Raúl Sanllehí

[Zenith]

What does this mean for transfer negotiations?

The statement on Arsenal.com reads that Vinai will take over Raúl's tasks.

[Phil71]

Classic management move to get him to do the redundancies before he f***ked off.

That nasty man has gone now.

[ESR10]

What does this mean for transfer negotiations?

The statement on Arsenal.com reads that Vinai will take over Raúl's tasks.

I don't see a shrewd negotiatior in Vinai tbh

[Zenith]

This was less than one year ago -

Aged like unpasteurised milk on a sunny beach.

[Arsenal Tone]

Raul going back to barca?

[Dejan]

Wait what. What happend

What was wrong with the pepe deal

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[Phil71]

this is the man running arsenal football club now. im worried.

Why?

[Arsenal Tone]

Wait what. What happend

What was wrong with the pepe deal

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Coincidece?

[jayramfootball]

This is really big news. Scouting department cut drastically and then an abrupt removal of the guy we thought would be heading our transfer negotiations this summer.

I figure now that there were some serious irregularities with the Pepe deal and he’s falling on the sword for it (as he should).

Seems like Kroenke wants a bit more insight into what’s going on at the club and rightly so. Last summer the purse strings were loosened to allow a significant amount of money to go so it only seems right they want to account for that in light of a dreadful season.

Sanllehi deserves to lose his job. Hiring Emery was criminal, but wanting to extend his contract after the debacle in Baku says everything about him.

I do rate last summers window very highly but this seems like the right decision.

Last season the club buckled to fan pressure and wasted a LOT of money on transfers.

Kroenke is probably furious that we've consistently spent more than Liverpool NET (which is the actual cost to him) and then looks at the comparative state of the two playing squads.

It makes sense to me that the scouting network and those repsonsible for spending so much money with little to no return are getting targeted for change.

I don’t see that we wasted a lot last summer. The fee for Pepe was way above what we should have paid but in a market where Palace wanted £80m for Zaha, the £72m we paid for Pepe seemed to be just us partaking in the upward trend in transfer fees and accepting if we wanted an exciting player like Pepe we had to pay the asking price.

Obviously in hindsight it hasn’t quite worked out as we would have hoped but there’s a very talented player their and I figure that next season we’ll see more of the talent that we expected.

But the Tierney and Saliba fees were very fair. Luiz was a direct result of Kos forcing our hand (and even then, we didn’t pay over the odds for him).

I think the only real question mark for last summer is Pepe at £72m and Southampton being paid a handsome loan fee for a player who had 6 months left on his deal anyway.

It's the 72m.
We needed a big healdine signing to appease the fans.
It got so bad, we even had josh Kroenke making a statement to promise the fans.

When we signed him, Pepe was worth 20m tops. He'd shown potential but never achieved anything at a high level in his entire career to that point.

As it turns out - whilst i really didn;t like his performances for most of the season, he has shown some flashes recently that he might be good for us, so no problem with the player as it stands, but 20m would have been about right.

[Jedi]

The fact that Raul has been sacked for his transfer dealings and that the guy that conducted the investigation was just given a full-time role at the club gives me hope that the Kia situation isn't as bad as we thought.

And on the off chance that it is, i expect Edu will be next on the chopping block and very quickly.

[Salibatelli]

Although we signed him for 72 million, we only paid a fraction of that, the fee has been spread over a number of years, some of it is part of this years transfer money, some next year and so on, The 30 million for Saliba is part of this years transfers too so this claim that we spent big last summer is wrong, 50 million of that or so is from this summer (probably explains why we have no money to spend as well).

As for Pepe. 72 million was too much, Lille we’re happy to sell him for that as they didn’t think we was worth that, the amount we offered also put other clubs off making an offer as they thought it was too much too.

[jayramfootball]

The fact that Raul has been sacked for his transfer dealings and that the guy that conducted the investigation was just given a full-time role at the club gives me hope that the Kia situation isn't as bad as we thought.

And on the off chance that it is, i expect Edu will be next on the chopping block and very quickly.

Or it could be that a season of 'Game of Thrones' is happening at Arsenal in the middle of a transfer window and we're in the process of ****ing things up royally. I don't want any of these clowns at the club. Bring back David Dein.

[Santi]

Really not sure how I feel abut this, part of me thinks the guy was a dick driving us down a bad path with Kia but I'd also started to make peace with the deals for Luiz, Willian etc. as adding experience to the other signings they wanted to make. Very surprised by the news though and wondering if something dodgy has gone on to spark such a quick change.

We could've at least waited til we got Coutinho ffs.

[Jedi]

Really not sure how I feel abut this, part of me thinks the guy was a dick driving us down a bad path with Kia but I'd also started to make peace with the deals for Luiz, Willian etc. as adding experience to the other signings they wanted to make. Very surprised by the news though and wondering if something dodgy has gone on to spark such a quick change.

We could've at least waited til we got Coutinho ffs.

Edu is still here and he is BFF with Kia. Don't worry, Kia is going nowhere.

[Arsenal Tone]

I wonder if after barca's defeat they called up raul and he's heading back there.