A bit more on the story (and in English!):

http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2017/arsenal-make-e100m-bid-for-kylian-mbappe/

Arsenal make €100m bid for Kylian Mbappé
Premier League side Arsenal have made a concrete €100m offer for AS Monaco forward Kylian Mbappé, according to L’Équipe.

The Gunners, in the largest bid the club has ever made for a footballer in their history, have moved into attack mode following the 2-year contract extension of Arsène Wenger.

Wenger was exceptionally close to convincing Mbappé to sign a professional contract with Arsenal last summer, having even visited the player in Monaco in an attempt to make the move work.

The Mbappé clan has been previously noted to have enormous respect for Wenger, but Real Madrid and Manchester City have both made very forceful bids too, verbal offers of around €120m, with Manchester United also rumoured to have bid for the player .

As it stands, it would appear that Real Madrid (Mbappé’s eventual dream club) lead the race for Mbappé, with Manchester United in last place because the player does not like the way they play football, the latter assertion has been reported by L’Équipe before.

It is important to note that the exact nature of the fees offered to AS Monaco this summer are unlikely to have a real impact on Mbappé’s destination. The Principality side do not need to sell – rather they will respect whatever Mbappé’s wish is and act accordingly.

Monaco have in the meantime made Mbappé a contract extension offer.

Friday 2nd June – 07:00 BST: (Updated story)

The L’Équipe report in full published this morning has additional claims within it to add to our reporting from last night.

They claim that Arsenal will attack this transfer window like never before with the intention to sign a world class player in every single line of the field (presumably all four: goalkeeper, defence, midfield, attack). They also assert that the €120m figure that was reported in the press in recent days as the club’s budget was put out there falsely.

Despite Arsenal’s bid being a club record offer, it is underneath Manchester City and Real Madrid’s and it comes from a club that will miss out on the Champions’ League for the first time since 1997.

The French daily asserts that Wenger is prepared to place Kylian Mbappé at the centre of the club’s project. At the beginning of 2016, Arsenal were one of three sides vying for Mbappé’s signature on a professional contract, alongside Liverpool and PSG.

Mbappé’s future will not be clear for several weeks. Mbappé and his entourage continue to refuse to speak to any club whatsoever until after his season is completely finished, a very unique approach which they should be praised for.

Mbappé is also very far from excluding the possibility of staying another season at Monaco, where he still has another two years contract. Like his team-mates, his decision could depend on how many of Monaco’s stars the club hold on to this summer.

May as well add Fabinho to the bid at this point. 🙂

You think our first bid, on the first of June, was going to be our highest?

"We tried to sign Mbappe".

So two bids that were higher than ours were rejected. And we came in with a bid lower than the others. I understand that if any of this is remotely true, we might be trying to limit intensity of the auction, but still...
:hat:

bid was legit and has been rejected. lets see how much we want it

Claudius wrote:

So two bids that were higher than ours were rejected. And we came in with a bid lower than the others.

And then when this doesn't happen people will tell us "of course they're willing to spend money on the right player, they bid €100m for Mbappe".

No need to deal in hypotheticals. We spent £110m just last summer. I don't think we'll sign M'bappe but I don't think our willingness to spend is an open question anymore.

These people must think we have shit for brains if any of this is true.

The "lower than others" may not matter if Mbappe wants to play here for a few years before moving on to RM/any other and we put in a decent sell-on fee into the agreement. The issue is that I don't see why he would remotely want to come to this omnishambles.

You guys sound like Biggus during his peak tin foil hat stage when he was claiming the Suarez bid was just a ruse.

We have no idea how the 'higher bids' were structured. Could have been largely performance related for example whereas ours might not have been. Or we're just doing our own thing and working our way up, or the figures reported might just be inaccurate. Who knows. Not sure why some feel the need to fool themselves into thinking there's nothing in this though.

