Ainsley Maitland-Niles

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Sounds about @Phoebica :sweat_smile:

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Polo Ralph Lauren? Didn’t know your boy Hector had switched it up from Gucci to become a Ralphy boy

Knobs don’t play polo, it’s just top blokes like David Cameron.

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Dreams are good

my issue with Bellerin is that he seems like a massive phony. Having hobbies isn’t a problem but this dood tries way too hard to show you how amazing he is. If it was genuine he’d go about his business and not take every damn oportunity to publicize he’s some type of intelligent footballer with opinionzzzzz derrrppp

Only other issue I have with him is he’s a shit footballer.

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Absolutely, Mr disingenuous, wouldn’t even surprise me if he put on that weird half London, half Spanish accent.

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Honestly, I don’t give a single fuck about what Bellerin does off the pitch.
All I care is if you can play ball.

For me, Bellerin got the nod into the team due to injuries, and then kept his spot due to his potential (I still think Debuchy was overall better). To his credit, he showed some really good glimpses in his breakout season. Him and Mert on the right had a good thing going. Unfortunately, after that everything went to shit. We were consistently being targeted on his side and his flaws kept showing up. IIRC, Bellerin being the weak point of our team was mentioned in the City doc.
This season, I feel like both Chambers and Maitland-Niles have put better performances than him.
I think the recent boom of talented full-backs haven’t done him any good in the eyes of fans.

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:arteta:

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IDGI

Fuck off Wolves, lowballing cunts! Try again.

So much for this being ‘close to done’ then.

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Oh wow we actually rejected an offer. AND asked for more money.

Is this real life

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Wtf is this post.

The whole point of having the rare combination of intelligence and a platform is to use it well. I think he does that. Despite what you say, having a podcast and raising money / awareness to plant trees is not taking “every damn opportunity* to publicise* it” jheez.

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Wolves have had an opening bid, believed to be £15m, for Ainsley Maitland - Niles rejected by Arsenal .

Talks between the clubs continue and Wolves are expected to go back in with a higher offer with Arsenal thought to want at least £20m.

£15m for Maitland-Niles
£12m for Chambers
Loan deals for Holding and Kolasinac

Outgoings looking quite bleak don’t they?

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I swear they always do, I think we’ve maybe only ever made two good sells, Anelka who we bought for like 500k and sold for £20m which was a big fee at the time and Iwobi who we sold for £30m.

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Chamberlain out for 35m plus Giroud and Walcott for 20m a piece was not bad.

Not stunning business by any means, but by our low bar, not bad.

Combine those 3 with Iwobi as you say and it’s hopefully an indication that we have it in us to at least sometimes get some money when we have assets with some desirable qualities.

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Think Anelka was 24m. Also Overmars I think was 20m, when we got Pires for 6 or 7m as a replacement. Adebeyor for 24m was pretty good, but we never spent the money.

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The gall of these clubs.

@DavidHillier was bang on about the Midlands.

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Was it Overmars and Petit for 30mil? I don’t know who, to this day, constituted more of that combined fee, but I remember feeling ripped off by Barcelona at the time.

However, it was one of those ‘Wenger Knows’ moments. I don’t think Overmars or Petit went on to do anything noteworthy in their careers post 2000

25m combined, but I read it was 20m for Overmars, 5m for Petit. Mind you it was coming from Overmars

Did he want out?