Alexis Sanchez United player

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What? No first day training pics of our new no.7 so far? What a disappoint in relation to the unveiling! :cool:

And that silly Yeovil town match kicks off at 4am where I am staying. No idea how am I going to be able to watch it. And the Spurs match is 4am too! Sheesh
 
Can’t wait to get my boy a Man Utd top with Alexis number 7 On. Anyone else cringe when people type Alexis fecking Sanchez! I mean Ano every did it with Bastian but see how that transfer turned out?
 
F365 said:
‘Manchester United say Sanchez will be paid on par with Paul Pogba at around £300,000 week’ –Independent.

‘Standard Sport understands Sanchez will almost triple his current Arsenal salary of £130,000 by taking home £350,000-a-week’ –Evening Standard.

‘Paul Pogba will demand his wages are doubled to match £400,000-a-week recruit Alexis Sanchez’ –Daily Mirror.

‘Alexis Sanchez’s £450,000 salary will create long-term problems for Manchester United’ –Daily Mail.

‘Sanchez will earn £500,000 a week at Old Trafford – more than Paul Pogba and David De Gea combined’ –Daily Express.

‘Alexis Sanchez takes aim at his critics after signing £600,000-a-week deal as Henrikh Mkhitaryan swap is confirmed ‘ –Daily Telegraph
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diarm said:
Your third line is syllables short. The original is:

"Well we're all in the mood for a melody"

That "melody" is important to try and recreate as well to fit the tune. You've replaced it with "Alexis" or "you can" which even if there were enough syllables, doesn't sound right.
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Good observation, @diarm. I would say a good singer or arranger could make it scan, especially the first verse, or even a drunk footie fan in a stand! In "pi-(an-o-man)", the bracketed words are a triplet. But to make @Houdini's lyric work, they would go "A-(le-hx-is)", kind of contrived but would still work. I enjoyed your analysis, though. The second verse has issues alright, as you say it just doesn't sound right. Something like "Give every rival a headache and a tragedy" might work a bit better.
 
SteveJ said:
‘Manchester United say Sanchez will be paid on par with Paul Pogba at around £300,000 week’ –Independent.

‘Standard Sport understands Sanchez will almost triple his current Arsenal salary of £130,000 by taking home £350,000-a-week’ –Evening Standard.

‘Paul Pogba will demand his wages are doubled to match £400,000-a-week recruit Alexis Sanchez’ –Daily Mirror.

‘Alexis Sanchez’s £450,000 salary will create long-term problems for Manchester United’ –Daily Mail.

‘Sanchez will earn £500,000 a week at Old Trafford – more than Paul Pogba and David De Gea combined’ –Daily Express.

‘Alexis Sanchez takes aim at his critics after signing £600,000-a-week deal as Henrikh Mkhitaryan swap is confirmed ‘ –Daily Telegraph
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You can just focus on one of them and get three different amounts in the space of 30 hours.
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Slops said:
My video is now on Sportbible getting a few hundred thousand more views.

Uncredited, of course :lol:
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Not only should they credit you with it you're also entitled to be paid for it, so I'd go after them.
 
For our Chile residents here, will he go down as the greatest Chilean player in your history? Or is it Salas, Zamarano or Vidal or perhaps someone i have missed out?
 
RedM11 said:
Amazing signing for us, cant wait to see him wearing the famous number 7 shirt.

Now, can somebody please make a chant from the tune Pianoman - Billy Joel...

Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright…
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Score us a goal, mister piano man
Score us a goal tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a victory
Cause Alexis got us feeling alright.
 
'Sanchez is a great player but I never loved him
So his departure pisses me off, but it doesn't break my heart.'

6 tweets within an hour about how he's not bothered about Sanchez leaving etc. Smells like denial Piers.
 
Just watched the unveiling video again, man that's a good fecking video. I love it.

If anyone was ever in doubt about United being the biggest club in the world, just take a look at the media and how much this transfer has stirred things up. Can't wait to see him in his first game!
 
