Can’t wait til rice and Maddison move elsewhere so we don’t have to hear about these two anymore.
Surprised the club are actually in for overpriced junk but hopefully they can find some juicy foreign alternatives to annoy the brexit boys and bring more sexy football to the carpet.
Especially Maddison. We made the right choice with Odegaard.
And any idea that we could have signed him last summer instead of Vieira doesn’t ring true to me. Leicester would have wanted more than the release clause for Vieira and it might have prevented us from signing Zinchenko.
How?
If the price for Maddison is 50m or 55m, we have less money to spend on other players. I know he’s somewhat of a favorite on here, but I think the club made the right choice with Odegaard two summers ago.
Yes we were absolutely correct in not signing one of the most accomplished young players in the league when it comes to goals and assists just because we already had one very good player in our cross hairs. The old Cesc Ozil situation.
If Vieira and Odegaard can exist in the same squad, as could Maddison and Odegaard.
And it’s not like Vieira came with free postage
Based on Mudyrk saga and Caicedo bid we had quite a bit of money to spend.
We were only ever going to sign one.
Don’t misunderstand me, my ideal team is ten midfielders and a keeper. But the way it was filtered through the media was that it was one or the other and Arsenal wanted to wait for Odegaard even if it took all summer.
@RockyMaivia Yeah, but we also saw the club walk away from a deal for Douglas Luiz. If money wasn’t a concern, surely they would have just done it to get a body in.
Fair enough in that summer yeh I agree it was one or the other but I still don’t believe we haven’t had opportunity to bring Maddison in since then.
Hell look at City with that ilk of player and even there they tried for him in the last day of the January window apparently
I’m pretty sure Villa rejected those offers. They just didn’t want him to go.
Yeah, you’d think with all the alleged contact we had with LCFC about youri tielemans we would have at least asked about Maddison last summer as well.
He’s young, he’s English, he’s in that upper tier of player, I just assumed he’d be 50m and up.
Maybe we’d go back this summer. Is he out of contract too?
Disgusting. Kindly keep this kind of filth to yourself good sir.
Transformational, compete with Saia…
you are talking about a 100m player here, especially the word “transformational”.
Recently the only player that has this label, is called Bellingham, and we know his price 
I think we have to consider that next season with CL football, we are going to need much more deeper quality.
Players like Maddison and Brandt will add that deeper quality we need to play and compete in 4 competitions
Lavia and Caicedo have similarities. Both could play the Xhaka role. Both are exponentially better than Lokonga.
Caicedo isn’t gonna happen, he just signed a 5 year deal with Brighton.
Of course the clubs will be disclosing this and the bids for the public in March.
Yeah. Right.
I’m talking abouts players like Rice, SMS, and Raphinha. Bellingham would be amazing but seems unlikely.
Big shame we didn’t get him at the time
lemme guess they wanted £8m for a fee but wenger didnt feel he was worth more than £5.5m