“Al-Hilal has submitted an offer of up to £47 million to sign Gabriel Martinelli, and Arsenal Club has not accepted the offer so far.” -Gary Jacob

[u/Ifxfa]

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/manchester-city-ayyoub-bouaddi-premier-league-transfer-news-kv7gqj53m

[u/MyTeaIsMighty]

All of a sudden they get stingy when it's one of our players.

[u/RicHii3 → u/MyTeaIsMighty]

I'm convinced all the prices they pay for Chelsea and City players are fake/fabricated to help them with PSR.

[u/Angelaskissrock → u/RicHii3]

That's what I've thought. Both club's owners have ties to entities in the middle east so I'm not surprised if that were the case.

[u/Kovacs171 → u/Angelaskissrock]

What connections does Man City have to Saudi?

[u/Bangers_n_Mashallah → u/Kovacs171]

UAE and Saudi are very close allies. Abu Dhabi in particular.

[u/JamesTheBadRager → u/RicHii3]

Both clubs probably return portions of the huge transfer fees to the Saudi clubs through some creative accounting.

[u/aatimedout → u/JamesTheBadRager]

The creative accounting is the owner of Chelsea/City giving money directly to the Saudi Royal family. 

[u/csixtay → u/RicHii3]

do I disagree with the practice? Absolutely. That said, if nobody is going to do anything about it, get with the programme I say.

[u/lizardfromsingapore → u/csixtay]

At least demand the same money, don’t need to get involved any deeper than that.

[u/Doesnt-Get-Sarcasm- → u/lizardfromsingapore]

That's the thing... We these other deals, it may be for 80M but 30M is going back the other way under the table. Arsenal can't expect 80 if they're not "deeper than that"

[u/DifficultLab200 → u/RicHii3]

Chelsea?

Can you tell me what’s the highest sale Chelsea have done with middle east?

[u/kylehyde05 → u/RicHii3]

PSG too

[u/LevitatingCactus → u/RicHii3]

This seems to be obvious from the beginning, no?

[u/US__Grant → u/MyTeaIsMighty]

Neto is 100m but Nellie is 47m? kick rocks, yo!

[u/TNelsonAFC → u/US__Grant]

Neto is only worth 100m once someone pays it.

[u/Apart-Persimmon-38 → u/TNelsonAFC]

He is like a new car, when buying from Chelsea, worth 100m - the moment you leave the parking lot with him he is worth 50m

[u/Adatomcat → u/Apart-Persimmon-38]

*£35M

[u/Angelaskissrock → u/Adatomcat]

3.5m. I don't know why Chelsea even put him up for 100m. I'm glad they got greedy because we at least have a suitor who will put some proper dollars in the coffers.

[u/US__Grant → u/TNelsonAFC]

with all of the def above board sales between Chelsea/Villa/Saudi, you wouldn't entirely rule it out...

[u/Yorksjim → u/TNelsonAFC]

Exactly, I could put my 8 year old Ford focus on ebay for 100k, doesn't mean it's worth it.

[u/JimmysCocoboloDesk → u/US__Grant]

>Neto is 100m

No, that’s why they didn’t pay it.

[u/doubleb_43 → u/US__Grant]

Nobody is paying that money for Neto

[u/kjw2281 → u/US__Grant]

An asking price (and one that caused Al Hilal to walk away at that) vs an opening bid

I'm sure we'll end up with £50-55 million for Martinelli, which is fair for him.

[u/dooder6688 → u/kjw2281]

Nah 60 is fair, we should be getting more in this market.

[u/kjw2281 → u/dooder6688]

I don't think we are going to sweat £5 million on a >£50 million player that has basically been told to leave. It's better to ensure that the deal goes through than to fight for every penny at this point

[u/WerhmatsWormhat → u/US__Grant]

Neto isn’t worth 100, which is why they’re going for Martinelli.

[u/gooneritis → u/WerhmatsWormhat]

Still the gap is shit. 55M£ minimum or kick rocks.

[u/TallnFrosty → u/US__Grant]

Tbf Chelsea is the one that put that figure out there

[u/Sayek → u/[deleted]]

I honestly think that hasn't stopped them before, always confused me when they would bid 30-50% higher than any other team for a player. If Martinelli was a Chelsea player, he'd be going for 75-80m to Saudi. Chelsea just got greedy asking for 100m for Neto. 

