How is Sanchez going to help with our top 4 chances?
Alexis offered to Roma
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Trust me, I don't commend Woodward and Co at all for this deal. At the time we were blinded by excitement of signing this big name, ignorant to his intention and imminent decline.
Fair enough by Sanchez and his agent to look after themselves. That doesn't stop me from thinking he is a waste of space and money.
If he's been half fit or injured the whole time then why on earth would we keep him?
Serious disrespect to Sanchez here if he will be treated as complete garbage.. He has fitness issues but he is not Rooney level finished. I don't agree.
Besides youngsters have their whole career in front of them, chong and comes are not just ready. If they are talented enough they will still have plenty of chances to shine. They are very young right now.
Cafe had a similar view on fellani, none of our youngsters could fill in and with injuries we just collapsed.
He has not been fit, yeah but I don't get why he deserves so much hate. How can a player feel happy if everyone is turned on against an individual as he is not fit.
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I will personally fly out to Manchester and drive to Cheshire to help him pack and chauffeur him to the airport if true...
I'm sorry but how can you even contemplate that? Because it sounds like you're saying Sanchez has been better for us than Mata. And id really like to know what makes you think that? That's before factoring in how much Sanchez gets paid versus Juan.
How can we be short if we have many?
Sanchez theoretically can play any position across our front four (play badly perhaps, but still can). Without Sanchez, we still have:
- for striker - martial, Rashford, Greenwood
For LF - Rashford, Martial, James, Gomes, Chong
- for RF/RW - James, Dalot, Chong, Lingard, Mata, Pereira
For CAM - Lingard, Pereira, Mata, Gomes and even Pogba if Ole choses different tactics.
Plenty of options (many shitty ones, but so is Alexis apparently)
Rooney has never had a season as bad as Sanchez did last year.
It's not my money I don't care how much he gets paid we are short of strikers not no 10. This is why I mentioned mata.
This. I genuinely think Sanchez is, at best, the 4th choice option for any of those positions (and it's only that high because we have no other options for striker).
He's done absolutely nothing. Sell him, and qualify for the CL. No excuses based on whether or not Sanchez is there. He's hindered the team whenever he's played. He can't run anymore, which isn't great when you want to play a high press. Rather go with Greenwood.
Time for a reset, and he's the main one we need to get shut of.
Fastest decline since Torres?
Thought we were getting one of the best players in the league.
Thought we were getting one of the best players in the league.
So forget the money and reason it out. It doesn't compute for me. What has Sanchez done to warrant staying over Mata? Being a striker is a cop out answer so don't give me that bs. We just sold Lukaku to push Greenwood up, a player that was twice as impactful for United as Sanchez and three times his mass.
Just to clarify, it is an option to just say you were wrong to suggest booting Mata and keeping Sanchez
It's not about what has he done, but what can he do.. In time of need.
Will be happy however he goes/whoever takes him. Stand by my opinion that he offers 0 value whatsoever to the squad. We have 3 youngsters in the attack to ease in, would happily give all his minutes to them, and they would certainly do no worse than he did over the last 18 months.
Worst transfer ever. From any club.
That optimism is misplaced. That's coming from Mr bright side over here. I genuinely hope he can do something, anything. But his issues go far back to before leaving Arsenal. He's looked just as awful for Chile and can't avoid getting injured.
For that kind of punt we'd be better off with Bale who has long patches of injuries but then comes on and actually does something.
But also, stop picking on Juan!
That very same kind of misplaced thinking is what left us short of midfielders last season giving us crushing defeats and humiliation last seasons end with no ucl football for another year.
If you wanted to get rid of him why act so late? And not replace In the window? What sort of rationale justifies this abysmal catastrophic way of management?
If mata goes we have lingard, pierera, gomes, pogba to fill up he is not exactly contributing anything in the team if Sanchez goes we will be short of strikers and goals severely.
We have europa league to play too.
Leave you cnut!
I don't get what you're saying, because we just sold Lukaku. On the last day of the window. Selling or dumping Sanchez would hardly be a worse offense.
At least Torres had the injury to blame, I thought Sanchez was an elite player at Arsenal and he has turned out to be no better than Djemba Djemba
Leave Djemba Djemba alone!
