Alexis/Alexi Sanchez

[johnny crossan]

If there is even an ounce of truth to this, Whinger can fuck off and he can take this thread with him..

the author of the £90m+ story Miguel Delaney - consorting with a fellow intellectual

[sheblue]

90 million my arse. Fucking 50 is too much.

[Mase]

I'd pay £90 million for both Sanchez and Bellerin as a package deal.

[Hazy2]

Another pre season another fucking goose chase. Get defenders in take our chances we win the lot.

[City64]

Sanchez goes for free in 11 months time no way could Wenger get £90 million for him now that is just utter bullshit . Wenger and Arsenal should have sorted a new contract out for Sanchez last season to avoid all this ongoing speculation , maybe he / they did but Sanchez refused because Pep had already had a word ? we will soon know for sure but for me everything points to Sanchez joining us .

[patrickblue]

Sanchez goes for free in 11 months time no way could Wenger get £90 million for him now that is just utter bullshit . Wenger and Arsenal should have sorted a new contract out for Sanchez last season to avoid all this ongoing speculation , maybe he / they did but Sanchez refused because Pep had already had a word ? we will soon know for sure but for me everything points to Sanchez joining us .

All this shit will go on until the last day of the window, then he'll turn up for 35 m

[zuricity]

I hope he stays at the Arse. Don't want the little whiner anywhere near Gods own.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

I hope he stays at the Arse. Don't want the little whiner anywhere near Gods own.

I'm with you ZC. We should steer well clear.

I just have the irrational feeling he could be a potential team wrecker and it would be good for that to happen to Whinger, if Sanchez were to become disaffected over all this.

[aaron bond]

I hope he stays at the Arse. Don't want the little whiner anywhere near Gods own.

I'm with you ZC. We should steer well clear.

I just have the irrational feeling he could be a potential team wrecker and it would be good for that to happen to Whinger, if Sanchez were to become disaffected over all this.

We do need another striker though.

I understand there are mixed feelings on signing Sanchez. Who would you go for instead?

[PrezIke]

If this falls through now wonder who we have lined up as plan B.

Aubumayeng? Or do we just wait for a season and go for someone like Coman? We could hijack Lemar and get back at Wenger a bit.

Tough decision here. Defenders will come this week, that's for certain I'd argue.

I suggested the Sanchez saga would be dragged out anyway.

Look, "only" £50m now for Sigurdsson.

I know traditionally you pay more for players under contract longer, but thing is Arsenal know we want...almost need Alexis to get to where we want. That's part of the issue here and the market is not anything we can truly grasp.

I'm crazy enough to say pay 70-85m. Whatever at this point. Who's better Alexis or Lukaku? He's 24? Okay, yet he's nowhere nearly as proven at Sanchez's level and may never be. We then still have SJS anyway. We're selling players now and this move takes us to the next level. Defense will be sorted this summer anyway, and problem with waiting a season is not just his age, but risking him not coming at all, and costing us trophies. If Alexis is in our team we will win at least 1 trophy.

Yes, I know, Van Persie, but that was a different time, era, and situation. We cannot muff this up, unless there is some plan B we don't know about that we are not thinking of.

[Dubciteh]

Sanchez goes for free in 11 months time no way could Wenger get £90 million for him now that is just utter bullshit . Wenger and Arsenal should have sorted a new contract out for Sanchez last season to avoid all this ongoing speculation , maybe he / they did but Sanchez refused because Pep had already had a word ? we will soon know for sure but for me everything points to Sanchez joining us .

All this shit will go on until the last day of the window, then he'll turn up for 35 m

Agreed this is posturing from Arsenal, he will be ours at last min prob 50m after arsenal make it look like they tried. Might need sanchez to kick up fuss so arsenal can blame him ala nasri.

[johnny crossan]

Interview with Wenger on Sky currently, seems to be strangely unsure about whether Sanchez will be playing for him next season!

[john@staustell]

Interview with Wenger on Sky currently, seems to be strangely unsure about whether Sanchez will be playing for him next season!

Have they sold out season tickets yet? Sanchez will play, Mbappe will be here, blah blah blah......

[carl_feedthegoat]

Wenger has fuckall power on whether Sanchez will stay or go IMO.....the club can get 30 to 50 million for him (apparently) now or ZERO in a years time.

