Arsenal have accepted two bids worth £1.2 million from Hull City and Leeds United for Jay Simpson. The 21-year-old will now hold talks with both clubs, although further offers are expected to arrive.
Simpson has received huge interest since being allowed to find alternative employment after a meeting with Arsene Wenger. Bristol City had tried to take the striker on loan but the Gunners are keen for a cash sale, as Jay is in the final year of his contract. Hull City and Leeds United have both had bids in the religion of £1.2 million accepted, although the payment plan is flexible, meaning not all the money would be paid up front.
Jay and agent Uben Gray will now hold talks with the two Yorkshire club’s over the weekend but other interested parties are yet to declare their hands. Queens Park Rangers, who had the Londoner on loan last season, have back-tracked and are now interested. They would be the preferred destination, but no bid is on the table at present.
Simpson has been pulled out of all match action for Arsenal and is only training lightly.
Itll be sad too see him go, he was a great player who proved he was worth a chance.
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Let’s hope we have 30-50% sell on fee in there as well. Can see him scoring goals and moving on for 6m within a couple of years.
Atlast.best of luck in your new adventure.
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Leeds and Crystal Palace want to hijack Hull’s £1.3million move for Jay Simpson – after all THREE clubs agreed a fee.The 21-year-old Arsenal striker will decide within the next 48 hours.
Though a 1 – 2 million fee seems reasonable for Jay, I’m frankly surprised Arsenal didn’t persuade one of his suitors to pay a more than nominal amount. Championship/lower premiership clubs have a propensity to overvalue peripheral Big Four youngsters. Frazier Campbell commanded over 6 mill, if I remember correctly (?).
Theres probably a sell-on fee clause or something.
Jay’s a pretty good player, and if he works hard, gets experience and improves a few small aspects to his game, I think he can be a PL player. Maybe even an england international.
1.2 million for simpson is a very good deal
J the five youngsters who have been promoted to the first team will they now be included in arsenal’s first team page
£1.2m? Is that all he’s worth? I thought this boy once had a future at Arsenal, but hey, he seems to be a championship player at best it seems.
We need to slap a sell on fee on him, but whilst we are getting rid of the deadwoods in the team, we might aswell sell Randall. I cannot really see him making it at Arsenal.
Better to get a % buy on clause into a deal in general rather than ramp up initial fee imo, if it works out the upshot can be very lucrative as in David Bentley to Spurs case.
If a youth team player hasn’t shown that he can make some meaningful long term contribution by the age of 21, the writing is more or less on the wall at a club like Arsenal these days really
please please please please come to leeds you will not regret it! we will take you to the premiership where you belong!
Sanders
have you heard anything about our new defensive signing
I have heard a deal for mexes is back on as roma are about to sign a defender any truth to that?
There is no information on who’s been promoted to the first-team. Various players have been training with the first-team, there’s no decision yet. Loads of players will get numbers, but only a couple will move into the first-team proper.
Nothing about Mexes, just speculation. He’s very mistake and injury prone anyway IMO.
thanks for the info I hope wenger promotes nortvedit at the very least to the first team
hopefully Frimpong and JET will also be included in the first team
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We never have fully fit strikers. Already Bendtner is ruled out until october and we know how brittle VP is leaving only chamakh to lead the line.
I’d say it’s worth keeping this lad and giving him a run out a bit more regularly
I agree.
Don’t think Simpson would ever be much more than a stop-gap for those in front of him who get injured, but that is a very valuable role to play for a club like ours where injuries are so common.
I believe AW sees this value in Simpson as well, but chose not to stunt the development of a young man he’s taught from a young age. He probably wants to see him do well and knows that using him as a role player for 2-4 more years will do nothing towards him realizing his full potential. If this is the case, good luck to him. And kudos to AW for doing the right thing.
Simpson is a player i use to like so much, it will be sad to see him go; but it’s part of football to go from one place to another, i wish him luck.
when are we going to get rid of randall. the lad is a relic youth player! offers nothing at all times – loses the ball and fluffed 2 sitters in emirates cup.
he thinks hes made and attitude stinks.
get him out of the club
the perfect replacement for beckford then at leeds (i.e. stroppy)
@ Monty, thats a very stupid comment without basis except for “he says she says”
i hate to say it but another english casualty to the foreigner army….i always liked jay as a player and person he’s a born and bred arsenal fan he loves the club and when ever we bother to play him he scores goals, a double in pre season along with a hatrick and a double in his carling cup appearences….goals out on both of his loan spells as well means the boy has a fine scoring record and dare i say it if it weren’t for the durth of foreign youngster we have and foreign players along with wengers attitude towards english youngsters we could be saying goodbye to a player who could of trod a similar path as ian wright, its a crying shame but i wish him all the best in life and his career…sad to see you go jay goodluck mate
tbh mate hes lost out to JET so you can’t reall say this.
no just no he is being sold because he is older than the others and he doesn’t play the arsenal way he’s a good striker and goalscorer but he won’t suceed here without changing his game and don’t BS with the foreign army seeing as most of the youngsters being pushed into the first team are ENGLISH wilshere, frimpong, JET, Lansbury ETC
bruv – he is made, on 12k pr wk car flat and all the sauce with chips, haha keep stacking those shelves u sad f…
p.s randall is abit of an enigma, i agree his attitude sucks a little and he’s never shown much, but the boy has an uncanny ability to underachieve and just when people say time to go marky he goes and scores from inside his own half like he did the other day….i say keep him for alittle while longer maybe a year and give him the chance he’s 20 now not a kid last chance i might add
Well, good to see we’re selling him on at a nominal price. Best of luck in your career, Jay.
@jimmy b if you not good enough you dont play, regardless of race, religon or nationality.
“Hull City and Leeds United have both had bids in the religion of £1.2 million accepted…”
They’re paying us in theology…?
:-)
Ha.