KingslandBarge we’ve nearly washed Bizarro Wenger right out of our hair!

I know Holding is well down the pecking order and no longer fits our style but he's actually a decent defender in a different setup (let's not forget he was being touted for the captaincy during Emery's time). We also bought Squillaci for around £4m...and that was 15 years ago! There's no way in my mind he should be sold for so little but we are consistently bad at selling so...

All this being said, was listening to Charles Watts on the Arsecast and have come round a bit more to the fee for Balogun. He rightly pointed out that excluding PSG, French clubs don't have the kinda money we wanted. I still think we got a sub-optimal fee (£34m guaranteed is disappointing) but given we didn't want to sell to a PL club, we were unlikely to get more than £40m.

Holding for 4 million with so many other players with less experience, less quality and less potential going for more. Maybe he wanted to stay in London and we sanctioned that. But Edu really sucks at selling

Don Pacifico In similar vein I was not keen for Arsenal to spend time dealing with Inter Milan's interest in Balo because they were never going to pay anywhere close to going rate, or wouldn't have the money to do so. Perhaps misplaced, but I was hoping RB Leipzig would swoop in with their riches.

lorddulaarsenal I know you're chuffed for sure

Burnwinter He is a muppet sometimes

KingslandBarge and Reiss (Wenger blooded him as a RWB in preseason 2017)

Garbage deadline day. So glad I've been too busy to follow any of it.

We are so, so bad at selling.

But re: Chelsea sales prices... two words: player farming. Clubs like paying big fees for young and up and coming players who've come off the back of a season where they've shown a lot of development. Chelsea tend to have lots of those because of their model.

Players close to their peak who've sat on the bench for years... not so much.

naz Holding for 4 million with so many other players with less experience, less quality and less potential going for more.

Like who?

I said this before but for all the complaints about our selling prices hardly any of them end up good value for the buyers. That's the bigger problem, we don't sell well because generally what we sell is trash.

Qwiss Right but if I were him I'd get the fuck out of there, your cortisol's gonna suck fighting relegation every season

naz its not worth £4m to be an extra defender down too. We are bare bones at the back. I know Robs not amazing on the ball but he's a solid defender and we could do with that for depth.

I'd like to think this means some academy players might get a chance but its far more likely we'll end up with Elneny at CB or something.

Burnwinter I'd get out of Everton too, its a sinking ship. That said I reckon Fulham are in for a relegation scrap too without Paulinha and Mitro.

Pahlinha to bayern not a sure thing just yet so i have read.

Good - want him in that Fulham side when they face our rivals

lorddulaarsenal yeah I was well pissed off he took points off us and was then about to leave.

Burnwinter love it.