Alexis Sanchez

[Claytop]

is he coming now we've reached it?

 

[Academica]

Why the hell would the rags even want a player that clearly favoured us? I wouldn’t want us to sign a player who would rather play for the scum.

But you know when he signs he will say he chose them over us because they are the biggest club in the world, the one with all the history and the 650 million will lap it up.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Is this 400k figure net or gross

Good question. No clue.

The Chinese one was netto.

 

[CityDreamer]

United are simply offsetting the wages they will lose this summer on big nose and bog brush, so they can easily afford this deal.

What I now know for certain, £400k per week was offered by Chinese representatives last summer. Sanchez had no desire to play his football there.

What he and his agent did do, however, was use that figure as a benchmark when it also came to speaking to both Bayern and Paris.

Bayern were not prepared to even go anywhere near £300k per week and even Paris told them he would have to wait due to the Neymar and Mbappe deals.

United were told over Christmas by Sanchez that they had rejected £400k per week from elsewhere, and that he still only wanted to play for Pep.

United simply took a punt when they knew City were dragging heels over whether to do the deal in January, insisting they could match that offer from China/related fees.

Mourinho's recent comments telling his board he needed more money to compete with City was also with Sanchez in mind, he knew there was an outside chance.

I think he's done a selling job on the player since.

We are still waiting to sort the KDB deal, so I do think Kev's agent would have been emboldened to ask Sanchez money?

I think, given the circumstances, we should back away from this asap. No need to destruct our structure.

 

[jrb]

Maybe Ric's earned 400k this week from the traffic going through BM? ;-)

 

[inbetween]

Goal don't really attempt to break stories anymore, they are more aligned to keeping onside with clubs, rather than putting backs up.

In that respect, if Sam Lee has tweeted this morning that it's over, then I would wager a pretty strong guess that was an official steer at that time.

Interestingly, seemingly United are very confident but still wary of exposure to a major u-turn.

All down to the player now, does he sign or wait. At the moment I think he is waiting....

 

[BlueDejong]

 

[Claytop]

Hmm I already think we're out but you never know.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

If that’s the case then what’s stopping us doing this sanchez deal? Every market the prices for players/agents go higher and higher it’s simply part of the game.

Because he said he wanted to play for Pep and had agreed the wages, which is why Soriano would also not budge from the supposed offer of £20m.

KDB has three years left on his deal, we are simply in the process of acknowledging him as a our best player.

If I were him and we gave Sanchez £400k per week, he would do well to sit tight and not even renew if City refused to even top that.

I suspect, anyhow, Pep places a lot on integrity and someone's word?

 

[Lemon7277]

Lifted straight from Brennan's desk to next door but ones desk...m.e.n part of the mirror group shock horror