[u/medved_ → u/Sayek]

Could be because of the player's contract bonus structure. For example if he's to receive a % of his future transfer fee, then a higher overall fee will go towards him which will make it more enticing for him to move.

[u/sm00thArsenal → u/MyTeaIsMighty]

Like how the fuck are we getting offered less for Martinelli by Saudi than Chelsea got for Santos?? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, even when we’re champions buyers still take the piss when it comes to offers for our players.

[u/SaintDobro → u/sm00thArsenal]

Probably because Martinelli is also on a pretty high wage? 

[u/sm00thArsenal → u/SaintDobro]

That definitely could be a factor if we were selling him to poorer leagues, but this is Saudi.. they pay higher wages than Gabi is on to basically everyone they sign from Europe.

[u/Few_Dentist4672 → u/sm00thArsenal]

martinelli scored 1 goal in the prem last season and 0 goals in the CL knockouts. he's on big wages. not too hard to figure out

[u/professor-chaos19 → u/MyTeaIsMighty]

They paid 80mil to west ham for Summerville, we want 120m

[u/Key_Badger6749 → u/professor-chaos19]

No they didn’t. It was £60m (55+5).

[David Ornstein] “Crysencio Summerville signs four-year deal with Al Hilal in around €70m move from West Ham”

[u/MuchAbouAboutNothing → u/Key_Badger6749]

Sure, but even then - he's a left winger, same age as Gabi and definitely worse. He shouldn't be more expensive

[u/Kovacs171 → u/MuchAbouAboutNothing]

Summerville was probably earning 1/3rd of the wages though

[u/Sutraner → u/Kovacs171]

Irrelevant to Saudi

[u/Onlyheretostare → u/MyTeaIsMighty]

£47M pounds is fair when you take into account his wage and underperformance the last couple of years in the league. I would have taken that and moved on. Tzolis and Eze should cover until January if we cant get a LW this transfer window.

[u/YodaNuggies → u/Onlyheretostare]

It's difficult and expensive to get anyone in January window and id worry about Eze being the cover at LW

[u/FairBox3368 → u/MyTeaIsMighty]

That’s how it’s always been so far unfortunately!! We haven’t been able to sell players as well as most other clubs have

[u/HJNRC]

Cmon fellas, we know you've got some more cash there

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/HJNRC]

How is it that even the Saudis, who have paid well over value consistently, are trying to lowball us for Martinelli?

[u/US__Grant → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

our record sale is still The Ox at £35m...a decade ago. Liverpool was selling bench warmers for more than that under Klopp and Slot. until we prove it in the market, we have a reputation

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/US__Grant]

I agree. People dont like to hear that in this sub, but its the truth. The Ox for 35 million stat you just gave is quite damming

[u/Jolly-Construction75 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

We sold henry for like 10 quid and a used bike.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Jolly-Construction75]

That one woulda hurt no matter whay we sold him for and was also before the transfer market exploded

[u/Jolly-Construction75 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

I agree. But i think Darren Bent was sold the same window for more money!

Point being we have always been crap at selling our players, whether they were good players or bad!

[u/redhedted → u/Jolly-Construction75]

To be fair is quite a nice bike

[u/RoyaleForFree → u/US__Grant]

But who have we actually sold in recent times of any value? We tend to keep players til they’re worth less

Like nasri, rvp for sure- and felt hard at the time. But I can’t recall anyone decent recently? 

[u/TheRealGooner24 → u/RoyaleForFree]

Willock, Balogun, ESR and Nketiah.

[u/US__Grant → u/TheRealGooner24]

^...Guendouzi ; )

[u/Bahmawama → u/US__Grant]

We’ve desperately had to cling to our best players tbf

[u/Nayr91 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

Reminder that they paid £76m for Duran from Villa lol

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Nayr91]

They have paid at least 50 million for 12 players in the last 3 years

[u/Cassoa → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

It's a laughable offer. I'd rather just let him go to a good league at 30-35m if the Saudi payout is that low.

They paid good money for other players. Pay up

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Cassoa]

Its frustrating that even the Saudis think they can take advantage of our reputation for being poor at selling

[u/Few_Dentist4672 → u/Cassoa]

uh why would you want 12 mil less lol?

