Well Foyth is a liability when he plays more often than not. He'd get crucified here. And it seems William Saliba won't be joining them either, so you can stop praising them for their hypotyhetical ambition now:
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The small time, worthless little cunts got what they wanted out of the bid though; a few million more will end up in Saint Etienne's coffers.
Hopefully they really did want Saliba and he told them to do one.
Recon we’ll land him Tricks?
jones wrote:Yeah but ASSE aren't letting him go right now regardless of the fee are they?
Yep. Whoever signs him won't get him until 2020
@lorddulaarsenal wrote:Recon we’ll land him Tricks?
Everything points to it, mate.
All the jounalists that matter on this deal have said Saliba wants to come here, not Spurs. That he agreed with us ages ago and made it clear to Saint Etienne what his wishes were, and they have been the reason it's been such a drawn our process.
he should eventually come here. it's just annoying that our financial difficulties are leaving us so exposed. we should've been able to settle this deal a long time ago - just ringence Saliba if not actually finalise all the paperwork; released Koscielny, and then focused on getting an immediate replacement for Koscielny to start this season.
I'm not so concerned about Saliba only coming next year. Liverpool paid over 50m pounds for Keita to come 15 months later. they similarly negotiated forever (including effectively paying penalties) to ensure they landed van Dijk. you just want to make sure you lock your rivals out.
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.
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.
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.
Gazza M wrote: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
St. Etienne clearly haven't been watching us trying to sell players. Might as well have taken a 5m add-on for him winning the golden boot.
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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
