assuming we don't get caught there are only 3 places to go for and if i were them i would consider it more likely if they keep him,arsene showed him in the summer he doesn't give a shit about how alexis feels,i just cant see it
they turned down 60m and ran it to the last hour of the transfer window,arsene is an old fool,he is still their best player so keeping him makes more sense to them and their top 4 bid,they have money they just don't spend it so they don't need 25m even if anyone thought that was a good idea,i hope i am wrong as i want himIf you listen to Raphael Honigstein he feels Özil still would happily stay at Arsenal if given the contract he wants.
With Sanchez he is leaving regardless and because of it he is putting in hit and miss performances.
I think Arsenal will take £25m in January.
That cLub is run like a business and because if it I think they will take a cash sum in January.
However the suits who own Arsenal will want the money, wouldn't you if you owned Arsenal?Looking at it from the Gooners point of view. Arsen wont want to lose face and I think they will turn down all offers in Jan.
BUT Pep may want to keep our squad on their toes & provide further competition/cover within our squad.Another three to four weeks from now and all arguments may become redundant. By then we could be so far in front that Pep will continue with what he's got. If we falter in that time, the clamour to sign Sanchez will wipe out all doubts about him. In either case, time is on Pep's side and he won't let himself be governed by rash thinking.
Just think if that had been the case he would have been sold in the summer.However the suits who own Arsenal will want the money, wouldn't you if you owned Arsenal?
Difference is, in the summer they thought selling him would be them losing their best player who would single handedly win them a bunch of points, now they have seen what he's been like this year and are probably more alright with letting him go.Just think if that had been the case he would have been sold in the summer.
But getting into the CL negates any loss, and keeping Sanchez for another window was a calculated risk, if they did somehow hit top form and stayed there until Xmas, With a chance of the title, Sanchez may have stayed on another year, he'd already verbally agreed to stay on prior to the 10-2 agg drubbing by BM, but changed his mind after thatJust think if that had been the case he would have been sold in the summer.
I honestly don’t think Arsène will lose face. The more Alexis plays there’s an increasing number of gooners fans want him gone. If anything Arsène can say he did everything but Alexis just isn’t being professional and the Arsenal lot will lap it upLooking at it from the Gooners point of view. Arsen wont want to lose face and I think they will turn down all offers in Jan.
Think back to the summer. If they knew then what they know now, they'd have took the £65m on offer.Just think if that had been the case he would have been sold in the summer.
Think back to the summer. If they knew then what they know now, they'd have took the £65m on offer.
For them keeping Sanchez to ensure CL football next season was a reasonable risk to take. It looks like Arsenal are in a proper battle for a top 4 finish anyway, so in hindsight, they may as well have done the deal in the summer.
To a lesser extent the situation has come around again, so they have the option of taking the same risks again. They can accept whatever they can get for him now, & put it toward his replacement now or in the summer. Or keep Sanchez until the summer with no guarantee that the risk will work & allow him to leave for free.
If it was me & it was obvious there was no chance of him re-signing, I'd have sold him last summer to the highest bidder & pit my efforts into those players who wanted to fight for the club.
I've asked this question before. Why would Sanchez coming in January upset the apple cart & a happy camp?Difference is, in the summer they thought selling him would be them losing their best player who would single handedly win them a bunch of points, now they have seen what he's been like this year and are probably more alright with letting him go.
Personally think the transfer in January would do more harm than good tbh, for all the talk of how much it would help us, I think he'd disrupt a happy camp. Can't help but feel the very public courtship is one of the bigger factors in Aguero having a bit of a sulk on. Don't really see the players responding well to being dropped when we've been winning every game, for a guy who hasn't played as well as any of them. I don't really buy into the belief that his poor form is just because he's unhappy and that he could just turn it on like a switch if he moved here.
If we were hell bent on getting him, in the summer on a free would make much more sense to me. Really wouldn't want to upset the apple cart whenever everything is going so well, don't really see the benefit to it
Our priorities are shifting all the time. We had Mendy, then we didn't. Delph has stepped in with aplomb & we still have Danilo, & Zinchenko, so replacing Mendy may not be the priority it was.Dont think the situation has come round again.That choice may be gone now , if we dont want him until the summer and he wants us, he'll just sit tight and walk away. They missed their only chance of money for a replacement in the summer.
I think it's pretty obvious that Aguero's mood is because he wants to be the main man and playing as much as possible, so it's also pretty obvious that us chasing a player that is going to significantly into that game time won't be going down well with him. I doubt he'd be alone in being unhappy with Sanchez coming and taking some of their game time either.I've asked this question before. Why would Sanchez coming in January upset the apple cart & a happy camp?
Are you seriously saying that Aguero's mood is down to speculation surrounding Sanchez?
There was a metric released in the last few weeks which showed that Sanchez has statistically been Arsenal's best player this season so far, even though he's not reached the heights of last season. Are you saying it's over for Sanchez in top flight football?
If so, have you any supporting evidence, or is this just your opinion?