I make you right.
We knew what the valuation was months ago, all this posturing and haggling gets us absolutely nowhere.
If we do manage to sign Maguire, it will be for the figure that LCFC have wanted all along.
Yes. Which has been obvious from the start since we know his contract situation and that Leicester aren't currently a team who just willingly sell good players.
at least Arsenal have a sporting director to speak of, didn't they say your DOF/Sporting director would pick the new manager? no one has even been appointed to the position yet, if they are serious then they need to get that sorted
They are serious but about what no one seems to know.
We didn't sign Maguire last year due to valuation issues supposedly, yet offered £100m for Varane, for some reason, and also spent £50m on Fred. A player who no one at the club including the manager could explain why we signed.
So we can't afford to pay £10m or so over the odds for anyone, but can throw £50m around or £100m bids around just for fun.
Also Maguire probably isn't an £80-90m player, but we have identified we need a centre back, and the fact is there are no other alternatives who are realistic and of a similar level. Lukaku isn't a £75m player. Martial wasn't worth what we paid at the time. Sanchez isnt worth 300k a week. We literally paid Rooney to play for someone else. We have no idea what we are doing.
People go on about Woodward only being good for our finances, but we behave like someone who randomly spends 5k on a piano they can't play then claims they can't afford petrol for their car because it's overpriced.