Alexis Sanchez

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blueparrot said:
Three players for two wide positions, Two players for the central position, don't see how you think we could go with less than that.
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We aim to play 55 60 games next season. No way we should be playing Sane/Sterling or Jesus for those amounts. Total burn out. They will all be happy to rotate in a WC year.
 
Marvin said:
If we get Alexis, there will eventually be an outgoing player. I just can't see how we'd keep 5 star forwards happy.
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Competition for places is what we're striving for not having Navas (the ultimate game changer) waiting on the bench. Pep can see players get burnt out/lack of form and having quality players to step in is what he wants/needs to play the type of football we are after. Sterling didn't play toward the end because he played the vast majority of matches up to March/April. As an example of sharing the workload with Sanchez it Mbappe he would carry on playing being benched here left out of the squad there.
 
Marvin said:
If we get Alexis, there will eventually be an outgoing player. I just can't see how we'd keep 5 star forwards happy.
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I think we'll be ok with getting Sanchez but if we were to get Mbappe then I'd imagine Aguero would be off which I think would be fair all round, i.e.

Sane/Mbappe on the right,
Jesus/Sanchez in the middle,
Sterling/B.Silva on the right
- all interchangeable
- and other than Sanchez all young

But if Augero stays then great.
 
Many people on here seem to be caught in the old-school thinking that a team consist of 11 players who play every game, plus a few reserves who might be subbed in every now and then. This is simply not correct anymore. A team consists of at least 22 players, ideally all are of equal quality, and the 11 starting will be picked every game anew. You could call this power rotation if you like. I am convinced that this is what Pep is trying to achieve, I am convinced all the players (current and incoming) know this very well, and actually also appreciate it. If not they will not be with City for very long. Not sure how often I have read this statement that Sanchez in means automatically Aguero out. I am sure Aguero will only be sold if he himself asks for it, and I don't think he will. We are on the threshold of something very special and every player wants to be part of it.
 
Blue Coop said:
Its the agreement with Arsenal that's the issue.
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It's gonna be interesting to see what they do. Wenger just spent all year having half the fans calling for his head before signing a new contract. If they sell their best player to us then they all will probably be calling for his head. But if they keep him then they will lose him on a free next summer so damned if they do damned if they don't.
 
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Arsenal have to give us permission to speak to Alexis and his agent. If we've spoken to him and agreed a deal, we must have permission to do so.

Why give permission if you've no interest in selling the player to that club. I think teams in England can approach players from other English teams once they are within three months of the end of their contract. Any time before that has to be exclusive permission granted.

They'll sell him, they just have to play out the facade. Business decisions will always win and losing out on £50m will never be an option in the end.

We just have to hope Sanchez doesn't get itchy feet and go elsewhere.
 
oakiecokie said:
If thats the case then surely we have "done a Liverpool" and shot ourselves in the foot.Hopefully its nothing more than plain stupid piss poor reporting.
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I think the only way we would have had a chance at getting Sanchez is by convincing him first then asking him to force the move.

No way we would have chance if we went to Arsenal first and tried to negotiate.
 
TonyM said:
I think we'll be ok with getting Sanchez but if we were to get Mbappe then I'd imagine Aguero would be off which I think would be fair all round, i.e.

Sane/Mbappe on the right,
Jesus/Sanchez in the middle,
Sterling/B.Silva on the right
- all interchangeable
- and other than Sanchez all young

But if Augero stays then great.
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Looks good. But I'd like to see at least one person play from the left ;-)
 
cadds92 said:
I think the only way we would have had a chance at getting Sanchez is by convincing him first then asking him to force the move.

No way we would have chance if we went to Arsenal first and tried to negotiate.
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All that I`m worried about is how it becomes so easy to jump too far ahead of ourselves but hopefully its nothing like the Liverpool fiasco.We would be stupid not to think we never "tap" players up in advance,which is the norm anyway,just dont give the ammunition for the Gunners (no pun intended) to fire.
 
I can't help but feel we'd sell Aguero for £50m if he had one year left on his contract.

And we're probably more trigger happy than Arsenal with the finances. This opinion makes me optimistic.
 
oakiecokie said:
All that I`m worried about is how it becomes so easy to jump too far ahead of ourselves but hopefully its nothing like the Liverpool fiasco.We would be stupid not to think we never "tap" players up in advance,which is the norm anyway,just dont give the ammunition for the Gunners (no pun intended) to fire.
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What ammunition have we given them?
 
oakiecokie said:
If thats the case then surely we have "done a Liverpool" and shot ourselves in the foot.Hopefully its nothing more than plain stupid piss poor reporting.
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From what i read, the issue with the Liverpool / VvD stuff was Klippity sending him dvds / tactical notes showing how he would fit in the team etc. Whether true or not i dont know.

I refuse to believe that any negotiation or effort into a transfer happens without the player having been informally asked before hand. Otherwise it is a waste of time and resource. But all clubs must do it which is why Liverpool must have done something above and beyond that to trigger the response it got from Soton.
 
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