We have 3 days to shift Willian, Eddie, Kolasinac, Runnerson and 2 of Chambers/Cedric/AMN/Bellerin. Ideally you also have Laca and Elneny who will otherwise leave on a free next summer. What a ridiculous situation to be in.

What do Edu do?

that salary

hope this is true

I don't know if I believe this (there's no way he's taking a 70% cut, that salary is obviously grossly overstated) but fair do's to him if true.

He probably feels sorry for us.

240k gets you 1 Willian. Amazing.

I dont doubt that to be honest. Never bought the narrative that he was only playing for cash, think he actually wants to contribute to compensate for whatever his salary is.

I think he just wants to play as a starting player whilst he still can.

Good man if true, makes up a bit for all his crumby performances

the brains trust are fortunate that willian is being more charitable about this than the likes of kolasinac and ozil have been.

Great news. Least he can do though, fuck off and good riddance.

Good man Willian. He let the club off the hook.

sounds good but the way journos are spruiking this narrative, it wouldn't surprise me if kia is the one making all this public, but under the table we're in his pocket on future dealings.

Also the need to save his boy Edu from further scrutiny over the money we were going to waste paying off Willian.

Massive respect for him. Salary probably true was consistent with what was reported last year he signed on a free with massive bonus.

He has been a top pro throughout his career that only wants to play football now he's going home fair play to him. Basically the anti Ozil.

goon wrote:

I don't know if I believe this (there's no way he's taking a 70% cut, that salary is obviously grossly overstated) but fair do's to him if true.

Somebody's agent doing overtime.

Or it's the club just trying to save face. In any case it's clearly utter horseshit.

Good man Willian - in fairness that's a big gesture

I don't believe for a second he's walking away from £20m with no personal benefit.

If he is then he's a fool.

Doubt so. Totally different story as Ozil's. Too many sources reporting the same anyway.

My take is he’s probably on 100k basic as initially reported, he’s not playing so won’t meat the bonuses while the sign on fee has already been paid out, so there’s probably no great sacrifice. Kia however is parroting that 240k line that click bait articles trotted out to make Willian look like a footballing saint.

goon wrote:

My take is he’s probably on 100k basic as initially reported, he’s not playing so won’t meat the bonuses while the sign on fee has already been paid out, so there’s probably no great sacrifice. Kia however is parroting that 240k line that click bait articles trotted out to make Willian look like a footballing saint.

Exactly what I thought as well. He's definitely taking some pay cut, but nowhere near what's being reported.

Lacazette has decided to run down his deal and leave on a free next summer, says the bell.

Nelson to Feyenoord.

The press in Brazil are saying Willian will join Corinthian on tuesday, will get number 10.

Fuck Lacazette. What a houseboat player he is. Can't believe we didn't sell him past 2 years

Clrnc wrote:

Fuck Lacazette. What a houseboat player he is. Can't believe we didn't sell him past 2 years

Sums up our transfer dealings.

Shocking buy at the time, we could have got most stickers back then bar a few, and we picked Lacazette.

Most of us said on here he wouldn’t cut it, and here we are.

Clrnc wrote:

Fuck Lacazette. What a houseboat player he is. Can't believe we didn't sell him past 2 years

Wenger really fucked us on strikers since 2012. kept giroud for way too long, then spent a bomb on lacazette. that's a trauma two-fer

HomeSteak wrote:

Lacazette has decided to run down his deal and leave on a free next summer, says the bell.

The Bell isn't reliable. He's been spouting a load of shit thats pretty obvious since he got the Maddison stuff so spectacularly wrong. He's just trying to save face by posting rubbish about things that everyone knew was going to happen anyway.

Gazza M wrote:

Clrnc wrote:

Fuck Lacazette. What a houseboat player he is. Can't believe we didn't sell him past 2 years

Wenger really fucked us on strikers since 2012. kept giroud for way too long, then spent a bomb on lacazette

To be fair he knew Giroud need upgrading. He tried every summer to buy another striker but was just too stingy.

He upgraded on Lacazette after 1 year with Auba. He is a smart man he knew Lacazette can't cut it.

Clrnc wrote:

Gazza M wrote:

Wenger really fucked us on strikers since 2012. kept giroud for way too long, then spent a bomb on lacazette

To be fair he knew Giroud need upgrading. He tried every summer to buy another striker but was just too stingy.

He upgraded on Lacazette after 1 year with Auba. He is a smart man he knew Lacazette can't cut it.

he bought auba after 6 months and taken as a whole it was a daft use of resources that we're still paying for to this day

and I don't recall us trying for a striker other than the 2013 summer of suarez/higuain. the benzema rumours in 2016 were horseshit

Clrnc wrote:

Gazza M wrote:

Wenger really fucked us on strikers since 2012. kept giroud for way too long, then spent a bomb on lacazette

To be fair he knew Giroud need upgrading. He tried every summer to buy another striker but was just too stingy.

He upgraded on Lacazette after 1 year with Auba. He is a smart man he knew Lacazette can't cut it.

Hard to call Laca an upgrade on Giroud in hindsight

We got linked with Lacazette every window and resisted or weren't interested and then just got too desperate.

Wenger turned down Laca for ages didn't he? In the end he ran out of options.

Signing a top class striker is probably the hardest thing to do in football. There's a reason why Chelsea just spent £100m on a 28yr old Lukaku, City tried and failed with £120m bid for Kane while United signed a 34yr old Cavani and 37yr old Ronaldo. Meanwhile Liverpool are playing a winger up top.

it's not easy, but we've fluffed it since rvp left, which is 10 years ago. even taking into account how hard it is to find a quality striker, that's an inordinately long amount of time to be fucking around

We are still paying for Wenger's stinginess now.

Higuain in 2013 would be worth Madrid's asking price. Just 5m more anyway from what we are willing to pay. Suarez would be super worth it and would even have profitted from it if we paid Liverpool's asking price of 50m. The next summer we were unlucky with Benzema's last min change of heart and then subsequently Vardy's change of heart.

These days we have no business in buying top strikers, can only invest in young potential ones and hope they come good.

We signed Auba, that was a massive coup considering where we were at the time.

I'm talking specifically about the pivotal centre forward position. auba has been a wing forward for most of his arsenal career

best for him get clear of the wreckage

Our best RB and better than Elneny at CM.

Of course we get rid.