My opinion on the João Félix situation is this:

The loan Atleti is currently offering is, relatively speaking, dirt cheap. Even if there's no obligation/option to buy...WHO CARES. Get him in the squad for the spring run.

He's not happy at Atleti. If you bring him on now, the chances of him turning in to Odegaard 2.0 is EXTREMELY high IMO. Just get him in the door and figure it out later. You want talented players on your team.

@mattlacasse Well I would say most definitely 😄 …..

Arteta and Edu’s biggest deals:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 White £50m
🇬🇭 Partey £45m
🇧🇷 Jesus £45m
🇳🇴 Odegaard £30m
🇺🇦 Zinchenko £30m
🇵🇹 Vieira £30m
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ramsdale £24m
🇧🇷 Gabriel £23m

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@GrindItOut @mattlacasse Brilliant deals, except Vieira at this point. So no complains there.

I'd still take into counting, that the likes of Willian, Mari, Cedric & Runarsson were signed.

And more so, just terminating contracts/release & get rid of the likes of Auba, Özil, Sokratis, Mustafi, Mkhitaryan, Bellerin or selling full France int'l Guendouzi for a tenner..

@hente @GrindItOut Jury is still out on Vieira for sure but to my untrained eye he's heading in the right direction. I think Arteta/Edu are on the same page now. Once they've clicked their success rate has been pretty high.

Definitely took some time to get, uh, the riffraff out. And that goes for the front office as well.