Arsenal

[Bender]

Football is beyond silly and stupid ....
[ame]https://twitter.com/siphillipssport/status/1619309630953496577[/ame]

[Doc_Piptorious]

Football is beyond silly and stupid ....
https://twitter.com/siphillipssport/...09630953496577

60m was a bit much imo it for a 21 yo with limited top flight experience. 90 m or close to it would be nuts.


60m to 90m should be getting you an established player of high quality and not a might turn into high quality player.

[rudedog]

Keep hearing about Arsenal's 'positition of power'

What power? Being top of the league in Jan/Feb is great but they haven't won anything yet.

Also, the only player they have signed so far is Trossard who is a squad player.

[Kenneth]

I’m not sure what’s difficult to understand tbh. Players want to be challenging for titles and playing in the CL. Joining Arsenal now puts a player in the middle of a title race, a London home, and pretty much guarantees CL football next season. That’s much more pull than we can offer this window, irrespective of our recent league and CL titles.

[Bender]

I’m not sure what’s difficult to understand tbh. Players want to be challenging for titles and playing in the CL. Joining Arsenal now puts a player in the middle of a title race, a London home, and pretty much guarantees CL football next season. That’s much more pull than we can offer this window, irrespective of our recent league and CL titles.

irrespective of Arsenal's recent league and CL titles.

[Bender]

60m was a bit much imo it for a 21 yo with limited top flight experience. 90 m or close to it would be nuts.


60m to 90m should be getting you an established player of high quality and not a might turn into high quality player.

imo £35 million ...

[rudedog]

I’m not sure what’s difficult to understand tbh. Players want to be challenging for titles and playing in the CL. Joining Arsenal now puts a player in the middle of a title race, a London home, and pretty much guarantees CL football next season. That’s much more pull than we can offer this window, irrespective of our recent league and CL titles.

Being an attractive destination to a player isn't what I was talking about though.

It's the idea that Arsenal have already already got success, (and further increased that success by buying Trossard) that I'm disputing.

Hopefully me repeating the same thing will make it easier for you to understand

[Kenneth]

Okay, but that’s a straw man because nobody has said that. And what does “position of power” mean if it’s not about their position relative to others in the transfer market? And doesn’t your mention of the Trossard purchase pretty much establish that you are talking about their position relative to others in the transfer market? So doesn’t my explanation fit the question accurately?

And if none of that is good for you, then the answer to your original question is that, when you hear people talk about Arsenal’s ‘position of power’, they are talking about their position in the transfer market due to their current circumstances. That’s what they mean; that’s the power; it’s nothing to do with trophies.

[Fredo]

You’re a strange person Kenneth. Go to all these lengths to make a ****ing moot point when what Rudedog said was obvious. Get a life ffs.

[danperkins]

I don't think it'd hard to understand either to be honest, Arsenal are in great shape at the moment, their top of the league, banker for champs league spot, good harmony in the squad, have that London pull and are offering big fees to get the players they want. They are trying to capitalise on their great league position by going for players that other clubs want but currently might not look as attractive prospect as them. If Caicedo moves now to Arsenal, he is moving to a team that have a great shout of winning the premier league and maybe the Europa league, also he's pretty much guaranteed to be playing in the champions league next season. I get why he would want to leave but I do think Brighton be mad to let him go mid season.

[Kenneth]

You’re a strange person Kenneth. Go to all these lengths to make a ****ing moot point when what Rudedog said was obvious. Get a life ffs.

Well it’s not the first time he’s made it. And he asked the question. And I just wrote a rely on a web forum, not great lengths.

[Bender]

Ok everyone calm down

[SB]

SB wanders in SB wanders out

[Doc_Piptorious]

SB wanders in SB wanders out

Let's hide in the photography thread. It's civilised in there

[SB]

Let's hide in the photography thread. It's civilised in there

Too many supposed alpha males dragging their nuckles in here