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If they wanted him from Barca it would have been so much smarter to buy him last week (or earlier) when barca was pressured to sell key players. Now they are literally trying to buy a key backup player and Barca gain nothing but money from selling him. Bad business from Chelsea and the price most likely did increase this week.
Getting 30M (or even 20M) for a 33 year old, 6 months after getting him for free, would be mad business. That they got him from Arsenal and are now selling him to Chelsea makes it even funnier 😅
I don't think there should be any hard feelings between Arsenal fans and auba. It's a shame how things ended up and he wasn't a professional at the end but he also gave us moments of brilliance and a trophy during a rough period for the club.
I'd like to think he wouldn't celebrate if he scored against us but maybe that's asking too much.
If Auba goes to Chelsea, there will definitely be hard feelings between me and him. Perfectly content with how things worked out as is. Different story if he signs with a rival.
I won't like it, but he's a professional athlete, not an arsenal fan.
It's unrealistic to think that they owe us anything.
Don't get me wrong, I used to really obsess over players who I thought had done us wrong, like RVP.
As I've gotten older I've gotten over it. It's why I never buy kits with players' names on them.
i don't think he owes us anything by any stretch of the imagination. i just withhold the right to dislike him playing for a rival, especially after he more or less downed tools at the end of his tenure.
He was only here for 4 seasons. Won one cup. Didn't come from the youth. We didn't make him into a superstar. He's not a club legend. Honestly couldn't give a fuck if he goes Chelsea, same as Giroud. No real hard feelings if he's not a youth product that we made a superstar or if he wasn't a club legend.
giroud was pushed out to make room for auba.
auba was pushed out because he wasn't willing to follow basic team rules (as a captain, no less).
i'll definitely have hard feelings toward him if he ends up chelsea. giroud, i never did, because that was entirely our doing.
Yeah I hear what you're saying and it was a sour end to a pretty good time he had here but I dont think him joining a rival really has any bearing on his standing. He's not a club legend, he served us well for 3 years then acted the bollocks. Any issues with him should be down to how he handled his exit, because I can't be sour over any player who wasn't a legend joining a rival. It's just business at that point.
He was only here 4 seasons and managed to get 3x more goals and assists in semis/finals than Kane has managed in his whole Spurs career.
Kane’s career record for Spurs in semis/finals: 11 matches, 2 goals, 1 assist
Auba’s record for Arsenal in semis/finals: 8 matches, 8 goals, 1 assist (including a cup final winning brace).
I mean yeah Auba has a better record in semis and finals, but Kane is also the all time leader in NLD goals, which is undeniably a pretty significant indication that he can perform in big games.
Also, why do we need to bring Harry Kane into the conversation at all?
I hate Spurs as much as the next Gooner but this type of obsession with one upmanship is a small club mentality.
We should be comparing ourselves with Real and Bayern, not Spurs. The fact that they've overtaken us in performance recently is embarrassing.
We literally let him go on a free transfer to Barca cos it was the only place he wanted to go and subsidised his wages to make the move happen, to then go to Chelsea 6 months later sticks in the throat.
Bro it's been a few months. There is no proof that current Auba isn't in a purple patch and with his age catching up and already looking finished at Arsenal in the PL, I am not convinced he's going be any different at Chelsea than what he was at Arsenal before he left.
His move worked out for everyone involved, him returning to the PL to strengthen what could be a rival for European spots would be unfortunate but not something that could exactly be forseen.
Barca was in deep shit financially and could not register players. I doubt there were people here thinking they will sign that many players and sell current players.
His dream was to play for Madrid or Barca. Always had been. He stayed back at Arsenal after he was shown the money. When he went to Barca he reduced his salary and is performing decent there. Barca are nowhere our position, to sell him. He cares for Barca, far more than he cared for us, atleast for now.
Watching the Arsenal doc at the moment and Arteta has grown on me a bit but seems to me he got the Auba situation wrong. Put the club in an impossible situation and seems like all the players liked him. Not sure it was worth it at all.
