Alexis Sanchez (Out)

[AL the gooner]

One day John Cross will actually get a story right.
Defo not today though.

 

[bingobob]

If Alexis moved to City for 50m on 300k per week for four years it would cost 112.4m 400k pw on a five year deal with us will be 104m over the lifetime of the contract.

The boy isn't daft.

 

[al-Ustaadh]

@Furious paper of choice printing more drivel.

Just seems like Cross is taking advantage of today's reports about Messi resigning for 500,000 pounds a week. Waste of time article.

 

[Kingslayer]

 

[LacazetteAFC]

If Alexis moved to City for 50m on 300k per week for four years it would cost 112.4m 400k pw on a five year deal with us will be 104m over the lifetime of the contract.

The boy isn't daft.

What's more if he leaves on a free next summer he could demand that 50m as a signing on fee.

 

[junglist57]

This dude reliable?

 

[HairSprayGooners]

This dude reliable?

The paper he's citing is the main paper in Chile.

 

[Sapient Hawk]

If true, he's taking the piss.

He probably realized the club is adamant in their resolve to see him either go to the mainland or renew rather than depart for a premier league rival & resorted to following a similar ( from his perspective) obstructionist tactic.

He's good & logic dictates if that Mr. Potato Head impersonator in Rooney can bring home £300,000 Alexis can demand an extra £100,000 on top.

This saga is just in it's infancy I'm afraid

 

[Sniper Mik]

He doesn't need to sign a new contract for me. He can fvck off to City on his own next season. But we're not(we shouldn't) going to willingly strengthen a rival.

 

[say yes]

Another positive soundbite from the Chilean (I presume) press.

This is starting to look good.

 

[say yes]

New contract makes a lot of sense for Alexis.

He's going to be at the club next season anyway. May as well stay with a massive pay increase and a gentleman's agreement he can leave abroad if the right offer comes in.

 

[Song Billong]

There is really no point in selling him.

If we are going to push back into the top four (or dare I say it; actually challenge) then our best chance is with him spearheading our side.

The £50 million we would get we could make up by returning to the CL next season, and if we're looking good he may even change his mind and want to stay. Or maybe that was the shrooms.

 

[El Duderino]

The article is much more about Laca then Sanchez. Still leaving next season, it seems.

Also: WOW. People were hating on him and Laca at the comments. Damn, internet... you nasty.

 

[Rimaal]

This quote from the article makes no sense

it seems that tocopillano [Sanchez] will respect his contract with Arsenal until June 2018, after the club improved its economic conditions to make the Chilean one of the best paid of the campus.

If he's staying due to the club improving economic conditions it means he's signing a new contract, in which case his contracts will last longer than 2018.


The article alos says we finished the season playing 3-4-2-1 which we did not.

 

[GunnerShy]

There is really no point in selling him.

If we are going to push back into the top four (or dare I say it; actually challenge) then our best chance is with him spearheading our side.

The £50 million we would get we could make up by returning to the CL next season, and if we're looking good he may even change his mind and want to stay. Or maybe that was the shrooms.

Yeah.
As an rough back of the envelope calc:
Difference between finishing 5th and 4th EPL money = 8mil
Difference between Champion league group of 16 and winning the Europa = ~25mil
Assuming Sanchez is on 130k a week and we were willing to pay him 275k we save = ~7.5mil in wages we were willing to pay him.

So I think the difference between finished 4th and 5th is approx: 33m GBP and we would save 7.5m in wages that we were happy to pay him. There are probably other less easily quantifiable benefits: shirt sales etc.
But if you humour me and throw those two figures together you're sitting close enough to the 50m where I think you'd tell another English club to fck themselves.

That said, there's a real lesson here. Players cannot be allowed to get to a point where they enter their final year. I hope they've sacked that department. And I hope they sack our commercial revenue department too.

 

[karl]

I think the club can afford to let him go into the last year anyway. The onus is on Sanchez to get some kind of long-term deal now, as at nearly 30 next year, it might be more difficult to negotiate for him.

Peak earning power is now and surely the club cannot allow an agent to hold them to ransom for £400,000 pw. It is not so much the one salary, but the destabilising affect on the rest of the squad. Is a player like Koscielny really only worth quarter of Sanchez to the team?

 

[Tosker]

surely we're still a big enough club not to give in to ransom demands - if we did pay him £400k a week I would get no pleasure watching him play, especially if he had a release clause for 2018

if he doesn't want to play for the badge then he can bugger off to one of the **** rich clubs with no soul or heritage

 

[One Love]

Give him 300k p/w and a cheeky 40+1 release clause only if we don't qualify for CL.

 

[GDeep™]

I'm guessing him and Bellerin have indicated a desire to leave and we've told them both to **** off.

 

[GDeep™]

If he doesn't extend, so what? A rival club is signing a 30 year old Sanchez next summer.