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Benzema

y va marquer

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Total maniac

Gazza M

y va marquer wrote:
Jeinny's time's kind of done though, waiting for one last maniac to take this on.

Edit: Benitez, what would he know

Out pops a smiling Jake Humphrey

Big name still bubbling away...but no news yet...you'll be the first to know! #AFC

Mirth

FFS that's as good as it's going to get.

I hope he's right.

lorddulaarsenal

He's talking about Gotze

GaelForce

Is Jake a gooner?

mdgoonah41

£48m bid accepted. we did it.

Klaus

Marsh is confirming that he said there was a bid accepted on the air:

My gut feeling is that he's getting a rise out of trolling the twitter gooners. What a weird transfer story this is though. Venezuelan tv personalities, Italian freelance writers and senior citizens claim to have information; meanwhile all the major ITKs and journalists are shrugging, unsure what to make of it.

Gazza M

he's told this guy as well

Andy Goldstein MBE ‏@andygoldstein05 3h
Just been told by @RodneyMarsh10 on our show (sportsbar) on talkSPORT that he understands Real have accepted £48m bid from Arsenal 4 Benzema

would be high level trolling if he was blatantly making shit up

lorddulaarsenal

Welcome Karim

Burnwinter

Such a weird story this one. No real concrete links but so many different people, some who should have a bit of credibility, who keep asserting it's on.

Daz

I don't keep up with all this twitter twatter nonsense so someone please confirm for me....are we back on or not?

Big Willie

T'was alwas on Daz

Daz

Good man Loylz.

Temo

Interesting hearing Tim Payton call the Ozil deal a direct result of losing out on Suarez and losing to Villa, he mentioned that he was offered round all summer and we were the only club willing to match his wages. Increasingly get the sense that we are comfortable paying market value.

Biggus

Wengers quite happy to let points slip to save a few quid he's not a serious manager, he's just an amateur who likes to potter around on the training pitch and play at one.

Temo

Yep, that actually came up. There's 12 points available until the end of the window, and we've already dropped three. The question becomes, how much extra would you pay to get a signing in early to help prevent that. 5, 10 million extra? It's a difficult one to answer however much you think, as I do, that there's an imbedded culture within the club from top to bottom of doing the minimum necessary.

lorddulaarsenal

It's not just those 4 games - he'll need to adjust.

I'd pony up a few extra mill to get them in early so they can integrate and adjust ahead of the season

goon

Temo wrote:
Interesting hearing Tim Payton call the Ozil deal a direct result of losing out on Suarez and losing to Villa, he mentioned that he was offered round all summer and we were the only club willing to match his wages. Increasingly get the sense that we are comfortable paying market value.

Tim Payton doesn't know shit, he's another aggressive ITK troll that happens to have a formal title of sorts. The idea that we're the only club willing to pay 140-150k for one of the worlds best players in this day an age is absolute houseboat when you have the likes of United, PSG and City paying around double that amount.

Temo

That assumes that he's getting 150k without any bonuses, or signing on fee. And that the clubs that could pay that, needed him at the time. Maybe, maybe not. I certainly wouldn't claim to know more than anyone else, but the point still stands, we went the extra mile for a player that came in to replace our player of the season the year before.

goon

All players, including the ones who get 300k, get bonuses and signing on fee's, probably proportionately bigger ones too. And saying we're the only ones out of the clubs interested that were willing to pay those wages is a completely different statement, though I still call bullshit considering PSG were widely reported to be one of the other clubs interested.

That being said, I agree with your general point that we're willing to pay the market rate, but I think the relative speed and ease of the Ozil, Sanchez and Cech deals are probably a better indicator of that.

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