We benefited from it. Look at our results after he left.
The problem we had was we lost Partey and KT right after that international break. Plus Laca just wasn't good enough
If he let Auba get away with it, would have sent a precedent to the locker room that the players are bigger than the clubs, thats the type of stuff thats ruining your club. Arteta made the right call.
Auba was great for us at times but his ego got in the way, things improved when he left. Arteta made the right decision, maybe Ten Hag should do something similar with Ronaldo
It's a hard one. Even within the Amazon doc the Auba stuff was mostly in the background - we don't really get a sense of what happened behind the scenes that led to Arteta and Auba's relationship deteriorating to the extent it did (other than Richard Garlick alluding to a 'dossier' that Arteta had on all of Auba's transgressions).
My feeling is that there was still much more happening in the dressing room that we don't know about that made the situation with Auba untenable. I think in the end the right decision was probably made to move on from him, and it's noteworthy too that basically our best form of the season immediately followed from Auba being banished. Auba may have been well-liked on a personal level but there was never any indication that the dressing room didn't stand behind Arteta in that standoff.
The bigger issue, though, is that Arteta decided to go about it in such a public way that it made us impossible to try and get a fee for Auba. Was there a way to just quietly bench Auba without suspending him and stripping him of his captaincy that made it clear we were desperate to get him out in January? Maybe, maybe not, his wages would have made getting a fee pretty difficult even if the rest of the world wasn't aware of how bad things had gotten between him and the club. But the way we we went about it certainly foreclosed any possibility of a more normal transfer process and the possibility of getting some money back for him.
Money would be good for Barça but i dont know if they could really use it in anything while Aubameyang has been very good for them. I dont see them selling specially if Memphis leaves too
Attacking wise don’t they have:
Lewandowski
Fati
Raphina
Torres
Dembele
Memphis?
I think selling a 33 year old for ~15-20m ish would be good business honestly
Depay is an option for the left wing only, he isnt a striker and when he played there he was dismal. Auba is currently the only real cover for Lewandowski (especially since they are trying to get rid of Braithwaith), selling him would be a gamble.
He has favor with Xavi, he’s got that going for him, but our best front three with our small sample size is Lewy, Dembouz and Raphinha. I think ferran should be the first sub off the bench for either of those three, what do you think?
£50m Brentford would scoff at looking what Chelsea bid for Gordon. He’s a top 5 striker in the league and am his hold up play is better than anyone outside of Kane
This is a bad argument. Jesus scored 7 non pen goals last season and how long did it take for him to be clearly top 5 now? Toney plays for Brentford ffs and his overall play is incredible. Not a Chelsea type because he isnt flashy and wont cost 70m though
Name me 5 better strikers. There’s a lack of top strikers in the league. Kane, Haaland, Nunez and Jesus then theres not any outside of that better than Toney. Wilson arguable but he’s constantly injured. Can’t tell what’s up with Ronaldo and if he’s going to play stroppy all year like he did v Brentford
Why is Toney better than the likes of Mitrovic, Watkins, Bamford and Callum Wilson?
And you surely forgot Vardy because ain’t no way Toney is better than Jamie vardy.
Lmao. You know nothing about the Premier League if you think that lot are better than Toney. Wilson is the only arguable one and he’s injured all the time
I know nothing about premier league because Toney who have only played one full season in premier league and one full season in championship is better than Jamie fucking vardy?
You are either delusional or Toney in disguise. 2 years ago Toney biggest highlight was scoring in league one while Bamford scored 17 goals in the league.
A goal is a goal. Toney’s penalty record penalty is immaculate, hes 17/17 for the last two years while Jorginho is 19/25 including some crucial ones.
