Alexis Sanchez

[Akiva]

Timeline/Recap;

- Maks Cardenas, a Chilean journalist who first broke Bravo to City last year, reported Pep's interest in Alexis Sanchez in February.

- Cardenas updated in early April that if it's Sanchez's choice, he wants to go to City.

- Several ITKs on Blue Moon report City are making Sanchez a top target this summer, including @tolmie's hairdoo

- Bayern Munich are linked to Sanchez by several mainstream media publications in the UK and Germany, including BILD.

- Cardenas updates in early May that Sanchez still wants City, but Arsenal want to push for Bayern. Sanchez's agent also favours a Munich move, as his other headline client, Arturo Vidal, plays there.

- More updates in May about Alexis from Cardenas writing for Chilean media corp Coopertiva about Sanchez having his heart set on being reunited with Pep, but Arsenal pushing hard.

- Reports emerge in the media, likely leaked by Arsenal, that the gooners offer to make Sanchez the highest paid player in the PL, increasing his £180k per week wage to £280k per week.

- By late May, Bayern seemingly take a step back in pursuit of Sanchez with their chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge admitting, in an interview with BILD, the club couldn't afford to compete with the money being offered as wages.

- Several UK journalists, including Sam Lee, maintain City remain confident of landing Sanchez and a meeting allegedly takes place, to that effect, in London a little over a week ago.

- June 1st, Cardenas updates via Twitter that Sanchez is close to a move to a new "City". Arsenal still pushing, however, for him to go to Munich.

- Also June 1st, Gerard Romero reports Sanchez will be a City player in "a few days". Romero is a Catalonian radio host with close connections to Barca, and, in particular, Guardiola. Last year he was the first to break the news of Stones, Sane, Jesus and Nolito, to City.

- @mattyb posts to say Sanchez's people have been reportedly looking for housing in Manchester for a number of weeks.

- Cardenas tweets again later that day with a contemplative picture of Sanchez, which he captioned "City or Bayern?" When pressed which it is, he says City.

- By June 2nd, SportsBILD reporting Bayern and PSG are out on Sanchez and only City remain. Munich-mouthpiece Kicker, in their print edition, however insists the Bayern board are willing to blow up the club's current wage structure to accommodate Sanchez's demands, which would be potentially in excess of double their current highest paid star.

- In two weeks, the print edition of Kicker retracts the above assertion and states categorically that Bayern will not meet Sanchez's payment expectations.

- Come late June, Bayern openly drop out of the race with both Rummenigge and Ancelotti, in separate press conferences, stating they would be looking elsewhere for more affordable options this window.

- Meanwhile, several trusted sources in the media, with official connections in Arsenal, start mentioning for the first time that Sanchez could leave this summer. Most notably, the input of the BBC's David Ornstein (the so-called "Ornacle") who tweeted that Sanchez had been made a sizable offer by Arsenal but, if he's set on leaving, he would leave this year. Ornstein threw in a hashtag of MCFC at the end.

- Further, the Telegraph's Matt Law posited that Sanchez could stay but Arsenal would be unlikely to hold onto Sanchez and see him walk for free in a year, even though the only realistic landing spot appears to be City.

- At the end of June, Sanchez has a press conference with, who else, fellow Chilean (and City goalkeeper) Claudio Bravo following their Confederations Cup semi-final victory over Portugal. When asked if he would be joining Bravo at City, Sanchez laughed and said he couldn't answer that but he knew where was going and all would be made clear after the Confed Cup.

- Bravo stated he would like to see Sanchez at City, but that it was Alexis's decision in the end.

- Arsenal ITKs on Arsenal Mania start reporting Sanchez is off to City, notably HughWizzy who first broke the news and details of Wenger's contract extension.

 

[chesterguy]

Bringing up Real isn't a very good point, they had 10 players fighting for 5 spots (Ronaldo, Benzema, Bale, Vasquez, Asensio, Isco, James, Morata, Modric, Kroos), so it's not too surprising some players aren't happy with their game time. James is unhappy because he simply doesn't fit into Zidane's plans, and the number of players they have also affords them an injury (to Bale for example) and continue going on with no dips.

Here would be the very realistic bad scenario for example, if we have 3 wingers in 2 spots (B Silva, Sane, Sterling) and 1 get's injured, then the other 2 players have to play EVERY game after and will suffer due to exhaustion, this is inadequate depth, not to mention that B Silva would also play CM as well. You could say well maybe Kevin can step in to rotate with the wingers, but that is clearly not ideal.

