There have been plenty of different rumours and stories about what went down with Arsenal and
Lemar on deadline day, so we're going to try to pick through the bones and figure out what really happened.
Arsenal launched a # 92m bid for Thomas
Lemar on deadline day, while Barcelona went as high as # 138m in an effort to sign Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger had confirmed earlier today that he had made a bid for French forward Thomas
Lemar on deadline day.
Arsenal tried to shatter their transfer record to sign Monaco star Thomas
Lemar on deadline day but the move could not happen and in such a scenario, the Gunners opted to keep Alexis Sanchez.
If Arsenal had managed to snare Thomas
Lemar on deadline day, it looks like we would have been forced to sell Alexis to Manchester City, and that would have made Pep Guardiola's team even hotter favourites to win the Premier League, and they are looking pretty strong without him at the moment.
The only reason Alexis is still with Arsenal is because Wenger couldn't get
Lemar on deadline day.
«And then the horrendous mess they made of trying to sign Thomas
Lemar on deadline day, putting in a club - record bid when they didn't have a guarantee that Lemar would come to the club.
Not exact matches
Lemar looks set to leave Monaco in 2018, having turned down the chance to join the Gunners
on deadline day in the summer.
Thomas
Lemar is an ongoing tussle which has died down of late, but I certainly wouldn't rule out returning for him
on deadline day with the midfielder supposedly keen
on the switch.
The Chilean was believed to have agreed terms to join Manchester City
on Deadline Day, only for his replacement Thomas
Lemar to opt against moving to Arsenal, and Alexis will more than likely be negotiating his future from January onwards.
Manchester City have been the most strongly linked, with Pep Guardiola agreeing a fee with our club for his arrival
on deadline day back in August, only for Arsenal to backtrack after failing to persuade Thomas
Lemar to join in his place.
Arsenal were close to signing Monaco winger Thomas
Lemar on transfer
deadline day, but the deal fell through at the last minute, per the Express.
To rub salt
on injury, our main target that we failed to sign...
Lemar just scored an absolute screamer
on deadline day!
Sanchez, as reported by the Sun, was left devastated
on deadline day after his proposed # 60M move to rivals Manchester City fell through, with the Gunners themselves coming close to securing a deal for 21 - year - old
Lemar, as the north London side made a # 92M move to replace the Chilean, however Wenger's side failed to get a deal over the line for the player.
This theory of course goes against the suggestion that
Lemar rejected a move to Arsenal
on deadline day, with Liverpool also linked with a late swoop.
After Arsenal bid # 92m for him
on transfer
deadline day, per the Daily Mail, Thomas
Lemar is going to be an expensive buy.
Our club turned down # 60 Million
on this summer's
deadline day from Manchester City, but was believed to have agreed that they would have sold him had Thomas
Lemar agreed to join the club.
Manchester City had agreed a fee with the Gunners
on deadline day, believed to be in the region of # 60 - 70 Million, only for Arsenal to fail to persuade replacement Thomas
Lemar to come in his place.
Mbappe ultimately left for Paris St Germain
on an initial loan deal while
Lemar stayed despite a reported # 90million offer from Arsenal
on deadline day.
Having previously submitted a # 75M bid for Monaco's talented 21 - year - old attacker Thomas
Lemar, Liverpool now know they will have to return with a better offer if they're to have a chance of signing the young French international after Arsenal put in a # 90M bid for him
on deadline day.
Lemar opted out of a # 92million move to the Emirates
on deadline day in August though Arsene Wenger has confirmed that his pursuit of the French international will not be ended.
The Gunners were willing to sell the 28 - year - old, but pulled out after they failed to land Thomas
Lemar from Monaco
on transfer
deadline day.
City had a # 60m bid for Sanchez accepted by the Gunners
on Deadline Day but the deal collapsed when Arsenal were unable to sign Thomas
Lemar as a replacement from Monaco.
On transfer
deadline day, both Arsenal and Liverpool made a last gasp attempt to prize Thomas
Lemar away from Monaco, but the Ligue 1 side kept strong.
Sky Sports reporters Aidan Magee and Dharmesh Sheth have «revealed» what most of us already knew regarding Thomas
Lemar's failed move to Arsenal
on deadline day.
It's been a shambolic transfer window overall for Arsenal, as they saw Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain join Liverpool
on deadline day, while a deal for Alexis Sanchez to move to Manchester City was seemingly all - but done until the Gunners failed in their pursuit of Thomas
Lemar, as reported by The Guardian.
Sanchez believed he was going to become a City player
on deadline day, and Arsenal accepted a # 60milion offer — but they could not find a replacement when a move for Monaco's Thomas
Lemar failed.
Former Arsenal midfielder and full - time Arsene Wenger hater, Stewart Robson, believes that Monaco's Thomas
Lemar made the right decision by turning down a move to north London
on Transfer
Deadline Day.
Chelsea are also keen
on Monaco star Thomas
Lemar and will make another attempt to buy Everton midfielder Ross Barkley after a # 35m deal fell through
on deadline day last August.