Incorrect. There's nothing in FIFA regulations to prevent him signing a pre-contract with any other club once he enters his final six months of his current contract.I came across something very interesting earlier today, and that is PL clubs can't sign a player from another PL till he's literally out of contract by June 30. So in other words no pre contract agreement is allowed.
So the club can get a transfer ban or some other penalty of some sort!
The question is didn't we sign Sagna on a pre contract? Did we have a formal agreement with him and then announce it after June 30?
Says to me that Sanchez is city bound in January, agreed lady karen7??Arsene Wenger: "You say everybody thinks City will come in for Alexis [in January] – I am part of everybody and I don’t think he will go."
Arsene Wenger: "Do City need Alexis? They have to decide that. But we need him here."
Incorrect. There's nothing in FIFA regulations to prevent him signing a pre-contract with any other club once he enters his final six months of his current contract.
I'm pretty sure it's an FA rule that you can't sign a player already in England on a pre-contract 6 months before, but clubs from overseas can.
I don't think arses will let him go in jan and summer he is a year older than when we wanted him and he will have many options,i think if not jan then the moment has passed,i would love him here thoughSays to me that Sanchez is city bound in January, agreed lady karen7??
As far as I know we are still part of Europe at least when I last looked at a mapI'm pretty sure it's an FA rule that you can't sign a player already in England on a pre-contract 6 months before, but clubs from overseas can.
Why didn't you say?Didn't want him in the summer, want him even less now. Don't see where he'd play, don't think he'd be happy to sit on the bench and wait for a chance. If he was young you could understand going for him, but he'd be one of our older attackers.
I think he's played Bony far more than his form has deserved, so I would say he looks to be one of his favourites. He's persisted with him far more than a manager who is leaving at the end of the year would if he didn't rate him. Navas and Negredo I'd agree that he liked the idea of, I imagine there was a bit of both in those. It is hard not to use the way the manager has used players to decide how much he wanted them. From that point of view it certainly looks like he didn't care much for Mangala, Sterling, Delph or Fernandinho, they always seem to be the first to get brought off or dropped from the side regardless of how they are playing.
Being a DoF looks a shit job tbh, you buy a bunch of players and then have to just watch as someone else uses them badly, then you get it in the neck for it. If things work out then the manager gets all the credit, I can't think of too many DoF who ever get any credit. I'd probably go full on Massimo Cellino and start demanding the manager played the players I want the way I want!
Don't see the point with Jesus coming. What would we do with him? We already have Aguero, Kelechi, Sterling, Sane, Gabriel Jesus, Nolito and De Bruyne for potentially three forward positions. Meanwhile we still haven't got any fullbacks
Too old for me. We're moving towards a younger team, so spending big money on bringing in a 28 year old seems to defeat the point, he's older than Aguero who half our fans are falling over themselves trying to sell. If he was 3 or 4 years younger, then yes, all over it, but not now. We already have too many ageing players, so buying in another one seems very short sighted. Bit of a stroppy **** as well
Exactly, because they are getting old. If you just replace them with different players of the same age it surely defeats the point?
Yeah I went full idiot on that and read Jun as Jan, either way they are essentially the same age and people want Aguero gone because he's getting on, yet want us to sign a player the same age.
Signing people who "we can get two years out of" for £50m isn't a great long term plan though. He's a guy who relies heavily on his physicality, he's right on the edge of the age where you start to expect that to decline, it just doesn't make sense to me to sign him, over a 22 or 23 year old who will give us 5 years at their peak, instead of maybe one or two before giving us another headache.
But he's Premier League proven! Because that's a thing and there is definitely not a long list of big money signings who've moved from one PL team to another and not been a success
I don't think he's any better than Cech, both been declining for a while. That would be a pretty sideways move, so I guess it would be a pretty Arsenal thing to do
Still don't want him. He's not young, he'd be incredibly expensive and I don't really see him as a big enough upgrade to warrant it. I'd rather have Sergio or Jesus up front, I'd rather have Sane on the left and I don't think I've seen Sanchez do much on the right. It would be a shit load of money for an ageing squad player. I'd much rather spend our money elsewhere
Also it's some serious rewriting of history to say we did well with 4 world class strikers. One of them fucked off on holiday for 6 months he was enjoying it so much and we essentially went pretty much the entire season without him. Then the following season when we actually had 4 strikers, we were pretty wank and by the end of the season we faced a players revolt. I don't remember much "Playing out of their skin to stay in the team", more sulking like mard arses when they weren't. But other than that it was a rousing success.