You then go on to talk about just our wingers. However if you look at our front 5 spots as you did for Madrid you find we have D Silva, B Silva, KDB, Sterling, Sane, Aguero, Gundogan, Jesus, that is 8 players if one gets injured there should be no dips and the slightly smaller numbers mean less unhappy players if you add in the potential purchase of Sanchez then I think we compare quite favourably to the depth of arguably the best club side in Europe

 

[Paladin]

Recap;

- Maks Cardenas, a Chilean journalist who first broke Bravo to City last year, reported Pep's interest in Alexis Sanchez in February.

- Cardenas updated in early April that if it's Sanchez's choice, he wants to go to City.

- Several ITKs on Blue Moon report City are making Sanchez a top target this summer, including @tolmie's hairdoo

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Excellent summary @Akiva. Thank you.

 

[ojeme]

You do, but Asensio is a product of their youth team and therefore probably is patient enough to bide his team. Had he been a 50m signing from elsewhere, it's likely he would be in a totally different place. Look at what's happened to Renato Sanches at Bayern. Despite being 19 he had the mindset of wanting to play week in week out because they paid stupid money for him. He hasn't played much and has looked poor when he has.

I'm staggered people don't understand this.

I'll simplify it further. Look at the difference in the player that Alexis Sanchez is now to what he was when he was rotated at Barcelona. Night and day. I don't know about you but I feel Sane and Jesus can be very special players. But for that to happen they need to be number 1 options for me.

Personally I don't see Sane loosing game time. The only question for me is whether Pep will play him on the right or left should we sign Sanchez.
As for Jesus, if Pep had the balls to keep Aguero on the bench when both were fit before his injury I don't see why he cannot do so again so I'm wondering what the moaning is about. If anything it's not a given that Aguero will play ahead of Jesus if both are fit so why do you assume Jesus will be sidelined when Sanchez comes? Jesus is Pep's own signing and even when Aguero was on fire towards the end of the season, Pep still made sure Jesus played. He may not have been as brilliant as he was in January but I'll put that down to the effect of the long lay off. So I ask again what's the moaning for? Oh I guess Sterling is the one you're complaing about as i'd agree he's the more likely to suffer reduced game time but at this point i'm sure even he would admit that his name may not any longer be the first on the list for a team that wants to go toe ti toe such teams as Real Madrid and Bayern. I think you're believing the tripe/lie being peddled around that 'Pep will prove his worth by winning with kids', a promise being falsely attributed to him. It will amount to pride bordering on arrogance if Pep thought he could conquer Europe with kids when there equally capable managers around the globe. If anything Pep wants to replicate his succes here and requires the tools needed to do so just like he did whilst at Bayern and Barca. These two clubs attract the world's best players but in the past we've payed top whack for average to good players because we were not enough of a draw for the truly elite. And this was precisely why we brought in Pep to become a top drawer club and this is working out pretty nice as you can see. I read a post yesterday from Mattyb about how Pep called Bernado who was already nailed on to join Utd and the rest as they say is istree. I dare say that under the Pellers' era we may not have been able to do that. I also recall off the top of my head us wanting to sign a prime Marco Reus but it never worked out perhaps because the draw was not strong. So I'd like you to evaluate this post and have a rethink.

 

[Bill]

Excellent summary @Akiva. Thank you.

Agreed

 

[mosssideblue]

Competition for places didn't win them the CL. They have players capable of performing at a world class level regardless of who is breathing down their neck.

I'm not arsed if players become unhappy. I just don't see the point paying over the odds for a young player based on his potential when you are going to block his path with ready made world class players.

Sterling, Stones and, to a lesser extent, Sane fall into that category of buying potential, were you dismissive of those signings too?

 

[mosssideblue]

Timeline/Recap;

- Maks Cardenas, a Chilean journalist who first broke Bravo to City last year, reported Pep's interest in Alexis Sanchez in February.

- Cardenas updated in early April that if it's Sanchez's choice, he wants to go to City.

- Several ITKs on Blue Moon report City are making Sanchez a top target this summer, including @tolmie's hairdoo

- Bayern Munich are linked to Sanchez by several mainstream media publications in the UK and Germany, including BILD.

- Cardenas updates in early May that Sanchez still wants City, but Arsenal want to push for Bayern. Sanchez's agent also favours a Munich move, as his other headline client, Arturo Vidal, plays there.

- More updates in May about Alexis from Cardenas writing for Chilean media corp Coopertiva about Sanchez having his heart set on being reunited with Pep, but Arsenal pushing hard.

- Reports emerge in the media, likely leaked by Arsenal, that the gooners offer to make Sanchez the highest paid player in the PL, increasing his £180k per week wage to £280k per week.

- By late May, Bayern seemingly take a step back in pursuit of Sanchez with their chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge admitting, in an interview with BILD, the club couldn't afford to compete with the money being offered as wages.

- Several UK journalists, including Sam Lee, maintain City remain confident of landing Sanchez and a meeting allegedly takes place, to that effect, in London a little over a week ago.

