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Erm, Chile didn't qualify.
Or you could argue they trade one player that does not want to play for Arsenal for another player that does not want to play for Arsenal. Congrats you gave Alexis a contract extension.
Yeah, laugh away… We bought him for a reason!Excel??? Mkhitaryan???
Alexis has been a little disappointing this season but the problem could be (in part) that Chile didn’t qualify for the World Cup. Who knows what effect it had but we know that his national team is very important to him. Keeping him was always a gamble but if Chile had qualified it might have come off.
Dont want to click. What are the 2 fronts?
Ignore this guy, Mkhi. London is wonderful. In fact, it's sunny here. Probably raining like crap in rubbish Manchester.
I'm convinced Mkhitaryan won't mind playing for Arsenal and Wenger and their type of football favours him. He might be worried if they don't get more good players, but if he even gets a raise…
Sanchez and his own contract.
Not me. He’s had chance after chance. FFS, Shaw was being pilloried on here for having s serious injury. Why is Mkhi getting the sympathy vote
Ah thanks
Never liked Mkhitarayan as a player here tbh,since day 1 really...always felt he was in the Di Maria mould that hed buckle with a little criticism and pressure. hes not the sort of character in a player that appeals to me.
Anyway youd have to feel sorry for him he's been basically forced into a situation where he can either go somewhere he probably has no interest in being part of a rebuilding job or stay and be lauded here as not only a major failure as a signing but the sole reason we couldn't get a top 5 player in the league.
Wages and all aside its a pretty sh1t situation to be in
Anyway youd have to feel sorry for him he's been basically forced into a situation where he can either go somewhere he probably has no interest in being part of a rebuilding job or stay and be lauded here as not only a major failure as a signing but the sole reason we couldn't get a top 5 player in the league.
Wages and all aside its a pretty sh1t situation to be in
More than anything they want their player to be winning. They've been urging him to move from Arsenal and we could get the same treatment soon if we don't win the PL or CL soon. He's already wasted years at Arsenal.
If Raiola proposed the idea, which he may have considering Mikhitaryan is out of favour and his client, then I see no reason why this won't go through. It's their idea so the obviously want the move.
Just read some quotes from Mikhitaryan from 2009 saying Arsenal are his team and he wants to play for them one day.
It'll happen.
Just read some quotes from Mikhitaryan from 2009 saying Arsenal are his team and he wants to play for them one day.
It'll happen.
I've often wondered why there aren't more swap deals, not so much now....
Mkhi's training today according to MEN - so probably best not to expect any news too soon.
Why not? If I remember correctly, when we signed RvP, he was pulled from a training session. Plus it'll be his agent doing the negotiating. Mourinho would likely have him do light training to make sure he doesn't get injured
If we do get him, it'll a statement of intent by us. I didn't think this time last week that we would be talking about him potentially joining us.
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People feel sorry for Mkhi? Arsenal is a great option for him, would he rather be approached by 2nd or 3rd tier German clubs in the summer? Because we sure would look to sell him
Nothing new? Was hoping he is at least doing his medical!
Is Mkhi to Arsenal a more natural fit than Sanchez to us?
What was that tweet about?
Is that Mkhi on the right? He sure is multi talented.
Depends on the support he gets at Arsenal. I feel we have the more well rounded and suited players to Sanchez's style whereas at Arsenal, with the exception of Ozil, I'm not sure who else complements Mkhi well. Auba coming in might change that though. Not a huge fan of Lacazette and I haven't watched enough of the likes of Iwobi to really add more.
Yep, and Falcao next to him.
I still can't get over the fact this is going to be a swap deal when it goes through. Insanely good deal for us 
Anyone else getting nervous? Thought we'd have some news by now - or am i just impatient?
The latter. Nothing to worry about!
in all fairness all transfer seem to take ages, pretty much every transfer not done on transfer deadline day seems to be... this person is gonna sign in the next 24 hours then two weeks later where still waiting.
Can't remember the last time a swap deal happened. Ashley Cole and Gallas? Even back then Arsenal got mugged off.
Best trade deal ever if Lord Woody pulls this one off.
Best trade deal ever if Lord Woody pulls this one off.
I agree. And they're not stupid enough to think Arsenal would just make him their highest paid player without argument. They're just playing hard-ball atm, trying to squeeze as much as they can.
TBF, if you'd asked Arsenal 18 months ago if they'd sign him on a free (which he effectively is, given that Sanchez will go for nothing in 6 months if this doesn't happen) on higher wages than anybody else in their squad, they'd have happily done so. I know he's not had a great time since, but he's still the same guy! I reckon he can expect to be right up there amongst their best paid.
We damn nearly had one for De Gea and Navas!
We've just entered the Raiola posturing phase, nothing to worry about imo.
31st January 11pm - thats when it will be announced - if at all
But what about pep?
Lord I really dislike journalists but I'm making an exception for Mr Sepulveda after this legendary quote
This may sound OTT but you should add your name on the t-shirt of the manatory Jones appearance in each video. It wouldn’t interfere with the viewing and would actually be pretty funny. Almost like Jones is being endorsed by you to turn up.I usually just put my username on the side so it doesn't interfere with viewing the GIF but it's easy to crop it out. I don't mind if they just share them without cropping my username out.
Anyway, sorry for derailing the thread, back to muppeting
Is it just me being a Utd fan, and only really paying attention to our transfers, or do we seem to take forever to get a transfer wrapped up? All other clubs seem to do it in a couple of days, yet our whole process just seems so long.
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