TeeCee wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:33 pm
It seems that Tavares to Atalanta is edging closer with Arsenal accepting to include a right to buy in the deal as requested by Atalanta but adding a clause allowing the gunners to reject the right to buy Tavares if they decide to retain the player
Errrr.......isn't that how a 'normal' transfer is done without any clauses? You loan someone, you like him, you try to buy him and the parent club says no!!
Jeez, who's earning the money putting all these bollocks 'clauses' into contracts FFS?
It's absolutely clear that the club's transfer mentality hasn't moved on beyond Wenger's paranoid approach. There has been a total lack of decision making for years, betraying a fear that was driven by Wenger's narcissism and which seems to grip Arteta as well.
Apart from taking an age to bid the right amount for players we want and getting the deal done, it's even more obvious in those who they don't want in the team, except in times of injury crises. They're prepared to loan Tavares out, so he's not figuring in their plans, but they don't want to include a right to buy. There's been nothing to suggest we'll be losing much if he was sold, so sell him, or include the right to buy loan clause and move the fuck on. If he turns out to be a world beater (do miracles still happen?), then so be it.
Wenger would keep promising youngsters on the books, either never giving them a proper opportunity in the side, or loaning them out to the lower leagues, but he never had the guts to get rid of them, which would have been fairer to the youngster, for fear of the decision coming back to bite him if the kid became a star. So, he messed them about for years, stunting their development, until aged about 24, he'd sell them to the likes Rotherham, knowing their career was already fucked. He was a nasty, narcissistic bastard, too worried about being wrong and the cone man seems to be exactly the same as his spiritual father.