Alexis Sanchez

[Cityfan]

A valid point but I'm just wondering if it's true that Arsenal allowed his contract to run down? If it's true, I find it surprising they didn't try getting him to extend last summer.

They were trying to extend Ozil and Sanchez's contract all last season.

 

[Blue Hefner]

I dont understand how an extra year of Sanchez hurts our team, he is our best player.
And if we get CL this season, there is as much chance of sanchez signing on again next summer as he has of leaving.

He got dropped for the Liverpool game due to falling out with teammates, if I remember correctly

There is no chance that, if he stays, he will be fully focused. Then on the off chance you make Top4 with your 2 star players phoning it in, they will sign extensions

Arsenal are badly run and are hoping against hope that it will be alright on the night - it won't be

 

[AwayDay]

With the increase in player values this transfer window, to replace him next season they'll need well over £50mil – Arsenal really should cash in now, but a stubborn old man is determined to run them into the ground before he leaves, it seems.... where have we seen that before!?!

We are not a poor club, we can go out and spend 100m, and keep Sanchez. I dont understand why our club rebuilding has to be connected to selling our best player for a cut price deal, its madness.

 

[SWP's back]

If we sold him last season wed have won nothing, football isnt all about business. Any trophy is worth more than an extra 50m, and the same applies this summer.

You'll be fucked in 2018/19 onwards then as they all leave for free and you can't afford to replace them.

 

[Marvin]

I agree with that. Arsenal are a favourite target for the media. Talksport used to run the daily 'let's ridicule Arsenal' with the Adrian Durham and Darren Gough (closet Spurs fans, if you ask me) doing the Daily Arsenal. Similarly MOTD with Gary Lineker who a couple of years ago lampooned Wenger after a game at Stoke. I don't follow City coverage as much as you guys but we get as bad if not worse stick than you from the media.

I think a thousand City fans just mouthed what? when they read that. The media write for Utd fans. Therefore the angle is obvious.

 

[Robbiegunn]

Kroenke doesn't put a cent into their football club.

No he doesn't, he is just asset building. He's just using us.

while running the club into the ground financially sounds awful, it could be worth a bit of pain if it forces Stan to think "bollocks to it", take usmanovs cash and fuck back off to the states.

I'm confident usmanov would still buy even in a poor financial state. He is a supporter and he wants the club badly.

 

[AgueroSilva]

Doesn't surprise me. Arsenal have revenues about the same as us, and a market cap about the same as us, and yet benefit from have a global fanbase way before we did, and also having a huge stadium in our capital city, and yet they want to spend way less than we are prepared to spend. Says it all.

Our revenue turnover last season was 60m more than Arsenal's. Same yearly wage bill as well of around 200m. Thing is with them their owner doesn't put a dime into it, they're completely self sustained so have a transfer fee budget of around £100m. We can get money from elsewhere if needed, hence the bigger sums being spent by us over the past few years.

 

[SWP's back]

And if we get CL this season, there is as much chance of sanchez signing on again next summer as he has of leaving.

You don t believe that for a second.

 

[AwayDay]

He got dropped for the Liverpool game due to falling out with teammates, if I remember correctly

There is no chance that, if he stays, he will be fully focused. Then on the off chance you make Top4 with your 2 star players phoning it in, they will sign extensions

Arsenal are badly run and are hoping against hope that it will be alright on the night - it won't be

He was brought on at half time and ran the game, Id never question his attitude, I have no doubt that hed give 100% every game next season.

 

[Jack Hackett]

Exactly. It makes me laugh that the buying club gets all the stick for "inflating the market" and the selling club completely escapes criticism. Both are culpable IMO. Or you could say none are - if 2 clubs are prepared to do business on a player, then why should anyone else outside of those clubs complain about the fee?

It's a free market meaning the value of any player is the price that someone is willing to pay him. However, we have a relatively small number of world class players whose value is 'inflated' because of their relative rarity. Every top club wants to acquire them and will push the boat out to get them. As far as those top players are concerned, it's a sellers market as they know they can extract from a buying club pretty much what they want.

 

[AwayDay]

You don t believe that for a second.

If we were in CL, hed have signed a contract extension, Ive no doubt about that.

 

[SWP's back]

Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez, Benzema all play in the big games. If we have Kun, Sanchez, GJ and Mbappe which two do you ask to sit on the bench in a CL semi final?

I don't believe we will sign both.

You seem to think we don't need either.

 

[AwayDay]

You'll be fucked in 2018/19 onwards then as they all leave for free and you can't afford to replace them.

