Alexis Sanchez

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Charlie Chuck said:
Sanchez will improve them and they will give us serious competition next season. Not too bothered about buying this month but we must bring in 3-4 top drawer player in the summer to keep ahead of the pack IMO.
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They might give us serious competition or they might not, but it won't be solely because of Sanchez. Squad and team dynamics are a very complicated business. Out of the players they have this season some will improve, others will regress, squad cohesion and harmony may change, Mourinho might throw a strop. I could go on. It's not as simple as buying a single player and expecting to storm the league. We get this every summer. They buy a few players for a lot of money and everybody has a good wank about how well they're going to do this year. They always seem to find their level because the competition is a lot stiffer now than when Ferguson was in charge.
I wouldn't be getting too worried.
 
Ric said:
Rory Smith was always pretty fair when he worked for The Telegraph and Times too as far as I can recall.
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These clubs [United, Arsenal , Chelsea] can all afford to indulge such whims, such is the money swilling around the Premier League. Some or all of these deals may prove noteworthy successes.

But it is hard to imagine they will be enough to claw back Manchester City; certainly not this season, possibly not for some time. It is all very well winning battles, but only if you have some plan in place to finish the war."
Rory Smith
 
goalmole said:
They might give us serious competition or they might not, but it won't be solely because of Sanchez. Squad and team dynamics are a very complicated business. Out of the players they have this season some will improve, others will regress, squad cohesion and harmony may change, Mourinho might throw a strop. I could go on. It's not as simple as buying a single player and expecting to storm the league. We get this every summer. They buy a few players for a lot of money and everybody has a good wank about how well they're going to do this year. They always seem to find their level because the competition is a lot stiffer now than when Ferguson was in charge.
I wouldn't be getting too worried.
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There is nothing we can do, to stop Utd giving us 'serious competition'.

The whole concept of this tends to be wrong on this forum. It's out of our hands, what Utd do. It's not about Sanchez, he is just the bloke they have signed now, it would have been someone else they signed, in the summer, who may or may ot have been younger, cheaper & better.

Utd are going to sign players. Sanchez may actually make it more difficult for them to improve or may make it easier, depending on what he actually does, when he plays, not on the fact of them signing him. But it was going to be Sanchez, or someone else in that position. And someone either fairly expensive or ridiculously expensive. Not 'nobody'.

Our job, is to build our team. And do the best we can.

If they can then compete, by spending billions on players, there is fuck all we can do about it.

But they were supposed to be better than us, this season.
 
Ric said:
He’d unquestionably have come to us if the offers were identical. I’ve never suggested otherwise? United had to offer a much bigger financial package as it’s a less attractive move from a footballing perspective.
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Well this is the be all & end all of Sanchez to ManUre & the narrative I have ready for their barefooted, toothless, knuckle-dragging fans when they inevitably start with 'When ManUre show an interest, because of our history, no player can turn us down'.

I have a sense for these things, so are you saying there is no scenario where you can see Moureen going after Sanchez in an attempt to upset our plans & get into our heads?
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I understand that you don’t understand, and that is completely understandable.

He didn’t turn “me” down or anyone else, he chose money. Pep doesn’t do second chances. Sanchez agreed and changed his mind. City don’t do business like that...this isn’t 2008 or even 2011, when we felt we had to over pay for top players to get the Project going. No, this was one of the best teams in Europe seeking to add an aging, but effective, player to the young squad to help alleviate some of the stress on our one fit striker and to work with a player Pep THOUGHT he knew. The ownership knows what they will and will not pay. Can they afford anyone? Of course! But, Khaldoon isn’t about to be bent over by someone untrustworthy.

One thing that all City fans have learned is that the owners are shrewd businessmen and not to be trifled with. They don’t allow ANYONE to fuck with them, because they don’t need to. They set out to bring a Championship after 44 years and did it. They set about building the best training facility in the world and did it. They set about recruiting the best coach in the world and did it. They set about rebuilding the oldest squad in the Premier with the best young talent from around the world and did it.

I understand how frustrating it must be to be an Arsenal fan these days, especially with your best players wanting out and your manager seemingly a year or two out of date, but don’t make the mistake of mocking City for walking away from Sanchez. No one is bigger than this club today. In the past, City might have done more to get a player of Sanchez’ undoubted ability, but this isn’t the past.

Lest you missed it, City are TWENTY THREE POINTS AHEAD OF ARSENAL, with 15 games to go. Hell, you are even EIGHT POINTS AND 15 GOAL GD OUT OF A CL PLACE! So, I would worry more about why your best players want OUT so badly, not why City decided they didn’t want one of them.

The future is BLUE...the future is HERE!
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Fuckin Brilliant Post!!!!
 
Colin Bells Boots said:
More likely to be City fans masquerading as Rags.

The grade A Rags are indoctrinated to a level not known to science.
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I know what you mean,you should have heard then screaming like little girls when we only drew at Palace and then again the scouse game. Most, I have to say, are relatively accepting of their lot this season.... Perhaps they all have to share the brain cells and this week its their turn
 
DontLookBackInAnger said:
Sadly I don't see that myself the bottomline is it looks like they will end up tying up the guy Pep has chased from day one AND while playing pretty awful football the message it sands it that united can sign anyone even one coveted and with so many things favoring a move to someone else. Yes they have overspent but the massage it sands clearly they believe is worth it
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And that's the point. Sanchez at £500.000.00 per week wages was worth it to ManUre, however no other club in world football seems to share that view.
 
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