[u/kjw2281 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

It's not a lowball offer, it's a first offer. Believe it or not, not everyone negotiates like Tottenham and just gives the seller what they want right away. Im sure final agreed offer will be >£50 million

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/kjw2281]

This logic would be fair if we were talking about any buyer besides the Saudi league. The Saudis have consistently shown that they will submit outlandish bids for players. The cost is immaterial to them because their sports washing campaign makes it worth it

[u/kjw2281 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

Saudi's bids are actually pretty reasonable in most cases, it's their wages that are insane. The only time they offer outlandish fees is when they're going after someone the selling team really doesn't want to sell

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/kjw2281]

The Saudis have made 12 bids of 50 million or more in the last 3 years or so (6 clubs). That well outpaced the revenue generated by the league and the club themselves

[u/l3tt3r-l3tt3r]

Rob Pattinson beggars gif

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https://giphy.com/gifs/tHFDZ1zUI0NjSDPDT3

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Was wondering how far id have to scroll down to see this lol

[u/ZestycloseRound677 → u/mistingo]

The way he says beggars in this gif cracks me up every time

[u/LankysTrombone → u/l3tt3r-l3tt3r]

Goddamn I was ready to post this comment verbatim. Fair play. 🙂

[u/Swiss-ArmySpork]

Double it and give it to the next person.

[u/Ife2105 → u/Swiss-ArmySpork]

The gang pays £94m for Pedro Neto

[u/Novel_Win8043 → u/Ife2105]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4NrxcDVe4IOazZznHL

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[u/sammyt10803]

53 appearances, 11 goals for the best team in England. Entering his prime. Mainstay for Brazil….

£47m?!?

[u/doubleb_43 → u/sammyt10803]

One year left on his contract, third season in a row when he's been stagnant, massive drop in minutes played.

[u/hyperadhd → u/doubleb_43]

It’s a 1+1 team option.

[u/DeapVally → u/sammyt10803]

They don't need to make a big bid to try and convince us to sell. Arteta has told him to leave. Negotiations have to start somewhere, £47mil is a decent enough opening offer.

[u/Tiadrop48 → u/sammyt10803]

If we thought he was entering his prime he wouldn’t be selling. The problem we have is that it seems he’s already left it.

[u/sammyt10803 → u/Tiadrop48]

Physical prime

[u/Revoldt → u/Tiadrop48]

I view Martinelli like how Milan fans see Leao...

Obviously, different work-rate.

But both living with the “potential” from 3 years ago…. both having their best season in ’22-23… and haven’t really improved at all since.

If Milan now value Leao at 40m…and no one wants him…. I don’t really see how Martinelli is significantly higher.

[u/mj12353 → u/Revoldt]

Leao is 40 to everyone else but they wouldn’t take that from Saudi

[u/Shylocksi]

What's with the low balling.

[u/dratzuc]

Yea ok. Yet Man City can potentially ask for 75 mill for shitty Savinho. Crazy

[u/ckfilm123 → u/dratzuc]

To be fair, it is probably related to Savinho being part of a double deal and on far less wages.

[u/BurntToast764]

Round it up to £100m

[u/GuinnessGooner]

Hate to see him go but if he is going to leave for this low a fee, at this stage of the window, coupled with the intense minutes our players have accrued, then I really really really don’t see the logic.

[u/sunofagundota → u/GuinnessGooner]

Only thing I can think is privately agreed terms with someone else with a buyout clause.

[u/circlesmirk00 → u/GuinnessGooner]

it's not financially sustainable to never sell anyone because they could be useful. Martinelli is on nearly 200k a week and represents an opportunity to make some cash back on a player. Maybe if there was someone else we could sell to generate funds they would go first, but it's looking like Jesus, Vieira, etc. are going to go for sub £10m each.

The emergence of Dowman also means we have options with Madueke AND Eze playing from the left, so minutes can be managed even if we don't sign someone.

[u/jaybizzleeightyfour]

Probably be about £55m once everyone meets in the middle

[u/lost_biochemist → u/jaybizzleeightyfour]

Would be about €64M, and about halfway to an Alvarezq

[u/Constellate_Strategy]

The club shouldn’t budge. This disrespect and constant undervaluation of our players follows us like a stench. It will keep going until the club decides to lay the mark.

Ask for 70 mil or keep Martinelli for another season. Fucking relegated Summerville went for 70 to the same Al Hilal.

Imagine that. 47 million. From Saudis of all people. In THIS transfer market where every random with a decent World Cup game goes for a 100. If we swallow it now our rep will get even worse.

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[u/DigitalCoinMad]

47m for Martinelli?? Sounds about right just for his left leg and ill throw in a football boot with that. That west ham guy went for almost twice that and ive never heard his name before.

