Alexis Sanchez

[Gordyola]

He has made it fkin obvious he dont want to play there, very professional! You dontn think he would do the same to City if for example he doesnt play where he wants to? Not worth the £70m risk imo. He might be a winner, but he isnt a winner for his team is he

IMHO he is a winner for his team, he understands that the team need to win for him to win, it goes hand-in-hand. It works both ways as well, during his time at Arsenal he has seen the lack of real investment to push the team on, to give them a chance to win the PL and ECL. Yes the FAC will be a bonus that's all, he dint go there to win it. I bet he was promised when he signed, that they would invest to match his ambitions and clearly that hasn't been the case. Arsenal are happy to finish in the top 4 of that there is no doubt. At City, he can see, that the club have been slowly investing in the best young talent around and have brought the best manager in, one he has worked with already. I'm sure that he was made aware that the investment would be accelerated for the coming season which has now been proven to be the case. So if you were him where would you want to play give that it will most likely be his only chance to move to a club that will be challenging for the top honours whilst playing great football?

 

[dannyboiblue]

The only team sanchez wants is city, its all down to him to keep pushing it. Not a chance arsenal lose him for free next season. He is 28 years old with no champs league. He wants out 100% so its a battle of who breaks 1st.

 

[M18CTID]

He has made it fkin obvious he dont want to play there, very professional! You dontn think he would do the same to City if for example he doesnt play where he wants to? Not worth the £70m risk imo. He might be a winner, but he isnt a winner for his team is he

You may as well say that about any player that has desired to leave a club ever. If he threatens to go on strike or something then you'd have a point but I don't believe he's done anything that can be deemed disrespectful to Arsenal so far. He's doing his best to keep his counsel on any potential move and although he's come out with the odd snippet, that smacks more of him being constantly pestered by the press than anything. As for his attitude on the pitch, yes he can be a stroppy fucker at times but going back to that Bournemouth game, I watched the last half hour or so of that match when Arsenal had gone 3-0 down and it was Sanchez who pretty much single-handedly dragged them back into it that night so I think he's entitled to get a bit pissed off with his team-mates for celebrating their equalising goal as though it was a winner. Don't get me wrong, coming back from 3 down to 3-3 is no mean feat but there was still time for them to push on for a winner plus Bournemouth were down to 10 men and out on their feet so the momentum was all with Arsenal.

 

[venom99]

Sánchez is trying to get out of the Arsenal in a "friendly" way .. he has not been disrespectful as Costa at Chelsea, for example.
He has the right attitude but is in a mediocre team. Sánchez is more ambitious and clearly has different goals to the Arsenal (get the 4th place and win the FA Cup).

Come with Pep Alexis

 

[AwayDay]

I prefer a sulker who scores every week to a badge kisser who is otherwise useless.
Sanchez has rarely let us down on the pitch and without him we'd have won nothing last season. It's a lot to give up for 50m.
I don't blame him for wanting to leave, the club hasn't been ambitious enough , not in the way City are. He does have a contract though and based on his comments it appears he would respect that if the club refuse to sell him.

 

[Bewar3them00n]

This is what's puzzling me about City fans and the Sanchez saga. They seem to be happy to buy a player who sulks and throws paddies because he wants out of the club.

There's a difference between wanting out of a club wallowing in Europa League places, who have not strengthened sufficiently over the past 4-5 seasons, and a team who are one of the most consistent over the past 5-6 years, and have one of, if not the best manager in the world shaping, the team!
Show me one player who is happy that his team consistently under perform, and said player has to repeatedly drag a performance out of the team...

 

[yeah whatever !!]

I prefer a sulker who scores every week to a badge kisser who is otherwise useless.
Sanchez has rarely let us down on the pitch and without him we'd have won nothing last season. It's a lot to give up for 50m.
I don't blame him for wanting to leave, the club hasn't been ambitious enough , not in the way City are. He does have a contract though and based on his comments it appears he would respect that if the club refuse to sell him.

Really ?? just say you had the chance to go to a job you really wanted cos the one you have isnt fulfilling your expectations, your boss says "no, you can stay another year as you are contracted".


would you really honestly put everything into your work for the next year??



No, of course not.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

There could be a nice knock on effect if we can seal the signing of Sanchez. Arsenal will want a replacement and Lemar seems to be staying at Monaco, their fall back was Mahrez. Mahrez is heavily linked to Roma. Roma's fall back to Mahrez is Nasri.

It would be great to buy Sanchez and simultaneously enable Nasri to move to Roma.

 

[St.Pauli support]

It's a lot to give up for 50m.

His services are worth 50m for 1 season only? Wow. Not sure your board is sharing that view ;-)

He does have a contract though and based on his comments it appears he would respect that if the club refuse to sell him.

Yeah I hope so! He has a contract, end of.
If Arsenal won't sell, he has to commit himself to them for that year, stay fit for the WC, say bye to the club and fans and move on.
I am sure City fans don't want a drama queen, it's the media who would. We want the winner he is - well not anybody on here.

Still I think it will be same old: Wenger says "stay", player wants to leave. Board take the money.
Look back in history.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I prefer a sulker who scores every week to a badge kisser who is otherwise useless.
Sanchez has rarely let us down on the pitch and without him we'd have won nothing last season. It's a lot to give up for 50m.

It really isn't.

Say you sign Mbappe for £120m on a five year contract and pay him £200k a week. You might sell him from not far off £120m in 4 or 5 years time, so he's perhaps cost you something like £10m/year in wages and not much more. You might even get more than £120m for him.

Or you can blow £50m in one year by trying to hang on to Sanchez and letting him go for nothing in a years time. Is Sanchez 5 times more valuable than Mbappe? I think not.

Letting a quality player see out his contract is just plain stupid.