St etienne sauces reckon its done. 5 year deal + 1 year loan.

29m + 7m in add-ons and 20% sell on

Hefty fee but if he is a deligt level thoroughbred for the next 5-6 years it will be worth it

20% sell on in addition to 29 + 7m pounds with a loan! Wow.
If PSG are buying a relatively well-developed Diallo for 29m pounds + 2m pounds in bonuses, I'm wondering if we got our asses handed to us.

Lets hope this guy is worth it, from what I've heard he seems to be incredibly highly rated.

Leave it to Arsenal to spend a month on negotiating only to end up with a deal worse than what St. Etienne initially wanted.

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Leave it to Arsenal to spend a month on negotiating only to end up with a deal worse than what St. Etienne initially wanted.

How much did they want initially? Was under the impression this was always going to be done around 25m-30m

Yeah but it reportedly didn't include a 20 percent sell-on clause.

Spurs really fucked us badly then. Oh well but at least we are getting him

The 20% sell on fee is the killer (i think caused by the spuds involvement) as i can see this guy being highly sought after if he is a success.
We can respond by jacking up his price like Palace have done with Zaha but at the risk of the guy running down his contract to get a move.

I'm sure there was always a sell-on in negotiations. We've paid the price for booking him early and have little to offer up front. I'm ok with it, good risk to take, won't slaughter them if it doesn't work out and not giving Spurs an ounce of credit.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

Leave it to Arsenal to spend a month on negotiating only to end up with a deal worse than what St. Etienne initially wanted.

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Le Parisien saying it'a a done deal, and they seem to be implying there's no loan back.

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C'monnnnn no loan back.

Sokratis + one of Mustafi/Holding/Saliba is much better than Sokratis + Mustafi/Holding as Holding will be eased in.

I doubt we're getting him now. Would be fantastic if we were

Maybe we've been able to convince Saimt Etienne to take Koscielny? Now that really would be making lemonade.

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Looks like a loan back, but good to see such a highly rated talent push to come here. And even better that Tottenham were one of the clubs he told to get lost.

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To further confirm that the deal's done. Fabrizio is saying €25m + bonuses.

Absolutely love it.

The fact that he was adamant that he wanted to come, is great.

If we could land another like Upamecano or Konate over the next three transfer windows, it would be great.

€29m total cost, inclusive of bonuses and no sell-on clause.

Levy will be fuming, he must have really wanted him to come in so late and so publically, and to offer considerably more according to a lot of different sources. Only for the kid to force Saint Etienne to accept the lower offer because he was adamant he wanted to come to The Arsenal. You might have more money you slimey cunt, but you still can't nick a player off us even when you throw it around!

Let's just hope the kid is half as good as he looks. Will try and catch some Saint Etienne games next season.