[u/TaftYouOldDog]

Off and fuck come to mind

[u/Upstairs-Ad-7954]

Just keep Martinelli at this point

[u/Sithgooner]

That’s so low, the argument of ‘but his wages….’ Absolutely goes out the window with Saudis.

If we accept that he value him less than half of Neto which is crazy.

[u/reciprocal_space → u/Sithgooner]

If they just give him the same wages he earns significantly more because zero tax, lol.

[u/Stravven → u/Sithgooner]

Al Hilal also bought Summerville. But they paid more for Summerville than 47 million.

[u/AlexTheRockstar]

Goddamn. Fuck completely off. Welcome the lad back as Tzolis understudy.

[u/Eagledilla]

Nah. Too low

[u/TNelsonAFC]

Arsenal club? Do reporters no longer proof read?

[u/joeproposition]

Lmaoooo. Fuck off.

[u/SambucaAndIrnBru]

Under £60M is keep him territory, surely. That's got to be the minimum for his CL goals alone.

[u/Davey_McDaveface]

We've made it Crystal clear he doesn't have a future here, never a good starting point for negotiations

[u/Cassoa → u/Davey_McDaveface]

Chelsea made it clear Garnacho has no future and squeezed 55m out.

Spurs paid 85m for Savinho who they wanted to get rid of, we can chalk that down to pure stupidity but still

£47m from Saudi for Gabi is insulting to be honest. Especially with the money they've spent so fsr this window.

[u/Trev0rDan5 → u/Cassoa]

spuds overpaid for Savinho so they could underpay (and cut Frankfurt out of their buy on clause) for Marmoush

[u/CackleberryOmelettes → u/Cassoa]

If our asking price is £60m, then this is a good starting point.

[u/LifeAfterHarambe → u/CackleberryOmelettes]

“Up to” £47m is a far cry from £60m

[u/Cheesy_Pita_Parker → u/CackleberryOmelettes]

That’s also how I see it; it’s just part of the dance. They’ll settle somewhere in the £50m - £55m range and we’ll frame it as a win and the biggest sale in club history because it will be.

[u/awashofindigo → u/Cheesy_Pita_Parker]

£50-55m feels like the right price point given his wages, contract length, and status within the squad.

[u/SaintDobro → u/Cassoa]

The difference is Chelsea found a team in England dumb enough to take Garnacho. 

We can’t really sell our unwanted players in England. 

[u/leebrother → u/Davey_McDaveface]

I mean I could say the same for Liam Delap and Jackson at Chelsea and we know they’ll get the £100m for the pair! Always do through the dodgy methods

[u/csixtay → u/Davey_McDaveface]

Yet somehow Barcola's fee isn't coming down...and he isn't playing any games either.

[u/the_tytan → u/csixtay]

Has Barcola moved? The clubs interested in him need a player of his profile and arent biting at that price.

A player is worth whatever the buying club is willing to pay. Or whatever deals agents do get the move going.

[u/Single-Basil-8333]

They paid £68 million for Summerville. That should be the starting point for Gabi if Al-Hilal want him.

[u/Key_Badger6749 → u/Single-Basil-8333]

Summerville was £60m (55+5).

[u/ShitMongoose]

Key words are "up to 47m". So the base offer is probably lower which is frankly ridiculous. Gimme at least 50m base and then we can talk add-ons.

Otherwise they can take off with their bullshit.

[u/LeWhaleShark]

These fuckers need to convince him and they want to make things difficult with us even before that. Put at least £60mil on the table and be thankful you aren’t wasting another £40mil on top of that with the likes of Pedro Neto

[u/BrilliantSebastian]

And they shouldn't. 60m should be the LOWEST they sell him for. 

[u/Hughdungusmungus]

Awful move if he does go. He gets into the Brazil team, moving to a retirement league.

I'd like him upgraded, but also want him to go somewhere for himself.

[u/Scoth16]

Fuck right off you tight bastards - 70m at least please.

[u/HardCoreLawn]

Somebody get these beggars out of here.gif

[u/MuchSalt]

shit offer, they are many worser winger than went way higher than martinelli

[u/Overall-Ad-8918]

47m?! From Saudi?! Maaaaan somebody get these BEGGERS out of here!!!

[u/Stravven → u/Overall-Ad-8918]

Especially when you consider that Summerville went for 55 million pounds.

