Alexis Sanchez

[PannickAtTheDisco]

We want him, United need him.

United don't even need him. They're already overstocked in that area of the pitch. They're trying to points score and get a win for the fans to placate them because of this season and the fact they won't be able to draw players of the required calibre in the summer. Much like their Mourinho move it's marketing and trying to points score, we saw how that went.

 

[Daz_Blue]

We sign Jonny Evans then we can sing we signed Jonny Evans you signed Alexis song

 

[Blue Llama]

This will be a massive lose

Suggest you take another look at the video of when he played for arsenal at the Etihad a few months back. A loss maybe, a massive one no.

 

[CC1]

SNUBBED!

By the looks of things. What a shambles we are.

* Not really, couldn't give much of a shit where he goes to be honest. 15 points clear. Best squad already, Sanchez to them makes no real difference. Best manager in the world. The future is Blue and this won't affect that in the slightest.

You do realise that some folk on here will take you seriously & not realise you are joking

 

[manimanc]

Sorry for calling Mourinho his real name pal. I was desperate for us to get him in August but seeing our form I changed my mind and thought he wasn't badly needed in January. But yes, with him now being on his way to United it has changed my mind again as he'll very clearly strengthen our biggest rivals.

If you say so.

 

[OB1]

He may, but when Rio Ferdinand says he would pick City, you know just how bad choice Sanchez would be making by going there.

I agree re Aguero, but my thinking re Sanchez is that he might move deeper & be more useful that way in the future.

I don't see him lasting much longer as a real top striker, he is showing signs of slowing down, like Serge.

Could be.

Anyhow, we will buy someone else, younger, to add to the fantastic squad Pep is building but we won't get another forward player in this window.

Right, time to try and do something useful.

 

[mosssideblue]

SNUBBED!

By the looks of things. What a shambles we are.

* Not really, couldn't give much of a shit where he goes to be honest. 15 points clear. Best squad already, Sanchez to them makes no real difference. Best manager in the world. The future is Blue and this won't affect that in the slightest.

Her'es a tena - stick it down your jocks

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Have you even LOOKED at the league table recently?

 

[The Riot Club]

Fucking shambles this. A player who apparently had agreed to come to us in summer, now we let our hated and still dangerous rivals get a major coup on us, not to mention the suddenly now positive spin on it in the media to big those cünts up. And he'll definitely improve their team while we're fucking about trying to play Bernardo as a striker. I'm fucking fuming. We never seem to really press home advantages when we're on top, just like with RvP we let those wankers back in. Absolutely fucking shit from us this. Smalltime and unambitious, and arrogant and complacent.

 

[aguerooooo]

For £ 30-40 MILLION Sanchez is NO gamble a ready made premiership player who i have no doubt would improve us, I understand that bad blood exists between the clubs re the summer window. However from what came out nobody was more distraught than the player himself. Also it was mentioned that Sanchez was pacified that our interest would not wane It would naïve to think that Pep hasnt been in direct contact with Sanchez ,and that being so the pull of playing for Pep still gives us fighting chance, even though United are willing to pay more. Txiki and co still might have a gripe with the Arse but surely knowing the transfer fee is halved should reduce the bitterness Its worth remembering before he went to Barca he turned City and United down. Having been in a one horse race for him for the last 8 months it would grate to lose him to our rivals now

 

[aguero93:20]

So every time a top player wants to sign we’ll pass on because of these fees? KDB’s fee for re signing was also an eye watering amount too by the way. For the top players you have to pay these amounts.

KDB is a 26 year old signing a contract that will keep him here until he's 33, so the signing on fee makes perfect sense.

 

[jrb]

Who's going to be the first poster to be banned?

MOD's, get the the Sanchez ban hammer ready.

 

[Clercqs]

Really? And then when everyone else demands a pay rise and the transfer budget in the summer is two packets of crisps and a Mars bar you'll be happy will you? Don't be dim, any deal has to be financially sensible.

Yeah of course but with "whatever it costs" I meant realisticly which seems to be around 25+15m or whatever is told by the press. And don't think that is much for a player like Sanchez.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I’m pretty sure terms were agreed ages ago but Sanchez and his agent have moved the goalposts because another club has offered better terms by the looks of it. It’s just the way it goes sometimes and if we’re not prepared to match the rumoured United figures then we’ve no say if he decides to go there.

What I don’t understand is if it’s as nailed on for United as it sounds, then why can you still put a bet on him at 4/9 to join United? That’s buying money if it’s a “done deal”

It appears he can sign for either.

 

[cptnemo]

Have you even LOOKED at the league table recently?

Makes grim reading. All we can do is thing of the good old days in division 2. Sad sad day today I'm in mourning.

 

[domalino]

rather have Kane for that

Griezmann for €100m - his release clause - would be an interesting one. He can play across the front 3, like Sanchez, and has the same very high work rate and creativity mixed in, but 3 years younger.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

He's turned us down a couple of times before so we shouldn't be surprised on that front. I don't know, seems to me it is a case of our interest in him waning in the past 4/5 months. With the quoted wages he is after it might well be a transfer amount snip at £25/30m but the fees over the terms of a 3/4 yer contract would be huge. Making up £5/10/15m to our initial £20m bid is small beer to us these days so there has to be something else going on that has put us off him....his lack of effort/attitude since August? The preposterous wages it is claimed he is seeking? The fact that he has not been as good this season as he was 1/2 seasons before?....we just seem to be more laissez-faire about the whole situation.
Personally, I'll be disappointed if he goes to Utd as they will be improved by him in the shorter term and I wouldn't want this to turn into another RVP error.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

So is Alexis. Especially if it means the rags not getting him, that makes him twice as worth it.

no, it doesn't.

 

[aguero93:20]

Who's going to be the first poster to be banned?

MOD's, get the the Sanchez ban hammer ready.

Can we vote?

 

[manimanc]

Fucking shambles this. A player who apparently had agreed to come to us in summer, now we let our hated and still dangerous rivals get a major coup on us, not to mention the suddenly now positive spin on it in the media to big those cünts up. And he'll definitely improve their team while we're fucking about trying to play Bernardo as a striker. I'm fucking fuming. We never seem to really press home advantages when we're on top, just like with RvP we let those wankers back in. Absolutely fucking shit from us this. Smalltime and unambitious, and arrogant and complacent.