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Do we all agree that this was just a pr stunt from fsg.......

No

Monaco asked arsenal for £52mil (€60m) but then sold their entire squad and made 17billion.

I think we were interested. Hence the £55mil bid. He would have been a coutinho replacement. If we had bid £65mil at the start of the window he would be playing for us. But at the same time. He wouldn't have come until we had CL football.

After selling everyone they could ask for whatever fee they wanted. As they don't want or need to sell him.

They then said £92mil (€100m) thinking no one would pay it. Arsenal bid. It was accepted. But he rejected it saying he'd prefer a move to Liverpool or a CL club.

No PR stunt. Just one of a hundred failed transfers. I'd say it was a stunt if we bid for Messi. But Lemar was attainable.

90mil for a player that cost 4mil last year is a lot of money.

He's a really good player but that's a ridiculous amount. Especially after they asked for £52m at the start of the window.

I think he highest we bid for Keita was 66m, so not sure where you've got that we were willing to spend over 90m? He's also cost us more than 48m as we had to pay a premium to get the deal done, so that saving of 50m you've come up with is a massive overstatement (by about 35-40m).

I agree though that had we got Lemar and sold Coutinho it would have worked for everyone, but is Lemar worth anywhere near 90m? I'd never even heard of him before this (that could just be my lack of familiarity with the French league)

IMO if we were going to bid 90m for anyone it should have been for Van Dyke as that would have strengthened our team the most

Is it not better to keep Coutinho? Must say I am not sure as the latter really wants to move. Not getting a CB is a mess.