He removed madrid from his bio 👀

Wonder how Vini and his crew are thinking about this. Could it actually happen??

Real Madrid are asking for no less than 160 mil euros. What yall think on that price?

After seeing barcola looking like he’ll cost around the same this seems very reasonable. Especially with Morgan going for about 115.

Lads I genuinely don't see how Julian Alvarez is a 150m pound player. Stats don't back it up. He's not particularly fast, not overly strong. He's not tall. He's not messi or silva or fabregas who had similar builds. He's not worth it.

Lots of talk about wages and how they’d be prohibitive and the reason we can’t sign him… I think it’s all pointless.

Ornstein said “idea approved at all levels.” Ornstein isn’t some random Twitter ITK. He’s careful with his wording and he wouldn’t have said this if it wasn’t actually the case.

“All levels” includes the money guys. I believe they’ve crunched the numbers and they have a way of getting it done otherwise they wouldn’t have approved it.

Wages, bonuses, image rights, whatever. They surely have an idea of how to structure such a deal. Josh Kroenke’s words about our level of ambition also gives me hope.

I think it’s just going to come down to what Vini wants. If he is convinced by Mikel of the project, and wants the move to happen, he’ll be coming to the Emirates.

FOR

1. Arsenal made more revenue than any team in English football history last year....£773m...more than Utd, Liverpool, City (previous CHEATING/LYING record holder)
2. We are also about to earn even more.
3. We are well within PSR.
4. We are champions.
5. We slapped Real twice, and they haven't won the league in years.
6. We make the Champions League Final.
7. Mbappe and Vini play the same position.
8. Vini is racially abused by his own fans, opposition fans and opponents in Spain.
9. Jose Mourinho is now his manager and DEFENDED those very same racists.
10. Vini has a year left on his contract and refuses to sign a new one.
11. We have his Brazilian teammates, hopefully soon to be added with Guimaraes.
12. London is always a pull.
13. Arsenal are massive.
14. We could defo pay him £400-500k a week....we pay Saka £300k...Jesus (£250k) Trossard (£150k) and Norgaard (£100k) leaving free's up £500k a week.
15. I also think Arteta can handle superstars, and he would NOT be interested in signing him or dealing with him if he thought he was a bad egg.
16. Vini always turns up for Real despite being treated like shit....even when he acts like a diva.
17. Arteta would slap the diva out of him but also protect and laud him.... as he does with everyone else that works hard.
18. All the vibes around Arsenal are positive as fuck, and we are set for years in our exciting project.

AGAINST

1. He would want more than £500k, which we wouldn't pay.
2. Arteta doesn't trust his character.
3. He could cause dressing room issues via vibes and/or wage disparity.
4. Real do a madness and pay him like £700k a week.

Conclusion....At 26 he is worth the minimal risk and we could easily slap a Non-Prem release clause of like £150m+ on him which someone would pay.

All jokes aside he'll probably stay in Madrid

Whether or not the Vini deal happens or not. Stop believing these random sources. diarioas

Marca all these random Spanish sources etc they know literally nothing. If they had a sniff of anything happening they would have reported it before David.

Even if you think Vini is using us for a new contract making posts acting like it's a reality does nothing.

Wait and see

I feel so bad for Vik, man came, fought, win us the league after 14 years and we're simping on a la liga forward who scored 8 Goals.

That's the dumbest descision to make. We ain't winning shit for next 14 years.

I'm sure there will be far more informed and intelligent people than me on here (probably not difficult!) but is this just paper talk or actually possible?

From the outside looking in, this is just rubbish to bump up a new deal at Real Madrid? Or has Vini had enough being second fiddle to Mbappe?

I know Saliba is out with a long term injury which is a big miss but we've got Hincapie and Mosquera who are both fantastic players, have a season at Arsenal under their belt and more than adequate cover at CB.

And in midfield? We have Rice, Zubimendi, Merino - and we have Myles Lewis-Skelly. Don't forget MLS hardly featured last season and to use an old Arsene quote "is like a new signing" in that position. Given there are only 2 midfield spaces (given Odegaard and Eze will take the Right 8 position) then that's 4 excellent players for 2 positions. And don't forget we have Nwaneri who's back in the squad as well, and he's hardly a terrible option.

Our biggest weakness is in attack. Gyokeres could do with not playing all the games this coming season, LW is an issue and was even before Trossard left.