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Very good player. Would give us some of what we're missing.

If money is as tight as the club claim, I'm not sure spending £35m + £150k+ (surely) a week on him would be a good idea though. He could decline very quickly given how much athleticism and stamina are integral to his game.

Still, it'd be better than watching Iwobi trying flip-flaps out on the left wing or Aubameyang playing on the halfway line as a right midfielder.

The age range we are going for seems odd, but guess it’s all about making us competitive in the short term. Would certainly be a good.

Ornstein seems to be being fed info a lot earlier in the process.

I'd like us to do this. Not necessarily buy him, but for 4 months he can do a job here.

I disapprove of all these rumors. If I was a mercenary, I’d follow Sven out the door.

2 years too late. Doesn't help our aging squad at all but obviously good player. Would rather Rebic if we are looking at similar players.

Hes more of a runner than a dribbler. We should be looking at dribblers

Perisic is having his worst season since he broke through, he's almost 30, and all signs point to him slowing down. This is the same mistake we made with Mkhi and you'd think we would have learned from it. It's a high risk, small reward type of transfer.

I've been a fan of Perisic for years but bloody hell, the state of Arsenal if this is true.

Klaus wrote:

Perisic is having his worst season since he broke through, he's almost 30, and all signs point to him slowing down. This is the same mistake we made with Mkhi and you'd think we would have learned from it. It's a high risk, small reward type of transfer.

I've been a fan of Perisic for years but bloody hell, the state of Arsenal if this is true.

How is loan with an option to buy a high risk, small reward type of transfer, regardless of who the player is?

I would imagine Inter would insist on the buy part being compulsory.

I'm with Klaus, the more I think about this, the more I think it's just further proof that the club have no idea what they're doing.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

How is loan with an option to buy a high risk, small reward type of transfer, regardless of who the player is?

I missed the loan part because I can't read.

In terms of our season I still think there's a big risk involved though. This is not someone I want to get minutes at the expense of Iwobi, Ramsey, etc. I basically think we're interested because he's a work horse, and a defensive winger is the last thing I want right now.

The guy is class(or was, did not know he was bad this season)...but we really can't afford so many 30 year olds on huge wages. If we could get rid of Mhiki and Ozil then yeah...but I can't see that happening. Also let's look for a center back as well. As we only have 1 fit in the whole squad(and the one fit is crap).

We are just desperate to get a loan in. We don’t want to commit to spending until we know what is happening to Champions League and Mesut. That’s my sense of what transfer strategy priority is.

We need wide players with crazy pace it's no good having guys that shift and wriggle and eventually get a ball in the box when the oposition has 6-8 men back. We need wingers with speed so they can get balls in with its 1v1 or 2v2 in the box. Thats how united beat us yesterday. We dont have to play like them but we need that pace as an option.

Agree with the general sentiment here, he's be a top player but he's ageing out.

This transfer makes absolutely no sense. Why would anyone at the club even entertain it?

And I actually like Perisic as a player

Yep hes 30 next week. It's ideal for emery because he knows managers generally only last a year or 2.

jones wrote:

This transfer makes absolutely no sense. Why would anyone at the club even entertain it?

And I actually like Perisic as a player

I’m that pea in your pod

If we were challenging for the title I could see this as a shrewd January signing, someone with a bit of bottle and character who could contribute right away. As it stands we are several years from challenging for anything and have no need for him.

£35m for a 30 year old is just throwing away money. We can't afford that. We need to spend that £35m on a young player who we can recoup some money on in future. Even someone like Xhaka would probably end up with us breaking even on the transfer. No one is going to pay a cent for Peresic in a few years and we'd probably end up paying him a fat wage to ride the bench in 18 months time.

I’m beginning to wonder if Sanllehi knows what he’s doing. Maybe he needs to go before we bring in Mongo. His Barca record still gives me goosebumps

speedy wrote:

Yep hes 30 next week. It's ideal for emery because he knows managers generally only last a year or 2.

I get this feeling too. We need long term strategy, not short-term tactics.

21 - 23 year olds should be the pool we're looking at.

No thanks. Why is it so hard to avoid having so many amateur decision-makers at a massive enterprise like Arsenal?

It’s a loan with option to buy, nothing to lose by this, if he doesn’t work out send him back in the summer when we have funds availabe for other targets. And he would be an upgrade on all our wide options. He might even be a Sven signing since he knows him from his time at Dortmund.

Ray wrote:

It’s a loan with option to buy, nothing to lose by this, if he doesn’t work out send him back in the summer when we have funds availabe for other targets. And he would be an upgrade on all our wide options. He might even be a Sven signing since he knows him from his time at Dortmund.

This.

Don’t know what all the hysteria is tbh. Is he better than what we have now? Yes. Can he help us secure top 4 this season? Yes. Do we have to buy him? No. Is he less flakey than Mhki? Yes.

I don't really see why age matters at all when it's talk of a loan.

In an ideal world, Quincy, you are able to do what Guardiola has done. He has put down a 3-5 year vision, and then he has been able to go to and secure the best young-to-mid career players who can help him execute that vision. Fortunately for him, he has the money to make this a quick and painless job.

On our side, I think we similarly need to have a clear vision, and we also need to go after young-to-mid career players. Only difference is we have to be more resourceful than Pep in our search as the laws of finance actually apply to us. I do not see how Perisic builds a 3-5 year vision. He just serves expedience - get them to Europe, and then see. The counter-argument might be “what if we don’t make it to Champions League? We will be even more fucked!” But even if we do make it to Champs League, we will have lost 6 valuable months in defining and fleshing out the 3-5 year vision. Every transfer window is so incredibly valuable right now. We did so well in June. We should be building on that with additional young quality fullbacks or wide forwards right now. Not this.

If its obligatory to buy him for 35m then no way.

Honestly we need more ballers and less workhorses like him in our team. There's not a single name linked with us that excites me.

Ffs 😆

You can only laugh at this point.

IF we are serious about Perisic (and along with the talk re Mata), then why not Banega?
If the strategy is to look to experienced players in order to regain top4 sooner rather than later, then surely having players who are familiar with the new style and/or meet the requirements regardless of age is a no brainer?

goon wrote:

Ffs 😆

You can only laugh at this point.

Yeah. At the Jiminy Cricket cunt's spelling and grammar.

The thick cunt.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:


😆 🙁

Banter FC

Like PEA, another signing that - if it goes through - would be about 2 years late

In saying that, i think him and kola would be a good duo down the left. PEA would gobble up his crosses/cutbacks as well

Our loan inquiry has been rejected, according to Sky.

Submitted a transfer request apparently.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert wrote:

Starting to want anyone