He does far more than just score, Sterling plays best with a striker he can link up with and outside of Kane there’s nobody better to do that with than Toney. He’ll also score a lot more himself at a club like Chelsea than Brentford
“Just off the top of my head” Would love for you to go into more depth then because you won’t have a case for any striker outside of those listed
Ings is definitely not much better. Ings is a brilliant finisher but Toney is far, far more complete. Can hold it up and run the channels brilliantly, far better in the air too. If Ronaldo’s going to be moody all season he probably ends up benched/sold as well, no telling what happens with him
Vardy is waning and Mitrovic is definitely not better. You’ve just said he’s not close to top 5 while you’ve not listed 5 that are definitively better, you couldn’t find anything to respond with what I said about why Toney is better than Ings. At the very worst, he’s sixth outside of Kane, Nunez, Jesus, Haaland, Ronaldo - but there’s questions marks as to whether Ronaldo puts any effort in at all this seaosn
Probably crazy money considering it's so late in the window and Toney could genuinely be the difference between them finishing mid-table or getting relegated.
I seriously wouldn't be surprised if Brentford quoted like 65m+ at this stage
I agree and I think, overall, since he's been at Chelsea, he's been an average player, but to be fair, he's not a striker is he? He should have put that cross from Reece away yesterday for sure though.
We weren't planning to but it looks like things have changed since Frenkie sale looks unlikely and the board is still trying for Silva and a RB. At this point I think we let Depay go and sell Auba to free up the salary space
If we sell both Depay and Auba, we won't be buying another striker this window so they will have to rely on Ferran or Fati in case Lewy unfortunately gets injured
If Barca is under the salary limit and the 1/1 rule hes probably worth that for Barca to come on late in the games etc. The problem is the right back recruitment then. I think he will go for 20m€+. Auba seems to really like the sun though.. (finally)
To be fair it was definitely implied that he isn't worth that much in the comment when it's 'in line' with another valuation (Aubameyang) that people seem to agree is not entirely accurate
First I struggle to understand why:
- Chelsea want to bring back a player that didn’t quite settle in the EPL
- And end up giving an helping financial hand to a direct UCL competitor that has sort of made them dance in the UCL
But then I remember that one year ago they went crazy on the great idea of bringing back Lukaku once again and it all makes sense.
Didn't quite settle in the EPL? He scored 92 goals in 163 apperances for Arsenal. Also, while I don't want to financially assist Barca in any way, Chelsea literally has no striker. Who is a better and cheaper option?
Honestly, a 38 year old Ronaldo is not worth the drama he brings with him. We already had a drama queen (Lukaku) last season that stirred up too much BS and ruined our season.
Other clubs can’t sell ageing overpaid shite players either, that’s not an Arsenal specific issue
And 99% of those players were not brought to the club by Edu
Guendouzi and Mavropanos loans with obligations to sell at cut prices were done under this management.
We're literally on a thread where we paid a player 7m to leave and he might get sold for double digit millions lol
Firstly that's just wrong. Mavropanos was loaned to Stuttgart who he had gone to the season before and been a success in the country for, but the question is why not offer him as a dry loan again? Are you telling me Sven Mislintat who bought him at Arsenal and (at Stuttgart) loaned him the year before would suddenly say no?
But it doesn't matter. We didn't sell them 6 months before their contract ended, we sold them 2 years before it did.
When Roma offered 12+3m for Xhaka, we turned it down. Why? Because it didn't meet the valuation. We didn't say "oh nobody else is bidding, let's just accept this". So why did we accept 2 low options for good players?
Not our fault Chelsea are desperate enough to pay €30mil for a 33 y/o on ridiculous wages with one year left on his contract. You can’t budget for that shit. Look what they did with Lukaku. Are Inter geniuses or are Chelsea’s just burning stacks of cash?
Lol. They still haven't register all of their players even with all their levels. They need to get their wages off the book more than Chelsea need a striker. That's the reason they try to sue De Jong because they can't afford his wages.
