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ESPN: Anderlecht reject Arsenal's bid for Albert Sambi Lokonga (reliability: 4 stars)

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 have suffered another transfer blow with the Gunners yet to make their first signing of the summer.

 have recently rejected a bid of £12.9 million for 

 have been informed by the Belgian side that an offer of £17.2 million would be enough to seal the transfer of the promising 21-year-old midfielder.

Mikel Arteta is keen on strengthening his midfield options with 

. Lokonga featured in 37 games for Anderlecht last season, scoring 3 goals.

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@Wale Asifa, am glad you have decided to ask yourself and answer it yourself but doing so on behalf of many Arsenal faithful. We all players are valued by their Clubs, once they are available in the market, then nothing is hiding. Major problem of Arsenal, is that they set their focus on many players at the same time. Why not put our priorities in order of preference. Why go for a player half-hearted. If you need a player, and really want it then take off maximum of 5%/to 15% off the value and seal off the Deal.

Wale Banmore

I understand your frustration Wale. It’s very irritating !!!

James Ugbo Snr

you kno the score that how operated bid 5 time first then someone came in bid the right price n the player sold

Morton Matthews

I'm surprised you are saying this, if you go to market as a Nigeria and they said something is 20k, wi you just deep your hand into your pocket and pay. as much as what Arsenal is doing is ridiculous, I feel its business and everyone is trying to save whatever they can save which is fair enough

Gold

while i agree with you, something about arsenal is that they value a player at a certain prices, clubs are fond of inflating their players once the suitor is a big team, now arsenal is rigid in the sense that once a player's price in inflated and above their own value, they turn back and pursue other option. dont forget as a businessman, its the ideal and it makes sense but as a football fan, its frustrating. but what i always ask myself is, if it were my club will i just spend anyhow?

U have a point, but in thesame Nigeria when u prove any product below the right value the market women abuse u and call u names ( ijebu, ole etc) so I’m not saying it’s wrong to prove things down but going far below valuation is the annoying thing. What u meet is rejection and rejection

Wale Asifat

because they stupidly accept lower offers for our own players

Oyadina Oluwatobi Samuel

we have become specialist in  biding   and coming back without any player

Kolapo Jikiemi

So annoying wale sick of this. That’s why they keep rejecting 

Ola Kunle

The Arsenal board think other club are same with us that always sold player on cheap.

Cke Nizwan

Wondering why all our bids are always rejected. U no  the players value and u will be pricing it stupidly. If I say my product is 20m why bring 15m ? Maybe 18/19m is close. No wonder we always scout all the great players of the world but never buys them

Too bad, to be playing with the emotions of the fans.

Alan  bryant

Nathan Thambyraja

Francisco Mahanuque

I guess they don't really want to sign anyone they are just bidding to make the fans believe that they want to... SMFH

Ricardo Clarke

Pitson

No tears over Lokonga rejection. For goodness sake Arsenal go after high class players!!  Lokonga is at best an average player!! If we are serious about getting back to the top, then we should stop fooling around with this going round in circles !!! We hear about other serious clubs having completed signing new high class players. All we ever hear about Arsenal is ‘ eyeing this’ ‘interested in that’ etc. Few hours to close of window we end up hurriedly signing one or two rejects. 
ARSENAL PLEASE STOP THIS!!!!! 

I will forever remain a Gooner, which is why it hurts so much !!!!

Player		G
Erling Haaland	Man City	20
Cole Palmer	Chelsea	20
Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	19
Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth	18
Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	17

ESPN: Anderlecht reject Arsenal's bid for Albert Sambi Lokonga (reliability: 4 stars)

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