Ricky1985 wrote:

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They seemed to have treated him disgracefully. And I think they'll regret not having him around this season. Especially if Mandzukic or Llorente are his replacement

Lukaku pulled the same stunt of going back home to keep fit when he forced a move from Everton too though. Fuck United obviously but it's not like he's innocent here

Captain wrote:

I will be massively shocked if we don't sign Tierney.

As would I. That said, you have a theory as to why with 24 hours left it has not been done? Even with his injury rehab it seems to be cutting it fine.

Ricky1985 wrote:
Captain wrote:

I will be massively shocked if we don't sign Tierney.

As would I. That said, you have a theory as to why with 24 hours left it has not been done? Even with his injury rehab it seems to be cutting it fine.

Perhaps we were waiting as long as we could so we didn't have to pay his wages until the last second while he's rehabbing

USArsenal wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:

As would I. That said, you have a theory as to why with 24 hours left it has not been done? Even with his injury rehab it seems to be cutting it fine.

Perhaps we were waiting as long as we could so we didn't have to pay his wages until the last second while he's rehabbing

I don't think even the previous lot at our club would have jeopardised a £25m signing to save a few hundred thousand in wages.

I would imagine with his well publicised issues that any medical would be a bit more stringent and time consuming than normal too, doesn't bode well with time running out.

Ricky1985 wrote:
Captain wrote:

I will be massively shocked if we don't sign Tierney.

As would I. That said, you have a theory as to why with 24 hours left it has not been done? Even with his injury rehab it seems to be cutting it fine.

Your guess is as good as mine. Seemed like all parties knew exactly what they needed to do weeks ago, so I have no idea unless we got nervous because of the injury.

USArsenal wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:

As would I. That said, you have a theory as to why with 24 hours left it has not been done? Even with his injury rehab it seems to be cutting it fine.

Perhaps we were waiting as long as we could so we didn't have to pay his wages until the last second while he's rehabbing

Maybe we wanted to make sure the injury was healing well. So we're letting it heal as much as we can before we decide if we should take a punt on him. 

It could be healing really well like Kos did or terribly like Verms did.

Selling Iwobi would be ridiculously bad business.

well we can't complain about how other clubs get big money for wasteman and we hold onto ours in the face of 30m (and hopefully 40m) bids.

Meatwad wrote:

well we can't complain about how other clubs get big money for wasteman and we hold onto ours in the face of 30m (and hopefully 40m) bids.

Except he isn’t a waste man 🙂
He’s the kind of depth that you’ll be crying for in December and February

Madness that we left it till the last 24 hours for the most important area of the pitch to strengthen.

Id like iwobi to stay, he looked great in the last 4 games this season. But overall he still shows a lot of the same weaknesses.
If he pays for 2/3 of Upamecano then that's a no brainer. Iwobi is back up while Upamecano could be the most important person in the team.

I don't think the valuations of Iwobi are in sync with most of us feeling that £50m being the most we should've expected to pay for Zaha. The latter is the better player by some distance.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

I don't think the valuations of Iwobi are in sync with most of us feeling that £50m being the most we should've expected to pay for Zaha. The latter is the better player by some distance.

Except Zaha’s team wants £100m for him. So adjust as necessary.

if we sell iwobi for £40m, then spend £70m + ESR for upamecano, then pay a £10m loan fee for coutinho, i think we're clear favorites for 3rd place, and if things break, we could stay within shouting distance of the top 2

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The broken ankle really limited his options. Good signing for Watford though.