Alexis Sanchez (Out)

[grim_tales1]

I'm just furious we're losing our best player to a competing PL team (for the second time) I don't blame Alexis for wanting to go but this has pissed me off. Such a great player, exciting and fun to watch.

 

[rich 1990]

I'm just furious we're losing our best player to a competing PL team (for the second time) I don't blame Alexis for wanting to go but this has pissed me off. Such a great player, exciting and fun to watch.

Don't worry, Mourinho will kill that.

 

[Tosker]

Özil will sign a new contract according to Alan Smith.

Not his opinion either - he specifically said 'my sources' which presumably he considers very reliable to put himself on the line like that

 

[Jury]

Reading pure balls about Alexis in here.

'Mercenary'? He wasn't a mercenary when he signed for us, and he wasn't a mercenary before that either... So what now? At the end of the day, we hate Man Utd and most of us think, or hope, they wont win anything of note for whatever length of time but, at the end of the day,they're above us, they have a good points total, they're in the CL this season and they'll be in the CL next season. They have also just won a bigger trophy than Wenger has won in his life despite being ****ing sh!t. And he's gong to be one of the highest earners in world football.

What have I missed?

Yes, money is obviously a huge factor, but when is it not? He's gone to a bigger club with far more ambition, to play for a manager that puts it on the line. Suck it up.

 

[Artisan]

lol at these numbers.

Özil is a fool and should fire his management if he is seriously considering signing an extension with us with figures like this being thrown about.

 

[Highbury_2006]

Reading pure balls about Alexis in here.

'Mercenary'? He wasn't a mercenary when he signed for us, and he wasn't a mercenary before that either... So what now? At the end of the day, we hate Man Utd and most of us think, or hope, they wont win anything of note for whatever length of time but, at the end of the day,they're above us, they have a good points total, they're in the CL this season and they'll be in the CL next season. They have also just won a bigger trophy than Wenger has won in his life despite being ****ing sh!t. And he's gong to be one of the highest earners in world football.

What have I missed?

Yes, money is obviously a huge factor, but when is it not? He's gone to a bigger club with far more ambition, to play for a manager that puts it on the line. Suck it up.

You like the little dog molester and admire Manure and Maureen, we get it.

 

[Highbury_2006]

lol at these numbers.

Özil is a fool and should fire his management if he is seriously considering signing an extension with us with figures like this being thrown about.

Özil is a very rich man who happen to love London. I also think he have a good relationship with Wenger. That nose is extremely big btw.

 

[Aevi]

180 million pounds!? That is just ****ing unreal. Honestly, props, he has made it in life. And he gets to fleece Utd while doing so

 

[Original_AAA]

Think people should be a bit more positive, there are (finally) some good signs emerging from the club.

Untill pen is put to paper I'm not going to be swept away in optimism. There have been many false dawns the last 10+ years with glimmers of hope shattered when reality sets in yet again.

While I do agree that if all the rumours are true we seemed to have done well considering the bad situation we have put ourselves in, we can't escape the facts that 1) the people responsible for getting us into this situation in the first place are still running the club and 2) untill everything is signed and approved it isn't done. It won't help us to be linked to players if the transfer never happens.

 

[Malky]

Paying Alexis £180M, and he'll still be used as a passenger on Mourinho's parked bus in every big away game.

 

[WizardOfAus]

Really makes me wonder. With Alexis almost going to Man Utd, where does that leave players like rashford, lingard and martial?

I can see one of them getting fed up with lack of playing time and cracking the ****s. Maybe next summer well have the Martial thread going nuts . A bit of payback would be in order if they steal alexis. Even if Mkhi becomes a world beater again...

 

[Slartibartfast]

Reading pure balls about Alexis in here.

'Mercenary'? He wasn't a mercenary when he signed for us, and he wasn't a mercenary before that either... So what now? At the end of the day, we hate Man Utd and most of us think, or hope, they wont win anything of note for whatever length of time but, at the end of the day,they're above us, they have a good points total, they're in the CL this season and they'll be in the CL next season. They have also just won a bigger trophy than Wenger has won in his life despite being ****ing sh!t. And he's gong to be one of the highest earners in world football.

What have I missed?

Yes, money is obviously a huge factor, but when is it not? He's gone to a bigger club with far more ambition, to play for a manager that puts it on the line. Suck it up.

