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Don't think many on here are fully aware just how bad Jones' injury record is, he is more McQueen than Ings. If fit... he will never be fit for more than 5 minutes, an ex-footballer who will likely spend the next 2 years collecting the 100k per week Man Utd owe him before retiring. Would be an awful, pointless signing though fortunately it looks like Graeme Bailey just threw our name out there as an afterthought along with half the league and there is nothing in this.

I am, because the notion that Phil Jones would be a good signing is hilarious and fully deserving of laughing face emojis. He hasn't played a single minute over the last 18 months, he's effectively an ex-footballer at this point and wasn't even that good when he was a footballer. But some on here seem to think he is better than Bednarek 😂. No premier league club should be signing him.

I will jump to a conclusion that it is a load of bollocks, according to the article almost half the league are "keeping tabs". https://www.90min.com/posts/man-utd-transfer-news-phil-jones-free-transfer

The clubs Ings wants are hardly known for penny pinching. If they wanted him, they wouldn't care about the (by their standards) low transfer fee. There is no reason for him to expect that they will come in for him at 30 when they didn't at 29. Ings and Bertrand are at different points in their career, Ings is about to sign the last big contract of his career while Bertrand was already past that point, not to mention his injury record increasing the risk of being out of contract and the fact that we are offering an immediate pay rise, none of which applied to Bertrand. Ings holding off on accepting our offer is a far bigger gamble than Bertrand doing the same. He won't, West Ham have nothing to offer him.

If the big clubs don't come in for Ings, he likely takes our offer. If they aren't interested now, they aren't going to be next year when he turns 30.

Can't go anywhere if none of the clubs he wants to join want him.

No we aren't. We are crippled by the mess left over by the previous ownership, our current ownership are the reason we haven't already been relegated and whoever thinks that the next ownership will throw money at us is setting themselves up for disappointment. Since 2014 Leicester and West Ham haven't received anything from their owners and by the money tap seems to be switching off at Everton and Wolves with nothing to show for it.

Getting their city stripped of world heritage status, one more for the list of firsts 😂

Utter bollocks, unless by ownership you mean the plus size Paris Hilton and her incompetent minions, we have spent almost 3 years trying to undo the damage they did between 2014 and 2018. Here is the net spend table up to and including summer 2019, so it excludes the Van Dijk money distorting ins or outs and includes the collection of duds bloating our wage bill. It looks about right considering our wage to turnover ratio was 77% (5th highest) in 2018/19 and 90% (6th highest) in 2019/20. Leicester and West Ham are only slightly above us and Chelsea and Liverpool are even below us.

Under MLG scenario, his competition for 3rd choice is Stephens. What more could he possibly want?

Long is behind Ings, Adams, Tella, Redmond, Walcott and probably Elyounoussi and Obafemi, so there is no chance of him ever starting. CM we have JWP, Romeu and Diallo getting most of the game time with Armstrong and Smallbone as extra options, could do with more but as a priority it doesn't come close. That leaves fullback, and I would choose a quality GK over backup fullbacks. And for all the "we have no money claims", no one here knows for sure what we do or don't have. What we do know is that we took out a big loan, so basically an advance on future earnings which means we won't have any more money next summer than we do now, and since pretty much everyone accepts that we will need a new GK by next year at the latest, it makes no sense to wait until then and have our poor GKs cost us another season. You say there are more pressing concerns, I don't see any.

Can't speak for Duckhunter, but for me, any of them.

Begovic had a year left, Bournemouth gave him away. The goalkeeper situation has to be sorted out now, not next year. If that happens to be the case, cut McCarthy loose. But we can't go into yet another season with a substandard first choice goalkeeper.

Stop gap until they try again next year.

We bought Gunn when McCarthy and Forster both had 4 years left on their contracts, I don't see why signing a new GK would be a problem when they now have just 1 year left and have proven that neither are up to being first choice. They can be shifted even if it means giving them away for free, if Bournemouth can give away Begovic we should be doing the same if it comes to that.

Burnley need wingers as it is and there is speculation surrounding McNeil. Can't we sell them Redmond? Same goes for Stephens, Norwich missed out on Ajer, couldn't we sell him there or even to Celtic themselves as a replacement. I feel part of our problem is we never seem to cut loose these sorts of players, the average ones who still have value to other clubs and can bring in money, it's always the good ones that we want to keep or the duds at the end of their contracts long after we first wanted them gone.

Money tap switched off.

Loan fee? They can have him for free if they take all his wages off our hands. WTF?

If his ACL explodes in April, what then? It's a foolish risk to take. And if the clubs he is interested in aren't interested now, why would they be next year? Besides the fact that he has agreed a new contract with us, he just hasn't signed it yet. Seems to me Ings just wants to be sure he isn't throwing away a second chance at a Liverpool level club.

He won't.

This isn't Poch's CL finalists Spurs anymore, they are now every bit a stepping stone club. It's worth remembering where Ings came from. He had his career at CL and PL champions Liverpool ruined by injuries, to make matters worse his role in that team was played by Firmino who Ings will likely consider someone whose place he could have taken. He will have been watching them win the CL and PL and think that, if not for injuries, it could have been him instead of Firmino. It will have left a sour taste and he is likely hoping one of the PL/CL competing clubs give him another chance to fix what the injuries took from him. Spurs aren't in a position to offer that, they probably aren't even qualifying for the CL anytime soon.

What a load of bollocks from start to finish 😂

His performance against Man Utd will be remembered for decades... much like Ali Dia's against Leeds. Closest we have come to replacing the legend that is George Weah's cousin.

It's dodgy but I would imagine it to be hard to do anything against it. Best example I can think of was when Monaco bought both Moutinho and James Rodríguez from Porto. Moutinho had a particularly high sell on % to Sporting and there was some suspicion that James' fee was inflated and Moutinho's deflated. Nothing came out of it though.

This should be good. https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/1413437840197767181