Bild ran a story yesterday saying we've offered him €20m a year and Bayern won't match it.
Yes. The worry is the difference between what we've offered and what they've offered isn't massive.
We are actually offering him crazy money, desperate money. It will come back to haunt us, especially if he gets injured. It's oligarch-owned club type of offer except we all know our owner is the most penny-pinching oligarch in history.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Alexis has often been fantastic but for what we are offering him we could have three good or very good players if we shop around cleverly.
Now if Usmanov was in charge you might say it would be our new normal but I fear all this will do is create discontent amongst the rest of the squad and curtail the chances of further major signings.