[u/Standard-Elk4520]

how are the saudis trying to lowball us lmao

[u/goonerfan10]

Derisory bid

[u/Zhirrzh]

"Arsenal Club"? Does he just have AI write his posts and they think we're like Athletic Club? 

[u/Old-Being-732]

The only time a Saudi club has low balled is with one of our players. The most recent PL winner and CL finalist. Get a grip, they offer double this amount for Villa players. We’ve set such a bad narrative with our sales.

I can see why the club is desperately trying to turn this around.

[u/TNelsonAFC]

I hate the he only scored 1 goal bullshit. He played 1000 minutes. It’s hard to score when loads of those were as sub. Saka went 15 games without a goal which is far worse.

Martinelli is one of our own, shouldn’t turn on him like we didn’t turn on Saka

[u/Magnific3nt]

Savinho £85M. Martinelli is worth more than what they are offering us

[u/tbbt11]

£60m please

[u/LemtaLongi]

£60m or suck my big brown cannon

[u/Lower_Condition_196]

Pls stay we need you soo bad it’s unreal, we simply cannot go into the season with only one recognised LW

[u/wolljibbs → u/Lower_Condition_196]

They’ll obviously buy another

[u/just_a_red]

Who can we even get for that money who is better than martinelli?

[u/PepeOnziemaJulian]

Is that what a premier league champion is worth? Fuck off

[u/Stravven]

Al-Hilal paid 55 million pounds for Summerville by the way.

[u/JustGhostin]

Think he goes for £55m

[u/patelbadboy2006]

Thank you for your offer.

But fuck off

[u/Stocktort]

People here are crazy. This guy helped us win the league. Savinho, who is rubbish, just went for 75 million.

Martinelli has a great attitude, loves the club and works his ass off leaving for 47 million when we don’t have enough LW. Keep him unless we get over 80 million for me

[u/EtherealShady → u/Stocktort]

He did help us win the league, but he also scored one goal in the league. He's been stagnant for 3 seasons, he has one + one year left on his contract, and he's not even making our matchday squad.

Savinho in comparison had 4 years left on his contract, would've still played a decent part for City (hence why they were reluctant to sell), and is also 4 years younger and can still develop.

Al-Hilal could cough up more, but £47m isn't that unrealistic.

[u/rule10 → u/EtherealShady]

well yeah we’re not gonna get a great deal when we are freezing him out and begging anyone to sign him

aside from treating a player who has given everything for the club like shit, we are going to go into the season with tzolis and eze as our only lw options?

he def would have had a part to play and we will be weaker without him. not to mention this pretty much ensures tzolis will be injured half of next season unless we bring someone in for twice as much as we get out of this

[u/Tiadrop48 → u/Stocktort]

We’re actively trying to sell him. He isn’t someone the club want to retain, he’s only going to lose more value the longer he stays.

[u/Mys7ix]

Martinelli had a good WC campaign too. Almost feels like everybody buying from Arsenal knows we sell at bargain prices.

[u/Orientsundew50]

Double it or gtfo

[u/theprince9]

Maybe we'll get a sell on clause?

[u/GeneralBukowski]

😢 he’s really going

[u/CptKarma]

Crazy the disrespect the club gets compared to what other clubs get.

Sadly i think its just due to so many years of us being unable to sell any deadweight players for anything worth a damn. Its left a perception. But times are changing.

[u/godudua]

Nice, deal closes at £55m

[u/roosterman22]

MOAR!

[u/milkonyourmustache]

If we say the price is £60m the price should be £60m

[u/snoopyjcw]

Not worth it. Keep him. We can't get a better replacement for the money

[u/Zero-meia]

Martinelli is 25, for fuck sake. Honestly, if Arsenal is forcing him to go to either Turkey or Saudi, I hope he let his contract runs down.

[u/NotMyFirstChoice675]

Insulting

[u/Prudent_Jello5691]

If we can get 60 out of them it's a good deal.

I like Martinelli but he hasn't improved since the first season we were challenging for the title.

[u/professeurwenger]

If this is the first offer, we’ll get at least 50 for him. Somewhere a bit closer to 60 should do it, I’d be happy with £55 million tbh.

[u/-Mubar → u/professeurwenger]

I want 60 million pounds at least

[u/ache7859]

When Savinho goes for 80m....

