Stobzilla
Official Team Perv
I think this +5 nonsense is for Chelsea more than us, this is a £55mil deal in all but name imo.
To be fair, £5m add-ons is feck all in the grand scheme of things. Seeing as amortisation is so in vogue these days - "DECLAN RICE ACTUALLY COSTS £20M" (per season for 5 years), any Arsenal fan - Mount for half the price with bits added on isn't too sloppy.So much for not raising our offer
I genuinely thought that maybe we'd get him for £55m guaranteed with no add-ons or something similar to only pay them a maximum of £55m
Agreed. Four four two did a video on him and even last season he was defensively brilliant even if not so good going forward as beforeHe’s gonna be quality.
Stop with this 'we funded Caicedo' shit, if they want Caicedo, they would have bought him even if Mount stayed.Disappointed we’ve caved and payed more than we said we would but happy we didn’t pay what Chelsea demanded and also the manager has got his first choice target. The most annoying part of all this is we’ve essentially funded their move for Caicedo who would’ve been an excellent addition to our squad.
I didn’t ask that did INo one would bother if that was the case.
You've only just noticed?At this point Fabrizio is basically an aggregator.
That’s if you believe what the media has been saying..Haha what guns did we stick to? We literally said take it or leave it in our last offer and yet here we are…
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We added some "difficult" add-ons and Chelsea took what they could.Haha what guns did we stick to? We literally said take it or leave it in our last offer and yet here we are…
Weak and imobileI dont see the point. We have Eriksen and Bruno. Surely money need to go elsewhere?
I actually dont care how much we pay, its not coming out of my bank account, but I do think English players are over priced.15m too much and I personally have a bad feeling about this, but glad it's done and we can move on to next targets.
Definitely. Ornstein says they're "difficult" to achieveI think this +5 nonsense is for Chelsea more than us, this is a £55mil deal in all but name imo.
Covering all of football there definitely isn't anybody close.Ornstein is comfortably the most reliable British football journalist, who’s next after him?
Personally, I would say around £65m, which is what Arsenal paid for Havertz. In this current market, maybe £70m at a push is about as much as they would get.IF his contract wasn’t running out next summer - what do you think his value is?
Only to realise that 60m was the number Chelsea wanted from the beginning. You set a high unrealistic price on purpose so that you fall to the number you really wanted. A potential 60m for Mount with a year left is a great deal for Chelsea not us. When you negotiate your salary at work do you tell them the number you really want or do you start high?We've hardly bent over backwards. Chelsea lowered their asking price a lot and we stuck to our guns.
Agreed. Ornstein says in the article that the +5 is difficult to achieve. Probably if we win the league/UCL, or something like that.I think this +5 nonsense is for Chelsea more than us, this is a £55mil deal in all but name imo.
They wanted £70m to begin with.Only to realise that 60m was the number Chelsea wanted from the beginning. You set a high unrealistic price on purpose so that you fall to the number you really wanted. A potential 60m for Mount with a year left is a great deal for Chelsea not us. When you negotiate your salary at work do you tell them the number you really want or do you start high?
£70m+5m ish maybe? On the basis that Havertz went for £65m+5m?IF his contract wasn’t running out next summer - what do you think his value is?
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I hope Brighton cleans them up. Now let's move on and get rinsed by Inter for OnanaDisappointed we’ve caved and payed more than we said we would but happy we didn’t pay what Chelsea demanded and also the manager has got his first choice target. The most annoying part of all this is we’ve essentially funded their move for Caicedo who would’ve been an excellent addition to our squad.
We didn't though? It's basically the same offer which was rejected.So we did raise our bid after the hard man approach
They were never going to lose a player based on £5m differenceSo we did raise our bid after the hard man approach