The Official Summer Transfer Rumours Thread

[Jay29]

Local Valencia media pretty sure that our interest in Mustafi has yet to grow beyond that:

http://sportwitness.co.uk/spain-surprise-aside-arsenal-will-not-signing-centre-back/

Would be incredible to not sign a centre back now.

[Sina]

Nikkan Sports: Takuma Asano might join FC Augsburg on loan if he is unable to obtain the work permit to play for Arsenal.

— Mario Krawatte (@Mario_GCC) August 15, 2016

[urbaNRoots]

Nice, hope Gnabry gets loaned out to a German club as well. Similar style of play without the ridiculous standards for loanees compared to the Premier League lower clubs.

[RealGunner]

Wonder if we have a backup to Mustafi? I doubt it.

[Great Leader Sprucenuce]

Nice, hope Gnabry gets loaned out to a German club as well. Similar style of play without the ridiculous standards for loanees compared to the Premier League lower clubs.

Should loan him to us imo.

[Jay29]

Wonder if we have a backup to Mustafi? I doubt it.

Maybe Johnny Evans

[RealGunner]

Imagine a club selling their best CB towards the end of transfer window. We must really undermine and disrespect other clubs.

WBA will ask £20m for him if not more. And they would want to sign a replacement before selling us. And we have about 2 weeks left lol


This is beyond a joke

[Raptorgunner]

I hope Valencia raise the price up by 10mil to piss off Wenger more.

[Jay29]

Arsenal yet to agree fee for Mustafi. #AFC considering Omer Toprak & Simon Kjaer as alternatives but Mustafi remains priority & keen to join

— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david) August 15, 2016

Price the issue. Arsenal want to hold back funds for possible striker signing. #AFC transfer budget factors in fee, salary, agent commission

— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david) August 15, 2016

Simon Kjaer

Also, just lol at the words "price is the issue" and "holding back funds".

[RealGunner]

who the f is Ömer Toprak

[Jay29]

Hope he's as top rack as his name suggests.

[RealGunner]

Price an issue

We have over 150m to spend but can't splash 30m on Mustafi. Great stuff.


It is possible that Arsenal deliberately told Ornstein that so we can speed up Mustafi deal. If he is keen to join then Valencia won't be able to stop him

[MJ]

Toprak is a good defender. Been keeping my eye on him for several editions of FIFA. Would welcome him with open arms.

How expensive is the striker we're targeting that we have to downgrade our CB targets?

Wenger says all summer that the most business will happen in the last two weeks, AKA poker time, but then says we're running out of time and it's hard to find quality. It's amazing mind-fvckery.

[Jay29]

£250mil in cash reserves.

A good portion of wages freed up from expired contracts.

£100mil TV deal.

"Price an issue" and "holding back funds"

Funniest thing I've heard this summer tbh.

[Hapless_Hans]

who the f is Ömer Toprak

Hummels successor at BVB from next season. Bartra was merely a dummy buy.
Great CB and certainly nothing funny about it. You won't get him though.

[Sina]

we didnt even spend much last summer
saving funds

[RealGunner]

£250mil in cash reserves.

A good portion of wages freed up from expired contracts.

£100mil TV deal.

"Price an issue" and "holding back funds"

Funniest thing I've heard this summer tbh.

Best be activating Griezmann's clause if we are holding back funds

[Rev]

who the f is Ömer Toprak

Futhead tells me he's like a stronger Koscielny
http://www.futhead.com/16/players/20794/omer-toprak/

[sportsczy]

I remember back in 2005 or so, Wenger was arguing that footballers and football teams had the right to spend as much money as the market demanded... since every other industry did the same.  His logic was that bankers are making 10s of million in wages and they buy and sell assets for 100s of million.  So unless you put restrictions on every industry, you shouldn't put restrictions on just football. This was in response to a minister in the UK asking for wage ceilings for footballers.

Now in 2016, he's completely gone against that concept because he feels that he should only pay what he personally deems a footballer is "worth", market be damned.  

And in all this, Wenger's wage is 11 mil euros per season.

Baffling.

[Rev]

[urbaNRoots]

What are we saving funds for?

I thought in Wengers words "We have Alexis and Walcott"

[Raptorgunner]

What are we saving funds for?

I thought in Wengers words "We have Alexis and Walcott"

obviously the funds are for Wengers next contract extension

[Jay29]

Most clubs tend to raise more funds by selling deadwood. Apparently this method of making money has been forgotten at Arsenal.

Meanwhile, the likes of Debuchy, Walcott and Sanogo continue to eat up about £200k p/w in wages.

[Raptorgunner]

[Sri]

'We were saving money for a striker but there was nobody available'

And that kids is why we'll not make any signings in the next 2 weeks.

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