Do you honestly think they give Wenger a deciding vote ?...seriously , hes got little say in the matter.

[Wonderwall]

Wenger has fuckall power on whether Sanchez will stay or go IMO.....the club can get 30 to 50 million for him (apparently) now or ZERO in a years time.

Do you honestly think they give Wenger a deciding vote ?...seriously , hes got little say in the matter.

Wenger will make it as difficult as possible. Last day of the window if he can.

He does hold a lot of say in what arsenal do, however he is an economics professor or something like that so he won't let him wind his contract down

[johnny crossan]

he won't let him wind his contract down

wish the old frog would wind his neck in though

[john@staustell]

His mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries

[carl_feedthegoat]

Wenger has fuckall power on whether Sanchez will stay or go IMO.....the club can get 30 to 50 million for him (apparently) now or ZERO in a years time.

Do you honestly think they give Wenger a deciding vote ?...seriously , hes got little say in the matter.

Wenger will make it as difficult as possible. Last day of the window if he can.

He does hold a lot of say in what arsenal do, however he is an economics professor or something like that so he won't let him wind his contract down

He had a lot of say in the past but after the shite season he has had and the refusal to pay more than a million quid for a player , the board have hauled him in mate....he 100% does not have the same hold as before and I reckon transfer fees and decisions on players contracts etc is well above him in the decision making process.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Yes but for every genuine ITK there are a dozen KFAs who trawl the twittersphere and football forums and regurgitate crap that other KFAs have already regurgitated.

Blue Moon deliberately engender the belief that they have ITKs because it increases their click numbers and therefore generates revenue. Many similar major football forums have a similar modus operandi and of course so does the MSM who simply invent stuff about the rags.

I think Ric, the Blue Moon owner, is a sound guy. I don't think he himself encourages these ITK jokers. It's the users who encourage them.

I'm going to say this millionth time in my life. Blue Moon are the biggest City forum around but the number of people who are ITK and post there that info is precisely zero. If for no other reason but to be truly ITK you'd have to be employed by the club and be one of the maybe dozen employees who are even part of the process. Every single one of those people have signed non-disclosure agreement and would be fired immediately. No one in their right mind would risk their job for getting cred in fucking Blue Moon.

There's one guy on there, MCRJON that either works in the CFA or gets info from someone that does. Either that or he's just really good at guessing.

I tend to agree with NQD.
I wasn't always the case though, pre takeover City were as leaky a sieve, and there were a fair few genuine ITK's.
Nowadays, no chance, the club's security is tight as the duck's proverbial.

Oh yes, I was talking about modern era. We used to be absolute joke in this sense. Every rumour, good or bad, always seemed to turn out to be true.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Yes but for every genuine ITK there are a dozen KFAs who trawl the twittersphere and football forums and regurgitate crap that other KFAs have already regurgitated.

Blue Moon deliberately engender the belief that they have ITKs because it increases their click numbers and therefore generates revenue. Many similar major football forums have a similar modus operandi and of course so does the MSM who simply invent stuff about the rags.

I think Ric, the Blue Moon owner, is a sound guy. I don't think he himself encourages these ITK jokers. It's the users who encourage them.

I'm going to say this millionth time in my life. Blue Moon are the biggest City forum around but the number of people who are ITK and post there that info is precisely zero. If for no other reason but to be truly ITK you'd have to be employed by the club and be one of the maybe dozen employees who are even part of the process. Every single one of those people have signed non-disclosure agreement and would be fired immediately. No one in their right mind would risk their job for getting cred in fucking Blue Moon.

There's one guy on there, MCRJON that either works in the CFA or gets info from someone that does. Either that or he's just really good at guessing.

I tend to agree with NQD.
I wasn't always the case though, pre takeover City were as leaky a sieve, and there were a fair few genuine ITK's.
Nowadays, no chance, the club's security is tight as the duck's proverbial.

As do I in general mate, that bloke I mentioned though doesn't post often and seems to always get it right when he does, not just on transfers either, seen him post good info on contract extensions too and iirc something about the new badge too before it was revealed.

There are a lot of attention seekers on there though, no doubt about that.

Ok, fair enough, there might be someone who posts something when it SUITS THE CLUB. Ie badge change or extensions as you mention. I'm still 100% sure that no one involved with incoming transfers would ever go and post shit on Blue Moon or anywhere else while the transfer process is still ongoing.