We are very weak at tapping up players (which is needed these days for top players) we need to get dirty a little.

speedy wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:

Lets not. If we have £70m for one player that player absolutely has to be a CF.

The price of Morata looked like madness but given the way the market is I'd chuck the money at Real.

I'm sure there is some superstar they'd rather have. And we could get 10 years out of Morata.

Which superstar? I think the market is relatively constipated. One would've imagined significant movements with the new TV money, but it happened right after PSG, Madrid, Barca and Bayern corralled all the talent in the market. So the market is not as liquid as it once was. It's going to be hard for Real to find a star more exciting than Morata. Who are the viable names? Thus I think he stays at Real

speedy wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:

Lets not. If we have £70m for one player that player absolutely has to be a CF.

The price of Morata looked like madness but given the way the market is I'd chuck the money at Real.

I'm sure there is some superstar they'd rather have. And we could get 10 years out of Morata.

It looked crazy money for him at the time but I reckon you could sell him on in 5 years for pretty much what you'd pay now. Same goes for Lukaku, Icardi, etc

Mustafi does NOT start for Valencia tonight.

What is AFCamden's say on this?

Isn't he the go to guy for all transfers?

Valencia concede 3 in the first half.

Mustafi comes on at half time.

buy a striker first, then go to valencia and see if they want to get punished by FFP or sell for a reasonable fee

The Valencia manager after the match "Mustafi is not for sale and will not be leaving the club".

It's nice and tidy to get all these threads locked. No point in pretending we are as big as Man U after all.

Dillinger wrote:

It's nice and tidy to get all these threads locked. No point in pretending we are as big as Man U after all.

not sure why we even have individual player threads. there were some 60 player threads this year. Wenger gave you two first teamers (one just barely) and a J-League guy who will probably tour Europe for 3 or 4 years before being sold to Anderlecht. All we really need is one transfer rumours thread while Wenger is in charge. 

Dillinger wrote:

It's nice and tidy to get all these threads locked. No point in pretending we are as big as Man U after all.

No offence mate but this is fucking embarrassing to read.

Managers in Spain have no say anyway. Need someone a bit more heavy weight to say something.

Still think this will get done if we really want it to.

Valencia need the money to meet ffp as they are out of Europe. They don't have an owner who will fill the gap with equity and this looks like a santi cazorla situation.

Forget paying £30m+ for this guy.

Go and get one of Rugani/Romangoli/Manolas. Any of these three could become absolutely beastly.

Yeah, for that kind of money there are a lot of options at CB. The problem is Wenger isn't flexible or adaptable.

If we end up paying £30m for Mustafi while Chelsea go and purchase Romangnoli for a similar fee I will be livid.

Have to agree with John Cross on this one - I don't understand how we haven't secured this yet and seemingly, the longer we're taking, the higher the price goes up. There has to be a serious internal inquest if we don't get this one over the line now.

I am actually surprised John Cross is so critical on Wenger this summer given how much he supports him.