"Tevez banged in goals" seems like a slightly one eyed view of his season. Not sure I'd count 4 goals in a year as banging them in either, especially as three were in the same rout
They were when they were successful, they've gone to shit since they lost that harmony. Much like how Real were shit for a decade when they were full of in fighting, then have been dominant since has come in and got them on the same page. You can have success with a dressing room with issues, but you very rarely get sustained success without everyone pulling in the same direction.
Not sure I agree with your assessment of his year at Barca. The year before they won the CL, that year they didn't, then the year after they won it again. It was undoubtedly a down year for them by their ridiculously high standards of the time. It was an absolutely huge failure of a transfer, they got worse as a team and lost a huge amount of money.
Rather buy someone who can play on the right. Aguero and Jesus are already sorted in the middle, Sane and Jesus both also great on the left. Only really Sterling on the right, with possibly Roberts returning. Just don't see where Sanchez would play
He can play there, anyone can, but I don't think it's a position he's very effective in. You lose most of what he's good at. We've been at our best this year when both our wingers have been direct, driving at the defence and I don't think Sanchez does that on the right. If you're going to spend a load of money on a player, you should really have a position for them to play in
Not sure where you're getting these stats from, Whoscored has him as only having played one game on the right all year for Arsenal, whereas at Barca he wasn't exactly setting the world on fire, hence why they sold him. It's clearly not his best position, that really shouldn't even be up for debate. He's best upfront, where we have better options. His next best position is on the left, where we have better options, then he's probably better as a number 10, where we have better options.
Just seems a daft signing, given his age, cost and the fact that we'd be shoehorning him into a team that really doesn't need him. I don't think well run teams buy player just because they are great, then try and figure out what to do with them, that's what badly run teams do.
You need to find a new team to support
So 28 year old Sergio Aguero who scored 33 goals for us this year is the past, so we must "get rid" of him and sign 28 year old Alexis Sanchez? Makes a lot of sense...
He plays for Chile ffs, he's going to be in their World Cup squad even if he didn't play a single minute next season. Or will Jean Beausejoir make a comeback if he sits on the bench a few times?
And how exactly is he supposed to force Arsenal to sell him to us? Oh wait, I forgot that being a broken record about Txiki is kind of your thing. Apologies
Or we could just try and stumble through the season with the deadliest striker in the history of the premier league and one of the most exciting young strikers in the world? No idea where people were expecting Sanchez to even play tbh, not sure why anyone thinks we need an alternative. He was going to be a luxury signing at most
And? Same goes for anyone in any position, unless you are advocating having 3 men for every position? If any manager is capable of playing an attacking midfielder up front in an emergency as well, I reckon it might be Pep. Bernardo Silva has false 9 written all over him
We will score 20 more goals just by having attacking fullbacks, minimum. Bernardo Silva also brings goals, along with more chances created, I've honestly never at any point seen the point of Sanchez unless we have some huge injury crises. We're struggling to fit all the attackers in as it is
4 spots. If you want to count the 5th then you have to add in Gundogan, Yaya and the various others who can play CM
We don't play two attacking midfielders, or at least don't have to, one of them can easily be a more central midfielder like Yaya, Fernandinho or Gundogan. Then throw in Roberts, Brahim and the hoards of fantastic young attacking players we have and there is no issue at all as far as I'm concerned, we've got more quality depth there than last year (where we had Navas and Nolito instead or Bernardo and had Kelechi instead of Jesus for most of the year)
If I was them I wouldn't have even offered that much. Test just how much Arsenal are terrified of the fan reaction of selling to a rival.
Can't believe anyone is buying into the swap deal nonsense, it's clearly just Arsenal trying desperately to placate their fans as they know they're proper fucked. I haven't checked, but if I were to randomly guess where this came from, I'd put money on it being chief Arsenal propaganda merchant John Cross