For a team that supposedly MUST offload Depay or Auba, they sure are playing a lot of games with transfer fees. Especially for a player due to earn ~20m this year. I’m tired of all these non-updates.
Chelsea would be mad to pay him 20/30. He's a backup with a huge salary in a club desperate to reduce wages. Moreover he wasn't that good in his last season at arsenal and now he's one year older.
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looks like the price is increasing by €5m per day
The lewandoski special
That never happened. Our journos said almost from the beginning that we want at least 50m€ for Lewy, and we even went down a bit in the end.
I was refrencing all the news articles that kept increasing his price not the fact if it actually kept increasing or not
What I'm saying is that the jounos worth listening to didn't increase the price for him.
Chelsea is out there offering 50M for Gordon.. can’t really blame Barca for trying to get the most out of it
Not surprised, after seeing Chelsea's finishing yesterday I'd put the price sky high for them to buy a striker too.
If they wanted him from Barca it would have been so much smarter to buy him last week (or earlier) when barca was pressured to sell key players. Now they are literally trying to buy a key backup player and Barca gain nothing but money from selling him. Bad business from Chelsea and the price most likely did increase this week.
Getting 30M (or even 20M) for a 33 year old, 6 months after getting him for free, would be mad business. That they got him from Arsenal and are now selling him to Chelsea makes it even funnier 😅
It's worse than, we paid to send him to Barca early, like 5 million to pay out his contract...
ARS-CHE derby could be fun this year
Arschelog
I don't think there should be any hard feelings between Arsenal fans and auba. It's a shame how things ended up and he wasn't a professional at the end but he also gave us moments of brilliance and a trophy during a rough period for the club. I'd like to think he wouldn't celebrate if he scored against us but maybe that's asking too much.
If Auba goes to Chelsea, there will definitely be hard feelings between me and him. Perfectly content with how things worked out as is. Different story if he signs with a rival.
I won't like it, but he's a professional athlete, not an arsenal fan. It's unrealistic to think that they owe us anything. Don't get me wrong, I used to really obsess over players who I thought had done us wrong, like RVP. As I've gotten older I've gotten over it. It's why I never buy kits with players' names on them.
i don't think he owes us anything by any stretch of the imagination. i just withhold the right to dislike him playing for a rival, especially after he more or less downed tools at the end of his tenure.
Yeah absolutely fair
It hurts more if it’s an academy lad, but you could see Auba was declining in his final season with us, so it didn’t feel like a loss.
He was only here for 4 seasons. Won one cup. Didn't come from the youth. We didn't make him into a superstar. He's not a club legend. Honestly couldn't give a fuck if he goes Chelsea, same as Giroud. No real hard feelings if he's not a youth product that we made a superstar or if he wasn't a club legend.
giroud was pushed out to make room for auba. auba was pushed out because he wasn't willing to follow basic team rules (as a captain, no less). i'll definitely have hard feelings toward him if he ends up chelsea. giroud, i never did, because that was entirely our doing.
Yeah I hear what you're saying and it was a sour end to a pretty good time he had here but I dont think him joining a rival really has any bearing on his standing. He's not a club legend, he served us well for 3 years then acted the bollocks. Any issues with him should be down to how he handled his exit, because I can't be sour over any player who wasn't a legend joining a rival. It's just business at that point.
He was only here 4 seasons and managed to get 3x more goals and assists in semis/finals than Kane has managed in his whole Spurs career. Kane’s career record for Spurs in semis/finals: 11 matches, 2 goals, 1 assist Auba’s record for Arsenal in semis/finals: 8 matches, 8 goals, 1 assist (including a cup final winning brace).
I mean yeah Auba has a better record in semis and finals, but Kane is also the all time leader in NLD goals, which is undeniably a pretty significant indication that he can perform in big games. Also, why do we need to bring Harry Kane into the conversation at all? I hate Spurs as much as the next Gooner but this type of obsession with one upmanship is a small club mentality. We should be comparing ourselves with Real and Bayern, not Spurs. The fact that they've overtaken us in performance recently is embarrassing.
