Alexis Sanchez | Done deal

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christinaa

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Owen is just another Liverpool crock pundit.

We gave him a lifeline but he didn't learn anything.
 

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Daily Mail has been running with a strong anti-Mourinho and anti-United agenda since that laughable article about Mourinho resigning at the end of the season.
 

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Because a Sanchez is his last few months of a contract is worth more than fecking double as Mhki with 2 years left imo. feck the contracts, he's twice the player.
Sanchez is absolutely better, but to Arsenal that is of little importance. Thats because the moment it was obvious he was going to leave at the end of his contract, Sanchez on Arsenal became a literal depreciating asset so they had to sell. How can you say
"F" the contracts when thats the whole reason he's leaving?
 

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Oh ffs again

I told you once that I’m referring to the English meaning

Now mind your own
Yes, you did, had no idea, been camping in Alexis thread, sorry, just went to look for it, and found it.
Well it’s written like the English word so that’s enough for us
It is not written like the English word, it is written like Croatian word, Ban is the title used in several countries in central and southeastern Europe between the seventh and twentieth century, and Ban Jelacic is impotrtant man in our history, and it is not our problem you don't give a s*it about anyone elses languages. There are few others in the world beside English, you know.
Now, have a nice day Sir.
Btw, sir means cheese in Croatian, should I write Cheese Alex from now on?
Anyway, done with this subject, back on track with Alexis.
Bye.
 

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He had only one year contract at Dortmund, now he had one until summer 2020 with one possible extra year. He is in his prime age as Sanchez. You really think United/Mouriho would sell us £20m? Okay, than think its, your point of view, I'm sure it wouldn't be the case.

The same moment we would pay £100m for Lemar, because we wouldn't sell him without a replacement. There would be -£40m in this way and i don't care about the the fees to be honest, we need players and not money. We're selling / not spending enough money anyway.

It's not my problem Mikhitaryan can't complete a 5 yard pass for United, i'm sure he will be able to this for an Arsenal team ;)

I completely understand it's a great deal for you, you can pay the wage he wants easily. In the current situation Sanchez wasn't a help for us anymore.
Here's one convinced mkyi can complete a 5 yard pass for Arsenal but can't do it for United. Nostradamus !
 

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He had only one year contract at Dortmund, now he had one until summer 2020 with one possible extra year. He is in his prime age as Sanchez. You really think United/Mouriho would sell us £20m? Okay, than think its, your point of view, I'm sure it wouldn't be the case.

The same moment we would pay £100m for Lemar, because we wouldn't sell him without a replacement. There would be -£40m in this way and i don't care about the the fees to be honest, we need players and not money. We're selling / not spending enough money anyway.

It's not my problem Mikhitaryan can't complete a 5 yard pass for United, i'm sure he will be able to this for an Arsenal team ;)

I completely understand it's a great deal for you, you can pay the wage he wants easily. In the current situation Sanchez wasn't a help for us anymore.
If Mkhitaryan stayed here he wouldn't play much the rest of the season as he cannot make 5 yard passes or even put in simple crosses, and he would have been sold in the summer for around £20m. Teams would low ball United as he would have been seen as a bench player with no future. This swap let's Jose dump a player that he has no use for an upgrade for the world class Sanchez. I'm not sure how Sanchez has performed for Arsenal this season, but he still managed to get 7 goals and 5 assists and he doesn't even want to be there.

Mkhitaryan is a good player on his day, but he needs confidence and support. If the team are playing poorly he will hide.
 

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We're not desperate, and could easily wait until summer. Mkhitaryan presumably wants to play regularly, which he won't if he were to stay here, and Arsenal want a replacement for Sanchez. Us paying up Mkhitaryan's contract makes zero sense. But hey, believe whatever you want.
That would have been extremly risky and is the kind of attitude that has cost Man City this transfer.

