Alex Scott’s future has dominated headlines in recent times, and there’s been a new update that just doesn’t quite add up.
The 22-year-old has impressed at Bournemouth and it certainly makes sense that we’re seeing him linked with so many big clubs at the moment.
In just the last few days we’ve had some key updates, with Sky Sports reporting that Scott has rejected a new contract at Bournemouth, while Chelsea have apparently had an initial £64m offer for the Englishman turned down by the Cherries, according to BBC Sport.
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Now the latest from the Daily Mirror is that Arsenal are leading Manchester United in the race to sign Scott for just £40m.
Latest Alex Scott transfer update doesn’t add up
There’s a lot that’s a bit puzzling about the Mirror’s report, so it’s possible that they’ll update it at some point to correct some errors.
Firstly, the obvious point is that there’s surely no way any club is signing Scott for £40m when we’ve had a reliable outlet like the BBC saying that Bournemouth have rejected £64m for him.
It’s also a bit puzzling that there’s no mention of Chelsea at all from the Mirror, which describes the saga as a battle between Arsenal and Man Utd.
While it’s easy to imagine those clubs also being interested, it seems strange to frame it that way when there’s such reliable information elsewhere that Chelsea are also clearly one of Scott’s biggest suitors.
Slightly conflicting claims on Alex Scott’s future
The report suggests Arsenal are in pole position to sign Scott, but it also mentions that the player is ‘worried about how much game time he will get for Mikel Arteta’s English champions’.
It may well be that Scott ends up choosing the Gunners anyway, but it seems strange to describe them as being so clearly in pole position when he has this rather significant doubt about joining.
Away from this report, there are also very strong signals that Arsenal’s top midfield target isn’t even Scott anyway, but Newcastle’s Bruno Guimaraes.
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The Times claim that club-to-club talks have started, so that seems to be Arsenal’s focus for their midfield right now.
Of course, it’s perfectly possible that AFC also keep the Scott deal alive in case Newcastle reject all offers for Guimaraes, but that still seems unlikely to mean they’re in pole position *now* to sign Scott, and certainly not for £40m.
It will be interesting to see what further updates emerge on this story, but for now it’s hard to make sense of the Mirror’s information being so out of sync with what everyone else seems to be reporting.
The reason could be a number of factors regarding rejecting Chelsea’s overpriced bid, plus it’s the players choice also.
1.The player Scott, may be ambitious and want to win the league instead of joining pitiful 10th placebunch of money grabbing Chelsea losers.
2. The player Scott, may wish to play European football, which Chelsea being placed 10th cannot provide.
3. Scott maybe concerned that overpaying Chelsea will be selling some of their best players to afford such ridiculous bidding figures without the FA investigating them for profit sustainability.
4. Scott may not wish to commit to a losing club for their usual excessive 7 year contract deals.
5. Chelsea may have offered £64m to be pain over 3 or 4 years, instead of all the £64m upfront.
6. Maybe Chelsea cannot offer him regular game time.
7. Chelsea may have wanted no add-ons like no future sell on percentage back or no buy back clause or no incentive add ons what so ever.
8. Maybe they have bad history with dealings from Chelsea.
That’s just a few reasons why Chelsea’s overpriced bid of £64m, if true, was rejected in favour for a lesser bid from a more ambitious club like Arsenal or Manchester. But Chelsea like Tottenham will have to justify overbidding to prove profits sustainability, seeing as they have no European revenue and are more likely have to sell some of their key first team players to afford non bargain overbidding practices.
methinks you might be a delusional ars supporter !! perhaps the whole story is fake , perhaps the Chelsea kitchen staff started a rumour ,perhaps Chelsea are NOT interested in Scott. !! you certainly didn’t know anything about Chelsea interest in Morgan Rogers !! just saying…..
1, obviously this individual hasn’t got over the Roger’s saga yet.
2, perhaps this individual should try a sleeping remedy to help him relax.
3, there are a good number of therapists this individual could try to overcome his anxiety.
