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Everybody wants Aleix Sanchez, and to a degree I understand because he is world class player who can score goals and get assists, but I just don't see him as necessary; B Silva, Roberts and say Sancho (with cameo time) could surely give Sterling and Sane the appropriate rotation necessary throughout the season.
I think this season in particular though, the squad was definitely bigger than Pep would have liked. You can tell he has respect for the older players in the sense that he feels compelled to give them minutes over youth because their careers are winding down. Like Fernando is not a player for us in the future, that seems clear to me, all the minutes he got SHOULD have been given to Garcia, but Pep probably didn't want to mistreat him.
I think next season will be a big indicator in that regard, I don't think Garcia should be loaned out, a DM being loaned out doens't make as much sense because his game is completely around the technical side and link up with his teammates, whereas Enes NEEDS to play constantly do develop as a striker.
If Delph and Fernando leave, I can imagine all the hypothetical minutes they'd get next season would go to Garcia, so if Garcia can get atleast 900 minutes next season (an average of 10 full games) by playing full games or as a substitute then that'd be an improvement.
I can also see somebody like Sancho getting a few minutes, but more as cameos, to give Sane some rest, and I HOPE Roberts does come in and make it.
Everybody wants Aleix Sanchez, and to a degree I understand because he is world class player who can score goals and get assists, but I just don't see him as necessary; B Silva, Roberts and say Sancho (with cameo time) could surely give Sterling and Sane the appropriate rotation necessary throughout the season.
Effectively means we have no intention of finding out his potential in our PL team but just in case.......
Seems this will be the max that any young player we sign can expect unless other teams have proved them at a high level.
Best deal I've seen this summer. :-). Just a well put together deal.
Sign for 2m, sell for 12m, buyback for 17.5m
If we end up buying him back it will mean we will have signed a top young ST with years of first team football experience for £7.5m. If we don't we will have made a 10m profit on someone who has never played for us.
I rate him highly so slightly sad to see him go but you can't complain with that, plus it gives us more wriggle room for signings this summer.
We can't "find out his potential in the our PL team" as he can't get a work permit.
the thing is we don't own him now, there is every chance another top team could be interested and he would rather go there.
Some buys are for the now and not developmental. If this guy can help up across the line next season then it won't really matter what we pay the Gooners or that he is nearly 30.This I can agree on as well, he is a quality player but he is approaching 30 and Arsenal will try and screw us for a shit load of cash and at the end of the day we have attacking mids coming out of our ears lol
Cheers for a decent conversation about it btw :)