Alexis Sanchez

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MCFC1993 said:
After what they've done to him this summer. Not a fucking chance. He won't let Arsenal have a decision over his future again after this summer.

He'll leave for free next summer and collect a big signing on fee, hopefully he's still adamant on City but i'll just take him leaving that lot for free.
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I don't mean a 400k/week contract. I mean something way bigger. Messi/Ronaldo money. To pacify him for the year.
 
mccity said:
My fear is they offer him a ridiculously huge contract just so that they can get a large fee for him next summer.
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Probably not, be 30 then. Players with his engine and desire don't last long. This was their best chance of getting some serious money for him.
 
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"Sources close to Alexis Sanchez have told the independent he is now somewhere b/w “crestfallen” and “livid”

They won't see the same Alexis as last season.
 
Jumanji said:
Hopefully in a year, he hasn't entered the beginning of his decline. He'll be 30.
Players that play like him don't last long.
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Precisely this.

I desperately wanted him, but really as a short term measure. He could have given us two very good years and helped us to give Silva, Yaya and Vinnie the Champions league trophy they so badly need/want/deserve before they retire.

Next summer we should move on and find a younger, more driven forward for the long term to take over from Serge.

Now or never for Sanchez.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Don't know why Arsenal fans are gloating. They're going into the new season with 2 players that don't want to sign new contracts (Sanchez & Ozil) 1 definitely doesn't want to be there, Holding as a starting centre half, a midfield 2 of Xhaka and Elneny and Lacazette as their only striker (unless you count Welbeck!).
I mean look at their squad:

Cech, Ospina

Bellerin, Kolasinac, Monreal, Debuchy (haha)

Koscielny, Mertesacker, Holding, Chambers - Look at those centre halves!

Xhaka, Coquelin, Elneny, Cazorla (crocked), Wilshere (crocked)

Sanchez, Ozil, Walcott, Ramsey, Nelson

Lacazette, Welbeck


Add a toxic atmosphere and they'll be lucky to get top 8.


If they see this as a win let them have it. Wait till next summer/January when Sanchez walks out and no one wants to join a regressing team.


Feel sorry for Sanchez could have played with this:
--------------------------Gundogan
---------De Bruyne---------------------Silva/Silva
Sanchez/Sterling----Aguero/Jesus-------Sanchez/Sane

Instead he's got this:
-------------------Elneny----------Xhaka
Ramsey/Walcott-----------Ozil------------------Sanchez
---------------------------Lacazette

Difference is night and day!
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The idea that Arsenal fans are gloating is bloody ridiculous.

We know our place and it's no longer in the top 6 but at least we haven't taken down our trousers and let you lot feck us up the proverbial...
 
mccity said:
I don't mean a 400k/week contract. I mean something way bigger. Messi/Ronaldo money. To pacify him for the year.
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He wouldn't take the risk and Arsenal couldn't afford it. They made profit in a window where £1.4bn was spent in the Premier League, they wouldn't take the risk and he wouldn't.
 
Jack Hackett said:
You seem a bit overwrought. Calm down, dear.
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It's ironic really, you need the player more than we do, and you need the money more than we do, and in 12 months you will have neither. It is also highly likely that you will have another year out if the top 4, you will have also lost Ozil and Sant C on frees, and your senile manager will still be telling us how having players in the last year of their contract is good for your club (how does that one work exactly?)
 
argyle said:
I agree. I think it will be two more summer windows until we have a truly great squad.

I now wish instead of wasting time with Sanchez we got a world class centre midfielder or centre back.
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Yep, these are where the £60m should go. I am all for signing Sanches because he is world class and has a measure of the league. But at the end of the day signing him is an option not a necessity. We have Aguero the most lethal striker in recent league history, we have G. Jesus who at his age should be more a potential than a finished product that he is now. We have Sterling and Sane, and the two Silvas might not be true goalscorers but they are a handful.

I'd rather us pull before the deadline a CM or CB. Was hoping it to be van Dijk out of the blue since we have 50-60m in hand. It's not like we will have to buy Sanchez for £60m in the future anyway. He will either be cheaper in January or free for a 30 year old next summer. Would be great to get Sanchez, but we have the players to score the goals. All is not lost.
 
Neville Kneville said:
If we are strong anywhere, it's in attack.
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Central attacking midfield we're strong. Actual goals, I don't think so.

1 injury to Jesus or Aguero and were struggling because neither of our wide players are clinical goal scorers by nature. Sane could prove to be, but we have to start playing him further forward. I think we're 20 goals light in our forward players. Given we wanted Sanchez, Guardiola feels that way too.

There's other areas of the squad in which we're deficient and arguably have less options than last season. That's for a different thread though.
 
Jack Hackett said:
Based upon your analysis, I'm struggling to see victory here...

Our position as Gooners is not one of victory, but of defiance....get it?
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It wasn't really defiance when you had been trying do a player exchange, followed by accepting a cash bid. The only reason he's still there is due to your team not being able to sign a replacement. Not exactly a spectacular act of defiance.
 
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