Alexis Sanchez

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Thanks for the replies. Sanchez is a disrespectful mother fucker if he signs for PSG.......
 
Yeah, this is pretty much over. I would guess this saga played out something like this -
1. Sanchez decides to leave Arsenal sometime last season.
2. Arsenal want him to stay, but the contract situation with Wenger meant that they couldn't focus on him properly.
3. This drags on and now interested parties start talking to Sanchez.
4. Pep makes a call and Sanchez tells him that he wants to come to City.
5. Bayern try their hand, but Sanchez and his agent come up with BS numbers to force Bayern to withdraw from the negotiations.
6. This leaves only City at the table and Sanchez and his agent think that Arsenal will now be forced to sell to City.
7. Wenger takes an unnatural hard stand and tells him that he'll either stay at Arsenal or leave for a foreign club.
8. Pep asks Sanchez to force Wenger into selling him to City.
9. PSG come into the fold. They are ready to pay whatever Sanchez wants. Wenger likes this better than releasing him for free next season or selling him to City.
10. Sanchez is kind tired of all the talks and wants his future finalised asap and decides with his agent that City and PSG's plan is not that different considering PSG are also (allegedly) buying Neymar. So his dream of winning titles (league and the CL) are pretty much the same.
11. All parties agree that this is the best move. Chapter closed.
 
ninjamonkey said:
All those players cover a total of 5 positions on the pitch, that's 7 players for 5 spots, one injury/suspension etc and we can't even fill the bench, we absolutely need another top class signing in the attacking positions.
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It's probably more like 4 spots because we also have Gundogan, Yaya and Dinho to fit in. I don't see how we could keep everybody happy if he did come in.
 
robbieh said:
Silva, Silva. Foden, Sane, Stirling, Roberts, KDB, Jesus, Kun.
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Pep's not going to start thinking of Foden as a first team player after 1 good debut, no matter how good and how much we all want him to succeed.

Roberts....No. I don't see Guardiola wanting Sanchez and deciding Roberts is an acceptable fall back.
 
domalino said:
Pep's not going to start thinking of Foden as a first team player after 1 good debut, no matter how good and how much we all want him to succeed.

Roberts....No. I don't see Guardiola wanting Sanchez and deciding Roberts is an acceptable fall back.
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I get your point but I don't see any rival that has anything remotely as strong.
 
domalino said:
Pep's not going to start thinking of Foden as a first team player after 1 good debut, no matter how good and how much we all want him to succeed.

Roberts....No. I don't see Guardiola wanting Sanchez and deciding Roberts is an acceptable fall back.
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He has already stated after the debut that he sees him possibly staying within the first team squad for the upcoming season and, as we all know, it is a squad game.
 
domalino said:
5 spots. 2 attacking midfielders, 3 forwards.

Based on last season and last night, the starting XI would be 4-1-4-1 with Sané-Silva-Kev-Sterling behind Aguero. Jesus and Bernardo on the bench.

You could say Gundogan can play there too, maybe make it 8 for 5 spots, but that will depend on how accurate the reports of him being turned into a pivot are.
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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)
 
Can't blame him if he wants to go into semi retirement in the French League whilst earning millions.
He could lengthen his career by playing in Ligue 1, can play at 80% most weeks.
 
Can't imagine Pep is too happy if we miss out on the priority signing, he'd have been an absolute key figure for us. Really not sure what alternatives there are, some are suggesting Aubameyang but according to Dortmund's CEO he's no longer on the market, and even then he's far from as effective on the wing as he is centrally.

Sanchez was always a bit of a wishful signing, at least this window, but it's hard to deny that we need someone like him in the squad, it's especially worrying to me that we're likely to lose out on both of the 'winner mentality' targets.
 
Bit shit if he has chosen PSG but at least he is leaving the league if it isn't to City. We don't desperately need a player in that position but if we want to compete in all comps, I do feel Pep will buy another forward unless Bernardo Silva/Jesus are used as back up wingers when/if not playing centrally. There could be a chance Foden fills in for the cups.
 
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