Ollie Watkins

[PaulWinch again]

Not if the offer was £45m, that is derisory and if we’re setting expectation we should be explicitly clear on that.

[Martyn Smith]

He'll obviously be interested. As would any of us if the Villa came calling. We may need to appease him with an acceptance that it could be revisited in the summer.

I don't get why he'd want to go now. He's in the last 16 of the CL. If he were to join Arsenal then he'd lose that.

However, I do entirely get that in the summer, once this campaign is all done and dusted and, as is probably the most likely outcome, Arse are in the CL again and we aren't, then it makes sense for him to go to the club he supports, and maybe play out the last few years of his career there

[Sexual Ealing]

Arsenal are in the last 16 too.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's very Doug Ellis to offer an amount that has no chance of being accepted but at least you can claim to fans that you tried.

[aj2k77]

If Villa came calling for me I'd leave whatever club I was at immediately and Odemwingie outside the ground until a deal was done, such is the pull of Villa. However Arsenal aren't Villa. Arsenal are Arteta led wankers. They are toffs and tarquins who leave trophy presentations to get home to catch a full episode of whatever program Ant and Dec are on this week. They are bed wetters who turned on a manager who had built them a stadium and won 10 trophies and ridiculed him on their little youtube rant stations. They took the piss out of one of Europes great managers because he didn't speak like a cockney donut. A fair minded considerate man. Then replaced him with a petulant, spiteful little snide. Their fan base en masse sold thousands upon thousands of home end tickets to away fans and had their ground taken over by them in a european tie.

Villa and Arsenal are not comparable. They are a foie gras of a football club. Expensive and shit. They don't belong in football, they belong in a Nick Hornby book as a perfectly sanitised fictional club that are part of someone who resides in Belgravia's afternoon schedule.

You'd have to be mad to leave Villa for Arsenal.

[AV82EC]

If Villa came calling for me I'd leave whatever club I was at immediately and Odemwingie outside the ground until a deal was done, such is the pull of Villa. However Arsenal aren't Villa. Arsenal are Arteta led wankers. They are toffs and tarquins who leave trophy presentations to get home to catch a full episode of whatever program Ant and Dec are on this week. They are bed wetters who turned on a manager who had built them a stadium and won 10 trophies and ridiculed him on their little youtube rant stations. They took the piss out of one of Europes great managers because he didn't speak like a cockney donut. A fair minded considerate man. Then replaced him with a petulant, spiteful little snide. Their fan base en masse sold thousands upon thousands of home end tickets to away fans and had their ground taken over by them in a european tie.

Villa and Arsenal are not comparable. They are a foie gras of a football club. Expensive and shit. They don't belong in football, they belong in a Nick Hornby book as a perfectly sanitised fictional club that are part of someone who resides in Belgravia's afternoon schedule.

You'd have to be mad to leave Villa for Arsenal.

Ha that’s lovely.

[Tayls_7]

All that and you didn't even have to mention Piers Morgan. Good stuff.

[LeeB]

Arsenal appear to have left the class they used to be known for at Highbury.

[aj2k77]

All that and you didn't even have to mention Piers Morgan. Good stuff.

He's subarsenal scum.

[Monty]

Piers Morgan, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer and Osama bin Laden.

[aj2k77]

Piers Morgan, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer and Osama bin Laden.

The axis of Arsenal.

[LeeB]

Piers Morgan, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer and Osama bin Laden.

The only question there is "who had the biggest porn collection?"

[kippaxvilla2]

Playing catch up is he leaving?

[Beard82]

If Villa came calling for me I'd leave whatever club I was at immediately and Odemwingie outside the ground until a deal was done, such is the pull of Villa. However Arsenal aren't Villa. Arsenal are Arteta led wankers. They are toffs and tarquins who leave trophy presentations to get home to catch a full episode of whatever program Ant and Dec are on this week. They are bed wetters who turned on a manager who had built them a stadium and won 10 trophies and ridiculed him on their little youtube rant stations. They took the piss out of one of Europes great managers because he didn't speak like a cockney donut. A fair minded considerate man. Then replaced him with a petulant, spiteful little snide. Their fan base en masse sold thousands upon thousands of home end tickets to away fans and had their ground taken over by them in a european tie.

Villa and Arsenal are not comparable. They are a foie gras of a football club. Expensive and shit. They don't belong in football, they belong in a Nick Hornby book as a perfectly sanitised fictional club that are part of someone who resides in Belgravia's afternoon schedule.

You'd have to be mad to leave Villa for Arsenal.

beautifully put

[TonyD]

Playing catch up is he leaving?

Looks like it.