Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:PrezIke wrote:Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:He could have forced this through, if he doesn't he can fuck off in the future .Wouldn't touch him with a Gallup poll, let alone a bargepole.
How could he have do you think?
Reports are he told his mates he was coming to us, and now that we will look to sign him on a free over the summer.
Put in a transfer request springs to mind.
Okay. Responded to PP a bit earlier today about why I don't see how that gives any indication it would have changed things. He wrote:
PeterParker wrote:
So done deal, he is staying.
From this moment on, if we will go again after him, if we are willing to pay more than 1 pound for his services to Arsenal, then we really are a bunch of retards that have no idea how football works. This is the second time we missed him, or maybe the third if we tend to listen to the rumours that said we were after him when he chose Arsenal.
3 times.
Enough.
Either we get him free, or we leave him the fuck alone. He is clearly not that interested in joining us, even that cunt Cuntinho sent a transfer request. For Sanchez nothing. Imho, he could had played a part in the saga if he was really determined to be here.
He was not. Fuck him. We need players that want to be here, that are prepared to take a pay cut to play for a club like ours. We are the most consistent club in the last 6 years in England (never missed top 4) and you still chose Arsenal? Fuck off.
Next.
My reply to Coutinho being a "c***":
PrezIke wrote:
Hasn't helped VVD or Coutinho has it?
If he didn't really want to come to us, why did he turn down multiple offers from other clubs (Bayern, PSG, Chelsea) for more money, including from Arsenal?
He explained it might wind up for Coutinho, and said the other clubs were just rumours. But that hasn't happened yet, and Liverpool are likely only going to sell now that they have replacements. I also said that all of those clubs surely wanted him as he is a world class player. He refused to move to them for more money, and PSG wound up with Mbappe, so they didn't need Alexis anymore.
The issue is that Arsenal did not get a replacement. They tried for Lemar but he doesn't want to come to a club in EL (makes sense given Monaco are in CL). Apparently some Arsenal players tried to convince him today but he still wouldn't give in.
They left it late, so not sure how Alexis would have been able to "force" them to do anything. He wanted to come here and that's beyond clear to everyone, even Ian Wright who went mad on twitter today complaining about keeping Alexis and not selling, even if they don't get a replacement because they won't spend the money and now they have a very unhappy player and will get nothing in return.
Again, hard to see how a transfer request would have done anything to change things other than make Alexis look worse to the media and fans. He's shown more class than the others about the move, not publicly making the request. Isn't it a huge issue for whingers that players "don't honour their contracts" in such a public manner? We all know the answer to that one, and Alexis did not go there, nor would have seemed to have done he nor us much good.