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Did not know where to put this and another Suarez thread. Sorry.

But looking at the maths and the fact that RM don't want him we should now milk it for what we can.

Arsenal have bid £40m+£1. Allegedly they were offering £150k a week to Suarez. How about they offer him £100k a week and save themselves £2.6m a year? They would be offering a 5 year contract minimum. This would give them the £13m or £12,999,999 extra to spend on the transfer fee. If the player is really wanting CL football he has to make some sacrifices. After all we are owed by him in a way. No other club will do that and he will soon find that out in the way Torres did.

Realistically a player getting £150k a week at Arsenal will not work and this would at least give them back control of their wage bill. Then again if they want to pay him more than £100k that is up to them.

So at £53m I would sell him. And they can afford it.

Whilst we agree the sale to them RM may yet come in at the last minute and we flog him to them for less, say £48m, as it is not a rival. We significantly weaken a rival instead of strengthening them.

We still hold all the cards here and I am convinced now he will go.

Don't care how much they want to offer, we don't want to sell to a rival English club...

The transfer fee offered will decide which club Suarez joins ...

Epl rivals or not

I just can't see the sense in selling Suarez to Arsenal, they're the only team in the top four we're anywhere near in terms of quality and we should be looking at overtaking them for fourth position, not strengthening them out our detriment. I'd rather we just refused to sell Suarez at any price to Arsenal. If Suarez is going to leave, it must be to a club outside of the premier league.

Ie Suarez sale to a club outside the epl....

Gooners offer 40m+

European team offers 30m max

Money talks in football

Yup.

You tell em King

I wouldnt sell to Arsenal unless it was 45M+ and one of there star players. I would rather lose out on a few million and him go to Madrid.

But they've never spent anywhere near that money. The question, for me, is less about the amount and more about the "one of a kind" transfer this is being billed as. I've already betted with a friend that he won't join Arsenal, and the thing I'd have to do involves green dye and an episode of Ray Donovan, but until they sign someone for £20M+, I really just don't believe they will spend it with AW in charge.

If they want to give us 60 million, or 40 million and Cazorla, fine. Otherwise, no thanks. There is no sense in strengthening our rival.