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How are you coping with everything? You still doing your fasting?
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I’ll PM you the other scouting reports but Nkunku is surely on the list.
How are you coping with everything? You still doing your fasting?
Of course we had to pay him off, but we still save a chunk. Thought this was all well known?
Exactly it's not the " £25M saving in wages " it was made out to be if we paid him £7M upfront. It's a joke of a situation how much we've spent on paying players to leave.We gave him 6 months wages upfront to leave. So they saved the last year wages. Could have used him for the last 6 months and found him a club in the summerv
Exactly it's not the " £25M saving in wages " it was made out to be if we paid him £7M upfront. It's a joke of a situation how much we've spent on paying players to leave.
I read that as fisting.How are you coping with everything? You still doing your fasting?
Not anymore unfortunately.
It sounds like the manager made it clear I will never play him no matter what. So they accepted his demand and it became about saving what you can. I wish Auba stayed and made the weirdo uncomfortable. Tweet after each game we don’t win about how much he want to help the teamExactly it's not the " £25M saving in wages " it was made out to be if we paid him £7M upfront. It's a joke of a situation how much we've spent on paying players to leave.
What’s changed?
Personally, I’d keep a close eye on the lads that Celtic signed. Give Hatate a year and then we should scoop him up from Scotland, I think he’ll be a great pick up in a year or so.
He's not needed anymore in our team I don't think. Don't get me wrong though he's still a baller but not sure where he'd fit in at this moment.
I worry a bit about Bundo league tax as well.
Nkunku seems like one of those we pay top dollar for when he's 26 and fully established and we're a CL team pushing for a title.
I do agree - people were kidding themselves if they thought he'd play for us again - rinsed in public, stripped of the captaincy, left out the squads etc. There was no way back for him. Getting his wages off the book was basically the best case scenario. It's just a few on here were very naive thinking Barca had taken him off our hands, Auba walked away from his contract here, deal done, money saved . When infact it was another case of Edu paying players to leave.Not disagreeing with you, but it's still savings from having him tied down till the contract end. This whole use him and sell him was never going to be an option.
You have to wonder if we should also consider an out and out defensive midfielder. It would give us more tactical flexibility. Right now, we can't really play 4-1-4-1. You can shoehorn Partey in, but it's really not his game. Elneny is honestly not good enough.
I expect Leno, Saliba, Pepe will all leave in the summer plus one of either Laca/Eddie. Probably pay off the last couple of years of Cedric's deal as well. We've probably seen the last of those out on loan barring Balogun who himself will probably spend another year on loan somewhere.
Sounds crazy to think of something like 7/8 players coming in but you've kind of got to think that will happen with European football next season as well.
Sad that you include Saliba there, but its definitely looking that way.
Seven or eight players though, even with this different Arsenal in the market do I find it difficult to believe that to be honest. I just cant see us spending so much money in one go, even if we need to do it.
Personally, I think three to four players maximum. I just hope we dont keep players like Lacazette and Nketiah.