12 Jul 2016 20:16:07
The BBC are reporting we have enquired about Higuain and been told unless his £84 million release cluas is met he won't be leaving this summer, If true I'm not worried about the fee or the wages at all because the money side of transfers means nothing to me but I do think we are barking up the same wrong tree as we did 4 years ago where the cat has absolutely no interest what so ever in coming down to play for us.
But I do applaud Arsene and the club for yet again genuinely trying to solve our weaknesses even if there's more chance of Leicester retaining the premier league title and making it a CL double than him being an Arsenal player next season.
12 Jul 2016 20:27:11
Gunner do you honestly think they are trying to solve it going after targets they aren't willing to meet the valuation. Its happening too often. If we want higuain or whoever, we know what their value is, so unless we are going to get wet why put our feet in the water.
12 Jul 2016 20:49:20
See your point Steve but I think we are genuinely trying this summer appossed to going through the motions in a bid to keep the fans off Arsene back as last summer with all the you know who.
Arsene knows another summer like last summer followed by our first poor run will be met with much louder and longer fan unrest than we saw last season plus he also knows if he wants to keep both Sanchez and Ozil he has to give them a reason to think next season could be different, as we stand we will be as competitive as a Sloth on sun lounger against Usain Bolt in a Ferrari.
12 Jul 2016 21:21:27
Agree with Steve,
We are chasing shadows going for the likes of Higuain, Benzema, Lewandowski and Aubamayang.
It makes me laugh, we could have signed Higuain for £30m, but haggled over £2m, than we chase him when he's valued £84m?
Ridiculous.
12 Jul 2016 21:44:50
Dags I've always said wenger is reactive not proactive, which I think holds us back as well. Yes we could have had higuain, draxler and others cheaper if we had really meant it and it was what we wanted.
12 Jul 2016 22:00:07
Agree Dags we are chasing shadows but we are genuinely chasing them this time instead of putting on a shadow puppet show to create the allusion ot chasing them, the result is almost certainly going to be the same but because the intent is their we are more likely to actually settle for the attainable apposed do nothing yet again.
12 Jul 2016 22:10:01
Undoubtedly we are now feeling the full affect of not investing last summer, Sanchez wants out and even Jamie Vardy doesn't fancy us as a good bet, if we'd been more ambitious last summer people might take us more seriously this summer.
12 Jul 2016 22:19:11
Would prefer a shadow to Sanogo.
12 Jul 2016 22:21:49
Same old same old 62, these stories come out every Summer
Wenger then says " we tried" knowing full well it ain't going to happen.
12 Jul 2016 22:33:59
Aubameyang is a better option at 64 million lol.
12 Jul 2016 22:48:52
True Banbury mate but the only reason I mentioned the story was because it was the BBC who reported it and in my opinion they are usually not always but usually more reliable than most, they gave the whole Benzema thing a miss last summer which puts them up a few notches in my book.
12 Jul 2016 23:22:17
Groundhog day, for all the intent Wenger and the board have of signing these players they may as well just go for it and put in a £100 million bid for Messi and Neyma, we all know there's no chance of it being accepted but at least Wenger and Gazidis can harp in about how we tried.
I really hope as a fan of 36 years to have these words shoved down my throat, but I really am surprised at the level of optimism of some of us this year, especially after the last few summer's windows.
12 Jul 2016 23:39:18
I know 62 but we enquire ever Summer and then say " well we tried"
12 Jul 2016 23:57:50
Me to JP, but I can't see it mate.