The Partey starts now!!

Now get Eriksen on loan and let's fucking win the fucking league.

Ornyyyy tweets. It's on.

It's done, all over the place now including Orny (who said it was unlikely a couple of hours ago lolz).

Romano has had his reputation destroyed by a bell.

Ornstein chiming in with a tap in as well. No need to speak to atleti.

Now we start bricking it over getting medicals and paperwork done

Couldn’t afford Aouar 3 days ago. Dropping €50m cash for Partey today. Makes you wonder just how much they were paying Gunnersaurus.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

I’m getting well giddy

Yep

Yeeeeeesssssssss

Get the fuck in lads!!!

We just need a sneaky move for Buendía or Eriksen now

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Big tom loves us

We deserve this guys

HomeSteak wrote:

Couldn’t afford Aouar 3 days ago. Dropping €50m cash for Partey today. Makes you wonder just how much they were paying Gunnersaurus.

I reckon Partey was always happening, Aouar was just a potential bonus with leftovers. Probably why we never really went all that high with a bid. Convinced if we had better luck selling we'd have gotten both.

Incredible as it is but makes you wonder what kept us all this while. May be they expected cash from sales. Didn't get it and Josh got his cheque book out. Good on the Kroenke's.

goon wrote:
HomeSteak wrote:

Couldn’t afford Aouar 3 days ago. Dropping €50m cash for Partey today. Makes you wonder just how much they were paying Gunnersaurus.

I reckon Partey was always happening, Aouar was just a potential bonus with leftovers. Probably why we never really went all that high with a bid. Convinced if we had better luck selling we'd have gotten both.

I think so too. Great that we've gotten Partey, but it would've been so sweet if we could sell just one or two more players to pull that off.

It's on like donkey kong!

If this doesn't happen now I don't think I'll recover

Any chance Aouar sees that we're signing Partey and decides at the last minute to come out and say that he would like to join Arsenal and force Aulas' hand? Lol.

(I know, not a chance in hell, but we can dream)

Would we take Eriksen on loan? Especially if Inter are willing to pay half wages?

That's half my wishlist done (gabriel, partey)

I always had a sneaking feeling that parteys RC was priced in from the start and we were just trying to get atleti to blink. Should've negotiated with us you twats, now look at you

USArsenal wrote:

Any chance Aouar sees that we're signing Partey and decides at the last minute to come out and say that he would like to join Arsenal and force Aulas' hand? Lol.

(I know, not a chance in hell, but we can dream)

Would we take Eriksen on loan? Especially if Inter are willing to pay half wages?

Fuck Aouar. It’s time to Parteyyyy

goon wrote:
HomeSteak wrote:

Couldn’t afford Aouar 3 days ago. Dropping €50m cash for Partey today. Makes you wonder just how much they were paying Gunnersaurus.

I reckon Partey was always happening, Aouar was just a potential bonus with leftovers. Probably why we never really went all that high with a bid. Convinced if we had better luck selling we'd have gotten both.

Or.....
we were always chasing Aouar with Partey as a fallback. It actually makes sense if we were never sure we could afford both. We chase Aouar. When Aulas spins his bullshit we go after Partey and work out the financing. It works because the Partey deal has clearer parameters. You know what you are getting and can execute it immediately.

Campbell and Vieira finally replaced. Only took 15 years.

Gabriel and Partey, we move!

Gazza M wrote:

That's half my wishlist done (gabriel, partey)

I always had a sneaking feeling that parteys RC was priced in from the start and we were just trying to get atleti to blink. Should've negotiated with us you twats, now look at you

Doesn’t make sense. They get full value. They did the right thing. And they’ve secured their cheap replacement

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

I’m getting a Partey shirt once it’s confirmed

It's really lame that he has Thomas on his shirt. Maybe the PR guys at Arsenal can convince him that Partey will sell more.

I hope we sign Partey and cancel the Torreria deal.

Partey is a dream signing. Holy fuck!

Claudius wrote:
goon wrote:

I reckon Partey was always happening, Aouar was just a potential bonus with leftovers. Probably why we never really went all that high with a bid. Convinced if we had better luck selling we'd have gotten both.

Or.....
we were always chasing Aouar with Partey as a fallback. It actually makes sense if we were never sure we could afford both. We chase Aouar. When Aulas spins his bullshit we go after Partey and work out the financing. It works because the Partey deal has clearer parameters. You know what you are getting and can execute it immediately.

Possibly, but there's a couple of things that wouldn't add up with this theory. Firstly, we never went anywhere near that high for Aouar according to reports (no way Lyon reject anything close to a front loaded £45m bid), which doesn't really add up if he was first choice. Secondly they're completely different players, so it would be an odd alternative.

Claudius wrote:
goon wrote:

I reckon Partey was always happening, Aouar was just a potential bonus with leftovers. Probably why we never really went all that high with a bid. Convinced if we had better luck selling we'd have gotten both.

Or.....
we were always chasing Aouar with Partey as a fallback. It actually makes sense if we were never sure we could afford both. We chase Aouar. When Aulas spins his bullshit we go after Partey and work out the financing. It works because the Partey deal has clearer parameters. You know what you are getting and can execute it immediately.

Honestly if this goes through it'd be unbelievable considering we were wasting so much time on Aouar. Genuine World Class player.

Gunnersaurus is in high demand in Europe:

Claudius wrote:
goon wrote:

I reckon Partey was always happening, Aouar was just a potential bonus with leftovers. Probably why we never really went all that high with a bid. Convinced if we had better luck selling we'd have gotten both.

Or.....
we were always chasing Aouar with Partey as a fallback. It actually makes sense if we were never sure we could afford both. We chase Aouar. When Aulas spins his bullshit we go after Partey and work out the financing. It works because the Partey deal has clearer parameters. You know what you are getting and can execute it immediately.

I think we wanted both but needed to get more sales over the line to make it happen. So then it was a who can we get and at what price situation.

OMG it's happening? Hahahaha we have fucked them over dearly leaving them no time for replacements. And also made sure they have to take Torreira on loan and not wait for someone to come in for Herrera 😆

YES

I love the fucking bell, he has been saying that all summer

goon wrote:
Claudius wrote:

Or.....
we were always chasing Aouar with Partey as a fallback. It actually makes sense if we were never sure we could afford both. We chase Aouar. When Aulas spins his bullshit we go after Partey and work out the financing. It works because the Partey deal has clearer parameters. You know what you are getting and can execute it immediately.

Possibly, but there's a couple of things that wouldn't add up with this theory. Firstly, we never went anywhere near that high for Aouar according to reports (no way Lyon reject anything close to a front loaded £45m bid), which doesn't really add up if he was first choice. Secondly they're completely different players, so it would be an odd alternative.

As Qs said, we probably wanted both but that would’ve required shifting tons of players.
As for the different values - if you have alternatives you don’t have to price them equally. You always have to pay what you think they are worth intrinsically. So that’s how you can explain different valuations.

Either way, if this happens, I’m happy. It’s more or less within expectations for what we were going to do.