He wasn't a mercenary when he signed for Arsenal because Barcelona pushed him out. I won't even call him a mercenary for leaving Arsenal (even though the club was willing to double his wages). I won't even call him a mercenary for pricing himself out of a move to Bayern last summer despite his professed desire to win big trophies. But when he wrangles for a move to Manchester City all summer, starts up again in January, tells friends it's his "dream move" to play for Pep and win things, is all but set to go there, then pulls the plug on a City move at the last minute when United (a club currently less likely to win big trophies than City and whose manager plays a style of football that suits Alexis less than Pep's) backs up a Brinks truck to his door and waves cash in his face, that's a mercenary. There's just no two ways about it. Forget about Arsenal. Look at his behavior.

 

[MkhiMagic]

Really makes me wonder. With Alexis almost going to Man Utd, where does that leave players like rashford, lingard and martial?

I can see one of them getting fed up with lack of playing time and cracking the ****s. Maybe next summer well have the Martial thread going nuts . A bit of payback would be in order if they steal alexis. Even if Mkhi becomes a world beater again...

More than likely it'll be Mata that's pushed out as Alexis will start on the right and Martial/Rashford will keep rotating on the left wing. Also a matter of time until Lingard gets phased out again when his purple patch inevitably ends at which point they could return to a midfield 3 once they upgrade the lesbian.

 

[WizardOfAus]

More than likely it'll be Mata that's pushed out as Alexis will start on the right and Martial/Rashford will keep rotating on the left wing. Also a matter of time until Lingard gets phased out again when his purple patch inevitably ends at which point they could return to a midfield 3 once they upgrade the lesbian.

Yes good point. Lingard will probably end up playing at some mid table club like everton or tottenham

 

[Juan Matas Beard]

Our fans are getting a little impatient. Ed Woodward announced a new partnership with Yanmar Tractors today. And someone decided to make a Youtube highlights video about it.

YANMAR | WELCOME TO MANCHESTER UNITED | 2017 HIGHLIGHTS | DESPACITO

 

[Jury]

He wasn't a mercenary when he signed for Arsenal because Barcelona pushed him out. I won't even call him a mercenary for leaving Arsenal (even though the club was willing to double his wages). I won't even call him a mercenary for pricing himself out of a move to Bayern last summer despite his professed desire to win big trophies. But when he wrangles for a move to Manchester City all summer, starts up again in January, tells friends it's his "dream move" to play for Pep and win things, is all but set to go there, then pulls the plug on a City move at the last minute when United (a club currently less likely to win big trophies than City and whose manager plays a style of football that suits Alexis less than Pep's) backs up a Brinks truck to his door and waves cash in his face, that's a mercenary. There's just no two ways about it. Forget about Arsenal. Look at his behavior.

They're paying him money off the scale and he stands a better chance of winning stuff. Forget City. They didn't want him. They didn't need him. Forget the 'friends said blah' stuff too. That's just laughable. 'His mate Dave from the pub said meeeh'. Come on ffs.

 

[Jury]

The people calling him a mercenary now are the same people who were saying he would ride the bench at City. 'Pointless him going there', they said. 'Who's he going to displace?', they asked. 'He lose's the ball too much for City, he wont fit in' they said'....

Arsenal go to sh!t, Man City refuse to meet his demands and so takes the best offer on the table from 2nd placed CL club, Man Utd, for 500k a week.

"Mercenary!!!"

 

[al-Ustaadh]

lol at these numbers.

Özil is a fool and should fire his management if he is seriously considering signing an extension with us with figures like this being thrown about.

Money isn't always everything. As Keown said, Alexis is a mercenary. If he really wanted to "win the Champions League," then he would've gone to Bayern in the summer.

 

[al-Ustaadh]

The people calling him a mercenary now are the same people who were saying he would ride the bench at City. 'Pointless him going there', they said. 'Who's he going to displace?', they asked. 'He lose's the ball too much for City, he wont fit in' they said'....

Arsenal go to sh!t, Man City refuse to meet his demands and so takes the best offer on the table from 2nd placed CL club, Man Utd, for 500k a week.

"Mercenary!!!"

I never said he'd ride the bench at City. But I did say he wouldn't win the CL at Manchester City, which was what he was complaining about when all this **** kick started. It's quite clear now that he just wanted one last big ass pay check.

 

[Slartibartfast]

They're paying him money off the scale and he stands a better chance of winning stuff. Forget City. They didn't want him. They didn't need him. Forget the 'friends said blah' stuff too. That's just laughable. 'His mate Dave from the pub said meeeh'. Come on ffs.

Not mates from the pub. Teammates on the Chilean NT in whom he confided. City may not have needed him, but they did want him. If they didn't, they wouldn't have offered £60 million for him in September and bid for him again in January. Arguably, he stands a better chance of "winning stuff" at United than at Arsenal, but not a better chance than at City. To think otherwise is delusional. His actions were all about going to the highest bidder. He'd have gone to frickin' Sp**s if they'd offered him more than United.