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.