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Sanchez wages 270 k a week AFTER TAX Dumbarse. I'm sure we offered 250K BEFORE TAX is a huge difference! Clueless as usual!

 
inbetween said:
That isn't going to matter. Currently 1 Sanchez gets you x3 KDB's... Food for thought. Our transfer policy is not going to matter in terms of FFP because all transfers will be done on their merit and the value they can add to the squad.

United have got a good player no doubt but they need an entire team of good players, signing Sanchez takes away the real potential of that happening.

To be honest I know many slag off Mourinho but the man has done very well at polishing a turd. Remember this is still the team Van Gaal and Moyes failed miserably with and some of their key players were in their peak when Ferguson was there many moons ago.

If they had signed several £50m players then I would be more worried but lets face it, one injury to Sanchez and they are back where they were... This one is all about appeasing Mourinho because he doesn't care either way given he won't be there in 2 years time.

For us Jesus is injured, Mendy is injured, Delph is now injured, Stones was injured, Silva has been out... For several months we had a midfielder playing full back... Despite this we are still 12 points clear and that is because we have bought smart and built a squad over the best players (a lot of) money can buy.

Sanchez will improve them vastly but would he really make that much difference here, probably not. The club has made a very good decision to keep our cash for another day where it can be spent more wisely.
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I agree he doesn't add anything to City, but how does he improve them vastly?

He plays as a left sided attacking midfielder at Arsenal. Where will he play at Utd?

I think he'll have a free-role as an attacking midfielder which means Mata will be replaced, or Pogba will drop deep. Is his attacking game any better than Pogba's or Mata? If it is, there is not much in it. I prefer both Mata and Pogba to be honest.

The entire theme of this topic, particularly beyond the current month has been to underestimate the deterioration in Sanchez's game. Those who think that once he signs for Utd, the goals are going to flow are I think mistaken. The Sanchez we have seen this season, is the player they're buying, not the version from 12 months ago.
 
inbetween said:

To be honest I know many slag off Mourinho but the man has done very well at polishing a turd. Remember this is still the team Van Gaal and Moyes failed miserably with and some of their key players were in their peak when Ferguson was there many moons ago.
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Agree partly with this. Way I see it, Mourinho is working under circumstances and restrictions, although he's refusing to admit it publicly, he can see his squad is shite, the whole league can see it. The Manchester Derby was a telling example, Mourinho understands his squad isn't going to compare to ours man-for-man, took the practical approach and parked his bus.

I disagree that the squad Baconface left down was a good one. It was an aging squad with a flimsy midfield and defence that got away with Baconface's managerial ability. Baconface wasn't the greatest of tacticians, and Real Madrid last season showed how much a manager can achieve from his squad from quality man management and motivation, however tactically sub-par. At the end of it, IMO Baconface left a squad that was ready to fall into shambles, and Moyes had to shoulder the blame.
 
Akira said:
Agree partly with this. Way I see it, Mourinho is working under circumstances and restrictions, although he's refusing to admit it publicly, he can see his squad is shite, the whole league can see it. The Manchester Derby was a telling example, Mourinho understands his squad isn't going to compare to ours man-for-man, took the practical approach and parked his bus.

I disagree that the squad Baconface left down was a good one. It was an aging squad with a flimsy midfield and defence that got away with Baconface's managerial ability. Baconface wasn't the greatest of tacticians, and Real Madrid last season showed how much a manager can achieve from his squad from quality man management and motivation, however tactically sub-par. At the end of it, IMO Baconface left a squad that was ready to fall into shambles, and Moyes had to shoulder the blame.
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They've still spent hundreds of millions on their team since Ferguson left, and Mourinho's net spend is almost identical to Guardiola's.

You forget that the team which Guardiola inherited was finished. We finished 4th in 2015-16 under Pellegrini which doesn't sound too bad, but we finished on 66 points. We drew 9 games, and lost 10 that season. That's a massive difference between then and now. Mourinho tells the press his team can't be compared to Guardiola's team because of the money spent and the different starting points of the clubs. He's talking rubbish as usual.
 
Extremely disappointing the way this has played out in the end but agree with the club and their stance.
They do need to take on board though the changing transfer market (yes it's gone stupid) but otherwise we could repeat the same mistakes post 2012 and post 2014 title wins when we bombed the seasons after.
 