- Yesterday, Cardenas updates via Twitter that Sanchez is close to a move to a new "City". Arsenal still pushing, however, for him to go to Munich.

- Also yesterday, Gerard Romero reports Sanchez will be a City player in "a few days". Romero is a Catalonian radio host with close connections to Barca, and, in particular, Guardiola. Last year he was the first to break the news of Stones, Sane, Jesus and Nolito, to City.

- @mattyb posts to say Sanchez's people have been reportedly looking for housing in Manchester for a number of weeks.

- Cardenas tweets again with a contemplative picture of Sanchez, which he captioned "City or Bayern?" When pressed which it is, he says City.

Well done for compiling that mate, looks like we are in the driving seat

 

[TonyM]

Timeline/Recap;

- Maks Cardenas, a Chilean journalist who first broke Bravo to City last year, reported Pep's interest in Alexis Sanchez in February.

- Cardenas updated in early April that if it's Sanchez's choice, he wants to go to City.

- Several ITKs on Blue Moon report City are making Sanchez a top target this summer, including @tolmie's hairdoo

- Bayern Munich are linked to Sanchez by several mainstream media publications in the UK and Germany, including BILD.

- Cardenas updates in early May that Sanchez still wants City, but Arsenal want to push for Bayern. Sanchez's agent also favours a Munich move, as his other headline client, Arturo Vidal, plays there.

- More updates in May about Alexis from Cardenas writing for Chilean media corp Coopertiva about Sanchez having his heart set on being reunited with Pep, but Arsenal pushing hard.

- Reports emerge in the media, likely leaked by Arsenal, that the gooners offer to make Sanchez the highest paid player in the PL, increasing his £180k per week wage to £280k per week.

- By late May, Bayern seemingly take a step back in pursuit of Sanchez with their chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge admitting, in an interview with BILD, the club couldn't afford to compete with the money being offered as wages.

- Several UK journalists, including Sam Lee, maintain City remain confident of landing Sanchez and a meeting allegedly takes place, to that effect, in London a little over a week ago.

- Yesterday, Cardenas updates via Twitter that Sanchez is close to a move to a new "City". Arsenal still pushing, however, for him to go to Munich.

- Also yesterday, Gerard Romero reports Sanchez will be a City player in "a few days". Romero is a Catalonian radio host with close connections to Barca, and, in particular, Guardiola. Last year he was the first to break the news of Stones, Sane, Jesus and Nolito, to City.

- @mattyb posts to say Sanchez's people have been reportedly looking for housing in Manchester for a number of weeks.

- Cardenas tweets again with a contemplative picture of Sanchez, which he captioned "City or Bayern?" When pressed which it is, he says City.

You do us a great service. Thanks Mr!

 

[Rammyblues]

Timeline/Recap;

- Maks Cardenas, a Chilean journalist who first broke Bravo to City last year, reported Pep's interest in Alexis Sanchez in February.

- Cardenas updated in early April that if it's Sanchez's choice, he wants to go to City.

- Several ITKs on Blue Moon report City are making Sanchez a top target this summer, including @tolmie's hairdoo

- Bayern Munich are linked to Sanchez by several mainstream media publications in the UK and Germany, including BILD.

- Cardenas updates in early May that Sanchez still wants City, but Arsenal want to push for Bayern. Sanchez's agent also favours a Munich move, as his other headline client, Arturo Vidal, plays there.

- More updates in May about Alexis from Cardenas writing for Chilean media corp Coopertiva about Sanchez having his heart set on being reunited with Pep, but Arsenal pushing hard.

- Reports emerge in the media, likely leaked by Arsenal, that the gooners offer to make Sanchez the highest paid player in the PL, increasing his £180k per week wage to £280k per week.

- By late May, Bayern seemingly take a step back in pursuit of Sanchez with their chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge admitting, in an interview with BILD, the club couldn't afford to compete with the money being offered as wages.

- Several UK journalists, including Sam Lee, maintain City remain confident of landing Sanchez and a meeting allegedly takes place, to that effect, in London a little over a week ago.

- Yesterday, Cardenas updates via Twitter that Sanchez is close to a move to a new "City". Arsenal still pushing, however, for him to go to Munich.

- Also yesterday, Gerard Romero reports Sanchez will be a City player in "a few days". Romero is a Catalonian radio host with close connections to Barca, and, in particular, Guardiola. Last year he was the first to break the news of Stones, Sane, Jesus and Nolito, to City.

- @mattyb posts to say Sanchez's people have been reportedly looking for housing in Manchester for a number of weeks.

- Cardenas tweets again with a contemplative picture of Sanchez, which he captioned "City or Bayern?" When pressed which it is, he says City.

Stands and applauds

 

[BufordUSABlue]

Agreed

Add me to that! Well done that man