Alexis Sanchez

[CITYROBBO]

Imagine if we did pay him £350k-400k a week. It would cause massive unrest with the players and squad. Let's admire our stance and buy younger players on far lower wages who are hungry.

 

[80s Shorts]

No because that’s obviously different to the matter at hand. What Alexis wants is within reason for all top players. Pay him a higher signing on fee, reduce his wages simple.

WTF. Have you computed the difference in the reported wages over 3 years. You're saying we should give him 25 or 30 million as a signing on fee ?

Balls to that. And if we did, them lot would likely offer even more. Cant run a football club like that.

 

[taconinja]

Generally the least reliable part of any transfer gossip is the part about wages. I don’t know why people are so sure in this instance the gossip is correct.

 

[foggy1974]

Am I correct in saying pundits and papers are in the main still saying he will come to us but everyone on here thinks he is going to the scum

think its more a case of
some scared hes going there
some thinking sign it any cost
and some saying that the deal has to represent value for money

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Shocking.

Isco wins every day of all the transfer windows for me.

The Alfonso Alves thread was spectacular, though shorter, as well.

I factored in a premature awarding of a Forum award into the decision, so I dunno, I think this one wins

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

While I also understand the clubs current stance, it begs the question why we thought he was worth £60m in the summer. In the space of 4 months he has gone from arguably our number 1 transfer target, to a guy that we are not willing to pay more than £20m for. I feel that it was either a short-sighted, over-priced, stupid move in the summer, or we are now cutting off our nose to spite our face.

It wasn't £60m plus £400k a week though.

 

[OB1]

We could have got him for 70 mil in the summer if we'd bid it early.

But he's not worth it, nor worth what Utd will pay him.

I'm not so certain that he would not have been worth £70m.

 

[cucumberman]

How come we cannot afford him if we were rumoured to have put in an offer for Mbappe in the Summer for over 100m ...I think we can afford him but wont pay agents fees

I'm pretty sure no one's saying we can't afford him. It's more of we will buy him for price A and if he reaches price B, we might as well fork out and invest on better options on lower wages and more years ahead of him.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

It sounds like madness until you compare Coutinho to Barca for £142m. Granted he is younger and not out of contract but we r gonna have to pay big in the summer for another worldy.

But unlikely to be a 29 year old .

 

[fareastblue]

While I also understand the clubs current stance, it begs the question why we thought he was worth £60m in the summer. In the space of 4 months he has gone from arguably our number 1 transfer target, to a guy that we are not willing to pay more than £20m for. I feel that it was either a short-sighted, over-priced, stupid move in the summer, or we are now cutting off our nose to spite our face.

Maybe we didn’t imagined a shark team in the summer and now we already have one