aaron bond wrote:PrezIke wrote:PeterParker wrote:So done deal, he is staying.
From this moment on, if we will go again after him, if we are willing to pay more than 1 pound for his services to Arsenal, then we really are a bunch of retards that have no idea how football works. This is the second time we missed him, or maybe the third if we tend to listen to the rumours that said we were after him when he chose Arsenal.
3 times.
Enough.
Either we get him free, or we leave him the fuck alone. He is clearly not that interested in joining us, even that cunt Cuntinho sent a transfer request. For Sanchez nothing. Imho, he could had played a part in the saga if he was really determined to be here.
He was not. Fuck him. We need players that want to be here, that are prepared to take a pay cut to play for a club like ours. We are the most consistent club in the last 6 years in England (never missed top 4) and you still chose Arsenal? Fuck off.
Next.
Blaming Alexis for this seems a bit odd to me mate, but so be it.
Many fans whinge about players who hand in transfer requests. Alexis has clearly sent the message he wants to leave. Not sure what handing in such a request would do given it's clear he wants to come to us. Hasn't helped VVD or Coutinho has it?
If he didn't really want to come to us, why did he turn down multiple offers from other clubs (Bayern, PSG, Chelsea) for more money, including from Arsenal?
Agreed. He clearly wanted to join us but Arsenal delayed everything hoping he would sign a new contract.
In the end Arsenal left it too late and couldn't find a replacement for Sanchez.
It's a massive shame as we desperately need another striker who could score 20-30 goals. We have lots of quality midfielders but none who will score plenty, Aguero who will score plenty and Jesus who looks great but is still a bit of an unknown. We have far less goalscoring power than in our previous title winning seasons.
With our defensive issues, winning the league could be tough considering we don't score enough goals. We need at least one of our midfielders to turn in a season like Yaya did in 2013-2014.
I agree that we need another goal scorer to really be at the level we want, but there are clearly fans of ours who think otherwise.
I respect everyone's opinion, but I'd like an explanation as to why Sanchez is a problem with Kun when we won the league with Kun, Tevez, Dzeko and Balo for 2 places while Pep seems quite interested in utilising a 2 striker formation some games, and others with 1 and 2 wide attacking players (3 players up front).
Kun, Jesus, Sane, Sterling + Alexis would work fine for 2 to 3 spots if you ask me with what Pep is planning. Yes, one player may not get as many games, but that means they have to work themselves back into the team, and we will of course have injuries.
Not sure how many times this has to be written...
I know some may hate the idea of Evans, but that's the centre half with experience who we targeted later in the summer given what is out there after the price of VVD/preference to Liverpool, and Bonucci still not wanting to leave Italy. We had planned for Bertrand as our 4th LB, but the Alves situation muffed that up and forced us to spend more on Walker and Mendy. It's as if no one seems to realise this is what happened and has been outlined by Sam Lee already.
Our plans for improving the defence were foiled by forces outside of our control, which effectively was PSG's insane plans to sign Neymar, which Alves surely learned about when they lured him in, surely swaying Mbappe as well (turning down so-called favourites, Real Madrid), and would all automatically throw ours into Plan B and C, and lead us to spend more than we expected.
I am confident we will be in for Alderweild next summer, as he seems the clear alternative we have targeted now given what's happened this summer. We figured Evans is decent enough to hold the fort and then probably move Otamendi next summer, and if Maffeo keeps things up can come in on the right and have Danilo as the backup LB.
