Next summer will be fine. We’ll have the CL title under our belt by then. How can any player resist after that?
I think Williams has his heart set on Barcelona, and will stay at Bilbao for a season or two.
The amount of money we’d need to commit to a Nico Williams transfer makes it nearly impossible. He’s on around £180-200k a week and I imagine he would want significantly more to incentivise him to move. Throw in the fact his release clause can only be activated by the entire payment being made in one lump sum just leaves this a near impossible transfer.
£10m+ a year in wages, £50m outright transfer fee with no chance to amortise the cost over the length of the contract.
Not financially feasible
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why would we be doing a thomas partey on nico when we are supposedly (new rumour) looking at lookman…these people know nothing.
Well with Ornstein killing off any Merino engagement revenue streams they have to settle on the next target. Nico Williams for clicks.
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Lookman is just jesus ‘in form’. Yes, it’s an upgrade on nketiah or nelson, but that would only make lookman third choice striker, third choice left wing or second right wing at best. For me it’s only really worthwhile if jesus goes too, and I haven’t seen/heard any evidence of that happening.
If we get a winger now though, perfect window
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Maybe we pull off some short term emergency deal as with Jorginho…
Although we could do that in the january too.
Everything is open.
Reis Nelson and 75m on top for kudus. Job done. Top quality, versatile, right age, and just waiting to explode.
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Imagine if there was any truth to this and we went and done a Partey and paid his release clause on deadline day and signed Nico Williams, absolute madness!
My gut feeling is that we will still sign an attacking player before the end of the transfer window. I don’t think we’re done with incomings.
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We couldn’t amortise for the football accounting side of things, but with the ESR and potential Eddie sales, it gives us 50m that we can book at the same time which offsets that. And if the actual money spent was a loan then we can actually service it over 5 years or even much more depending on how we were lent those funds, so I don’t think the amortization element is a major roadblock.
Costly deal, sure, but it’s not overly dissimilar to other deals we have completed from an affordability POV.
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Williams would be a dream. We’d only go for him if we’re certain that we’ve got one more fairly sizeable sale on the way (Kiwior would be my guess). And also if he actually wants to join us and have to fight to earn a starting position.
Just to clarify on amortisation.
We’d still do that in the same way as ever if we pay the fee in one go, a 10m a year write down on a 50m fee. The difference is instead of having say a 15/20 payment upfront it would be 50.
It would actually help in future years to be amortising money that’s already out the door, but that’s only if we have the 50 spare to begin with.
I suspect we don’t due to rice money owed amd what we’ve already done this summer.
Anyway basically i agree with @SRCJJ but not because of amortisation. 
I agree with you up to:
So far we have only spent circa £102m (£27m Raya, £42m Calafiori, and £33m Merino). We have circa £60m in sales (£27m ESR, £7m Tavares, and £25m Nketiah*). So our net spend this summer is really low. We didn’t spend in January either. So, even allowing for the money owed for Rice, we must have the ability to get a deal for someone like Nico Williams done.
Plus we know we have CL money again this season and I still think we will sell Nelson and Kiwior as well, and there is a good chance a deal gets done for Ramsdale.
I personally think we have put ourselves in a position, where we can make a big signing late on in the window.
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Does that mean we’ll sign him for a bunch of money and then have him miss a shit load of games?
As an accountant the worst thing to happen in football is football fans and journalists trying to understand accountancy.
Dosnt matter where you look, just daggers to the eyes, multiple times every day. Make it stop please.
This must be how you feel when someone comments on the serie a CBs.
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Little doubt in my mind that if Nico to Arsenal was feasible at all, the money would be there. He’d be pretty ridiculous in our attack.
Yes, this is Twitter bullshit. But… Arsenal would make it happen.
Don’t mention what you do for a living to @SRCJJ he gets very upset.
You’re actually just a cuck. It’s beyond obvious at this point.