Alexis Sanchez

[Leto]

Haha great film. I hope our chances are higher than 1/1,000,000 though.

 

[mosssideblue]

Guessing. Tabloid headlines.

City ready to blow £20mill on Jonny Evans. 3rd bid due?

City offer £45miil for Sanchez?

Stop f***ing about. Give Kroenke £60mill for Sanchez and have done.

Regardless if Jonny comes or not, Sanchez will be and is the difference between fighting for the title or winning it.

For an extra £15mill City would triple that and more buy winning the title, going into pot 1 of the CL, and all the extra revenue achieved by being Champions.

I'm so glad you are no where near our negotiations

 

[GunnerGer]

I suppose my logic comes from the fact that with Sanchez last season we only managed to finish 5th. If Lacazette proves to be a good replacement were Sanchez to leave, why would we finish higher? I take the point that other teams for various reasons might be weaker and as you say there will still be some transfer activity to change the picture but from where I'm sitting losing Sanchez is likely to mean no top four.

It's sound logic mate, it certainly makes things more difficult. There are other factors that come into play of course, change in formation / tactics, injuries, players settling, lack of Wenger contract situation etc. Don't forget we have Kolosniac as well who i think will be a good signing. I think we are a better team currently than the 1 that started last season given the above reasons, but agree with Sanchez gone it looks light.

 

[jrb]

I'm so glad you are no where near our negotiations

It's fair to say so am I.

If I was forced to negotiate a fee for Jonny Evans and £18mill had been turned down by West Brom, I'd have resigned before that happened.

£18mill for Evans, with another bid pending. Let's call it £20mill. F***off!

No doubt you would have slapped £25mill on the table straightaway.

As for Sanchez. If you don't think he's worth £60mill over 3 to 5 years, the normal length of a new contract is now 5 years, I'm glad you aren't part of the negotiations either.

5 years. 12mill a year. Sends Wenger and his team into chaos. Strengthens our team. And scares the living day lights out of our title rivals. All for the sake of £10mill extra and a quick deal, above the currently quoted £50mill price tag. And with only 2 weeks of the transfer windowl left.

Smell the black Coffee, fella. In-fact, drink some of it. It's going to be a long 2 weeks.

 

[Thenumber1blue]

Yeah, should be 20/1

That's probably your title odds

 

[Didsbury Dave]

It's fair to say so am I.

If I was forced to negotiate a fee for Jonny Evans and £18mill had been turned down by West Brom, I'd have resigned before that happened.

£18mill for Evans, with another bid pending. Let's call it £20mill. F***off!

No doubt you would have slapped £25mill on the table straightaway.

As for Sanchez. If you don't think he's worth £60mill over 3 to 5 years, the normal length of a new contract is now 5 years, I'm glad you aren't part of the negotiations either.

5 years. 12mill a year. Sends Wenger and his team into chaos. Strengthens our team. And scares the living day lights out of our title rivals. All for the sake of £10mill extra and a quick deal, above the currently quoted £50mill price tag. And with only 2 weeks of the transfer windowl left.

Smell the black Coffee, fella. In-fact, drink some of it. It's going to be a long 2 weeks.

Can yopu give us a quick assessment of the stengths and weaknesses of Evans's game, and why you don't see him fitting in with our system?

 

[mosssideblue]

It's fair to say so am I.

If I was forced to negotiate a fee for Jonny Evans and £18mill had been turned down by West Brom, I'd have resigned before that happened.

£18mill for Evans, with another bid pending. Let's call it £20mill. F***off!

No doubt you would have slapped £25mill on the table straightaway.

As for Sanchez. If you don't think he's worth £60mill over 3 to 5 years, the normal length of a new contract is now 5 years, I'm glad you aren't part of the negotiations either.

5 years. 12mill a year. Sends Wenger and his team into chaos. Strengthens our team. And scares the living day lights out of our title rivals. All for the sake of £10mill extra and a quick deal, above the currently quoted £50mill price tag. And with only 2 weeks of the transfer windowl left.

Smell the black Coffee, fella. In-fact, drink some of it. It's going to be a long 2 weeks.

As I thought, you are clueless in how to conduct negotiations. Nobody is saying he is or isn't worth that, but to go in as you suggest is simply stupid tactics

 

[nmc]

It's fair to say so am I.

If I was forced to negotiate a fee for Jonny Evans and £18mill had been turned down by West Brom, I'd have resigned before that happened.

£18mill for Evans, with another bid pending. Let's call it £20mill. F***off!

No doubt you would have slapped £25mill on the table straightaway.

As for Sanchez. If you don't think he's worth £60mill over 3 to 5 years, the normal length of a new contract is now 5 years, I'm glad you aren't part of the negotiations either.

5 years. 12mill a year. Sends Wenger and his team into chaos. Strengthens our team. And scares the living day lights out of our title rivals. All for the sake of £10mill extra and a quick deal, above the currently quoted £50mill price tag. And with only 2 weeks of the transfer windowl left.

Smell the black Coffee, fella. In-fact, drink some of it. It's going to be a long 2 weeks.

That's not how negotiations work I'm afraid. You slap an opening bid of £60m in - it'll get rejected. You have to play the game and allow the other party to force you up - psychologically this is critical. As in the Life of Brian - 'you've got to haggle'. You can't short cut the process - you have to play by the rules and be patient. Good job Txiki knows what he's doing.

 

[SilverFox2]

What happened to SilverFox1?

Tried Silver Fox first but user name taken, eventually got SF2 and have lived with that for all the forums I subscribe to.

 

[Easy]

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