mdgoonah41 wrote:
Burnwinter wrote:

Sound post, only problem with it is where market value sits. In the new world £25-30m is certainly ballpark for a player who's ever had a year like Mahrez's 2015-16, and it's the minimum we should be looking to spend on any new forward signing.

you and i both know that wenger is out of step with the market. he has paid current market value for 2 players (ozil and alexis) in the last decade. just about every other signing has been from the bargain rack

True but, those two came in two successive, recent summers and we thought there'd probably be another last summer. Given our income and our history of expenditure since the latest TV rights deal and the Puma deal, I reckon we're due a £40m signing even in Wenger terms.

i hope you are right.

this season sapped all of the optimism right out of me and made me expect the absolute worst going forward

id settle for spending 0 if it meant wenger would leave

We've already got our one big signing lined up. It'll be Xhaka this year, plus some squad padding. We need a new backup rightback for instance, so we'll probably pick up someone exciting like Angel Rangel. We might treat ourselves to a new kid too - that defender from Bolton sounded like a believable rumour to me. And then we'll sell Walcott to make some of the money back.

All in all we're probably looking at £20-30 million in net spend, and there will be little to show for it in the end.

Klaus wrote:

We've already got our one big signing lined up. It'll be Xhaka this year, plus some squad padding. We need a new backup rightback for instance, so we'll probably pick up someone exciting like Angel Rangel. We might treat ourselves to a new kid too - that defender from Bolton sounded like a believable rumour to me. And then we'll sell Walcott to make some of the money back.

All in all we're probably looking at £20-30 million in net spend, and there will be little to show for it in the end.

probably. same as the window when we got alexis wrapped up early, then basically fucked around for a few months

What squad improvement we do won't matter if we don't sign a striker. Simple as that.

2 months later

Its on, acc to Eurosport FR. We have agreed personal terms and will submit a €42m bid.

Can he play as a striker?

But no, seriously, I'd be fucking happy with this.

Yep this is very much on, friend works in French media told me, French equivalent of sky sports news about to go crazy.

€50m would be typical price range for us too. Given that Wolfsburg is demanding €60m for Draxler, we're getting the player who's twice accomplished compared to him, for much less.

I love Mahrez. Such a silky player and the type you need if you are continually camped in and around the opponents box

Hmmm. 
eurosport.fr

Selon nos informations, Riyad Mahrez devrait s'engager à Arsenal.

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Claudio Ranieri avait pourtant affirmé l'inverse, mercredi à Sky Sports :
"C'est fini, le marché est terminé ici. Mahrez veut rester."

Reckon eurosport.fr are just angling to get people to install the app

If we sign Mahrez it will mean we can play Alexis up front therefore decrease the pressure of us signing a world class striker.