Arsenal: We’re all having a laugh about Joan Jordan now, aren’t we?

All of Arsenal’s best ideas are falling by the wayside, and Joan Jordan is just the latest to end up somewhere that isn’t the Emirates. And would you look at that price?

Arsenal are broke, right? They have a £45m to spend this summer, not including sales. So obviously spending £15m on Leandro Trossard and £12m on Joan Jordan is just waaaaaay out of their price range, innit?

Mere days after seeing Trossard sign with Brighton for a measly £15m, a potential Aaron Ramsey replacement Joan Jordan has been announced at Valencia. His fee was supposedly in the range of £12m, which was even less than his reported release clause.

Meanwhile, Arsenal are looking to spend £80m on Wilfried Zaha and £30m for William Saliba, only to loan him back. For those not good at math, that’s £110m on one player we can have this year, where we could have spent £27m on two players we can have right now. All of these players are needed, so it’s not like we can even go that route.

I didn’t want to get “up in arms” about any signings or non-signings. I really didn’t. At least not until the signings and sales start happening in July. But here we have yet another affordable solution that fill well within our budget, and he’s gone somewhere else.

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Joan Jordan may not be what some people would see as a “marquee” signing. He’s 24-years-old and managed four goals and four assists for Eibar last season. But the man creates chances, he plays defense, he does the dabbling that Ramsey dabbled in and he’s growing into a point in his career where it looked as though he was ready for that next big step.

Which apparently meant not leaving Spain at all, but just moving up the food chain therein.

Granted, we don’t know what might have happened. Maybe Unai Emery and the Arsenal brain trust found him lacking. That very well could be. But damn, seeing price tags like that for talent with as much upside as Jordan has fall by the wayside makes me wonder who will be left for us to pluck away when the time comes to actually make a signing.

Tell me more about how this “broke” club is pursuing the most expensive semi-solutions, when cheap semi-solutions are falling by the wayside. It really doesn’t make much sense, but that’s what we’ve got to look forward to all summer—making sense of it.