Captain wrote:
Ivansen wrote:

If Honigstein is right, and this is a big pr thing, we need to sack the pr department. Imagine people getting their hopes up for Götze and then waking up thursday with Benayoun smiling on Arsenal.com. We'd be in tears, and I even like Benayoun.

A pr scheme that involves not signing a player and saying that we weren't willing to pay the big bucks needed to get him? 😆

Exactly. If that's their idea of a pr ploy to get the fans on their side, we need some new people in that department.

The guy who broke it apparently had impeccable sources though, so either someone at Arsenal, an agent, or Dortmund.

Or the journos' are spouting nonsense, there is that too.

Jack van Gercott wrote:

This is the journo reporting it

Not too far off actually 😆

Apparently we bid more than 25 million euros for this guy. I'm surprised.

Captain wrote:

My feeling has always been that he isn't but my brother in law, who is a season ticket holder at dortmund, says that everyone there is available for the right price and anyone could sign Goetze for £20-25m (and that they would be getting robbed, but that's another matter).

Personally, I don't see him wanting to leave even if a bid were accepted and the manager isn't going to force him out.

Are you saying he doesn't rate him?

A midfield of Gotze, Wilshere and Frimpong/Coquelin/Song is a little bit shexy.

But does it have the power to take on the bulk of the table?

Ricky, I was under the impression that he meant Dortmund would be getting robbed for that kind of price, rather than the buying club. Would make more sense to me.

So can someone describe what kind of player he is?

Nela wrote:

So can someone describe what kind of player he is?

Attacking mid. Kind of like wilshere meets nasri

The German Messi was the answer I got when I asked Capi and co that question, Nels.

So theoretically, he'd probably play wide if he played for Arsenal?

I'd say he'd be played as the central AM if we got him. He'd be like the player we all hoped Nasri would be in the middle but never managed it.

Arsenal have bid of 24M Euros plus Rosicky and Bendtner for Mario Gotze rejected. (Dortmund want 35M Euros).

That was our offer reportedly (from various people/journalists on Twitter).

Maybe if we just offer them £24m

it would be a damn shame if our trend of bidding once, having that bid rejected, and then heading elsewhere more often than not this summer continues in this instance. for more reasons than i can fit in this thread.

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