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In terms of transfer fees received, by the time the window ends I would imagine they would've brought in well over £100m

The only two realistically that would be able to afford him are Juventus and possibly Napoli. Juventus have Vlahović and want to bring back Kolo Muani. Albeit the former has been linked with a move away this summer. Napoli need to move on Osimhen, but will still have Lukaku - although he's...

It's not an easy decision and given his record, and really the lack of available strikers currently out there which aren't being touted for £100m+, they'll want to maximise the fee within the realms of what they deem as realistic. However, lets be honest we live in an age where more often than...

Difficult really with the stance he and Sporting have taken though. He clearly wants to leave and I think he'll push through a move.

Isn't it fairly obvious what the question marks are? Doubts around his ability to translate his form in a fairly significantly inferior league to the PL, he's 27 and therefore has no real room for further development and his price tag is being deemed as inflated.

From what I've heard Sesko has always been Arsenal's primary target since last summer. Things can of course change at the drop of a hat in a transfer window, but I'd be very surprised if he ended up there.

Yeah I mean I'm sure they're probably trying to sell as many players which are surplus to requirements. But I'm more playing devils advocate in that it doesn't necessarily mean he'll 100% leave before 30th June - like I said they need to make a big money sale so that will be their priority.

To an extent. The drug baron's son was picking their transfers in the first couple of windows which is why they wasted so much money on crap. I'd rather we went into it with a bit more of a strategic focus as it could've gone terribly for them.

He was signed for the U23s really but Bouwe Bosma was a weird one. To the point where even he didn't seem to understand why we were interested.

His fee would make little difference to PSR really. It looks like they need to make a significant sale to ensure they comply - i.e. Martinez.

It was that era where bringing in ginormous strikers was the in thing. John Parkin, Zidic, Márkó Futács, Darius Henderson etc. Even now I could see why we signed him.

The lack of intel this summer won't be a coincidence. DK clearly is a stickler for keeping information in-house and for leaks to be kept at a minimum. Wouldn't be shocked if either of the above don't get much, if any, information passed on anymore.

He did play for us as I remember him being in goal as he was absolutely tiny and couldn't catch. Pretty sure he converted into a defender.

As terrible as he was, there's no chance he was worse. At least Brown somewhat lingered in and around L1 for a few seasons afterwards.

It might have been the Bury game I was at then. I was sure it was his debut though. Either way, even with all the dross we've had over the past couple of decades there's probably only a handful of players that have genuinely looked that lost on a football pitch and he's one of them.

Two times two many. He categorically was the worst centre back I've ever seen play at the club. On his debut it was genuinely like he'd had a make a wish granted to play in a professional football match. I've never seen a player in any position look so terrible on the ball.

I very much doubt that. Clubs sending their young players out on loan will inevitably expect them to receive consistent game time so using them as squad filler won't really be an option. I think anyone brought in on loan will probably have a fairly prominent role in the squad.

Kevin Malaga was possibly the worst CB I've ever seen play at the club.

Yeah, individually I would agree it's not a dreadful offering, the issue is when it's spread over a 23 game season and you're having to justify it game by game. On the midweek night matches for example, that for me is where you would lose a lot of the value.

I was speaking to a friend recently who's fairly close with one of the Directors at Arsenal. They were never even in for him last summer. Sesko was always their No.1. target but that got scuppered when he signed a new deal.