Christopher Nkunku
Me likey!
His contract ends in 2020. If we really want him we could probably sign him this summer. Loan with no option to buy and him extending for another four years with them is a lousy deal though.
Is he better or worse than Iwobi?
Potential Ramsey replacement? If he’s that highly rated why not just sign him, or loan with an obligation to buy at least. Can’t cost much with his contract running down.
If PSG are letting him go, he cant be THAT good.
I’d rather we just get Chukwueze.
Seen him in preseason, raw as hell but looks like a talent in the making
marv3llous wrote:If PSG are letting him go, he cant be THAT good.
Bad logic is bad.
marv3llous wrote:If PSG are letting him go, he cant be THAT good.
Like Kingsley Coman, Matuidi, Moura amongst others.
PSG constantly need to fund their galactico ambitions. We should grab all their high quality youngsters. Loathsome club.
marv3llous wrote:If PSG are letting him go, he cant be THAT good.
If Barcelona were letting Alexis go, he couldn't have been THAT good, etc etc.
I'd like to get Augustin from PSG if we can.
Btw, also like this rumour, if for no other reason than that we have been pro-active and not hung around Suarez like a scorned lover.
Which Augustin at PSG?
They had one who they sold a couple of years ago Liepzieg.
“I am here (in the studio) tonight, which is not a good sign. There is a real interest from Arsenal for Nkunku, but the discussions are quite complicated.
“There are restrictions from Arsenal’s side, they cannot do a transfer in the middle of the season. It is still being discussed with PSG, things could still happen in the next 48 hours, but as I said, the fact that I am here means that it does not look good.
The restriction seems so rigid that I'm starting to think it's an accounting/FFP issue rather than a financing or budgetary issue. Would make sense as to why we're reluctant to take an obligation to buy as in the eyes of the authorities, that's essentially a permanent transfer (hence why PSG had to add a relegation clause onto the Mbappe deal).
goon wrote:The restriction seems so rigid that I'm starting to think it's an accounting/FFP issue rather than a financing or budgetary issue. Would make sense as to why we're reluctant to take an obligation to buy as in the eyes of the authorities, that's essentially a permanent transfer (hence why PSG had to add a relegation clause onto the Mbappe deal).
Hmm - what you're saying that if we have an obligation to buy a player for 25m on a 5 year contract, UEFA will want recognise some 3-4m of the transfer fee this year already, so we would just like to push it out to next year. If we are running on those kinds of margins, then we are in real trouble.
A cash-flow issue, on the other hand, would say that we are waiting to align the first payout of the 25m (say 10m) this June when Adidas starts paying us for its kit deal. I suspect this is more it. We would rather align those cashflows than pay the interest on a short term financing.
I look at it the other way. A cashflow issue is more problematic as it's a long term issue, especially if we're relying on a relatively small boost from Addidas. It would probably have consequences in terms of the wage bill too. An FFP restriction on the other hand would just mean we'd have exhausted our spending limits for the current period or some other technicality, but wouldn't represent a long term issue, and the Addidas income boost actually provides a bigger benefit here imo given that it increases non-TV income, hence helping circumvent the PL wage restrictions.
Agree with goon. The obligation to buy thing is easy to avoid. Didn't PSG have an obligation to sign Mbappe unless they were relegated? Which made it an option to buy instead.
I'm not disagreeing. I would just be surprised how close we are to the edge. The amounts on an FFP basis are so small. Unless I am missing something with FFP accounting - is FFP accounting different from income statement accounting - do they book the entire value of the deal on day 1?
It doesn't really matter, it's all relative. Being able to spread the cost over the next five years just means transfers of years gone by are still being factored in. There's so many ways to manipulate it, there's no point trying to make heads or tails of it from the outside looking in, just look at it in Jens Lehmann's terms. One of the stupidest pieces of logic I saw from Arsenal fans was them claiming our £50m warchest could be stretched to £200m by spreading the cost in the accounts.
what? 
send him to work for Kamala Harris
Arsenal came close to a deal for PSG midfielder Christopher Nkunku in January, while Adrien Rabiot is another they've pursued in the past - but I've not heard that either are targets this time round.
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Gunner89 wrote:Arsenal came close to a deal for PSG midfielder Christopher Nkunku in January, while Adrien Rabiot is another they've pursued in the past - but I've not heard that either are targets this time round.
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I just hope that we don't get into a small time mind set and start to disregard players / opportunities as a result.
Looks decent here.
Wouldn't mind but not as the ramsey replacement.
I think he could be better than the likes of El-neny.
Perharps we can use fees recouped from the likes of him to buy Nkunku