You don't know what clubs would come in for Sanchez in the summer when he would be a free agent. To just assume he would be ours is a bit naive. For all you know PSG or Real make him a better offer or City does decide to push through and that would mean no deal for us.

It was extremely important that if we wanted Sanchez that we would get it done now and to get it done now required that Mkhi would agree to join Arsenal.

I don't know if it happened (I just read it from some other posters) but I do think if Railoa would make this as a demand to us and knowing if we didn't agree to it that it could cost us the Sanchez transfer then I do think we would do it.
 

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He had only one year contract at Dortmund, now he had one until summer 2020 with one possible extra year. He is in his prime age as Sanchez. You really think United/Mouriho would sell us £20m? Okay, than think its, your point of view, I'm sure it wouldn't be the case.

The same moment we would pay £100m for Lemar, because we wouldn't sell him without a replacement. There would be -£40m in this way and i don't care about the the fees to be honest, we need players and not money. We're selling / not spending enough money anyway.

It's not my problem Mikhitaryan can't complete a 5 yard pass for United, i'm sure he will be able to this for an Arsenal team ;)

I completely understand it's a great deal for you, you can pay the wage he wants easily. In the current situation Sanchez wasn't a help for us anymore.
If he can return to his Dortmund form of his final season, he'll be great for you. But he's only shown that for us in a handful of matches across eighteen months (it's not just about sloppy passing, he's just not been good whilst looking fragile both on the ball and in the head). Maybe that's Mourinho, we'll have to see.
 

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That's a cool story and all, but it's already been stated that it was Arsenal who paid up Mkhitaryan's contract and not Utd. We'll have paid the £10m in agent fees to Felicivech, and Alexis's sign-on bonus of £7.5m during the course of his contract, but I doubt very highly, that we will be paying much more than that.
Where ?
 

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Wouldn't say you guys f'ed them over since Sanchez was always going to leave anyways. If Miki finds his form from Dortmund then Arsenal would of received more from a player than any money they would of got from selling a player with 6 months remaining on his contract. Wenger is the only one that F'd Arsenal buy not selling Sanchez last summer when it was obvious he wasn't going to renew his deal.
Miki found his form from Dortmund at Utd. He went back to being the same nothingplayer he was for two seasons there, until Tuchel performed a 12month miracle.
The smart thing for Arsenal would have been to get the 35m in cash from Utd, rather than swap Sanchez for another expensive dud.
 

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With regards to the ABU wave that's surrounded the Sanchez transfer, it actually makes sense. A lot of the media is ex rival players turned pundits. The players who were used to United dominating. And so many rejoiced during Moyes/LVG era, smirking away hoping we'd do a Liverpool. Jose comes in. Half way through his second season he's moments from completing his second world class purchase for us, having already made other signings that have visibly improved the first XI. He's stopped the decline and he's making significant progress. The narrative has changed which annoys loads of people. Enjoy.
 

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Arsenal refused 60mil for him in the summer and now we are getting him in straight swap deal to Mikhi.. Let that sink in
 

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I'll only call Woody a genius if he manages to swap Fellaini with Ozil.
 

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“So we’ll have your best player and you can have this guy, who is surplus to requirements to us.”

What a swapsie this is.
 

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As much as i love this transfer, i really hope Martial isn't the one who's sacrificed.

Be such a shame.
 

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With regards to the ABU wave that's surrounded the Sanchez transfer, it actually makes sense. A lot of the media is ex rival players turned pundits. The players who were used to United dominating. And so many rejoiced during Moyes/LVG era, smirking away hoping we'd do a Liverpool. Jose comes in. Half way through his second season he's moments from completing his second world class purchase for us, having already made other signings that have visibly improved the first XI. He's stopped the decline and he's making significant progress. The narrative has changed which annoys loads of people. Enjoy.
Exactly. They were hoping we wil be without title for next 26 yrs, and Jose killed those hopes. Well not yet, but he is close. And he will.
 
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