Marseille’s insistence on signing Eddie Nketiah in this transfer window looks like it will pay off, as the French club seems extremely keen to make him their Number Nine, but it appears that Arteta and Edu are still nowhere near agreeing with OM on the terms of the deal.
With Roberto de Zerbi as the coach now, Marseille expects to challenge for the French Ligue 1 title this season and it is natural that he wants to do his shopping in the Premier League, and of course Arsenal and Marseille have a great recent history of doing business that has worked out for the French giants.
But it seems that yet again, they have not matched Arsenal’s terms, as Fabrizio Romano revealed in his Daily Breifing on CaughtOffside this morning:… Arsenal reject a new proposal from Olympique Marseille for Eddie Nketiah. Understand the proposal is in the region of €27m but was still considered not enough to let Eddie leave. OM agreed personal terms with Nketiah but still no agreement with the Gunners.
Sometimes I just wish Arsenal could finalise all their transfer deals earlier, especially as it was suggested this morning that Arsenal simply cannot confirm any new arrivals at the club until it is certain that our sales are going through.
This makes sense of course as we can only have so many players in our squad, but why do I keep getting this niggling worry that everyone will be trying to argue about every penny right up until the final hour of the transfer window?
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The latest report about this on TBR is from Fabrizio Romano:
“Marseille agree to sign Youssoufa Moukoko after bidding for Eddie Nketiah”
So, it looks like Arsenal have shot themselves in the foot by demanding too high a fee for a player that had only one club interested in him! As is often the case, other alternatives are available, and OM appear to have gone for one of these.
Arsenal is apparently now stuck with Eddie until/unless another club shows any interest. Let’s hope Arsenal lean the lesson from this and moderate their fee demands if there’s very limited interest in a player that they need to sell.
Actually I was hoping other clubs learned from this when they want Arsenal players in the future. Still plenty of time left in the window. btw, I don’t know if it’s true but there were reports a little while back that Palace was interested. I believe other clubs will still be seeking an experienced PL striker. Just because OM didn’t want to come up with the funds doesn’t mean another will not. I assume that Edu knows the most about the market that’s out there. Let’s see what he can get done.
I hope so and we’ll see. I think the point still stands if there are no other interested parties though.
I think the closer you get to 31 August deals become riskier as a hitch can scupper the whole thing (as I recall from AW’s days). I imagine Edu will want to complete most business before we get into the last ten days or so if at all possible.
Don’t remind me of those last minute deals and no deals. Both exciting and painful at the same time. 🤣
Let the kid go, banished by the fan base, for his decent weekly salary, a change of scenery could be just what the doctor ordered for the young Englishman.
Eddie will ultimately be somewhere else and be fine as he is a very very good player. imo, he’s just never been able to go beyond being on the cusp of being what we need in the middle. I wish him well as he has always tried to be a great soldier to the cause.
Great news. About time we start playing hardball with these lowly offers. More offers will come, and if not, Nketiah stays as THIRD choice forward.
If he has bent down and accepted stupidly low 23m WITH add-ons, clubs would continue to exploit our weakness and won’t be long when we will start receiving lowly 50 million offers for Saka or Saliba.
Arteta refuses low ball offers.
Players that he is happy to keep that have not demanded a transfer will be priced at their max value.
Believe it or not Arteta values Nketiah at £35m to £50m. £35m to include a hefty sell on percentage up to £50m with no sell on percentage.
These players like Nketiah and Ramsdale are part of Arteta’s prime sub chosen 6 that he will use and he finds them still useful. They are not fringe players, he will use them.
Hence the £50m take it or leave it price tag for Ramsdale and Nketiah as Arteta is happy to keep them rather than take a low ball offers. He may compromise on price or structure in the add ons, but not with ridiculous low ball offers. We have to get rid of that reputation.
Well said.
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Absolutely. You are spot on
👍thanks, I think the majority of fans are thinking the same, that we need to get rid of that low ball acceptance reputation.
I was very pleased with this update. About high time we set the tone for low ball offers. That has been ongoing far too long. Even the fans wants a change of this outlook. All we need do is get behind the team and the club. I am arsenal true n true
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We’ll have to see if this was a mistake or not but it’s looking like we should’ve taken it. This is our third choice striker that doesn’t get games anymore and only scored in 3 matches last season. And let’s not forget he’s somehow on 100k. With such a high salary you have to be okay with a lower transfer fee. Seems Marseille has rightly moved on. Now we have to hope an EPL clubs is interested and will even match the 27mill. Truth is we HAVE to get Eddie off the books to improve this squad