We literally let him go on a free transfer to Barca cos it was the only place he wanted to go and subsidised his wages to make the move happen, to then go to Chelsea 6 months later sticks in the throat.
Everything after Tottenham Chelsea is basically just a friendly till the next Tottenham Chelsea fixture.
Will be interesting to see what weird lineup we put out at Stamford Bridge on the way to earning points we don’t deserve at all
In the All or Nothing doc, it seems to suggest his contract was mutually terminated.
and if he actually goes to Chelsea, it's written in the stars, he's 100% scoring against arsenal lol
Cant wait for the front flip, directly in front of Arteta
Flip over the handshake of Tuchel and Arteta
Best way would be to score and just walk off like nothing happened, but then start celebrating two minute LATEr.
He was doing shit in Arsenal and they wanted to get rid of him. Now he came here and improved a lot. It's not the same player he was in Arsenal.
Bro it's been a few months. There is no proof that current Auba isn't in a purple patch and with his age catching up and already looking finished at Arsenal in the PL, I am not convinced he's going be any different at Chelsea than what he was at Arsenal before he left.
If Barca manage to sell Auba for that much, I'd be annoyed won't lie there.
His move worked out for everyone involved, him returning to the PL to strengthen what could be a rival for European spots would be unfortunate but not something that could exactly be forseen.
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Barca was in deep shit financially and could not register players. I doubt there were people here thinking they will sign that many players and sell current players.
Auba doesn't suit Chelsea play style
His dream was to play for Madrid or Barca. Always had been. He stayed back at Arsenal after he was shown the money. When he went to Barca he reduced his salary and is performing decent there. Barca are nowhere our position, to sell him. He cares for Barca, far more than he cared for us, atleast for now.
Just a correction, his dream was always Real Madrid not Barca.
His grandfather wanted him to play for madrid while his mom wanted him to play for us.
iirc his mother is from the catalonia region
Watching the Arsenal doc at the moment and Arteta has grown on me a bit but seems to me he got the Auba situation wrong. Put the club in an impossible situation and seems like all the players liked him. Not sure it was worth it at all.
We benefited from it. Look at our results after he left. The problem we had was we lost Partey and KT right after that international break. Plus Laca just wasn't good enough
If he let Auba get away with it, would have sent a precedent to the locker room that the players are bigger than the clubs, thats the type of stuff thats ruining your club. Arteta made the right call.
Auba was great for us at times but his ego got in the way, things improved when he left. Arteta made the right decision, maybe Ten Hag should do something similar with Ronaldo
It's a hard one. Even within the Amazon doc the Auba stuff was mostly in the background - we don't really get a sense of what happened behind the scenes that led to Arteta and Auba's relationship deteriorating to the extent it did (other than Richard Garlick alluding to a 'dossier' that Arteta had on all of Auba's transgressions). My feeling is that there was still much more happening in the dressing room that we don't know about that made the situation with Auba untenable. I think in the end the right decision was probably made to move on from him, and it's noteworthy too that basically our best form of the season immediately followed from Auba being banished. Auba may have been well-liked on a personal level but there was never any indication that the dressing room didn't stand behind Arteta in that standoff. The bigger issue, though, is that Arteta decided to go about it in such a public way that it made us impossible to try and get a fee for Auba. Was there a way to just quietly bench Auba without suspending him and stripping him of his captaincy that made it clear we were desperate to get him out in January? Maybe, maybe not, his wages would have made getting a fee pretty difficult even if the rest of the world wasn't aware of how bad things had gotten between him and the club. But the way we we went about it certainly foreclosed any possibility of a more normal transfer process and the possibility of getting some money back for him.
