Alexis Sanchez

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'm relaxed now.

It's over mate.

We'll get SANCHEZ ON A FREE NEXT SUMMER.

And we've banked £60mill in the process.

 

[SebastianBlue]

And your point is....

...lost on you, it seems.

None to worry, you're here to wind up, not discuss, so your tenour will be brief and impotent.

 

[ono]

Eh?!? Which fucking bubble have you emerged from?

You've lost me

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

@Jack Hackett ... Enjoy playing Thursday nights

He is doing at the moment.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I have so much in common with that man.

"Bruv. I ain't gonna lie. It is the biggest pile of shit I have ever done and that's saying something."

 

[Jack Hackett]

It's a Pyrrhic victory. Rorke's drift comes to mind.

I do like historical and classical references.

On balance, I'd agree that Rorke's Drift was a Phyrric victory of sorts.

However, it's relevance to a situation when one club fails to sell one player to another is somewhat lost on me...

 

[Neville Kneville]

Its why I'm not that bothered about Sanchez.

Me neither.

I am not happy about Sanés lack of game time upfront so far including pre season.

Imo he is a potential world top 3 or 4 player & I want City to get him upto speed.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

You are ok, you have a hard butler to protect you, the rest of us are on our own against these nawty tarquins (as I understand it the word hard applies to Jefferson in different ways)

Jefferson is ex-SAS.

 

[TueartsOHK]

I always said there was no point selling an irreplaceable player for 1/4 of the world transfer record. 55m is nothing in this market where Lukaku/Pogba is 100m and Coutinho is 130m and his club don't even accept the bid. We can flog useless players like Chamberlain and get nearly the amount you offered for Sanchez. Alexis can leave a few months shy of his 30th birthday and command a huge signing on fee and huge wages, we'll have got all of his peak years for comparitive small change. Whoever signs him probably gets him on a 4year deal, paying him huge wages when he's 32,33,34. He could age well but most don't.

Your club didn't want him that much to be offering 55m, you've paid as much for fullbacks, so he wasn't really a big priority. And maybe rightly so, you have a wealth of talented forward. IMO you should of gone all in for Fabinho.

As far as Arsenal are concerned we can make top4 with Alexis and we might not have done without. That's worth the 55m in itself.

As for the salty notion that he'll go on strike all year, well he's the type of player who wants to play every game so I doubt it. And if he does it might well hurt the deal he can negotiate. He should be asking for a 50m signing on fee if his agent is up to anything.

I think this was more about the principle than the thought of what Alexis could contribute next season. Wenger and the board had fought themselves in a corner and the way they've conducted themselves today was poor (even in the eyes of their own fans). The Arsenal I knew of old would not hang onto a top player going into the last year of his contract - not clinging on to the remote chance that he will perform for you this season - coupled with the fact that his own team mates want him gone. Then again the Arsenal of old wouldn't have top players (and their own players) choosing Liverpool over them.

 

[ono]

Does anyone feel we may be a bit light of numbers now considering kelechi,Nolito ,Navas Roberts all left and sancho aswell seems we have dropped a bolock a little bit numbers wise.

Yes but only massively.

 

[Bluemanc100]

You've lost me

Maybe a Clarkie but how do we fall back on the players you mentioned

 

[BringBackSwales]

Jefferson is ex-SAS.

He is hard though?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

"Bruv. I ain't gonna lie. It is the biggest pile of shit I have ever done and that's saying something."

Yes, that's exactly how I talk in real life.

 

[Sergio 1970]

eHallo Arsenal fans.

Your club agreed to sell Sanchez to City.

Your club failed to sign a replacement.

The only player you went for, at over £90mil, turned you down.

That's the only reason why the transfer never happened.

You will lose Sanchez on a free to us next season.

We will have an extra £60mill for our transfer budget next season.

You have a unhappy player at your club for the rest of the season.

You will lose Ozil on a free next season.

Wenger is still your Manager.

Remind me again, who should be feeling down atm? :-)

Well said my friend, a no more accurate description could have been written.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Actually Liverpool and United and Chelsea have as both City and Arsenal are potentially weaker than they might have been.

As in City with Sanchez and Arsenal with a happy Lemar.

Though I expect Pep to find a way to start battering teams with what we have.

And Arsenal to get Sanchez to sign a new deal within a month.

Not a chance. Sanchez is unlikely to throw away a £15m+ signing on fee.

 

[GBrannan]

Lol come off it. Even when he was playing at his deepest just ahead of the CBs he was 20 yards into the opposition half! He can definitely score plenty.

Sanchez scored 26 last year mostly because he spent 75% of the season playing as a striker. His other seasons playing as a wide man he regularly put up 15-20 which is reachable for our wide players.

He's even said himself this season he's going to be playing even deeper and that the goals and assists won't be on the same level.

Here's his interview after Bournemouth.

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/16076/De-R...t-altijd-om-bij-de-Rode-Duivels-te-zijn.dhtml

And translation to the key bit.

I haven't scored yet, but I'm playing as a defending midfielder. My role changed, but my games are good. I know what I bring to the team and what my role is. No one knows what I had to do. People think I play as an attacking midfielder, that's wrong. They see Kevin De Bruyne, attacking midfielder so he has to score and give assists. But they don't look beyond that.


In my opinion Sanchez was a key signing to increase our productivity. We're short elsewhere too. Getting DeBruyne closer to the opposition box would be best for us. That's for another thread though.

 

[oakiecokie]

eHallo Arsenal fans.

Your club agreed to sell Sanchez to City.

Your club failed to sign a replacement.

The only player you went for, at over £90mil, turned you down.

That's the only reason why the transfer never happened.

You will lose Sanchez on a free to us next season.

We will have an extra £60mill for our transfer budget next season.

You have a unhappy player at your club for the rest of the season.

You will lose Ozil on a free next season.

Wenger is still your Manager.

Remind me again, who should be feeling down atm? :-)

I can`t wait to use that tomorrow night in my local,as we have a couple of Wengers Wankers who drink there.
Now theres a novelty jrb, me agreeing with you. ;)

 

[jaiguruKun]

Would anyone have complained if we'd have swapped Raz for Sanchez and bought Mahrez for £50m instead?

 

[City Raider]

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.

Yup, we're still vulnerable to counter attacks. Defend deep, hit us with pace.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

He is hard though?

He is right now.