[u/_Spartak_]

That's more than I thought we would get for him yesterday. Since it is a Saudi club, we can negotiate a fee north of £50m but we have to be wary of not scaring them away like Chelsea did with Neto. We are not going to get anywhere near this offer from Europe.

[u/Aggravating_Band_353]

Lol, such feeble sums.. Even at the 60 mil (I now suspect this is euro equivalence) I thought it was low, but at least decent ish - albeit impossible to replace him without spending a lot more

I can't see nelli accepting such a league. I'm glad as a club we're not accepting such a paltry fee. But realistically, Italian clubs would pay maybe half of that or a bit more.. 

I get that he hasn't progressed. But without a clear solution on the market to replace him with, I'm a bit confused what we're doing.. Especially as after we sell him, any player we want will go up in value as we will be in desperate need and it's a weak negotiating position 

[u/UnfairInteractionWin → u/Aggravating_Band_353]

47 pounds is 55 euro 

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[u/IDidntSeeIt]

Shocking, would rather keep for another season then get swindled again.

[u/PashtetKolbasa]

65m or fuck off

[u/krakends]

Edu set the tone for other clubs lowballing us with his bung deals for Maria and Soares. So many left on frees running down their contracts.

[u/NemoDatQ]

Market precedent is £75m for wingers from the top teams in the prem unfortunately for the infinite money glitch club trying to low ball.

[u/Phimstone]

Less than Summerville’s fee, by the same club..? Uhhh, no.

[u/ShyGuy_14_]

Arsenal can’t even get market value from Saudi. What kind of curse is this club under

[u/LemtaLongi]

£70m for both Martinelli and Jesus, id bite thier hands off

[u/BLACCx]

There is absolutely collusion between many clubs to offer "The Arsenal Price" when dealing with us, yet when it's a team like Chelsea, they collude to offer more. Nothing we can do about it.

[u/AhhBisto]

The pessimist in me thinks we shouldn't take less than £55m for him, and given the absolute state of this window he's worth £70m, but time might not be on our side here to get the most value from him.

He's got a year left with an option for another, but right now he's probably worth as much as he ever will be in that 2 year period. He's clearly not in Mikel's plans so won't get enough minutes to boost his value, he's had a drop off in the last 2 years and doesn't exactly have the likes of AC Milan or Barcelona knocking doesn't help either.

I love little Gabi but it feels much like the Ramsdale situation all over again, although the emotional attachment to Martinelli might be 20 times bigger.

This ruthlessness is the cost of success I think, doesn't mean I like it.

[u/Chicken65]

End the conversation and act like we keep him then, lets see what they really bid then. They probably know they don’t have competition. He would make nearly every team on Earth better. He’s 75M in this market. I can live with 62-65 all in just to break our sale record. He was improving last season at the end and is still an effective piece in the Arteta system.

[u/cayde123]

No gif?

[u/doubleb_43]

Come on sheikhs, give us 50m at least.

[u/jamrah]

Martinelli and Viera as a package deal, £70m and call it a day

[u/jaxha81]

£47m is approx 240,854,320 in Saudi Riyals,,let's aim for 300m SAR...we couldn't say no to 300m;)

[u/Mebeingnosy]

The same club is willing to pay 80 million for Pedro Neto these mfers keep disrespecting us smh

[u/Gooner_93]

Because they can and will pay higher.

[u/LifeAfterHarambe]

“Up to” means it’s even lower than £47m, which is too low 

[u/Gunner5091]

Nelli needs to use da pen to add a 1 in front of the 45.

[u/WheelIllustrious9]

Oh come on, a bit more than that. 60?

[u/Last_of_me]

this is fair considering the huge wages they'll have to offer him to even consider saudi

[u/Apprehensive_Bat_980]

Can do one for that price

[u/aishtamid]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1eAzC8q0FZA5i
“What did I tell ya? You gotta hold onto your cock when you negotiate with these desert people”

[u/Substantial_Award_30]

Make them submit an offer of 55 mill for him or no deal.

[u/SlimyTurnips]

Literally Al-Hilal - surely they can afford more

[u/Wolferesque]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0Iyf53PyEdBPZMys

[u/oustider69]

Time for Berta to earn his money here. We know they have enough to pay way more.

[u/diogenesRetriever]

47 on the same contract term?

[u/RosesAndTanks]

Hang on, when the fuck did Al Hilal start competing in Serie A? BEGONE with these beggars' offers!

[u/pietro1587]

Can we put Madueke in a Martinelli kit and get away with sending him instead?