yeah if we can pay that and more for Paulinho, Lamela and Soldado with 0 mins of EPL football between them, then Welbeck is a no-brainer.

I guess we need to move at least 2 of Lennon/Soldado/Townsend before we could make a permanent bid.

Romance isn't dead.





I fear that either Song or Kouyate will get used at centre back fairly often. Diamé has been half way out of the door for about a year, he did not have the consistency to threaten someone like Song.

I was referring at myself as the terrible poster, bro, not you. And as far as what Cristiano publicly said, no, Ancelotti doesn't know better, otherwise he wouldn't have criticised him in front of the whole world, at least for last night's game and the transfer window.

Welbeck sounds like it's fallen through.

Well, SSN are just saying no medical has happened yet. They were the only ones to say there was a medical in the first place, with everywhere else saying Arsenal/Utd have to agree on whether its a purchase or a loan before doing a medical.

@MailSport: Danny Welbeck's agent tells @bbc5liven his client will join Arsenal for £18m if it's permanent and £3m if on loan, http://t.co/VrxJf8lHHJ

palace signed mcarthur from us

fat scottish lump who will sit in front of the back 4 and be big and scottish. £7m.

Vlaar to Arsenal is the rumor.

We've scored 2 goals vs Swansea, Sunderland and Burnley, def need to do something.

Yup, Diame shows up 1 in 4 games anyway, can afford to move him. Plus I like the looks of Cheikhou Kouyaté so far. Not sure how Sam is going to play it with Noble but Song is a nice get.

blind done deal

Emmanuel Frimpong has signed for newly-promoted Russian Premier League outfit FC Ufa.

Tom Cleverly wants £80k a week to go to Villa....

So Burnley dodged one then? Don't think we'd offer over £5m for him.

Leon Barnett any good? He's the latest name linked.

Why the **** wouldn't Tottenham snap take Welbeck on a permanent?

Jim White with the Abdo and Sawyer sandwich.

Lucky bastard.

Isn't that 20m figure including wages? Wages aren't included when people talk about permanent transfers so I didn't include them there, although 10m or whatever is significant. Idk, it's a weird deal.

hardly ever seen barnett play tbh, he arrived after we got the PL boot and i dont get to see them often any more

mccarthur isnt bad like, chops up the opps play fairly regularly. dno about 7m but hey its the btvditw era so who knows.

Now reading £10m, which feels more like it considering his injury record.

JIM WHITE

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coz danny wants to arsenal

{Ed002's Note - Falcao was offered to four English sides after it became clear his preferred move to Real Madrid would not be possible. In summary:

Last Wednesday in Monaco the club put a price on Falcao for a sale - with the expectation that Real Madrid (where he wishes to move to) would pay it. Real Madrid were concerned that at his age the asking price was far too high as were the wages. There were also discussions with Juventus and with Valencia. There have been approaches made to four English clubs - Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City. The situation as I understand it this morning is that:
- Chelsea saw him as way too expensive a package and went for Remy as their first choice (Destro) was not possible.
- Arsenal considered his age, his price, the possibility of a loan price and his wages and whilst they would like the player, seem to be trying to tie up the permanent transfer of another player instead.
- Manchester City were not interested in buying him at the offered price but would have consider a loan to buy - but there have a major concern over his knee and they want a clause which will drastically reduce his wages and the loan fee should it turn out to be a problem.
- Manchester United were interested but again the price and wages are an issue. On Wednesday Manchester United used a third party in discussions and I understand that third party was again involved last night in trying to broker a deal that might be acceptable. I suggested earlier that if the club want a deal done today then they will likely need to concede most of the financial negotiations - and that is what they have likely done. Subject to a medical I would expect this to go through.

Not sure this is 100% but seems inline with what we suspected.

Arsenal should be an ideal destination for a young striker wanting to get games. At Spuds there's still heavy competition for a spot while at Arsenal, Danny should be #1 until Giroud comes back next year.

Guidetti off to Celtic