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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
It's understood, hack talk for "I'm making this bit up" then blames the player. its understood by me that the club are playing hardball.
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Arsenal don't have much to gain from delaying the signature, the pressure is all on them. They stand to lose an asset whereas Walcott doesn't really lose much unless he gets seriously injured. Instead he can get a bigger signing on bonus and/or wages from a new club if he signs on a free transfer.
Arsenal won't offer £100,000 a week for Walcott and he'll leave. The rest of it is a just a PR game. Walcott will continue to find other reasons he cannot sign and Arsenal will keep saying they want a deal. They are at an impasse. Arsenal won't offer much more and they're too far apart on the salary.
Also this isn't tabloid fodder or Goal.com invented tripe. It's the BBC and the reporter, David Ornstein, is very reliable. He was the only reporter to say M'Vila wasn't '99.9%' done in the Summer, which was correct, he got the Podoski signing correct (when it was actually done rather than speculation). So I don't have reason to doubt him this time. He reports transfer rumours very rarely and is right when he does:
https://twitter.com/bbcsport_david