@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Not happening

Why not? Agent games?

have to offer mad salary to prise him away from juves clutches. 5% chance we pull this off imo

ain't happening until it actually happens. Too many obstacles in the way.

I do support our transfers team pushing for it though. Can't win if you don't fight.

Probably trying to up the price, no way we get him

I'd largely agree. Juve do shady deals with these smaller clubs all the time, so maybe they don't want to piss Juve off and that may contribute to them doing a wrose off deal with Juve rather than a better deal with a foreign club. Having said that, I love the fact that we are pushing.

Same. He's the right type of profile we should be signing for CM.

The players we go for these days are inspiring and ambitious. I can give them that at least.

Gazza M wrote:

have to offer mad salary to prise him away from juves clutches. 5% chance we pull this off imo

I don’t think we are getting him over Juve if he gets that choice, but as of now he doesn’t have that choice.

The key is making Juve bid as unattractive as possible in Sassuolo’s eyes.

I trust we are well past the time of making bids of £40 Mn and 1 Pound. Just make a €45 Mn bid and be done with.

I don’t know, is this guy really worth 0,65 Ben Whites?

Carnevali (Sassuolo chair) says we're the only club to have made an official bid and we're ahead of Juventus who have only held talks so far. Dortmund has been linked in press reports but wasn't mentioned in his interview

40m for him would be 1000x better than 60m for White or 40m for Buendia.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

I don’t know, is this guy really worth 0,65 Ben Whites?

He's actually younger and a lot more experienced than White. If this bid falls through because we blew our load signing the chavvy beachboy I'll break something.

Getting one of Locatelli / Sabitzer / Merino would be amazing this summer. I know we haven't been linked with Merino, but I am a huge fan.

BWooley wrote:

Getting one of Locatelli / Sabitzer / Merino would be amazing this summer. I know we haven't been linked with Merino, but I am a huge fan.

Would throw Kessie into the equation as well. 

risky buy for 40m imo. he looks a high energy player in serie a and internationals, but that might not translate to england.

True, but I think you have to take that gamble given the potential upside, if it doesn't work it doesn't work.

Gazza M wrote:

risky buy for 40m imo. he looks a high energy player in serie a and internationals, but that might not translate to england.

high energy is a good sign for signing anyone up to a PL club.

No bid, he was just name dropping to get some more cash from Juve.

So I take it the idea that Sassuolo would rather sell to Juve for cheap than start a bidding war in order to not piss them off is dead.

Using us to get Juve to stomp up the cash. Nothing in this.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

So I take it the idea that Sassuolo would rather sell to Juve for cheap than start a bidding war in order to not piss them off is dead.

huh? where did this come from?

something to do with appeasing the juve cabal, as they do way more frequent business together. have to remember juve basically run Italian football. might be worth it to sassuolo take a bit of a financial L in the short term to preserve the relationship and also fulfil locatellis wishes. our bid to Sassuolo would have be worth them invoking juves ire, basically

Other than Vito Mannone, how many Italians actually played for us? I remember Lupoli who smashed it for the youths but never played for the first team and Niccolo Galli (RIP). We don’t do Italian. They also don’t travel well in the Premier League generally so that could be a concern when you splash big money on a Locatelli, as good as he is.

I think Lupoli played for the first team in the league cup a couple of times but I could be wrong.

I don’t think we should care about nationality for other purposes than AFCON.

Arsenal are ready to make a new bid to Sassuolo of €40M for Manuel Locatelli. The English club are pushing for the player. Reports,
@skysportvia @juvefcdotcom.

Exclusive : Gazetta / Locatelli : Juventus have now raised their offer to 40m€ to sign Locatelli but the structure of the deal remains an issue. Arsenal have made a better formal offer with immediate payments within the season. but the player still favors a move to Juventus.

https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calciomercato/Juventus/05-07-2021/calciomercato-locatelli-juve-ora-rilancia-sale-40-milioni-c-nodo-formula-4102511141917.shtml

The press is all over the place on this one.

It's always like this when we are linked with Serie A transfers. Sounds so real but all bullshit. Like Dybala when he was at Palermo

On the other hand, I can't understand why we wouldn't be interested. It's rumoured that the price is €40m. We're spending almost €60m on White and the only way people can rationalize that transfer is by saying it must mean we have plenty of money for other signings.

The problem is no one good wants to come here at the moment. We have nothing to offer to a player like Locatelli unless we offer them stupid money.

Have read a report Juve have agreed to meet the transfer fee & Locatelli has no interest in talking to Arteta or Edu.

moved on from locatelli to target Aouar... cos those are both the same kind of midfielders 😆

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