Summer Transfer Thread 2019

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Is it me or this year the transfers have been a bit meh? especially for the top6 clubs..

I think it’s been one of the deadest summer windows I’ve ever seen tbh. Last week could be a madness!

 

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Will be interesting to see the details of the payment scheme for this one. Spending money now, when that doesn't benefit the team now, seems very strange.

Won’t be paying till next year, otherwise he would have been playing for us this season.

 

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So if he has an awful season, or gets a bad injury we still have to pay?

Fraid so.

So Arsenal have a clause to sign Ceballos?

No, that’s the most annoying thing.

 

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Oof, that is a yikes from me.

There’s a chance RM might sell him to us, but if he turns out decent, they’ll ask silly money because of his age, and if he’s great, then he’s going back, no questions asked.

 

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What is this madness! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49137976

£72m for a player, I’ve got to admit, I’ve never even heard of. Anyone else seen him play?

 

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And just what Arsenal need too, their defence is absolutely stellar!

I think our entire gameplan will be basically, you score three, we’ll score four.

 

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Seems ridiculous, as they could buy Zaha for less, and has a proven track record of playing in the Premier league.

Arsenal don't do anything easy

Big difference. Lille will accept instalments, Palace won’t.

 

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I don't rate Zaha. He's not worth £80 mill.

I rate him, but not at 80m. He’s a 35-40m player at most imo.

 

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Apparently Welbeck can't find a club as he's demanding £100k a week and a £5m signing on fee. Don't know if I believe it. He can't be that deluded.

 

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Sky confirming Pepe has agreed to join. Medical within days. Buzzing, we just don’t sign players of the €80m kind.

 

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One of these days Arsenal will stop buying attackers and buy a defence eh!

Nope, don’t try to **** on our parade, it wont work, I can’t wait to see Pepe, Auba and Laca shredding defences.

 

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Apparently we'll also be getting another CB and a FB. Will be a lot happier if that happens.

I've heard the Tierney deal is close, and Emery's looking at loaning Rugani for a year until Saliba returns. If we got them over the line as well as Pepe, it would the best transfer window in the premier league tbh and the best one of ours for years.

This lineup would get me pretty excited tbh.



And we'd still have the likes of Holding, AMN, Iwobi, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Mkhi, Nelson, Willock, Nketiah, all pushing for their chance.

 

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Those players are generally the ones that doen't have the option of joining a club already in the CL and challenging for trophies though

Well it looks like Pepe could have got his move to PSG if he really wanted it. Auba could have joined a champions league team, so could Laca.

 

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Which CL teams tried to sign Auba, at least at the amount Arsenal paid for him? So many big sides signed attackers around the time you went for Auba and nobody went for him as far as I remember. And PSG's interest in Pepe is about the same level as Liverpool - he's been whored out by Lille & his agent all summer. If you really believe he's choosing Arsenal over PSG then you're off your trolly rob.

And I really don't remember anybody of note being interested in Laca.

AM were dead set on Laca until they was hit with a transfer ban.

 

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So what you're saying is Laca was going to join a club in the CL and competing for trophies ahead of Arsenal but then was left with no choice?

Pretty much, but it worked out quite well for us.

 

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LMAO! Even Auba knows he's dog****

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/30/aubameyang-shkodran-mustafi-arsenal-transfer-10485047/

 

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Every mistake both Mustafi and Sokratis make have already been made in preseason.

Mustafi with dodgyness at the back and mistakes and Sokrates with getting send off.

Shows they’re just incapable of learning and improving. They’re as good as they’ll ever be, but it’s not good enough.

 

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Did anyone catch that on talk sport earlier about these instalment deals that are becoming commonplace?

Apparently, in many cases, the selling club sells the debt to a large finance company or bank for a percentage less than what’s owed. So for example, Pepe, is 80m. Arsenal pay £20m upfront and then Lille sell the remaining 60m debt to a finance company for £55m. Lille get £75m upfront and in their kitty and then divert all future instalments they get from Arsenal straight to the financiers, so the financiers make around 9% interest on the deal over 5 years. Everyone’s a winner!

 

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Last summer Ronaldo, this summer Lukaku and Ramsay. Inspiring stuff from Sarri :\

 

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Plus, if he helps get us back in the champions league, our budgets will go up significantly.