[Fabrizio Romano] Kai Havertz, first Arsenal signing as deal will be completed in the next hours — here we go ✅⚪️🔴 #AFC
◉ £60m guaranteed fee;
◉ £5m add-ons;
◉ Long term deal agreed;
◉ Medical tests to be scheduled.
Havertz will sign the contract this week, documents are being prepared.
Can't believe that this is the first deal to get done but here we go....
Sigh. I'm not happy with those numbers. Unless we decided to go full Italian and spread it out over 20 years, I think this is an overpay even disregarding the fact that Chelsea need to sell.
Yeah I hope Kai doesn't suffer the Pepe effect where the price tag hangs over him like a dark cloud.
I mean, isn't this pricetag lower than what Chelsea bought him for?
Yeah, by 5M, but I'm more than a little irked that that logic never seems to come into play when we're trying to sell players.
True, but I think it’s still more than expected given his time at Chelsea. Hopefully we’ll get a similar proportion back when we come to sell Pepe..
I think the difference with Pepe was he very clearly couldn't get a look in before he went out on loan. Kai has been played by all 34 managers who were at that shit show of a club the last year
I've been trying to be less of a pessimist recently, but... we won't. We'll be lucky to see 20M for him. His wages are just ridiculous for a) the clubs that might take a chance on him and b) his skill level.
The market, particularly within the EPL, is insane these days. Boely and Co splashing the cash hasn’t helped either.
I blame Abramovich. That bastard distorted an entire league just so people would hate him a little less.
Not exactly how I was hoping we'd start the window, but we needed attacking backup, and Edu/Arteta have a pretty good track record so far, so... Welcome aboard, Kai!
I get why he isn't the most exciting signing now, but I really think he's going to be phenomenal for us. He's gonna slot in well in several spots and I am here for it.
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that you might be right. If anyone can bring the best out of him it’s Mikel
This one took me completely off guard but can't say I'm surprised the club was looking for more talent up top.
Trusting process.
@Astrealix don’t understand how ALL the Saudi teams buying ALL the Chelsea players (minus Havertz and mount) isn’t raising eyebrows amongst the regula……ah now I understand
How about wages? I hope he isn't on some ridiculous wages