Arsenal idol Ian Wright has maintained that the Gunners missed out on Mykhailo Mudryk because of money.
Mikel Arteta’s side lost the transfer battle to Chelsea for the Ukrainian talent, even though he has spent the last few months flirting with a move to the Emirates.
Oleksandr Zinchenko and Mikel Arteta were in touch with the attacker regularly in their bid to convince him to move to the Emirates.
However, Chelsea still hijacked the move, having offered a better financial package to the player and Shakhtar Donetsk.
It was an embarrassing end to the saga and Wright gives his opinion on why the Gunners missed out on a top talent. He said, as quoted by The Sun:
“With the money, it started to get into the realm where it could knock us off our axis in terms of what we’re trying to do. He looks like the kind of guy that would fit into our group.
“I was a bit disappointed but not disappointed that Arsenal went ‘that’s fine’.
“He’s gone there for money, I’m not going to blame him because he’s someone who has had a lot more going on around him personally and in his life.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Mudryk wanted to move to the Emirates, but we were not ready to overpay for his signature, not when Chelsea was prepared to pay silly money
Hopefully, in future, we will act faster to get a coveted talent before another club comes in and hijacks the deal.
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It’s sad that players like Mudryk want the big paydays before they have proved themselves. It’s great to have the money but greed never ends well. Give to get. Mudryk has done nothing to prove himself yet, and life has a knack of equalising. “Things change Kundun”, said Norbu to the Dalai Lama. The only certainty ever is that things change…..and not how we expect.
Mudryk did what every other SANE young man would do! Take the money and run! See football is volatile, it’s not a “traditional” career with a set retirement age of say 60! Kid has only 9 years max to fix his future and that of his family and hangers-on! It’s a no-brainer actually! That said he was class enough to keep Chelsea on hold and let Arsenal make the final decision on the deal Boehly was presenting. That says something about that kid, most players would jump at the offer like Willian did when he was Tottenham-bound! If anything you should BLAME EDU for not coming close to what the Chavs were offering.
I agreed up to the last sentence – do you really think Edu should offer £200k a week for 8.5 years and top the £89m Chelsea offered?
Do you even think he has the only say in that kind of deal?
In my humble opinion, Edu and the club did the right thing in walking away.
In fact I didn’t even like the offer of £62m and reported £37k a week for 4-5 years for an unproven kid who had 12 goals in 72 appearances in Ukraine – and might even end up on long-term sick before he does anything useful.
Well, I disagree with some of your points. To say it was “no-brainer” is preposterous. Whichever deal Mudryk took he was never going to end up a pauper.
At this point Arsenal have a better team than Chelsea. Whilst nothing is guaranteed Arsenal look more like a team that is already on an upward trajectory. If he had joined and was able to maximise his talent he would have been joining one of the most exciting teams in Europe with great chances of silverware.
He would always have opportunities to make more money unless he met with some kind of disaster.
No one wants big payday before having to prove themselve mate, Chelsea offered better terms, and Mudryk ‘s gone for it, they took him in fair and square. What do you want him to do, ask Arsenal to offer the same thing so he could go to there? You can blame Arsenal for not being competitive enough in the transfer market, you can blame Chelsea for wasting their endless money, but it has nothing to do with Mudryk going to somewhere thats offered him better term, you would have done the same thing mate.
Off Topic:
Reported on BBC Sport that the PL footballer who was arrested in July 2022 has just his police bail extended for a third time.
Apparently there’s more than one woman accusing him regarding incidents that occurred on separate occasions.
One of them won’t have any further action taken since the relevant legislation was not in effect at the time the incident is alleged to have occurred. The other is ongoing.
So all that fuss that we thought had died down… hasn’t. 🙁
Hmmm my first attempt at posting the above disappeared into the ether – I thought it may be the use of the R word (what he was accused of) so I took that out… and magically it appears.
Arsenal board don’t want to learn from the past mistakes yet they always cost us title here and there, The list is long but they keep doing the same mistakes and they don’t want to accept it thinking they are going the right direction.
What has the board got to do with it? They don’t identify players or likely sanction signing them. Kroenke sets the budget and Edu signs players in agreement with Arteta. So, please post the list of (recent) mistakes. Btw, Mudryk wasn’t a mistake!