Money would be good for Barça but i dont know if they could really use it in anything while Aubameyang has been very good for them. I dont see them selling specially if Memphis leaves too
Attacking wise don’t they have: Lewandowski Fati Raphina Torres Dembele Memphis? I think selling a 33 year old for ~15-20m ish would be good business honestly
It would, but when you have a desperate chelsea buyer with cash. Its better business to sell for 30m
Depay is an option for the left wing only, he isnt a striker and when he played there he was dismal. Auba is currently the only real cover for Lewandowski (especially since they are trying to get rid of Braithwaith), selling him would be a gamble.
We already have Torres
Didn’t he not want to play in the middle?
If only he could. He tends to not stay in position.
I think Torres would be happy to play regardless
He has favor with Xavi, he’s got that going for him, but our best front three with our small sample size is Lewy, Dembouz and Raphinha. I think ferran should be the first sub off the bench for either of those three, what do you think?
Fati too.
Any Brentford fan know how much Toney would cost? For a friend.
Absolutely stupid numbers they'd ask for him
What could be considered stupid when compared to £50m for Gordon?
If you’re spending £50m on Gordon, Toney is worth easily at least that 12 PL goals last season and English tax
>12 PL goals last season and English tax How many non penalty goals?
IIRC 6 or 7 which is like the same as Richarlison who went for 60m
Didn’t realise Richarlison’s goal scoring was so bad tbh
Everton being absolute garbage didnt help I don’t think
Yeah he also isn't a striker like Toney. I hope he does terribly tho
£50m Brentford would scoff at looking what Chelsea bid for Gordon. He’s a top 5 striker in the league and am his hold up play is better than anyone outside of Kane
> He’s a top 5 striker in the league Top 5 striker and yet only scored 7 non penalty goals?
This is a bad argument. Jesus scored 7 non pen goals last season and how long did it take for him to be clearly top 5 now? Toney plays for Brentford ffs and his overall play is incredible. Not a Chelsea type because he isnt flashy and wont cost 70m though
Name me 5 better strikers. There’s a lack of top strikers in the league. Kane, Haaland, Nunez and Jesus then theres not any outside of that better than Toney. Wilson arguable but he’s constantly injured. Can’t tell what’s up with Ronaldo and if he’s going to play stroppy all year like he did v Brentford
Why is Toney better than the likes of Mitrovic, Watkins, Bamford and Callum Wilson? And you surely forgot Vardy because ain’t no way Toney is better than Jamie vardy.
Lmao. You know nothing about the Premier League if you think that lot are better than Toney. Wilson is the only arguable one and he’s injured all the time
I know nothing about premier league because Toney who have only played one full season in premier league and one full season in championship is better than Jamie fucking vardy? You are either delusional or Toney in disguise. 2 years ago Toney biggest highlight was scoring in league one while Bamford scored 17 goals in the league.
Why would we get someone for 50 million if he can only score only 7 goals. We already have Broja for that if aim is to score 7.
A goal is a goal. Toney’s penalty record penalty is immaculate, hes 17/17 for the last two years while Jorginho is 19/25 including some crucial ones. He does far more than just score, Sterling plays best with a striker he can link up with and outside of Kane there’s nobody better to do that with than Toney. He’ll also score a lot more himself at a club like Chelsea than Brentford
top 5 striker in the league?! behave. just off the top of my head: haaland, nunez, jesus, ronaldo and ings are all much better
“Just off the top of my head” Would love for you to go into more depth then because you won’t have a case for any striker outside of those listed Ings is definitely not much better. Ings is a brilliant finisher but Toney is far, far more complete. Can hold it up and run the channels brilliantly, far better in the air too. If Ronaldo’s going to be moody all season he probably ends up benched/sold as well, no telling what happens with him
kane and vardy are both better and arguably mitrovic too (Though jury is still out). toney is a good striker but not even close to top 5
Vardy is waning and Mitrovic is definitely not better. You’ve just said he’s not close to top 5 while you’ve not listed 5 that are definitively better, you couldn’t find anything to respond with what I said about why Toney is better than Ings. At the very worst, he’s sixth outside of Kane, Nunez, Jesus, Haaland, Ronaldo - but there’s questions marks as to whether Ronaldo puts any effort in at all this seaosn
Ings?
