Lille are trying to grift more money out of Arsenal, I see.
Gabriel (Lille player) / signed for Arsenal
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Some of us are sad enough to have been following transfer tweets for many years now. Di Marzio used to be a go to source who was often first to info and accurate. Nowadays he gets a lot wrong and seems to be more of an agent mouthpiece similar to other journalists. Maybe he's right on this but given his recent accuracy it's more likely to be incorrect.
Isn't the Bouhafsi guy the gold standard for French football transfers? He hasn't reported any interest from United so far.
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But nearly every every source already said, that the deal between Lille and Arsenal is already agreed. The same with Napoli, but Gabriel decided for Arsenal.
Most of them have no clue what is happening.
People on here have decided long back that English press knows nothing while reputed journalists like Falk, Romano and Di Marzio don't know anything about Utd. So why do these people frequent the Transfer Rumours forum, I don't understand.
Probably Lille saying fake shit to drum up the price
We should take a punt at that price to be fair. Only thing I worry about is whether we end up with deadwood next Summer.
With CL next season United could have bigger chances than Arsenal in getting him, but on the other side Gabriel will simply play more in Arsenal, especially in their current state of defense.
Apparently his stats are very good and lately we re giving more importance to those
He’ll sign for Arsenal. Lille will get more money and Arsenal can pretend like they beat us to his signing.
It was the opposite actually. Di Marzio got a lot wrong last summer.
Dunno - neither of our CBs particularly covered themselves in glory this season although Maguire is virtually undroppable given his fee. Can see us sending Bailly the other way plus some cash.
Go on youtube search Gabriel Goal Lille vs Marseille from last season. Enjoy 
Not sure if that'll be the case but Gabriel has quite decent injury record. One injury, 9 days out in 19/20 according to Transfermarkt.
Music to my ears. I was thinking Bailly because obviously he speaks French but he is also a phenomenal prospect, he's just so injury prone.
Sorry mistaken. I meant Romano got it right while Di Marzio got lot of wrong.
No way Bailly is going to play for Lille he could go to a much bigger club.
That's ages ago news. United was already been reported spoke to his agent about the personal deal. We just never put a bid to Lille.
Yeah. It was a weird summer. Di Marzio was usually always spot on when he stuck his neck out but last summer he got a lot wrong
It sounds like in this case, the differentiating factor seems to be which club can appeal to Gabriel the most. The fee is probably a formality.
To be honest, both have some risk in them, but quoted price for Gabriel reduces that risk quite a lot. If Upamecano can't leave this summer, then 22m Gabriel can be one of not many alternatives for now.
Perhaps we'll be surpised when window gonna reach September and other potential targets emerge, but at least now we can't moan about lack of options on the market.
If Woodward can get push Rojo onto them, he'll forever be seen as a genius. Agree re Bailly's ability but not his body.
Nope. We are just not in is also the likely possibility. Asking for personal deal just in case if we end up with no other centre back, he's the cheaper option.
Centre back isn't the top priority after all, we are hunting for wingers first at the moment.
Nothing is over until the player is holding up the shirt and signing the contract, Willian is proof of that. Gabriel may prefer us or PSG for champions league football.
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He might not be priority but that doesn't mean he's a player that would be signed last (if we were really interested in him). Going by this sort of logic, Dan James (winger) just have just been a priority ahead of Maguire (CB) last season?
Sky ribbon claiming we and Arse are in for him.
Prefer Benoit Badass myself
Prefer Benoit Badass myself
Serious bang of Didier Baptiste off this rumour.
No surprise that we aren't actually in for him. Might be nice for us to actually be in for someone at some point though.
Seriously what is this nonsense? Is he the only CB around or something??
What a nothing tweet this is
We were in for James while we waited until we sold Lukaku first to get Maguire.
This time we are not in for Gabriel and we are focusing on wingers first.
It’s obviously this.
Being in for Gabriel or not is another matter to the crux of your point. You pointed to him "not being priority", but doesn't mean he wouldn't be signed first (if we were interested of course). And James is an example of this last season.
Hes just saying what the likely situation is. Our name gets brought up a lot in transfers when it isn't true. Almost definitely the case here, as Lille have regularly done it in the past.
Yeah but right back, winger & centre back were equally priority last season. Remember we were supposed to make Sancho as our target but he didn't want to come due to no CL so we went James.
This season we are focusing on wingers first and we might end up spending all our current budget on Sancho, it makes sense to secure this first before centre back. Why is it so difficult for you to understand this.
True.! Shame woody is in the Maldives and its reported he didnt take his phone.
He does however have access to the fax machine in the resort managers office.
Because you're bullshitting. CB was the number one priority of the window and that was well reported.
It was also the biggest expenditure (as is Sancho this season), but that didn't mean we wouldn't tie down other areas on the pitch, provided the process was quick to do so.
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Show me then. Don't just tell me it's bullshit when you can't even prove yourself right.
We made three positions as our priority last season. Priority means positions that the manager didn't want to finish the transfer window without signing the positions. The one we didn't make priority last year was attacking mid which is why we didn't sign Bruno in the summer.
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