Will Higuain transfer actually happen?

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[Rich]

[Q - Honorary Q8E]

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:-)

[Ciaran]

the day AW actually pays >20M, is the day I take him seriously.

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I take more note of him than I do the Sun journos claims - that turn out to be a pack of lies.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

You'd think Higuain's father might have a pretty good clue about what was going on as well, no?

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talk though is cheap and it fills in time until the season starts.

[redgunamo]

Then, Sr. Perez (and Wenger, come to that) can still say "there has been no official contact/bid."

Happens all the time.

[redgunamo]

[Chief Arrowhead]

perhaps Vermaelen + Arteta + Cash.

[Ciaran]

Top clubs are not going to sell their best players on the cheap. And we shouldn't expect them too. Wenger would not sell Jack for less than 20M. Double standard imo.

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Agents have been known to make things up to suit their own agenda.
Anyway,what senor Higuain said proved to be wrong,as Big Chief would say,him talk with forked tongue.

[Rich]

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and he doesn't do signings like that.

[redgunamo]

He has surprised us before :-)

[Bergkamp's Brain]

My fear is that Chelsea and Man City are losing out on their number one targets (Cavani, Falcao etc) and they will start sniffing around our targets, thus forcing us out of the running, leaving us with fewer and weaker players to fight for.

Why bid for Suarez? He is a great player, of course, but he still has 8 games of a ban to serve. Why would any English club want to buy a suspended player? Jannuary, maybe, but not now. Of course this might be a PR exercise, in which case most people will see through it should we fail to lure anyone of note to the club, while sticking in unrealistic offers for players we don't really want, will speaks volumes about who we really are.

Gazidis was very bullish about our capabilities to be more competitive with the bigger spenders earlier in the summer. He cannot really afford to come up short on his statement. If we are left faffing about in the transfer window come late August for some last minute bargains, there will be even less belief and more anger around that we a) have the ability to be a big club competing for the big prizes and b) have a board with enough credibility to run the football club as a football club and not a profit making commodity. Of course no-one wants the future of the club to be put at risk.

[Peter]

I doubt we are going to splash 50or 60 million this summer. I would expect a gradual increase in the balance of our spending.

There is the other possibility that the big names we are after simply dont want to come.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

If we do want the big kit deals and sponsorship deals then we do need to be up there in the limelight.

Of course, if top players simply do not want to join us then we have a much bigger mountain to climb.