4, finally, it’s not my nature to mock the afflicted however I’d like to thank this individual for brightening my day cheering everyone else up in the carriage I was travelling in when I read he’s article and instinctively laughed at loud to my embarrassment and everyone’s else amusement.
if player of that caliber cannot be guaranteed regular game time under Chelsea, then is a prove that Chelsea is a big name. Young man remember that Chelsea hijak Rogers under arsenal watch even though Chelsea is not playing any European competition.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 BIG NAME IS EQUIVALENT TO CAPACITY.💪💪💪💪💪💪💪. arsenal is just a local champion with a touch of domestic robbery 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.
Nooo!no no no no… The vek! May be you are not following the news properly that is why you are trying to get confused, dont confuse us in that way . Listent! According to the emerging news, it is Scot who is pushing for a move to Stanford Bridge. But I dont see anything but if a player is alone pushing for a move due to the fact that he knows what is important for him. For us we dont have any problem in the midfield..ahaaaa! LOL. See we have Moi, Valentin, Lavia, Enzo, Roger and Joao as emergencies, Dario and Cold Palmer. We dont loose anything if Scot goes the other way.
Perhaps you would not even go abid deep, you could juxt look at the statements and know that he is ArseGunas fan and may be the name to prove that whole story he is posting is fake.
I have never seen such baselessly waffling of envy, pettiness & fallacy from an obviously dejected Arsenal moron
Go and buy ALEX SCOTT & have some sleep
Chelsea doesn’t really need him & Bournemouth doesn’t want to sell
Nonetheless if push comes to shove; Chelsea will bag him easily
It is always real and normal sense that if I want to sale my car and there are two competitors two buy it at misceleneous prices lets say $150000 and $180000, probably with normal sense, I will chose the later. And so AFC cant engage in such business whether you like it or not. Or may be it makes sense on your side I dont know, so I dont want to criticise…SORRY BUT THINK TWISE!
I want us to understand and agree with me that chelsea currently whether you like or not have the best and most dangerous ATTACKING in England next season more especially epl with the likes of Cold Palmer, Morgan Roger, Estevao Willian, Joao Pedro, Enzo Jeramias, Dastan Satpaev, Geovany Quenda, Petro Neto and Emanuel Emegha with Alvarez very likely to join in a surprise deal.
It seems a bit Chelsea fan lead these post, so I will speak for the rest of the premier league and what is being said by opinion. Please don’t judge me as I am just passing on the rest of the leagues opinions regarding non European Chelsea over spending this season and the past 3 seasons
I am glad I got under all you Chelsea low two digit IQ pathetic Trolling individuals that do not represent the rest of Chelsea’s good supporters that would admit the over spending of a mid table Chelsea that cannot justify the money when they are not earning funds from playing in Europe.
It is a wonder that they therefore may not be attracting ambitious players such as Rogers or revenue from new kosher sponsorship deals due to their recent league position failure.
I am sure that the majority of decent hard working season ticket holding Chelsea fans would agree and are more intelligent than those making such trolling post to ignore the facts and intelligent opinions or others.
Rogers was a good purchase and yes I don’t understand why he chose Chelsea, knowing that they will have to balance the books and sell the best players, but you have to admit that Chelsea over paid for Rogers by at least £30m.
Chelsea has spent a pathetic £1billion plus in their overpriced spending over the past 3 seasons which in being laughed by everyone for being conned by the selling clubs and wasting their desperate fans season ticket money and by hoping to evade the profit and sustainability investigation that will be coming their way soon unless they sell their best players to balance their dubious accounts.
All that they have to show their disapointed fans after over investing £1billion plus is 10th place and the chance of being investigated for unjustified over spending.
Unless they sell their best players like Cole, Fernandez etc.. to balance their books they cannot justify the £1b plus spending over 3 seasons including this season over paying market value for players.
I predict Chelsea will follow Spurs last seasons league position this coming season and be lucky to escape relegation both by loosing to mid table and above teams or maybe by FA punishment if they don’t balance their books. Sorry to the majority of decent Chelsea fans who some of which are friends, but it’s Just my opinion, but I could be wrong so try not to worry about the FA taking an interest.
Have a great season!
Whether you wish us a great season amillion times as you can or not, it is our season. And I would like to advise you that in real life, if you are a rich person like chelsea, dont hesitate to atleast help your neighbour who is very poor like Notingham forest club by using your money to buy his property like Manchester bought Elliot from them. Stop being selfish