I think we should keep our powder dry until the summer unless a no.1 target is available, which seems unlikely.

Let the team settle and make an assessment in the summer.

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Clrnc fair enough given his importance now and what his colleagues are earning.

      Qwiss fair enough given his importance now and what his colleagues are earning.

      I'm definitely not hating on his agent for doing his job, but a big element of Tomiyasu's "importance" this season is that Jurrien Timber's knee exploded in the first game of the season. Tomiyasu wasn't very good last season even when he played. Him and Ramsdale were both on Fraud Watch for me entering the season. As it so happens, Tomiyasu is playing the best football of his career so far but I think he still has a lot to prove before we make a really big investment in him.

        Damn, 100k? We could've paid almost a third of a Havertz with that amount.

        no club that could get a talent like tomiyasu for 30k is paying 300k for havertz. i'll never believe that unless i saw it myself. again this is why i prefer the american way of reporting sports salaries. it's public record. if i was havertz i would disclose my salary because people are using a media number to reinforce their negative opinions of him. there is nothing in his skillset that would allow him to be worth 300k so he would always be a failure if that was his true salary. even if he ends up with xhaka 2022-23 levels of end product.

          Meatwad if i was havertz i would disclose my salary because people are using a media number to reinforce their negative opinions of him

          I would imagine that player contracts prevent them from doing this kind of thing though

            5 days later

            QuincyAbeyie

            DDG is one of the best shot stoppers of the last decade and still relatively young. Wouldn’t mind this and woudlnt lose his shit in being number 2 like AR.

                Sicario2 - Tier 1

                I like him as a player but I don’t really get the links if I’m being honest. He’s not a 6 and he doesn’t seem like the sort of 8 we are trying to play with either.

                  Don't like Luiz for us , he's too slow and too small. Need a Rice type midfield machine , Palinha is the one

                  Douglas Luiz is quality but why would Villa let him go for anything close to his value in January?

                  David DeGea is shit, there is nothing else to it. He'd be a massive downgrade on Ramsdale and can't play at all the way Arteta would want. If that happens Artetas absolutely lost it.

                  Agreed. And if we just stopped signing rejects from (or with links to) rival clubs that would be a nice bonus too.

                  Park the midfield pursuit til the summer. Focus on getting a striker in this January