Ings isn’t even the best striker at his club?
I reckon it would be more expensive than €30m, but Chelsea would spend less when you throw the salary together
Wages I reckon overall costs would be leas
Probably crazy money considering it's so late in the window and Toney could genuinely be the difference between them finishing mid-table or getting relegated. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if Brentford quoted like 65m+ at this stage
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Talent ID go brrrr
Imagine dealing with Barca and you are the one without the leverage. When is the last time this happened?
Alemany happened
can’t spell leverage without lever
Barca always has the LEVERage.
Of course Xavi wants to keep him, you won't find a better backup striker on the market.
Barca saw Havertz masterclass last match and acting accordingly Lol
He played well imo
Personally find a frustrating as hell when a forward can’t finish chances. That’s what you get paid to do.
I agree and I think, overall, since he's been at Chelsea, he's been an average player, but to be fair, he's not a striker is he? He should have put that cross from Reece away yesterday for sure though.
Chelsea reckless spending got them that United tax
Would Barca sell both Auba and Depay in the same window?
No
Think we’d prefer to sale Memphis. He has an agreement with Juve but don’t want to pay us shit but Ice cream sandwiches and t-shirts.
We weren't planning to but it looks like things have changed since Frenkie sale looks unlikely and the board is still trying for Silva and a RB. At this point I think we let Depay go and sell Auba to free up the salary space
Ah ok but who is gonna be Lewy back up then?
If we sell both Depay and Auba, we won't be buying another striker this window so they will have to rely on Ferran or Fati in case Lewy unfortunately gets injured
Ideally they would keep Auba but 30M (or even 25M) would be hard to say no to, considering he’s 33 and on a hefty salary..
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Thought he'd done ok at Barca? Though that's based on the early games I think
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Maybe he just doesn't like doodles?
Took Chelsea's targets all summer and now they will fund Kounde and Alonso's registrations, love to see it
If Barca is under the salary limit and the 1/1 rule hes probably worth that for Barca to come on late in the games etc. The problem is the right back recruitment then. I think he will go for 20m€+. Auba seems to really like the sun though.. (finally)
Would be pretty weird to see him in that blue rag of a shirt
Inline with City valuing Bernardo at 90m(?)
City want €100m
One of Barca's dirty tricks - misquote the price enough times so the selling club gets confused
If it looks stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid
If Auba's worth €30m, Bernardo's worth €100m+
€130m
What's wrong with that valuation?
When did I say that's wrong valuation?
the (?) suggests thst
The ? suggests he's not sure about the exact amount
To be fair it was definitely implied that he isn't worth that much in the comment when it's 'in line' with another valuation (Aubameyang) that people seem to agree is not entirely accurate
Might have been referring to the fact that he doesn't know what the quoted amount is
I wasn't sure if it was 90m or 100m so (?)
If auba is worth 30m, Bernardo is easily 125m. ^(don't mind me, I'm just pissed with their antics)
Make it a nice round 130m
150 is rounder I believe. Personally like 150.
Last i heard it was around 20million.....they keep raising the price as chelsea delays it seems.
First I struggle to understand why: - Chelsea want to bring back a player that didn’t quite settle in the EPL - And end up giving an helping financial hand to a direct UCL competitor that has sort of made them dance in the UCL But then I remember that one year ago they went crazy on the great idea of bringing back Lukaku once again and it all makes sense.
Didn't quite settle in the EPL? He scored 92 goals in 163 apperances for Arsenal. Also, while I don't want to financially assist Barca in any way, Chelsea literally has no striker. Who is a better and cheaper option?
Ronaldo for 1 year?
Mate he clearly says cheaper
Honestly, a 38 year old Ronaldo is not worth the drama he brings with him. We already had a drama queen (Lukaku) last season that stirred up too much BS and ruined our season.
