Arsenal make crazy offer for Barcelona’s Antoine Griezmann

Could Arsenal Sign Antoine Griezmann?

Behave. Of course they can’t. Furthermore, they don’t want to either.

Humorously, the report states that the offer Arsenal have tabled has been ‘more than rejected’. In such an instance to do they rip the fax up and blow their nose with it? What’s ‘more than rejected’?

The source is questionable as it is but beyond just that, you need to head to the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia to find enough sodium chloride to make this claim palatable.

Arsenal are set to embark on a rebuild, one already underway. There is no logic in signing a striker/forward who’d be 30 years old by the time summer comes around. Remove form and profile from the equation and focus solely on the age profile and that alone is enough to ease off the case.

Since the other matters are important, his casual £21m yearly salary is plain ridiculous, he’s under contract until 2024 and is not going to leave one of the biggest clubs in the world to join a mid-table outfit who’re facing the prospect of no European football next season. Not one angle of this makes any sense whatsoever.

But because we’re here, let’s talk form: Griezmann has been dreadful for Barcelona. The legendary Hristo Stoichkov publicly slated the 29-year-old quite brutally just this week:

"“Whenever Griezmann is on the pitch, Barcelona are playing with ten players,” Stoichkov explained in an interview with sportsport. “If they want to do something good in the long-term, they have to sell him. “Trincao and Braithwaite must be in the team, what is Griezmann doing there?”"

When Martin Braithewaite is being asked to play ahead of you, just give up.

Arsenal need a striker, but Griezmann? Nah, man.