Good to hear mate.
While we all get on players backs, they are humans etc at the end of the day, so you would hate to think we have some sort of horrible environment.
Alexis Sanchez - Inter Watch
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
While we all get on players backs, they are humans etc at the end of the day, so you would hate to think we have some sort of horrible environment.
I don't think Lukaku failed. His first season was good, what was expected of him. For some reason, he just downed tools in the second (or wasn't in the best physical shape)
The issue with Sanchez and probably what made his time here a failure from a tactical standpoint, is that despite signing him, Mourinho didn't try to build the team around him. When you spend so much money on a player and just tells him to adapt to the team, how is he supposed to play like he did at Arsenal ? He didn't seem to down tools like Di Maria did, just couldn't adapt to the way the managers set the team up
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I can't remember what we were all expecting at the time, but I recall thinking I hope he works out on the right, otherwise him and Pogba would be operating in the same space, in each other's way. Turned out we had 4 players who all wanted to operate from the left, in Martial, Rashford, Sanchez, and slightly deeper, Pogba.
I'm not sure who decided to buy him - i.e. Woody or Jose. Even though almost all of us were buzzing, I think most knew that a 4 and a half year contract on that ludicrous salary was a huge mistake.
It wasn't mainly down to tactics. It was down to his attitude, the fact he waltzed in on 2-3 times what everyone else was earning, and looked physically past it. It could only go downhill from there.
Buying him was Ed's worst piece of business, by a landslide, and getting rid and taking that loss, was Ed's best piece of business.
I remember I wanted us to sign Lucas Moura that window as we needed RW but then there came the possibility to sign Alexis and the club took it. Can't blame them as I and probably 95% of fans wanted Sanchez as well. It proved to be a mistake but not so costly as we were able to sell him. Look at the problem Arsenal have with Ozil or RM with Bale, thank God for Conte and Inter.
But Inter didn't pay a fee for the transfer... so did Ed really got the money back ?
I think it was about 40m we were seeing going down the drain had he stayed on. If I recall correctly, he got a 10m pay-off from the club, thereby saving themselves 30m and, potentially, clearing any disharmony in the dressing room as a consequence of his grossly unmerited wages. I don't think anyone here honestly thought we'd manage to get rid in such a good way (all things considered). So yes, given that we overspend on transfer fees and wages as a norm, post SAF, in my view, this is the most impressive thing I've seen from Ed. Thanks to Inter, of course.
Were Young and Lukaku on expensive wages aswell ?
Not sure about the veracity of what I read, but I think Young was earning around 110-115K and Lukaku 200K-ish.
Sure. Any idea if Inter will pay Sanchez anything close to what he was getting here ?
Has he been so shite they’re trying to swap him for Dzeko?
I think it's more Roma that is actually interested in him. Inter seems to be pretty supportive of Alexis, to have more patience with him than United did.
patience is admirable - but by all accounts he’s been pretty shit? At what point do you acknowledge that he’s not recapturing form from 3 years ago...
No one expects him to get form from three years ago. But he's 32. There has to be something left in the tank... no ?
is there though? He’s living off his reputation (what’s left off it).
No patience is required when you consider his wages, he has lower wages at inter now.
When did he just lost his quality though ? I seem to remember that when he came to United he was already playing bad. But the previous season he was one of PL's top scorers...
he was utterly awful for Arsenal for the 6 months prior to signing for us. At the time, most people thought it was because he wanted to leave, and was frustrated with Arsenal. Clearly the rot had already set in.
was fantastic at one point in time.
This, it was literally a carbon copy of Torres, thankfully we got rid of Sanchez much sooner and didn't give Arsenal anything for him.
Whoever signs Salah next will have a similar problem on their hands.
That's actually a great shout, hopefully nobody does sign him in that case
He also didn't play very well in that year's confederations cup. Chile reached the final, but more because of the team overall.
I think it was both a physical decline and a loss of motivation with the game.
Scored today, we are idiots for letting him and Darmian go. 
Apart from a player we'd bought for 30m!
Makes me sick thinking about how good a team we could have with Sanchez, Darmian, Smalling, Lingard, Lukaku, Young, Rojo et al.Scored today, we are idiots for letting him and Darmian go.
Who was a carbon copy of Veron and Shevchenko. Chelsea have a habit of getting screwed like that.
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Thats not an assist for Lukaku, the opposition plays it through
Thats not an assist for Lukaku, the opposition plays it through
Flashscore says differently.
Lukaku is having the season of his life though, isn't he ?
Seems like a different player.
There are websites claiming that the earth is flat. They’re wrong. Flashscore is also wrong. Anyone with functioning eyes and a brain can see that.
Quite happy for him all honestly.
Even a ricochet counts as an assist
It wasn’t a ricochet. He mis-controlled it in the opposite direction of goal and a defender poked it backwards. Again. Use your eyes. If that’s flashcores bar for a ricochet then again, they’re wrong. Not that it matters. This is the Sanchez thread. Ropey finish and poor keeping but got the job done. Muscled his way beyond the defender and got his shot away. Fair play.
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