There is nothing wrong for driving a hard bargin and getting the best price for a player. I pleased we have done that in the past rather than paying over the odds for average players like Liverpool and Spurs have done historically. BUT there is a point where the deal just needs to get done.
Yep, Gazidis is still full of shit. Made a big show of taking his guys to Germany to get it done and couldn’t. Same ‘OL Arsenal trying to get bargain bin deals.
Well as far as I know we’re the only team in for him, so if he wants out of Dortmund then he has no choice but to have us as his “preferred destination”
Dortmund kinda fucked themselves by playing Auba yesterday. He played terrible, only touched the ball 19 times supposedly. They just lost a ton of negotiating power with that move, expect to hear the announcement after his court appearance on Monday.
The thing drives me insane is that we go after these deals and all the while in the background nothing else is happening. Which is due to the fact that we only pursue these deals when the player is unsettled or their clubs don’t really need them and their baggage any longer. If PEA weren’t apparently unsettled we wouldn’t be doing anything.