JazzG This offer coming in so late is a bit stupid though as Liverpool will ask for higher amount or point blank refuse to sell.

Donning the tinfoil hat, it could be stupid or, if it were to go through for £120m or more, it could just be a way of covering up an absurdly inflated fee.

    Sicario2 - Tier 1 ‘I don’t expect anyone else to come in’

    Be handy if you posted a source to be honest, mine was from a tweet as I wasn't watching the presser.

    Sounds to me nothing definitive has been stated so it's early to lock anything.

        We should hire whoever is in charge of negotiations at Chelsea. They've rinsed every single team they've sold to. Holy fuck

        Spuds sign Brennan Johnson for 48m

        Rate him but remains to be seen if he's worth that much

        Arteta fully into "answer questions with a pseud metaphor" mode. Delivers it well but a little humility wouldn't go astray.

          People expecting Holding will go for close to 10m.

          Nah, 4m

          39 games in the championship, 4 goals....31.5 mil. How are Chelsea this good at selling players? and in the last year of his contract, wow.

          6 mil loan fee, more then what we got for Holding.

          Thats a good deal for Roy and move for Rob. Unsurprising return for us.
          Been slightly melancholic about this imminent departure because Wenger's fingerprints on the squad have nearly eroded. Just Eddie and Elneny left.

            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 🙂