I hoped he had stopped trying at Arsenal and that he was desperate to leave towards the end of his time down there. Plenty of Arsenal fans accused him of that. It turns out, the dramatic decline in his form at Arsenal indicated precisely what we'd be signing up for ourselves.
We just sold lukaku and offered that role to green wood to play on the right, a rookie .Now you are justifying we weaken further and let more goal scoring options leave? Don't understand what part did you not get?
The man is poison to the team. He weakens the squad more by staying. Squad morale is actually a thing in real world football.
When has Sanchez been a goalscoring option for us?
We all know what he can do.... Dominate the treatment room, hinder the team or do absolute feck all when on the pitch. There's nothing that warrants keeping him except blind optimism. We can as well bring Rooney back.
I know he's been awful for you guys, but I'd love to have him for Roma. I reckon he'd do really well in Serie A
Agreed - when the PL finally crumbles and the Chinese Master League battles the MLS fro supremacy historians will look back at this transfer as the worst of all time. Not only because he did nothing but also for the damaging knock on effects of his salary on other member's of the squad and also the clarification for all agents that we are a cash cow to be milked. Want him gone asap
Now we're back to the same point. Mata has scored and assisted multiples of what Sanchez has for United. So again, the idea we sell Mata instead of Sanchez is beyond ridiculous. It's a baseless dumb luck punt. I mean, youre making excuses for selling Lukuku over Sanchez. It's quite surprising to me that someone that's watched United the last few seasons would come up with this. Like I said, if you leave Juan out of the equation I could agree on the point of keeping him. But to sell Juan over Alexis is mad.
1. He comes in on huge wages and is awful on the pitch.
2. He breaks up the Martial/Rashford combination on the left, and pushes them out right. This derails the season for both.
3.His wages unsettles De Gea, Pogba and Herrera, making every contract negotiation much harder.
4. Starts getting small injuries all the time, and suddenly he has starred in a full length movie as the lead.
And still some fans don't want to see the back of him.
2. He breaks up the Martial/Rashford combination on the left, and pushes them out right. This derails the season for both.
3.His wages unsettles De Gea, Pogba and Herrera, making every contract negotiation much harder.
4. Starts getting small injuries all the time, and suddenly he has starred in a full length movie as the lead.
And still some fans don't want to see the back of him.
Why sleep whole summer? And not replace him then? Why now? Why put our own season in jeopardy? It shows rookieness of the manager and the Ceo.
I’d take Rooney over him atm... safer cutting our losses and give the game time to the kids.
Maybe Ole was never counting on him at all?
Like getting rid of Mark Henry, getting rid of this chupacabra will be like gaining a new signing in fairness.
Everyone keeps saying he needs to be replaced... replace what exactly? He offered absolutely nothing to the team. At least playing literally anybody else instead of him has the potential of offering us something.
Everyone keeps saying he needs to be replaced... replace what exactly? He offered absolutely nothing to the team. At least playing literally anybody else instead of him has the potential of offering us something.
We should keep him this season. An injury to any one of Martial/rashford could absolutely derail our season. And Mason/chong are just not experienced enough to readily slot into the squad. We need Sanchez. At least until the end of this season.
Not sure where the mata chat is coming from as he has just signed a new contract and looks very happy to be at the club he has never let the club down has a record of scoring important goals and is a fabulous role model for the youngsters .
Regarding Sanchez I’m in 2 minds on one side he has been an absolute flop and waste of money and I would pop open the champagne if we managed to off load him on the other hand selling Lukaku and not replacing him has left us very vulnerable at the sharp end we are only one serious injury away from disaster it is a long lge season with potentially a lot of uefa cup games and domestic cup games to play I just don’t see how Rashford, Martial and Greenwood are going to be able to cover all these .
It will be great to give Gomes and Chong game time but we are nieve if we think they are ready to provide 10/12 goals each . We may need Sanchez to fill in over periods of time .
But I do believe he is a negative influence on the squad and it’s obvious Ole doesn’t want him around .
It’s such a tough call because regardless of scoring 4 at the weekend it still feels like lack of goal scorers will take its toll on us eventually.
Great.
He's yours for £1 and you pay all his wages.
Roma is either very desperate or totally clueless.