Alexis Sanchez

Status
Not open for further replies.
Tom_mcfc said:
7 Mil isn't blowing us out the water, the contract difference seems to be but not from an Arsenal point of view. I also think even despite Arsenals weird transfer strategies that they'd prefer to sell to us. Utd are more their rivals than us and I think after RVP and the promises to not sell to Utd again they might have even taken that slight cut for him to come to us.
Click to expand...
Unless the story of the Armenian chap going to Arsenal is true. This is a bloke they paid £30M for 18 months ago and they are talking about £27M PLUS him, which puts Sanchez at over £50M plus over £80M in wages over 4 years. At those numbers you would want to be signing better than Alexis Sanchez!!
 
Wonder if sanchez being seen universally as a money grabber going to a club for none sporting reasons .which is how the press are spinning it has any bearing on his thinking ?
 
Healdplace said:
Whilst this looks done and those stories about City flashing money around to beat United are probably just Castles trying to goad and deflect from the fact that this is exactly what they did....IF - and it is a huge if which I don't really think likely - something is still going on here - remember two things.

Yesterday in his match comments Wenger pretty much said that he was off and it was Sanchez's choice where he went. In other words they were not just taking the highest offer for a fee and if he chose to go to City they were happy to let him presumably even at less money.

And last week Tolmie offered an interesting theory about United's money - that this was a sort of set up by Sanchez - getting them to offer huge money, appear to be swayed and then say no and go to City for less for footballing reasons to in the process humiliate a rival.

That seemed far fetched then and still does. But had an interesting ring to it.

Not suggesting for a second that is happening and the way we (presumably) briefed Sam Lee last night was telling that we just have walked honourably and correctly to protect both team unity and wage structure - not to mention our stance on agents fees.

But just reminding of that theory that he put out there before this all really took off.
Click to expand...

Or he got United to offer huge money and then thought that will do for me where do I sign
 
inbetween said:
It wasn't his choice no but he always had the option to wait until the summer and by the sounds of it he had one option to get out in January and that currently is United.

You have to remember that United have offered a player exchange, who knows if Mikhatarian even wants to go to Arsenal? I reckon that will be the major sticking point at the moment.

Arsenal have just signed this Malcolm too but I think that is more to replace Ozil than Sanchez.
Click to expand...


I did remember the player exchange offer. That's part of why Wegner effectively saying if Sanchez chose City over United he was free to do so seemed odd given that you would expect them to publicly endorse him taking one over the other if one of the deal's favoured Arsenal more.

As a higher fee and a player in exchange too surely did.
 
Academica said:
Or he got United to offer huge money and then thought that will do for me where do I sign
Click to expand...

Of course, that is the most likely explanation. Just pointing out that Tolmie suggested in here it was not the only one given his alleged (and seemingly well believed by all the media) desire to play for City only.
 
United are simply offsetting the wages they will lose this summer on big nose and bog brush, so they can easily afford this deal.

What I now know for certain, £400k per week was offered by Chinese representatives last summer. Sanchez had no desire to play his football there.

What he and his agent did do, however, was use that figure as a benchmark when it also came to speaking to both Bayern and Paris.

Bayern were not prepared to even go anywhere near £300k per week and even Paris told them he would have to wait due to the Neymar and Mbappe deals.

United were told over Christmas by Sanchez that they had rejected £400k per week from elsewhere, and that he still only wanted to play for Pep.

United simply took a punt when they knew City were dragging heels over whether to do the deal in January, insisting they could match that offer from China/related fees.

Mourinho's recent comments telling his board he needed more money to compete with City was also with Sanchez in mind, he knew there was an outside chance.

I think he's done a selling job on the player since.

We are still waiting to sort the KDB deal, so I do think Kev's agent would have been emboldened to ask Sanchez money?
 
Healdplace said:
I did remember the player exchange offer. That's part of why Wegner effectively saying if Sasnchez chose City over United he was free to do so seemed odd given that you would expect them to publicly endorse him taking one over the other if one of the deal's favoured Arsenal more.

As a higher fee and a player in exchange too surely did.
Click to expand...

It depends on what Sanchez wants, if City seriously want him and Sanchez seriously wants to come to City, you would think they would accept our offer and that would be that because they won't want to lose him for free. United however coming in changes everything and it has given Arsenal some bargaining power over us.

This is where the player power also comes in but the problem is we have no idea if Sanchez wants to desperately play for us or if he will just accept a move to United. I don't get the impression he wants or needs the money so can't see that being a major part of it all..

Mourinho made one tell in his press conference last week, he said United were fighting for Sanchez, the suggestion they need to fight for this shows that City may well be in the driving seat and relying on the bluff to Arsenal.

I guess the only positive to cling on to is he is not a United player and the longer that this goes on should give us a better chance at Arsenal bottling and selling to us at the last hour.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
United are simply offsetting the wages they will lose this summer on big nose and bog brush, so they can easily afford this deal.

What I now know for certain, £400k per week was offered by Chinese representatives last summer. Sanchez had no desire to play his football there.

What he and his agent did do, however, was use that figure as a benchmark when it also came to speaking to both Bayern and Paris.

Bayern were not prepared to even go anywhere near £300k per week and even Paris told them he would have to wait due to the Neymar and Mbappe deals.

United were told over Christmas by Sanchez that they had rejected £400k per week from elsewhere, and that he still only wanted to play for Pep.

United simply took a punt when they knew City were dragging heels over whether to do the deal in January, insisting they could match that offer from China/related fees.

Mourinho's recent comments telling his board he needed more money to compete with City was also with Sanchez in mind, he knew there was an outside chance.

I think he's done a selling job on the player since.

We are still waiting to sort the KDB deal, so I do think Kev's agent would have been emboldened to ask Sanchez money?
Click to expand...
Is it over then?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
United are simply offsetting the wages they will lose this summer on big nose and bog brush, so they can easily afford this deal.

What I now know for certain, £400k per week was offered by Chinese representatives last summer. Sanchez had no desire to play his football there.

What he and his agent did do, however, was use that figure as a benchmark when it also came to speaking to both Bayern and Paris.

Bayern were not prepared to even go anywhere near £300k per week and even Paris told them he would have to wait due to the Neymar and Mbappe deals.

United were told over Christmas by Sanchez that they had rejected £400k per week from elsewhere, and that he still only wanted to play for Pep.

United simply took a punt when they knew City were dragging heels over whether to do the deal in January, insisting they could match that offer from China/related fees.

Mourinho's recent comments telling his board he needed more money to compete with City was also with Sanchez in mind, he knew there was an outside chance.

I think he's done a selling job on the player since.

We are still waiting to sort the KDB deal, so I do think Kev's agent would have been emboldened to ask Sanchez money?
Click to expand...

If that's the case then do you think we will wait to sort KDB before we do any further business?
 
Probably been posted? If not......

MUEN saying Soriano, Tixxi(however it's spelt) and Pep holding crunch talks.

Screenshot_20180115-120910.png
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top