's to say that Sanchez won't sign a two year extension? With no CL football it could be a blessing in disguise.
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think about it from his point of view. Will arsenal offer him the money he wants? And at the end of this year wenger will be back on the 1 year contract fiasco and a large portion of the current arsenal squad only have 1 year left like Sanchez as well. Huge amounts of uncertainty all around the club. He can't know how everything will turnout and everyone taking a wait and see approach just results in the same kind of season arsenal just had, distractions all over the shop.

Edit. Look at the list, Sanchez, ozil, Wilshire, ox, carzola, Gibbs and jenkinson on 1 year, Wenger on 2 year and Walcott and giroud looking on the way out with mertesacker another year older. Make or break season season really. So many on 2 year contracts as well, lots to resign or replace.
 
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BaZ87 said:
I understand the theory but in the last few days all the talk was that PSG were preparing a £50-70m bid. Now it's £35m.
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Well who knows, one minute it's 50-70mill next min it's 35mill.

I'm not that bothered tbh, if we sell him then sell him abroad. As I've said before I don't want this to drag out the whole summer. The sooner he is gone the better, immense player who we will miss a lot when he is gone.
 
Robbo said:
If Arsenal sell Sanchez they're a joke.
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Right and if we don't and he leaves next season on a free then we are still a joke aren't we?? Because people will say we should have taken the 35mill or whatever was offered for him.

He's not bigger than Arsenal, we have sold many players in the past but we have managed to get past it.

As much as I love Sanchez, if he wants to leave then we need to address that.

What annoys me the most is that he said after the confed cup final, he would tell where his next club is. As of yet he hasn't said a thing but yet he's reportedly met with PSG reps.
 
Yas786 said:
He's not bigger than Arsenal, we have sold many players in the past but we have managed to get past it.
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Majority of those big sales you are referring to where in far less competitive times in the EPL
Without going to specifics Arsenal where probably near enough guaranteed top 4 even before the season began (when most of the sales you referred to took place), so it wasn't an issue either way.

Now the EPL is far closer, its probably more likely that at the same stage of the season that Arsenal (and a few other clubs ) cant really guarantee better than top 7 and nearly 1/2 of those places are no use at all to attracting the top talent.

Obviously you can still attract those that are more of a gamble - they may come good, they might not, but also more likely to take time to come good which isn't really something that helps the overall situation.

Its not just Arsenal, several other clubs are in comparable difficulties with more inconsistent results than 5 - 10 years ago, and one or two years out of the CL may make a huge amount of difference to who you can attract as replacements


edit - as that article suggests 35m this summer compared to losing him for free in a year....I would take that hit next summer for that kind of player. You cant get a suitable replacement for that kind of money and Sanchez' s goals can potentially be 2 - 3 place difference at the end of the season.

35m is chump change
 
Yas786 said:
Right and if we don't and he leaves next season on a free then we are still a joke aren't we?? Because people will say we should have taken the 35mill or whatever was offered for him.

He's not bigger than Arsenal, we have sold many players in the past but we have managed to get past it.

As much as I love Sanchez, if he wants to leave then we need to address that.

What annoys me the most is that he said after the confed cup final, he would tell where his next club is. As of yet he hasn't said a thing but yet he's reportedly met with PSG reps.
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To be fair I get the impression he decided to go to City but Arsenal are refusing to sell to an english club, and hence the price. If 3-4 teams are bidding for him then you accept a high offer, if you refuse several bids and leave the option for a single team open that team doesn't have to pay big money because you've basically announced you're willing to sell and he wants to leave, it's just a case of finding the magic point where Arsenal think the cash is the better option.

As for can't replace him for 35mil because you can't even get Barkley for that much, no one wants Barkley for the money being talked about because he isn't that good, but there are going to be plenty of players who go for sub £20mil who in a year or two people will talk about being worth 70+mil. Monaco bought Martial for like £4mil a year or maybe two before Utd bought him for 10 times that and how much was Mbappe.

There was a time I'd trust Wenger to find either a fantastically priced player or take a younger player ready to break through, but these days that trust is gone.

It's absolutely possible to find great players for 35mil or below, but if Wenger will or even can find such players any more is a different matter.
 
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thoughts?
 
robfosters said:
God knows. Even with only one year left, £35m is derisory and Arsenal should tell PSG to stick it up their ass.
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It is but if we say go **** yourselves then they could just pounce when Sanchez can leave for free and we get screwed.

Mind you I'd say to PSG, £50mill and he's yours.

Really it's down to Sanchez now, does he stay and sign a contract extension with the promise we sell him next yr and get max amount for him or just let him go to PSG for a stupid low amount.

At end of the day we are kinda screwed either way, PSG don't have to buy him for more than £35mill knowing he has only a yr left on his contract and could possibly join them next yr for free.

Not sure how this is going to play out really.
 
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