17 Jun 2026 12:50:21
Any truth that Rodgers has put in transfer request? It's the noise going on. Also, I think Villa should say 150mil going price and not a penny lower. Anderson going for 130mil. Rodgers is worth more than Anderson as well.
Arsenal need to know there place and Villa need to show we can't be bullied into selling any of our best players on the cheap. If clubs want our price, pay the going rate.
17 Jun 2026 17:57:56
All B.S. I'd imagine, it's not even journo's writing the headlines anymore. It's all AI rubbish. We hold all the cards, he's under contract till 2031. If a deal happens, it's going to be a mega one, I reckon. If Arsenal want to be big boys, they're going to have to pay big boy prices.
17 Jun 2026 18:58:40
It might be rubbish, but it might not, particularly if the conditions UEFA have allegedly placed on the club at the end of last season are as reported. Irrespective of the owners giving Emery £100 million to spend, he cannot do that without securing the equivalent sum by way of sales.
If we breach that, we risk a 3-year ban from European competition. So, we are faced with a difficult choice of either boosting our spending capabilities by selling Rogers, or facing a summer of limited spending, subsidised by 2 or 3 free transfers.
18 Jun 2026 14:00:38
Option B for me, Lotm. Sell a few fringe players and reinvest the cash into some younger players our scouting department have been working on. We have at least a dozen players who could be sold. Keep Rogers, build around him. The press make so much about our financial restraints that clubs will chance their arm, hoping we are stuck.
We have Elliot Luiz and Sancho's wages off the books now, so as it stands we are well within budget on psr. Selling Rogers for big money won't solve all the problems, because it would only be one wage gone off the books.