I remember checking the Teletext for Ronaldinho news. Aww what a time that was. I was like 12 at the time. Major disappointment when I saw a top story that he agreed to join Barca. I was nearly in tears.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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If we sign Alexis, get a solid midfielder during this window and have injured players back, do not bet against Jose taking City out in a two legged champions league knockout battle or a CL final if they both make it. Just saying.
Nevertheless,I do think one of the usual suspects or PSG will win it this year.
Absolutely 100% correct.
'Good for football' what city are doing they say. fecking shameless.
All the while pumping out stories on the front pages of the antics of oil rich dictators and/or endless oil wars.
Sorry to get somewhat political but the sheer nerve of them and how few people seem to actually see it for what it is really bothers me.
Totally agree. It happened a few seasons ago as well - I remember Robbie Savage stating then that he believed city were the 'best club side on Earth'.
They are good, and are also highly overrated. When they start beating Barca, PSG, Real, Bayern and winning CLs and winning back to back PLs at the same time, ok. 'Til then, it's just talk.
Don't worry about that. Sanchez always acts like a man when his pay is good. But be very worried once he starts asking for a pay rise.
@antohan is ITK nowadays
He was already at Barcelona where he was winning plenty but still decided to leave for more game time and prominence to a club that had won nothing in years. Will a Barcelona light under the same manager, who didn't use him very well the first time around, hold such a massive appeal to him over us? We can offer him his last payday as well as Oil City, same chance of winning trophies in the next three or four years and a more important role in the team than what he'll get at City.
This is not my thinking because we are heavily linked to him in the last few days. I replied the below to a poster on Tuesday:
We are not a stalling big club. We are a club that is getting closer to the top after a few dull years. Sanchez could very well be one or two of the last missing pieces of the jigsaw that takes us back to the top.
Tbf, the Lukaku signing came out of nowhere as did Falcao. Lukaku wasn't even really considered a target, a few rumblings in the press and deal was agreed a day or two after. Falcao was a deadline day surprise that barely anybody knew about until it happened.
Im sure his mate Claudio Bravo will have a say in this.
That was traumatizing.
I remember seeing it as a done deal with Ronaldinho getting Beckham's 7 jersey and all. It was a real shock when he signed for Barca. Although then we did get a decent, yet unknown individual to have the vacated number 7 instead...
Don't come here, Pep will buy a new toy and bench you next season?
The Rom transfer was glorious, and the way he hit he ground running just made it even better. That's my fave post-Fergie signing actually.
The Falcao one, though... that was weird from the get go - literally everything about that whole transfer was a surprise.
From him signing out of the blue on deadline day, to it turning out it was just a loan, to the utterly bizarre nature of his performances (falling down a lot), from him then being signed by José for Chelsea, and then going back to Monaco and doing ok again!
Weird. Seems like a dream or something.
That wasnt his debut that was against Ipswich later in the seasonFive goal debut.
If nothing else comes from these rumours at least I've learned that Sanchez only follows 36 people on twitter and 3 of them include 2 members of One Direction and, my personal fave, Richard Marx.
Arsenal fans speculating about a potential Sanchez and Martial swap deal just tops this saga off with absolute impossible expectations. So funny to see the mindset arsenal fans have when they say "martial and 20m for sanchez is good for both clubs". Wow. Theres nothing there in Arsenal for Martial and it would take £100m+ and Martial actually wanting to go to Arsenal for us to even blink.
Arsenal fans talking about Martial in exchange!
WUT
Surely Arse fans know by now that it doesn't work like that with us...?
We buy RvP, you buy Welbeck. That's how it works.
Mkhi and cash for Sanchez would be a really good deal for everyone involved I reckon.
Mkhi would do better there - less pressure, tech footy, more of a soft, nurturing manager.
Asking for Martial is just silly. I'm sure the Arse board knows as much.
Strangely enough, it does just seem like a dream.
It does doesn't it?
I'd add ADM in there too. Not quite as bizarre on all levels as the Falcao business, but still, it does feel slightly like, 'did that really happen?'.
Doesn't really feel like he was a Utd player.
I've seen nothing so far to change my opinion that Sanchez will still be an Arsenal player on 1st Feb, then join City in the Summer for nothing and get himself a hefty signing-on fee.
City know he wants to go nowhere but there so why would they stump up £35m when he's going nowhere else anyway?
City know he wants to go nowhere but there so why would they stump up £35m when he's going nowhere else anyway?
Not to mention they took Silvestre from us as well, so they do owe us a Sanchez to make it even.
@FCBarca would choose a life size cutout of Pep over £1 million.
And yet some want Jose gone soon for some bizarre reason or other. As far as I can see, he's doing a good job despite some mistakes here and there. We are no longer mugs in the transfer market as well and with potential targets like Sanchez, we will soon be able to challenge the top teams.
Yeh, Internet was dial up though, was quicker to press 302 on teletext.
Silly question, but doesn’t he primarily play on the left?
For Arsenal, yes. He played a bit as a CF last year as well. At Barca, he mainly played on the right (which, alongside up front with Di Natale, he mainly played at Udinese, too, I believe). He's a very versatile player.
Is the general consensus that this is going to be wrapped up quickly one way or the other or is it going to run on until the end of the window? Not sure i can take it dragging out.
What have I missed?
For Arsenal it makes no sense to sell him until the end of the window. As long as his performance level doesn't drop he can play another 3/4 games
It seems that there are 2 possibilities. Either we sign him in January or he waits until the summer for City.
If we're signing him it will surely be in the next few days. If we're not we'll find out something soon enough. Either way you'd imagine this will be resolved in the next few days.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/ale...-you-have-to-try.435324/page-78#post-21983691
BBC
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42668562
Simon Stone on a podcast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05tqflk
Jose on Sanchez:
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My train was late for 6 hrs yesterday due to bad weather and fog. This transfer discussion kept me awake. Though to add my two cents, I think we should go all in for this deal, even if that includes swap deal with Mikhitaryan. We have to get that player as such signing will up our chances of a decent champions league outing.
Agreed, I don’t particulary care how much it costs if we get him. Plus if Mkhi goes that’s even better.
Christ.
Yes and we are in a position to bargain as the player in question is letting his contract expire and also we have a prize for arsenal. A player that very much suits the arsenal style of game. If we are serious, there is more chances of us getting the player than city. Also pep could not use him properly in Barcelona.
In India that is like being early.
Spot on
Well Pep has magically found a way to get a ligament injury recovered in less than a month, but that’s for a different forum I suppose...
Thanks for the comprehensive response! Still think this is about trying to force city’s hand but I gues we’ll see...
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