We can afford to replace them.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I dont understand how an extra year of Sanchez hurts our team, he is our best player.
And if we get CL this season, there is as much chance of sanchez signing on again next summer as he has of leaving.

There's a garage around the corner that tries to sell cars at ludicrously over-inflated prices. They sit there on the forecourt for months, until eventually the owner drops the price a bit. Then more months and then he drops the price a bit more. And more months etc. But then the car is older, and not worth the new lower price. So it sits there longer still.

And all that time, his capital is tied up and not earning him money. Basically the man is a fool. He's in denial, to the huge detriment of his business. He fails to grasp the nettle and to realise that his asset is only worth the market price and he should sell it for the market price and move on.

The way Arsenal should be looking at this is:

To sign a top, top striker on a 5-year contract is perhaps going to cost us £80 to £100m in the current market. If we sell Sanchez for £50m, it's going to cost us £50m net. If we wait a year, we'll have to let him go for nothing and then we'll have to fork out perhaps £120m for a replacement, because the prices are definitely on the up. Therefore we should man up and buy a top quality replacement for Sanchez right now. Give the fans something to actually cheer about, instead for forcing a player who doesn't want to be there to play for you. If I was running Arsenal, I'd be moving heaven and earth to sign Mbappe, at whatever price.

 

[vincent]

If we were in CL, hed have signed a contract extension, Ive no doubt about that.

Delusional. He wants out CL football or not.

 

[robbieh]

I don't believe we will sign both.

You seem to think we don't need either.

However good he is I don't think we need Mbappe. Sanchez is more versatile and can rotate in more positions. He can do Leroy's position as well as the strikers role. At a pinch he could do one of the three midfield slots.

 

[AwayDay]

There's a garage around the corner that tries to sell cars at ludicrously over-inflated prices. They sit there on the forecourt for months, until eventually the owner drops the price a bit. Then more months and then he drops the price a bit more. And more months etc. But then the car is older, and not worth the new lower price. So it sits there longer still.

And all that time, his capital is tied up and not earning him money. Basically the man is a fool. He's in denial, to the huge detriment of his business. He fails to grasp the nettle and to realise that his asset is only worth the market price and he should sell it for the market price and move on.

The way Arsenal should be looking at this is:

To sign a top, top striker on a 5-year contract is perhaps going to cost us £100m in the current market. If we sell Sanchez for £50m, it's going to cost us £50m net. If we wait a year, we'll have to let him go for nothing and then we'll have to fork out perhaps £120m for a replacement, because the prices are definitely on the up. Therefore we should man up and buy a top quality replacement for Sanchez right now. Give the fans something to actually cheer about, instead for forcing a player who doesn't want to be there to play for you.

We are driving this car every day, Its not sitting in a show room doing nothing. If we sell the car, we ll have to walk everywhere, or maybe buy a push bike.

We have 200 million burning a hole in our bank account, we will be saving over 1m a week in wages next summer, we will be getting in up to 50m this summer in other sales.
We need to man up, keep our best player, give this season our best shot, if we achieve miracles he ll want to stay anyway, if he doesnt want to stay and we are back in CL thats extra money towards replacing him, even then we ll still have a couple of hundred millions and a huge reduction in wage bill.

 

[mosssideblue]

You're likely failure to get Sanchez is kinda your own fault and that of clubs like PSG.

With the inflated transfer prices you and the others are paying the transfer markets been pushed to a crazy place where it's no longer viable to sell players like Sanchez for £50m as they are impossible to replace for that money. The same has happened with Keita at Leipzig.

No way would Wenger have not sold him to you if he thought he could replace him for the same kind of money. Alas, at the other end of the scale, it's sad for us, because the insane prices now mean Alexis could be the last truly world class player we see at the Emirates for a long time.

I hear what you are saying, but as pointed out earlier, you are effectively leasing him for one season for whatever fee we would pay, thereafter he walks and how much to replace like for like then when you face the whole bill then?

 

[flb]

Haha. You're in effect paying £50m to loan Sanchez for a season.

You're a joke of a club.

A real club that didn't have small club insecurities wouldn't keep a player against his wishes. Chelsea would sell and move on and strengthen. You're cutting off your nose because you can't afford to improve your face.

Decent retort !

 

[AgueroSilva]

Delusional. He wants out CL football or not.

To be fair can only go on what he's said, which is he just wants CL football. Didn't say where he wants to go or if he specifically wants out with/without CL football.