Exactly. It leaves us light on numbers bur he was absolutely dross for us.He was useless for us and there was zero reason to believe he would stop being useless. A loan isn't as good as a sale but at least it's one less awful player in the squad and there is the possibility that he can perform well enough to get a permanent move next summer.
Woodward I guessOnce all the scapegoats go and we still cant defend or attack where do we turn then?
Who do we blame next ?
Based on his form over the last 18 months it would take him around 200 appearances to get to 10 goals. I understand we are thin but we have attacking players in the U23 squad and I would rather see them given the chance than this con man. We do need to look for another striker in January but that is no reason not to get rid of Alexis now.Unbelievable. I wanted him gone as much as anyone here but looking at our team, he is the only one from the subs who could manage to score 10 goals or so. We are on relegation form with everyone fit, imagine if we lose Martial and Rashford due to injury
The purpose is he buggers off and a bit of his wages are saved for a season. Next year he’ll go on loan again to another team till his contract finishes. No team is going to want to be obliged to buy him.This is worrying now, why loan him without mandatory buying option? That's... not good then, it serves no purpose.
No.Woodward I guess
I know many people over here think Greenwood is nearly Messi's level right now but in reality he is nowhere near ready to be even 3rd choice striker. I don't know what else we have in youth teams who could at least score 5 goals or so.Based on his form over the last 18 months it would take him around 200 appearances to get to 10 goals. I understand we are thin but we have attacking players in the U23 squad and I would rather see them given the chance than this con man. We do need to look for another striker in January but that is no reason not to get rid of Alexis now.
Lot of rumours that he was sulky and in tandem with Lukaku was making things pretty toxic but nothing confirmed so hard to know. Plus side is we save around 5 million from the wage bill and that is a big deal. Our problem according to the financial analysis is not finding money for transfer fees it is that we have too much dead money in wages and so a deal like this one and hopefully Rojo and Darmian to follow will make it easier to be aggressive in the January window.Really bad deal for us. No obligation to buy, or even an option. He must have been identified as a major problem in the dressing room.
"we can do stuff no other club can imagine"
This is it. If the player wants to go, sell him. He wasn't even contributing. I could understand some concern over selling Lukaku, despite the fact I disliked the guy. But Sanchez has offered absolutely nothing for 18 months and suddenly there is some outcry that we are getting rid of him. Its bizarre.Lot of rumours that he was sulky and in tandem with Lukaku was making things pretty toxic but nothing confirmed so hard to know. Plus side is we save around 5 million from the wage bill and that is a big deal. Our problem according to the financial analysis is not finding money for transfer fees it is that we have too much dead money in wages and so a deal like this one and hopefully Rojo and Darmian to follow will make it easier to be aggressive in the January window.
We are not selling him though.This is it. If the player wants to go, sell him. He wasn't even contributing. I could understand some concern over selling Lukaku, despite the fact I disliked the guy. But Sanchez has offered absolutely nothing for 18 months and suddenly there is some outcry that we are getting rid of him. Its bizarre.
We don't have a legitimate goal scoring CF waiting to be promoted but we have several attacking players who have shown enough to think they could get a few goals given a run in the team as backups to Rashford and Martial. Sanchez has not shown anything to suggest he could get us at least 5 goals so I just cannot see a downside to letting him go. I will be delighted if we see plenty of Chong, Greenwood, Gomes and Ramazani this season, they won't all make it but it is worth giving our young players a chance to see what they have if we are really going to rebuild and not just half arse it and go back to no strategy and trying to fix everything over night.I know many people over here think Greenwood is nearly Messi's level right now but in reality he is nowhere near ready to be even 3rd choice striker. I don't know what else we have in youth teams who could at least score 5 goals or so.
Yes, nearly every United fan has wanted him to leave but I would also guess that the majority of them believed we would sign a replacement. The options are limited even with him staying.This is it. If the player wants to go, sell him. He wasn't even contributing. I could understand some concern over selling Lukaku, despite the fact I disliked the guy. But Sanchez has offered absolutely nothing for 18 months and suddenly there is some outcry that we are getting rid of him. Its bizarre.