Ollie Watkins

[eamonn]

I can't see Arsenal being interested, they already have a few one-in-three, hard-working strikers.

[The Charmer]

Star of the show is the accountant at the top in the middle giving it the double 'V's. Highlight of his life.

,  ,  ,  and I didn't even know that Alan Bennett was a Chelsea fan!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Arsenal like anybody else would be interested if they can get him on the cheap. The fact Watkins is an Arsenal fan and his only hope of ever playing for England again under Southgate would be to move club, any club.

The timing from his agent (if true) could be better. The window is now closed, maybe he was waiting for his client to score this season in the PL. It reminds me of an old direct marketing story where an US agency tested a sample mailing list, sending prospective clients a box with a goldfish in a bag of water. The test sample gave a great return so they decided to go full on with the complete mailing list, sending out hundreds of thousands of goldfish. What they failed to factor in was timing. It rolled out in winter and thousands of people received a goldfish in a block of ice.

It is strange that Watkins hasn't signed a new contract as it seems to have been on the table since the end of last season.

[olaftab]

I can't see Arsenal being interested, they already have a few one-in-three, hard-working strikers.

They also have a 1 in 30 striker called Havertz. They paid £70M for him so Ollie is fair price at £140M.

[pablo_picasso]

Watkins agent is doing exactly what he is paid to do.
He is setting about getting the best deal for his player, and one of the oldest tricks in the book, is to tout your player around at a few different clubs and play them off against each other.
It doesn't mean the player wants to leave necessarily, but it does mean the agent has more leverage to negotiate a better deal for more money when he has a couple of clubs interested.
Didn't Emile Smith-Rowe and his agent do the same with us. Stoked up our interest by claiming the player could be tempted to move away, and then he signs a nice new big contract to stay at Arsenal.
I wouldn't read too much into it, it's an agent "leaking it"/playing games to earn himself a bigger slice of commission.

His agent should wait until he starts on one of his goalscoring runs before trying to gain leverage over the club...

[AV84]

If it keeps him scoring between now and January I don't care which order they do things in.

[eamonn]

Arsenal like anybody else would be interested if they can get him on the cheap. The fact Watkins is an Arsenal fan and his only hope of ever playing for England again under Southgate would be to move club, any club.

The timing from his agent (if true) could be better. The window is now closed, maybe he was waiting for his client to score this season in the PL. It reminds me of an old direct marketing story where an US agency tested a sample mailing list, sending prospective clients a box with a goldfish in a bag of water. The test sample gave a great return so they decided to go full on with the complete mailing list, sending out hundreds of thousands of goldfish. What they failed to factor in was timing. It rolled out in winter and thousands of people received a goldfish in a block of ice.

It is strange that Watkins hasn't signed a new contract as it seems to have been on the table since the end of last season.

When he leaves us he'll say that playing for Villa was too much like living in a goldfish bowl (I believe Jermaine Jenas said it first (?) after leaving...Newcastle (or Forest).

[john e]

Arsenal like anybody else would be interested if they can get him on the cheap. The fact Watkins is an Arsenal fan and his only hope of ever playing for England again under Southgate would be to move club, any club.

The timing from his agent (if true) could be better. The window is now closed, maybe he was waiting for his client to score this season in the PL. It reminds me of an old direct marketing story where an US agency tested a sample mailing list, sending prospective clients a box with a goldfish in a bag of water. The test sample gave a great return so they decided to go full on with the complete mailing list, sending out hundreds of thousands of goldfish. What they failed to factor in was timing. It rolled out in winter and thousands of people received a goldfish in a block of ice.

It is strange that Watkins hasn't signed a new contract as it seems to have been on the table since the end of last season.

When he leaves us he'll say that playing for Villa was too much like living in a goldfish bowl (I believe Jermaine Jenas said it first (?) after leaving...Newcastle (or Forest).

I think Pink Floyd also said it

[Bad English]

"If you hit double figures by January, we'll think about improving the offer Ollie."

[Risso]

"If you hit double figures by January, we'll think about improving the offer Ollie."

Might as well just put him on the train to London in that case.

[AV84]

Cash taking the piss out of Watkins shooting the past few weeks....

[eamonn]

Top bantz from the boiz.

[PaulTheVillan]

Couple of comments there really show how much Luiz is rated.

[PeterWithesShin]

Up to 5th in our PL top scorers list having passed Barry and Benteke. Now 1 behind JPA.

[Risso]

Up to 5th in our PL top scorers list having passed Barry and Benteke. Now 1 behind JPA.

Going to have to go some to get 30 this season, mind.