The question for Arsenal is not whether they think Mudryk is 'worth' £88m (that is always a silly question) but whether they are equally as desperate as Manchester United found themselves at the end of August. That's the Antony scale.
Date published: Wednesday 4th January 2023 2:16 -The name ‘Antony’ has appeared in far too many Mykhailo Mudryk stories to be a coincidence; Shakhtar Donetsk are happy for everybody – but most importantly Arsenal – to know that this is their pricing scale.
Fast-forward five months and Arsenal are being told that this manufactured Antony fee – produced by giggling Ajax executives who were briefing the media that the Brazilian was ‘non-transferable’ – is governing the asking price of their January target. Which is ludicrous but entirely understandable. Manchester United paying that price for Antony, and Manchester City, has given the selling club a very lucrative marker that simply cannot be ignored.
In any other transfer market, Arsenal could probably laugh off this Antony scale, but this transfer market includes Chelsea, who are busy conforming to every stereotype of bombastic American owners by
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