[Football] Leandro Trossard **Sold To Arsenal 20/01/2023**

[MattBackHome]

I love Trossard, an absolute beauty of a player. I would have thought he'd be right up your street with his flair and poise and elegance.

You'll be claiming Remember the time is better than Dirty Diana next. Or something equally ridiculous.

He's a poor man's Razz Coleman de-Graft.

And Remember the Time is actually very underrated, as is most of Dangerous, so you've embarrassed yourself there as well my friend.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

He's a poor man's Razz Coleman de-Graft.

And Remember the Time is actually very underrated, as is most of Dangerous, so you've embarrassed yourself there as well my friend.

No chance. Who is it/Give in to me/Will you be there/Dangerous. All great tunes. The rest is comparable to ebony and ivory. I'm so confident in my appraisal I'm going to end with fact. FACT.

Razz is to Trossard as Dangerous is to Bad.

Now who's embarrassed?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Getting back to basics from the past few gibberish posts... how much would a club pay for a guy that blows hot n cold, seems to sulk when the mood takes him, and looks like he gets very little sleep...?

 

[The Fits]

Early move that by Spurs. So that's Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle rumoured interested. Suspect £40 million will get their man, won't happen until the end of the month though you'd imagine

 

[Springal]

Newcastle already feeding the press with stories so they’ll surface at some point you’d imagine.

 

[Stato]

Getting back to basics from the past few gibberish posts... how much would a club pay for a guy that blows hot n cold, seems to sulk when the mood takes him, and looks like he gets very little sleep...?

I hope that you’re not composing our Exchange & Mart advert.

 

[MattBackHome]

Getting back to basics from the past few gibberish posts... how much would a club pay for a guy that blows hot n cold, seems to sulk when the mood takes him, and looks like he gets very little sleep...?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Was pretty much THE source when he was at Sky Sports a few years ago. Nowhere near as reliable now.

"Verbal offer" could mean anything.

Levy - "Hi Paul, this is Daniel. We can see Trossard looks a little unsettled. Would a fiver and a set of tracksuits secure him?"
Barbs - "Get stuffed"
Pete O'Rourke - "Spurs have submitted a verbal offer....."

I really don't see where he fits in at Spurs either. Not as quick as Son or Moura, not as good as Kulusevski, very similar to Gil and not going to oust Perisic at LWB. It's a puzzling one.

I wonder what @Kinky Gerbils thinks or @Paxton Dazo ?

Moura is turgid and will be off in the summer.

I did think about him as a LWB, but not sure how much he would want to join to play that role, There is a young up and coming LWB joining in the summer anyway.

I’m not overly sure he’s what Spurs need, I’m not overly impressed by him, he seems to have purple patches and when his off form he may as well not be on the pitch.

But another forward is needed Kulu/Son/Richi have been injured/out off form for large periods and Gil is young.

I think Kane will be off in the summer as well

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Early move that by Spurs. So that's Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle rumoured interested. Suspect £40 million will get their man, won't happen until the end of the month though you'd imagine

I may have missed something, isn’t he out of contract in the summer? Or has the club got the option to extend

 

[Baldseagull]

The rumours are that his agent is making sure all the moneyed clubs are aware he is looking to move. That could be the club suggesting his agent do that, as he is not liking our current contract offer, or it could be he has had a good look at the recent signings and thinks he is less likely to have a starring role here now, or he could just want to negotiate better terms than we are currently offering. If I were him I wouldn't sign a new contract with us just yet,

I may have missed something, isn’t he out of contract in the summer? Or has the club got the option to extend

yes and yes

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

The rumours are that his agent is making sure all the moneyed clubs are aware he is looking to move. That could be the club suggesting his agent do that, as he is not liking our current contract offer, or it could be he has had a good look at the recent signings and thinks he is less likely to have a starring role here now, or he could just want to negotiate better terms than we are currently offering. If I were him I wouldn't sign a new contract with us just yet,

yes and yes

So it’s utter rubbish then

I imagine the verbal offer was us asking about his contract status.

 

[The Fits]

Lots of reporting he is out of contract in the summer. As far as I've seen there's been no official announcement we've extended but it makes no sense that we wouldn't.

 

[Zeberdi]

I may have missed something, isn’t he out of contract in the summer? Or has the club got the option to extend

Upthread. - I posted Brighton triggered the 12 month extension clause - agreed as add on part of his contract in 2019.

 

[Baldseagull]

So it’s utter rubbish then

I imagine the verbal offer was us asking about his contract status.

No idea, what I posted is just rumour, and so is this, it seems that his agent has let several clubs know he would be willing to sign for them, 2 have got back with a no thanks, Liverpool and Man Utd, everyone else that hasn't said no is said to be "monitoring", Chelsea, Newcastle, Tottenham, Arsenal.
Man City are the only club with tons of cash that I have not seen linked at all.

What is genuine is that we have triggered the one year option, which suggests the club have not been successful in negotiating a new contract with Trossard at this time. If he doesn't attract the kind of interest he is hoping for, that could change.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Was pretty much THE source when he was at Sky Sports a few years ago. Nowhere near as reliable now.

"Verbal offer" could mean anything.

Levy - "Hi Paul, this is Daniel. We can see Trossard looks a little unsettled. Would a fiver and a set of tracksuits secure him?"
Barbs - "Get stuffed"
Pete O'Rourke - "Spurs have submitted a verbal offer....."

I really don't see where he fits in at Spurs either. Not as quick as Son or Moura, not as good as Kulusevski, very similar to Gil and not going to oust Perisic at LWB. It's a puzzling one.

I wonder what @Kinky Gerbils thinks or @Paxton Dazo ?

I don’t think that ‘Barbs’ has the kind of relationship where he tells Levy to get stuffed.

The conversation probably went something like this:

Barbs - “Hi Daniel, this is Paul. We can’t seem to get Trossard to sign a new contact, are you interested in him for a cut-price £40m? He is our top scorer”.

Levy - “After cut-price Bissouma? You’re having a ****ing laugh aren’t you?”

Barbs - “Fair enough, well seeing as we’re mates, could you make a fake verbal bid as Newcastle have just emailed over a £25m offer and we obviously want a lot more than than?”

Levy - “Sure. I’ll leak it to that **** O’Rourke, he’ll spill the beans within minutes, he always does. In return, could we have first option on Mac & Caicedo?”

Barbs - “Haha Daniel, stop pulling my plonker, both are now out of range looking at the kind of fees you normally pay.”

Levy - “Furry muff! Pilates Thursday?”

Barbs - “See you there buddy”.

 

[Berty23]

It is amusing that sky sports are saying they need to explore whether Brighton have extended contract or not and imply link to price. Why on Earth would we not have extended to get more money?

 

[Springal]

It is amusing that sky sports are saying they need to explore whether Brighton have extended contract or not and imply link to price. Why on Earth would we not have extended to get more money?

Could be conditions, could be a wage increase, could require something from players side … loads of reasons

 

[Icy Gull]

De Zerbi seems to have fallen out love with Tross very quickly

 

[Berty23]

Could be conditions, could be a wage increase, could require something from players side … loads of reasons

Fair enough. How likely are those things though? I can’t see tross would have to agree it isn’t an option to extend it is agreeing. Any wage increase would be tiny compared to added value. Plus he would already be in pre contract talks with overseas wouldn’t he? That would draw out any suitors.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Spot on. A couple of mediocre recent games does not mean fans should want Tross to leave. Very stupid of them IMHO.

But what if we flog him and use the money to buy a NEW 20 GOALS A SEASON STRIKER?!