Alexis Sanchez

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Exeter Blue I am here said:
I'm tempted to preface my answer with the word [sigh] because posts of this type have been answered ad nauseam already, but as you're a top chap I'll refrain....

1. Up until about a week ago Arsenal have been unequivocal that Sanchez would not be sold to a rival.
2. Prior to that they'd tried without success to hawk him off to both Bayern and PSG. Sanchez's response was to deliberately and obviously sabotage those attempts by making ludicrous wage demands that he knew wouldn't be granted.
3. Against this backdrop there was no point in City making a bid. The media would have gone to town on us for 'bullying' Arsenal, and Wenger would have hammed it up as the humble boss just trying to do his best in the face of our unwanted attentions. Besides we had no need to bid at that stage as we were aware of Sanchez's desires and intentions (as were Arsenal).
4. After the debacle at Klanfield the penny may have dropped re the folly of expecting wantaway players to give their all, and Arsenal let it be known that they might be open to offers.
5. Realising that said folly had left them with no time to scout a suitable replacement and facing a shit storm from fans, they suddenly dreamt up the ridiculous caveat that any bid from City would have to be part exchange.
6. City rightly laughed this suggestion out of town hence the Hail Mary overbid for Lemar on deadline day.
7. Cocooned in his bubble Wenger then used Lemar's 'fuck off' as the excuse to pull the plug on the Sanchez deal, deluding himself that the fans would 'buy into' his efforts to get a top replacement.

City played a near perfect hand in this, the only fly in the ointment being they failed to sufficiently legislate for the fact they were negotiating with a complete twit, prepared to bite off his nose to spite his face. In no way was yesterday's farce our fault
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Lacking a bit in the poetry department (although I do like the Hail Mary overbid but bang on otherwise. Txiki and the rest of our crew ain't perfect and you can pick all sorts of holes in our transfer dealings if you have a mind but this farrago is down to Arsenal's Goon Squad.
 
karen7 said:
I tried explaining it last night but just ended up biting peoples heads off
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As I've said before; Arsenal are penny-pinchers and just generally, well, arses.

They will have told us to not make public bids to increase their negotiating ability wwhen sourcing a replacment. If we go public then immediately who they're trying to sign's price sky-rockets.
We, as much as everyone likes to say we aren't, are good guys. We try to be magnanimous in our dealings so we agreed. Sure this is an assumption but it makes sense all things considered. They knew we were interested, we'd agreed everything with the players so it's fairly safe to assume arsenal knew the plan and asked us to keep in internal till they could source a replacement.

Now we could sit here and all argue that city shouldn't have listened and have been colder just to get the job done, but unfortunately this is never how business deals are done and it's better in the long run not to burn bridges, so personally I genuinely believe city should shoulder no blame.

Arsenal on the other hand, F****** hell, where to start?
failure to source a replacement - And even if they didn't intend to sell, it's honestly abhorrent to not have something bubbling away in the background just in case.
They spent so much time posturing and telling the world how they wouldn't sell to big bad city despite literally everyone knowing they will in the end.
Stringing City on when they knew full well the above, right to the last hour of the last day is mental.
Stringing one of your star players and one of the only ones to give a damn on the pitch in recent years and then dropping him in the shit and then expecting him to carry on as if nothing happened is mental.

Honestly, if I didn't know better I would say this level of negligence and lack of forward thinking was deliberate, but that's for a different thread I feel.


And I'm not just bitter about my bet
edit: Can't believe I used the wrong 'Sauce' that many times...
 
xgorton said:
Wonder how much money people lost in bets,I would have won 120.
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Some one should volunteer to take PMs with the amounts just wagered (not the amount that would have been won) so they can privately tabulate and then post the figure in retrospect.
 
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