Chi-town blues said:
Don’t understand why arsenal would sell to a direct rival when fighting for top 4.
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They are not fighting or competing with Utd. look at the league table. He's also not a playing asset to them this season. Been useless. Worse than useless. I think he has demoralised their team, and unsettled them, and they will improve without him. A unified team is more important than a collection of players who don't like each other. You realise how bad it is when players will not celebrate with each other.
 
CITYROBBO said:
Sanchez wages 270 k a week AFTER TAX Dumbarse. I'm sure we offered 250K BEFORE TAX is a huge difference! Clueless as usual!

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Got bored after a few minutes of that. Trying to compare sterling’s wages to Sane and Jesus wages is funny. One has just came from Brazil where he probably wasn’t even on 10k p/w and Sane was pretty much unknown in England. Pretty sure Jesus is getting a pay rise to about 100k p/w, I’m guessing Sane will get a rise soon. Same for Ederson, he was barely known before we signed him and Bravo was a starter for Barca and Chile’s captain, of course Bravo’s starting wage would be higher. He’s completely missing the point, which is a common theme in this Sanchez saga. His wage demands went up after supposedly agreeing a deal with City. Them wage demands would make him the highest paid city player by 100k+ p/w. Considering how we’ve performed this season and the closeness of the City squad, that is wrong. I’d say the only player in world football that is worth breaking any sort of wage structure we supposedly have is Messi, probably Neymar too. Isn’t he wrong about Yaya’s wages too? He’s out of contract this summer so how can his newly reduced weekly wage come into action then? Pretty sure his wages would have been reduced when he signed a new contract last summer.

City fans claiming Sanchez is a mercenary is a bit rich, I’ll admit it. I’ve even said it and cringed at it, considering we’ve had dozens of players signing for us mainly because of money over the past 10 years. But United fans can’t accept he’s joined United because he got offered more money there. They’ve signed a world class player, so I wouldn’t give a toss arguing about weather he’s signed because of more money or not. Just makes me laugh when they try to deny he’s signed for more money.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
Extremely disappointing the way this has played out in the end but agree with the club and their stance.
They do need to take on board though the changing transfer market (yes it's gone stupid) but otherwise we could repeat the same mistakes post 2012 and post 2014 title wins when we bombed the seasons after.
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At what point did we have a team that was 12 points clear in 2012/14?

Manure won't have a pot to piss in come the Summer while we'll continue to build a brilliant squad.
 
not that gutted about missing out on him, more annoyed at where he is going, not sure he gets into our 1st team but he definitely improves them
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
Extremely disappointing the way this has played out in the end but agree with the club and their stance.
They do need to take on board though the changing transfer market (yes it's gone stupid) but otherwise we could repeat the same mistakes post 2012 and post 2014 title wins when we bombed the seasons after.
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I agree with both things you say there. A total cost of 180 million for 4 years of Sanchez is crazy, so it is alright for me that City wants to spend its money more wisely. But as I wrote in another thread I am starting to think we will not sign anybody in this window, and I am concerned about that.
 
cookster said:
At what point did we have a team that was 12 points clear in 2012/14?

Manure won't have a pot to piss in come the Summer while we'll continue to build a brilliant squad.
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I agree with you - just looking ahead to next season and don't want use to make the same transfer mistakes that we did after 2012/14.
 
Jazzman said:
I agree with both things you say there. A total cost of 180 million for 4 years of Sanchez is crazy, so it is alright for me that City wants to spend its money more wisely. But as I wrote in another thread I am starting to think we will not sign anybody in this window, and I am concerned about that.
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I don't think they will either - and in my view this is why we won't win the CL this season. It will just be the league and hopefully 1 other.
But they have missed a trick with the way the CL draw has gone, they won't have a better chance but eventually the squad may get burn out and we won't have the cover.
 
We did the right thing walking away from Sanchez, Don't get me wrong he's a top player, But! To give him the sort of money himself and his agent is looking for is complete madness.

He's a mercenary, He had his chance to play for the best manager on the planet and he's gone to Maureen and Co for his last night payday.

I genuinely don't think he would start for us, He's definitely improve our strength in depth. He will of course wall in the other lot team.

F*ck Sanchez, We're 12 points clear at the top, Let's concentrate on getting the title!
 
I hope he fucks up whatever semblance of dressing room unity they have. Mkhitaryian seems well liked by the players there. I'm sure Martial, Rashford and Mata won't be happy seeing themselves down the pecking order to him.

How many big money attackers have they gone through? Depay, Di Maria, Mkhitaryan all failures.
 
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