If you believe the reports both Madrid and Bayern wanted him.
Madrid didnât value him for what Chelsea were asking and the Bayern âinterestâ seemed tenuous at best
We were essentially the only team seriously in for him
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When Man U bought Mount and we bought Havertz, most people questioned the ridiculously fees paid for them, especially when we could have had a proven quality PL player like Maddison for far less money instead.
We shouldnât be declaring anything on this guy yet tbh, so far my only concern was Arteta changing too much to seemingly accommodate him with our most dominant midfielder playing fullback (inverted or whatever) among other weird things. Although I suspect this has part to do with Arteta not being great at subs and getting all his best players on the pitch.
The fee is splitting hairs really, is a ÂŁ40m bust really all that much better? Nothing suggests the coach didnât get all the players he wanted. Although frustratingly one of them got hurt.
Thatâs true! But weâve just about gotten rid of one in Pepe, and have now seemingly replaced him with Havertz in return.
Yups, I think there were ÂŁ50m bids being talked about and that they wouldnât budge more than that, so they dropped their interest.
Except Pepe had halfway decent stats in his first two seasons I think.
I canât believe Iâm saying this because I didnât want the guy here in the first place, but itâs too early to declare him a bust. Thereâs plenty of time to do that later.
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I wouldnât judge any player on whatâs been going on at Chelsea.
The comment about the fanbase is wide of the mark in my opinion. Itâs fans who are writing off players after 4 games and demanding that we win every game comfortably. Thereâs no being happy to âstick with mediocrityâ there.
In the stadium the atmosphere has been better, but outside there I think fans have been pretty poisonous this season, and if Arsenal have had any problem so far this season Iâd rank supporters outside the stadium as one of the biggest.
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Itâs was a three year sample size at Chelsea, it canât be discounted so easily.
People writing him off so early is obviously way OTT though.
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Had an assist against France last night.
Hopefully this kicks off his career
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âOn the ropesâ lol
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A decent through ball and falling over a lot in a friendly match isnât that great and as for âhaving Saliba on the ropes,â I can only assume heâs joking.
The Trossard compilation, in his recent match for Belgium was far more impressive.
Did anyone see him kicking the ball out while the ref wasnât watching after winning a foul to time waste even further. I actually think he did it twice but the camera didnât quite get it. 
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Wasnât an impressive cameo, like Bambi on ice at times in comparison to the way we play the game
Did absolutely fine when he came on. Probably starts on Wednesday 
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He just needed to come on and not fuck anything up. Mission accomplished.
He got his foot in a few times, made himself a nuisance and played a lot of good, safe passes and that shot was pretty close.
It seems like he was put on to take some pressure off of Gabriel who looked shattered in the second half, so job done.
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Erm, I canât recall any bad moment he had. Came on with Tomiyasu to kill the game, and he certainly helped with that.
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Yeah he had a small cameo and I didnât see anything wrong
I hope it doesnât take him too long to hit his stride.
Because when he does, itâs gonna be scary. For other teams, of course.
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