The 2015 Transfer Rumours Thread

[mcdowell42]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... indow.html

[flash gunner]

Winston Reid might be coming. Can hardly contain my excitement!

Must have been a hard week for you mate with all the positivity flying about, don't worry it will all go tits up again soon and you can enjoy yourself again

[mcdowell42]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... lista.html

[gp543]

Cadena Ser and AS reporting that the Paulista deal is done. €20mil (£15.3mil) and we are going to triple his wages.

[rigsby]

Just seen he's 24 as well, which is encouraging. Hopefully Arsenal have some info about the permit situation that makes them confident with this.

What price though rigsby ? It would appear that their price is considerably different than our's and that (yet again) seems to be the problem. If he was only gonna cost around the £4m mark then I would be on board with that, but if his price was £8m then I don't know if he would be worth that.

I agree on the price of Reid. I would question whether he would be 8 million though given he can walk out at the end of the season for nothing, and clubs would circle. West Ham aren't qualifying for Europe in my opinion, so I can't see him signing a contract. 4-5 would be the maximum.

[Dan_85]

This Paulista dude can get a work permit right? We're not gonna spend 20m on someone who can't play for us until 2020 are we?

[SteveO 35]

This Paulista dude can get a work permit right? We're not gonna spend 20m on someone who can't play for us until 2020 are we?

Worry ye not Dan my boy - apparently Sylvinho's mate has already got that sorted

[augie]

This Paulista dude can get a work permit right? We're not gonna spend 20m on someone who can't play for us until 2020 are we?

Worry ye not Dan my boy - apparently Sylvinho's mate has already got that sorted

Wish we had silvinho playing left full for us now

[Dan_85]

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... ielik-deal

Contain your excitement.

[TeeCee]

Paulista isn't an international and isn't classed as a 'promising youngster' so a permit could be dodgy to say the least, wouldn't it just be so Arsenal to pay shit loads for someone we have to loan straight back to another European team for 2 years!!

[Sam59]

Guardian reporting still a long way off with the Paulista deal. We've offered 6m, up to 10m with 'add ons', they want 20m (they are 6th in La Liga so chasing a CL spot), and the work permit situation will be tricky as he's never played at any level for Brazil.
Have to argue the 'exceptional talent', which back-relates to the amount being paid for him as well so under offering counts against.
Might just be an idea to buy a CB who has a EU passport....there are just a few about

[SydneyGooner]

Brazilian Martin Keown?

[OneBardGooner]

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... ielik-deal

Contain your excitement.

Feck! he looks about 12 years of age! - So the Yoof Project is still very much On then!

[OneBardGooner]

Brazilian Martin Keown?

That's Not Very Nice Is it!?.

[augie]

Guardian reporting still a long way off with the Paulista deal. We've offered 6m, up to 10m with 'add ons', they want 20m (they are 6th in La Liga so chasing a CL spot), and the work permit situation will be tricky as he's never played at any level for Brazil.
Have to argue the 'exceptional talent', which back-relates to the amount being paid for him as well so under offering counts against.
Might just be an idea to buy a CB who has a EU passport....there are just a few about

Typical Arsenal policy I know in business you have to negotiate and wheel & deal, but football is like no other business - we have a set time frame of which to buy players and because the selling club dont need to sell, the onus is on us to drive the deal forward. I dont know diddly squat about this guy so dont know if he is good enough or not, but if they club believe that he is good enough to play at the top level (as opposed to some second rate cheap crap ) then step up and offer a more realistic price By all accounts we are offering £4m for a player that the shammers value at £8m, and we are offering somewhere between £6m-£8m for a player valued at £20m - we must think that we are buying down at the street markets

Have to say that I cannot understand why he cannot sign a european centre back so he doesnt have to fcuk about with work permits - we need a centre half urgently so surely all those scouts (that work night and day ) can find one that can slot in straight away ? A club of our stature should still be a huge draw for most quality players, so why target cheap and why target players unproven at the top level ?
I see where pubis is still working off his old "I'm not tapping up players but really I am" policy - publicly saying to the media that macmananum (sp ) from wigan is just one of the players that he is trying to sign, is a sure way of letting the player know that he wants him without going to an agent, and all the while he is unsettling said player