Deadline day Summer 23.: Page 3 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Deadline day Summer 23.

Clrnc

People expecting Holding will go for close to 10m.

Nah, 4m

HomeSteak

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.

KingslandBarge

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.

lorddulaarsenal

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

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

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

KingslandBarge

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 🙂

Don Pacifico

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.

naz

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

DiabyKungFu

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

Like who?

Qwiss

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.

Panda

Burnwinter He is a muppet sometimes 🙄

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

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

Pepe LeFrits

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.

Clrnc

Pepe LeFrits Balogun... going for lesser than Matsen in his last year.

goon

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.

DiabyKungFu

goon 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.

To be fair, I think there's an intelligent criticism about our seeming relative unwillingness to deal Balogun to rich suitors. But it seems like most of the criticism takes the form of "Why was Edu unable to telemarket his way into selling Cedric Soares for £8m?". That combined with befuddlement that high-level teenage prospects are deemed more valuable assets than middle-career decent players.

Qwiss

Burnwinter Everton would be crazy to sell Wobs. He's probably been their best outfield player over the last year to 18 months.

Burnwinter

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

RocktheCasbah

Qwiss [

The viewpoint of my mate Luke. He's an Everton fan. Not sure he's going to be shedding any tears at Iwobi's departure..

Qwiss

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.

Don Pacifico

Qwiss looks like Palhinha might be staying now...

USArsenal

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

lorddulaarsenal

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

Qwiss

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

Sicario2 - Tier 1

lorddulaarsenal

Lol the guy isn’t Maradona.

City will destroy Fulham with or without this guy.

Just because we were shit against them doesn’t mean our rivals will be.

They have one of the worst defences in the league.

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