Charles Watts put it at 34m GBP (39.6m EURO) with a 17.5% sell-on. Is it good for an academy kid who barely had a cup of coffee with the first team? Sure. Is it good enough compared to some of the other sales that clubs like Chelsea or City or even Liverpool have been able to make for some of their lesser used players? Not really. Is it disappointing if you consider some of the fees paid by English clubs for high scoring prospects from France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.? Yeah, itās pretty disappointing.
Hopefully the club can get better at this. I fully expect ESR to go next summer, but heās not going to play at all this year so I canāt really see that being a big fee. Gabriel will probably go next summer as well, maybe that will be a good fee.
I hope this is the last batch of players that we sell cheap or give up for free (including Pepe and the remainings), and we start doing serious business.
Outside of England there arenāt any I can think of, maybe Sane if you count him but he was lightyears ahead of Balogun in his development when he did leave City.
I take your point that itās more a function of who we were selling to than a reflection of Arsenal happily accepting a ālowerā fee.
I would have thought, maybe naively, that a team like West Ham would have kicked his tires or even Fulham with Mitrovic going to KSA.
Just scored a goal a minute after he was subbed on for Ben Yedder in the second half to give Monaco a 2:1 lead (it still stands, minutes before the end).
Lol, Lorient just equalises in the literal last attack of the game.
Isnāt there a statistic showing that taking your time on pens results in higher success rate?
I remember seeing it when someone analyzed our shootout with City in the Community Shield. All our players took their time whereas City players were rushing it. City are historically bad at pens.
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