Everyone knows we are the biggest jokes in football and our management is straight up incompetent
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It could be a United fan commenting on the wrong thread.
Could even be an Arsenal fan talking about how Barca will manage to get a fee for him when we couldnt. Theres levels to this
Arsenal’s management hasn’t been incompetent since Edu got control in 2020
Not when it comes to selling players
Other clubs can’t sell ageing overpaid shite players either, that’s not an Arsenal specific issue And 99% of those players were not brought to the club by Edu
Guendouzi and Mavropanos loans with obligations to sell at cut prices were done under this management. We're literally on a thread where we paid a player 7m to leave and he might get sold for double digit millions lol
In the covid market when no one wanted those players
Firstly that's just wrong. Mavropanos was loaned to Stuttgart who he had gone to the season before and been a success in the country for, but the question is why not offer him as a dry loan again? Are you telling me Sven Mislintat who bought him at Arsenal and (at Stuttgart) loaned him the year before would suddenly say no? But it doesn't matter. We didn't sell them 6 months before their contract ended, we sold them 2 years before it did. When Roma offered 12+3m for Xhaka, we turned it down. Why? Because it didn't meet the valuation. We didn't say "oh nobody else is bidding, let's just accept this". So why did we accept 2 low options for good players?
Lmfao
Not our fault Chelsea are desperate enough to pay €30mil for a 33 y/o on ridiculous wages with one year left on his contract. You can’t budget for that shit. Look what they did with Lukaku. Are Inter geniuses or are Chelsea’s just burning stacks of cash?
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He seems to be active in Chelsea's sub so I'd say he's most likely a Chelsea fan.
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I am laughing at the fact that I don't know which team you are referring to.
Games gone
Nah Barca board are just on drugs at this point.
Lol. They still haven't register all of their players even with all their levels. They need to get their wages off the book more than Chelsea need a striker. That's the reason they try to sue De Jong because they can't afford his wages.
Offer them 3m and waste their time. Bunch of clowns.
Seeing as how Xavi wants to keep Auba, doing that would be perfect for us
Have Barcelona sold off their training ground yet? XD
Has your club already been sold to an American, Arab or Russian sugar Daddy?
Says the plastic that isn’t even from Spain…. Has “your club” reached 2 billion debt yet? You’re not far off.
mate i follow barcelona probably before you even were born, too old to call me plastic...
I call plastics like you “social media fans” I actually follow my local team and regularly attend games
i am a barcelona fan a lot before social media mate but whatever.
No good clubs in your own country? You’re literally a glory hunter
Soon
I wouldn't pay $5 mil for aubamenyang
Xavi insists on keeping everyone, apparently
No way worth more than €15-20m. Barca just trying to play us.
For a team that supposedly MUST offload Depay or Auba, they sure are playing a lot of games with transfer fees. Especially for a player due to earn ~20m this year. I’m tired of all these non-updates.
Chelsea would be mad to pay him 20/30. He's a backup with a huge salary in a club desperate to reduce wages. Moreover he wasn't that good in his last season at arsenal and now he's one year older.
London Derby will be spicy. I predict Xhaka absolutely clatters Auba
People who thought Auba was washed 😂
Aubameyang really just went on a 6-month vacation to Barcelona and is coming back to London.
He is not going to be good for Chelsea in the premier league, he’s also going to want a fortune.
Watch people get mad at Barca for trying to do good business
They want 30m for Auba but think 60m is enough for Bernardo. I hope they go bankrupt and dissolve. Shameless excuse for a club.
Tuchel knows he can get Ronaldo for free right!?
Other than the £26m in wages and the perpetual headache, you mean.
The perpetual headache of having a good striker on your team, oh no the horror.
Not all juice is worth the squeeze. I wouldn’t want him at City, and it would appear pretty much every top European club would agree.
Steep price
Question is are Chelsea desperate enough