Claudius wrote:

These people must think we have shit for brains if any of this is true.

evening standard says our bid might actually be higher than reported but structured differently i.e less up front, the rest in clauses

yeah. just bid 100+100 if he becomes world player of the year. LOL. farking guys.

I still don't get it. If Wenger thought he was talented enough to warrant a house visit, why not pull out all the stops then?

If we think he's good enough to break the world transfer record for, then we might as well go all in.

We'll make a profit selling him to Madrid in a few years anyway.

Think he'd take our #9? I'm a bit nervous about that

flobaba wrote:

I still don't get it. If Wenger thought he was talented enough to warrant a house visit, why not pull out all the stops then?

Visiting someones house is pulling out all the stops no? Sounds like the kid just wanted to stay at Monaco for the season. 

BBC Sport's David Ornstein says there's nothing in the stories linking Arsenal to an £87m bid for Kylian Mbappe.

Nothing to see here lads.

Because we've offered considerably more?

Ornstein repeats what his club sources tell him. He's not the best source when its early days

HomeSteak wrote:

BBC Sport's David Ornstein says there's nothing in the stories linking Arsenal to an £87m bid for Kylian Mbappe.

Nothing to see here lads.

😆

Sigh! I yearn for the golden days when we could dream of signing Jamie Vardy before the Euros.

BWoolley wrote:

Sigh! I yearn for the golden days when we could dream of signing Jamie Vardy before the Euros.

I'd forgotten Vardy rejected us 😆 . That makes this seem even more ridiculous. We couldn't attract Jamie Vardy of all people, when we had Champions League football and Ozil/Sanchez to boast of, but now we're getting excited at the thought of luring Europe's hottest young talent who also knocked that back last year and ahead of all the big guns who no doubt want him this year too. 

Not going to happen. If we see Mbappe in an Arsenal top next season then someone behind the scenes deserves a statue outside the stadium alongside Henry, Bergkamp and Adams.  

banduan wrote:

so houseboat this link

Is it season ticket renewal time? 

Come on guys, don't give up so early. This thread had Arshavin potential.

Then what this thread needs is a llama picture.

HomeSteak wrote:

BBC Sport's David Ornstein says there's nothing in the stories linking Arsenal to an £87m bid for Kylian Mbappe.

Nothing to see here lads.

Source?

It was on the Beeb's live sportsday thing.

Ornstein is normally fed by the club sources so they want to keep this underwraps as much as possible which is understandable.

We offered more up front to tempt Monaco. Won't be over unless Mbappe rejects our advances.

Clrnc wrote:

Ornstein is normally fed by the club sources so they want to keep this underwraps as much as possible which is understandable.

We offered more up front to tempt Monaco. Won't be over unless Mbappe rejects our advances.

Exactly which is why he is usually spot on when it comes to confirming news and not as reliable when it comes to breaking news.

At early days I doubt the club wpuld really want to be exposing their transfer activity unless its pretty close and almost a done deal.

The only thing I'd say is I'm not sure why they'd flat out deny it instead of simply not commenting. If he's their go to man I can't imagine they'd give him bad info. Will wait to see if he expands on it.

Probably just to distance themselves from the rumours and hide their interest.

Either way Ornstein has been wrong before, even going as far as to say we would be conducting no business on transfer deadline day, despite eventually signing Welbeck soon thereafter.

David Ornstein‏ @bbcsport_david
Replying to @DeadlineDayLive
BBC online entry miswritten by desk - I didn't confirm/deny story, merely said Arsenal are denying it, now corrected http://bbc.in/2rt37nq

There's new HOPE!

That's a pretty telling distinction by the way.

Feel like this is still houseboat territory- my guess is that Wengie and the board know that he's lost a majority of the fanbase, and putting in a bid for someone like Mbappe signals "intent." Time will tell, but given what Ornstein was saying that we're looking to cut our wage bill, spending 100m+ on one player seems incredibly unlikely.

Mbappe wouldn't be on mega wages, probably somewhere in walcotts neighborhood