OK, I grouped all those players together to ascertain whether Sanchez is faster or slower than them? My guess is Sanchez speed and speed of thought stacks up with any of them. You say Sanchez has lost a yard of pace? Whose carried out the pace comparison? Or are you putting across your opinion as fact? As a viewer of Italian football, Sanchez was never considered an out and out speed merchant with nothing else to his game. He's quick, but I fail to recall teams playing deep to stop his once blistering pace blitzing their defences, unless you can supply any examples to the contrary?
Can you rearrange this list in the order of the quickest first to the slowest last for me, and also qualify your figures too: It would also be great if you could provide last seasons' verified speed tests and this seasons too to back up your claim that Sanchez has lost a yard of pace. Also please explain what 'Lost a yard of pace' actually means.
Aguero
B Silva
D Silva
Fernandinho
Jesus
Sanchez
You also say Alexis Sanchez was a poor man's David White, which just gave me a right good ole belly laugh! Lol :-) If there was ever a player who relied on speed over everything else it was David White and when he began to lose it, his career faded with it. Sanchez is a totally different type of player, but obviously a players' talents must be in the eye of the beholder as we see Sanchez in such a polarised way.
When you say both White and Sanchez have a similar physique, are you referring to the fact they both have two arms and legs, and one head? Because with White being 6ft 1 and Sanchez being 5.5ft, it makes him smaller than Messi, Aguero & Hazard, so I fail to see where the physical similarities lie.
Have you also considered why several top clubs are/were looking to sign Sanchez for either a big fee, reduced price or on a free? Have they also got it wrong about Sanchez the same way Pep Guardiola has? Wenger plays Sanchez up front sometimes as a false No9 and CF has never been considered his position ever. BUT I've seen us use B&D Silva, Sterling, Sane, KDB and Toure as false No9's/CF's if needed to see out a game, so just because they've played that position, does that constitute them being classed as a CF for ever & ever more? I mean I recall David James being used as an extra forward for us once, but was he considered for that position in his next appearance for us? If this is the case, why are you talking about Sanchez threatening Aguero's place in the side, when in another sentence you intimate he's a fading speed-merchant winger? Which one is he?
In terms of Sanchez and his performances, Many of the players we've used this season were the very same players used when we nearly got relegated from the Champions League. Why have they seemingly recovered so spectacularly? Could this be the difference a proper manager makes to a player?