So transparent.
When we buy Sanchez for cash without sterling going anywhere it will be reported that arsenal "insisted on a cash only deal" and that they "negotiated superbly" and that they "turned down the opportunity to sign sterling".
This has the double benefit for the press and their click bait targets of masking the fact that arsenal were stupid enough to let one of their few decent players get to the last year of his contract and also allows for 6 months of "city don't rate sterling" stories which will miraculously be recycled before every big game. Pep will be asked why he doesn't rate him in every press conference, the lad himself will be asked in every interview and then he stories will start (about march time) that sterlings england wc place is under threat.
It's bollocks.