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William Saliba from St Etienne

Clrnc

Our stadium move is absolutely the correct thing to do, but how we managed finances after that is pathetic. We basically sacrificed on pitch success for refinancing, which no other clubs who moved to new stadium does.

mdgoonah41

like i said i wasnt really serious, i know its not feasible. just leave me alone, this club is making me fucking miserable

Claudius

goon wrote:
As Klaus alluded to, we spend £240m a season on wages on the last count, far higher than even Spurs. I think this is a fact that too many ignore. We don't pay Ozil with Smarties.

But we are also finally below Liverpool and continue to be below Chelsea, United, and UAE Dept of Sports.
Our biggest issue isn't necessarily how much we pay but how we have allocated that amount. We've somehow ended up with a bunch of undesirable yet untradeable assets while some of our top youngster and best senior players remain at risk

JazzG

Being reported that we have reached agreement, he will be loaned back and 30m euros.

ohboy

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JazzG

Claudius wrote:
goon wrote:
As Klaus alluded to, we spend £240m a season on wages on the last count, far higher than even Spurs. I think this is a fact that too many ignore. We don't pay Ozil with Smarties.

But we are also finally below Liverpool and continue to be below Chelsea, United, and UAE Dept of Sports.
Our biggest issue isn't necessarily how much we pay but how we have allocated that amount. We've somehow ended up with a bunch of undesirable yet untradeable assets while some of our top youngster and best senior players remain at risk

Main difference is also those clubs have had considerable revenue growth in that time whereas we have had a massive contraction due to not playing in the CL. Also our commercial revenues over that time have had little growth and we have lost big value players for little to nothing and despite that Gazidis seemed to leave with a fucking bonus. Absolute joke really....

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Infuriating that he gets away with what he did. Safe and hidden away somewhere in Milan whilst the locals nosh spaghetti alle vongole off his bald head.

Wanker.

Ricky1985

With the state of our defence, it's a shame we won't have him next season, but my lord he's a talent.

Qwiss

I guess this is good news, hard to be excited when he won't be here this season. Guess that means we probably won't get to move on Mustafi yet too.

Gazza M

i'm hoping - and i'd wager the club is hoping - we can shift mustafi and replace him with another experienced defender

mdgoonah41

we're probably going to be stuck with mustafi until his contract expires. hes a bad defender on non-trivial wages. who is lining up to bring that to their club?

Gazza M

it's unlikely, but if we're serious about cutting our losses we should offer him around at a cut price. it's not like anyone will buy him at our valuation of 20-30m

BWoolley

Even if he goes out on loan, that's a win in my book simply because it will force us to get in another starting centre-half.

HomeSteak

BWoolley wrote:
Even if he goes out on loan, that's a win in my book simply because it will force us to get in another starting centre-half.

One would think so, that would be the normal reaction. But we are Arsenal, we don't do normal. I would not be surprised at all if we don't buy another CB this summer.

William Saliba will now travel to England to put pen to paper on a long-term contract at the Emirates. [@charles_watts]

Goal: Arsenal set to sign Saliba in £26.5m deal

https://www.goal.com/en/amp/news/arsenal-set-to-sign-saliba-in-265m-deal/lnyr47dvu69v198a3kkdhv7zx?__twitter_impression=true

Now reported by goal. I know the drill by now, next it will be Sky, The Guardian and The Telegraph...and then BBC and 2 weeks later arsenal.

jones

26.5m pounds is 29.5m EUR. Great work by the negotiators to shave off a cool 500k off the fee, Dick Law himself couldn't have done any better

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Hopefully now we can finally sign Zaha and loan him to St. Etienne for the season.

lorddulaarsenal

Great to have secured him

Claudius

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert wrote:
Hopefully now we can finally sign Zaha and loan him to St. Etienne for the season.

you don't like this deal?

Ricky1985

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The journalist that has been most up on the deal also says it's done.

Ray

Also great that we’re apparently paying only £8m this summer and the rest next.

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