General/Non-Spurs Transfers

[TheChosenOne]

Yep. confirmed.



Mesut Ozil has ended months of speculation over his future by signing a new three-and-a-half-year contract to remain at Arsenal until the summer of 2021.

The 29-year-old playmaker becomes the highest-paid player in the club’s history - earning around £350,000 per week before tax - in a deal completed this morning.

Ozil would have been a free agent at the end of the season and was able to speak to foreign clubs from 1 January, but Arsenal tied him to fresh terms after lengthy negotiations.

An agreement was finally reached last weekend and the Germany international put pen to paper at Arsenal’s London Colney training ground earlier today.

It will potentially see Ozil’s career with the Gunners extend to eight years, having joined from Real Madrid in 2013 for a then club record £42.4m, and take him to the age of 32.

The 2014 World Cup winner has registered 36 goals in 182 appearances and is statistically among the most prolific creators of scoring opportunities in European football.

All along he wanted to be 'Top Johnny' He must have had that in his sights for quite some time.

Looking at Sky Germany - they also have a busty big arsed treacle in a skin tight yellow dress... Phwoar !

 

[Ekmek]

£350,000 per week…Jesus

£60,000 more than Pogba.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Arsenal do some funny business. Did they really have to pay Ozil 350k pw to keep him ? Especially having just got Mikhitaryan in ? Who else was going to offer him anything remotely close to that ?

Aubamayang's a very good forward, but 60m and no doubt very big wages for a 28yo with questionable attitude when you have just bought Lacazette ?

All very good players but not exactly the most logical business ever ?

 

[Spurrific]

Arsenal do some funny business. Did they really have to pay Ozil 350k pw to keep him ? Especially having just got Mikhitaryan in ? Who else was going to offer him anything remotely close to that ?

Aubamayang's a very good forward, but 60m and no doubt very big wages for a 28yo with questionable attitude when you have just bought Lacazette ?

All very good players but not exactly the most logical business ever ?

Especially when their defence and central midfield is shit, with a past-it Cech in goal.

 

[Ekmek]

Arsenal do some funny business. Did they really have to pay Ozil 350k pw to keep him ? Especially having just got Mikhitaryan in ? Who else was going to offer him anything remotely close to that ?

Aubamayang's a very good forward, but 60m and no doubt very big wages for a 28yo with questionable attitude when you have just bought Lacazette ?

All very good players but not exactly the most logical business ever ?

Sadly enough there change in transfer policy will probably make them better.

 

[spursfan77]

Arsenal do some funny business. Did they really have to pay Ozil 350k pw to keep him ? Especially having just got Mikhitaryan in ? Who else was going to offer him anything remotely close to that ?

Aubamayang's a very good forward, but 60m and no doubt very big wages for a 28yo with questionable attitude when you have just bought Lacazette ?

All very good players but not exactly the most logical business ever ?

The funny thing is, wenger would have sanctioned all that. Doesn’t sound like a man who is leaving th club anytime soon.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

I think Arsenal have sadly done excellent business this window.

Ruthlessly (unlike Wenger) identified that Lacazette wasn’t going to cut the mustard and replaced him with a WC forward, kept Ozil (the money is barely even relevant at this stage - his wages will be less than the fee they’d have to pay to bring someone in as good as him).

HM is a decent bonus. Not a top player but better than Walcott.

They lost Sanchez, but that was inevitable.

 

[rocklink]

So Arsenal got LMAO ....

 

[danielneeds]

We should have a betting pool set up on how long it’s going to be until the first pictures of Aubameyang stood on the halfway line, hands on hips, thinking to himself, “what the fuck is going on back there?”

 

[Ekmek]

I think Arsenal have sadly done excellent business this window.

Ruthlessly (unlike Wenger) identified that Lacazette wasn’t going to cut the mustard and replaced him with a WC forward, kept Ozil (the money is barely even relevant at this stage - his wages will be less than the fee they’d have to pay to bring someone in as good as him).

HM is a decent bonus. Not a top player but better than Walcott.

They lost Sanchez, but that was inevitable.

I guess that Walcott + Coquelin + Giroud financed PEA. So business wise I don’t believe they have spent so much.

Mikhataryan and Sanchez a straight swap.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

I guess that Walcott + Coquelin + Giroud financed PEA. So business wise I don’t believe they have spent so much.

Mikhataryan and Sanchez a straight swap.

And they’re undoubtedly in a better position than they were in December (Ozil and Sanchez both running down contracts, flop striker, Walcott useless etc.)

 

[rocklink]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5465383/arsenal-late-move-schalke-max-meyer/

And they are signing max meyer as well

 

[tiger666]

Their net spend this season is about £13m

 

[Ekmek]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5465383/arsenal-late-move-schalke-max-meyer/

And they are signing max meyer as well

Well as long as they ignore the defence they fixed nothing.

 

[Cornpattbuck]

And they’re undoubtedly in a better position than they were in December (Ozil and Sanchez both running down contracts, flop striker, Walcott useless etc.)

We'll see. Their class is very top heavy with every chance that Lacazette and Aubamayang might rub each other up the wrong way. The rest of their squad is wafer thin and injury prone.

 

[Cornpattbuck]

Their net spend this season is about £13m

I'd forgotten how much they got for AOC! Considering the circumstances, they've done well to switch things around to this point. We'll see if it gels...

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Their net spend this season is about £13m

I would imagine their wage bill has taken a substantial hike though, no ?

I'm guessing PEA would have demanded big wages, Miky what 150k pw ?, Ozil and his 64m wages, and didn't someone said they are paying Lacazette something like 170k pw I think ?

 

[tiger666]

I would imagine their wage bill has taken a substantial hike though, no ?

I'm guessing PEA would have demanded big wages, Miky what 150k pw ?, Ozil and his 64m wages, and didn't someone said they are paying Lacazette something like 170k pw I think ?

Probably but they've let Sanchez, Chamberlain, Gibbs, Walcott, Coquelin, Szczesny go. I bet that's a hefty chunk of wage.

 

[TheChosenOne]

I'd forgotten how much they got for AOC! Considering the circumstances, they've done well to switch things around to this point. We'll see if it gels...

They'll need Champions League money or they will need another fire sale of surplus players next year - the pennies from the Europa and loss of revenue from the lack of an FA Cup run will hurt.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

We'll see. Their class is very top heavy with every chance that Lacazette and Aubamayang might rub each other up the wrong way. The rest of their squad is wafer thin and injury prone.

They’ve still got big problems, but they’ve done good business in this window.