Yeah would expect it's most likely just another agent using us as a bargaining tool in a contract negotiation.

Come on wenger - who cares about value. Get our your wallet and excite us fans - that's what it's about ultimately

17 goals from RW last season.

Theo's only hit double digits in the league 1 time. Shockingly bad.

Mahrez is worth £50m, I'd be elated if we get him but none of the rumours seem to have merit

not attaching to much value to this rumour. expect it to disappear once he gets an extension or is snapped up by one of the clubs that understand player valuations. Wenger will treat us to Lacasette and other average players - after telling us that he is willing to pay for super quality.

I have absolutely zero faith.

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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.

Lol accurate so far Klaus.

If we don't sign him it's cos of the bad karma from all the faithless heathens in here.

Yup, your fault

LOL. Absolutely nothing to do with Arsenal failing to put their Dick to good use every summer.

Nope, it's y'all and y'alls terrible forum feng shui

Sometimes you have to spend above what would you would deem economically viable to improve your squad and give you a better chance at winning.
People will talk about the ridiculous price tag is in the short term but it's always forgotten by the end of the season if it's brought success and when the years roll past and the fees around Europe spiral out of control even more so year on year.
spending £50m on Mahrez may look like a good price in 5 years time.

Its €50m, so about £42m we're talking about. That's very fair value for him, not even overpriced.

50m euros would be massive now or in 2 years. Football spending does not grow consistently. It spikes up due to significant interruptions to the market - e.g., TV deals or the entry of moguls. I do not foresee significant shocks in the next two years, so 50m for Mahrez will still be massive then.

But then you look at the alternative: spend nothing and see more of Walcott looking about as coordinated as a newborn impala, while Ox watches from the stands on medical leave. No-brainer!

We really should be looking to cash in on Walcott, but Wenger just wont let go. Half the Mahrez money (£20m) should be coming from selling Theo and all of his wages (£140k p/w) should also be coming from getting rid of that stupid rat faced turd.

Talking about the inflation rate of football, its funny how Wenger foresee that spending will grow out of the roof and yet he didn't spend big in the last 2 years before the TV deal came in. This season, 40-50m is nothing anymore and we missed a trick not signing a top player sooner.

Not spending 40m pounds on Higuain or 50m pounds on Cannibal was the daftest move ever. I'm pretty sure we'd have a title right now, even without Ozil had that happened

Walcott doesn't want to leave, we've shopped him if I remember correctly. Giving him a contract was the bad move.

Revisionist history to suggest that Higuain instead of Özil would have won us the title, given that the Özil-Ramsey connection was the main reason we were any good going forward, or that Suarez was attainable once Liverpool were on their high horse.

Agreed. It's not like Napoli have won anything for all of Higuain's otherworldliness last season. Liverpool didn't win with Suarez either. You need 3-4 top class players who can share the responsibility in any given team, that's just the reality of football. We had zero of them before we signed Özil.

I look at the impact that RvP had on a dilapidated United squad and assuming (maybe optimistically) that we would have still secured a Sanchez-quality player. Having two quality forwards like that would have done it. The difference between Suarez and Ozil is that the latter scores so many more goals than the latter creates and scores.

Have there been any significant additions to this story?
Anyone remotely reliable taking it up?