Act quickly? This is the Arsenal my friend.

To be fair we did tie up the Podolski & Giroud deals quite quickly!

If the player knows Arsenal is interested and still chooses Leverkusen without hearing what we have to offer - then he isn't the player we need.

Ibra knows we are interested but chose Ajax too.

His agent was pissed off that we insisted on a trial. Zlatan has said that when he was at our training complex and the trial came up, he said something along the lines of 'give me a pair of boots and I will go out there right now'. His agent called bullshit on it, and we decided not to pursue it without the trial.

I know the story came out that he rejected a trial but the real story was that Wenger wasn't there to watch the start if his trial so he felt Wenger wasn't intrested and left.

In retrospect zlatan changed the story to say he refused a trial.

The only relevant part of that story is that Malmö wouldn't have sold him to us. The sporting director at that club, Hasse Borg, did everything he could to engineer a move to Ajax instead because they were willing to pay £8 million for a scrawny kid who played in the Swedish second division. That was a lot of money back in 2001.

Okay, maybe Ibra's case is a little different, but point is a player can have the right to be conservative and choose for a safer option before opting to jump to a bigger club when he is ready. There are so many instances where a player just go straight to a big club and struggled.

Many clubs were interested in Ronaldo and Ronaldinho for instances, they chose PSV and PSG respectively first.

if anything, it shows maturity and judgment in the player. too many players are dumb kids who let their agents determine their future, and the agent gives fuck all about him, they just want to use him to get paid.

Well, I don't think Drmic falls in the category of Ronaldo and Ronaldinho at all. Those two were coming from Brazil trying to get a foothold in Europe. Drmic is a starter in a major European league already.

In fact, I think it is closer to the truth to compare Drmic to the point where Ronaldo and Ronaldinho were at when they decided to leave PSV and PSG respectively. If Drmic chooses Leverkusen now, I see it as a lack of ambition and a lack of belief in his own abilities. If that is the case, then he was never the player for us.

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At 4m we've not got much to lose. Would it mean the end of Giroud?

I doubt that. Giroud makes him look like Robin van Persie though if that youtube video is anything to go by.

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Hopefully he's going to be Bendtner's replacement.

German paper Express saying Drmic to Leverkusen is pretty much a done deal

Some outrageous stuff in that video.

"I am kind of journalist"

  • Lothar Matthäus

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😆 Didn't bother reading the drivel above it.

Nice stuff there, but the miss after the pirouette was kinda funny.

He plays for Switzerland right? Let's see if Dr. Mickey is any good in Brazil.

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