SATA said:
For our Chile residents here, will he go down as the greatest Chilean player in your history? Or is it Salas, Zamarano or Vidal or perhaps someone i have missed out?
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He will by the time he is finished with us.
 
SATA said:
For our Chile residents here, will he go down as the greatest Chilean player in your history? Or is it Salas, Zamarano or Vidal or perhaps someone i have missed out?
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Well, Zamorano and Salas really made an era. The former one being top scorer (pichichi) while playing for Real Madrid circa 1995 and then joining Inter de Milan, sharing the pitch with Ronaldo, Baggio, Djorkaeff, etc; the latter winning the Best Player in America in 1997 if I remember correctly, becoming an idol in River Plate of Argentina, and then jumping to Lazio and Juve. Both of them were the top scorers for the National Team until Sánchez came along and dethroned them. Now Alexis holds the record with 39 goals or so, and with a good few years in front of him to increase his record.

There's another historic Chilean player who always makes it to the Top 3: Elías Figueroa (CB). He played in the same era as Pelé and won 3 consecutive Best Player of America in the 70s. He's still regarded as the best local player in our history.

When Alexis moved to Barcelona in 2011, the argument about who was the best was reborn, and now Alexis and Vidal are easily in the top 3 of our most successful players, probably with Figueroa in the podium. I think that if he makes history with United, and he gets to win a couple of leagues and especially the Champions League (which no Chilean player has ever won on the pitch–Bravo won it when in Barcelona but as a sub), he will definitely go down as THE best Chilean player ever.
 
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Media in full Abu overdrive with speculation about wages. Funny they never speculate how much DeBrain gets in his new contract at the property developers Albion.

They are all green with envy and upset that Sanchez isn’t up Guardiola’s rear like the rest of them. Whatever he’s paid is his business unless you’re a shareholder. They will try and get the players against him for sure, mark my words.
 
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@Luis DC
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What do you want to know? About media coverage I recommend emol, lun, La Tercera, those are the most popular newspapers, on tv you may find something at the websites oF CANAL13, TVN, Megavision (Mega) and Chilevision. I'm not allowed to post media links yet, but they are easy to find, They don't have English version and these days you will find a lot of coverage. Tomorrow not much, we have a very busy day with the elected president announcing cabinet and the death of one of our greatest poet (Nicanor Parra if anyone is interested). Have a great day.
 
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Thanks good they didn't try to convert that in Chilean pesos, that would be 490 million a week :-p
 
Varun said:
Not anymore. Go ahead :)
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Thanks mate!

This is what I've got so far:

Well, this has been going on for a few days now, but since he's already been announced I figured this is the last day he'll be on the front pages.

Went to work early this morning and I could see all the newsstands with the enlarged face of Sánchez (too bad I can't move them from my phone to here), so I just took some caps of the online newspapers. Check them out:

LAS ÚLTIMAS NOTICIAS:

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LA TERCERA:

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EL MERCURIO:

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LA CUARTA:

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Chile is Red!
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matador said:
Well, Zamorano and Salas really made an era. The former one being top scorer (pichichi) while playing for Real Madrid circa 1995 and then joining Inter de Milan, sharing the pitch with Ronaldo, Baggio, Djorkaeff, etc; the latter winning the Best Player in America in 1997 if I remember correctly, becoming an idol in River Plate of Argentina, and then jumping to Lazio and Juve. Both of them were the top scorers for the National Team until Sánchez came along and dethroned them. Now Alexis holds the record with 39 goals or so, and with a good few years in front of him to increase his record.

There's another historic Chilean player who always makes it to the Top 3: Elías Figueroa (CB). He played in the same era as Pelé and won 3 consecutive Best Player of America in the 70s. He's still regarded as the best local player in our history.

When Alexis moved to Barcelona in 2011, the argument about who was the best was reborn, and now Alexis and Vidal are easily in the top 3 of our most successful players, probably with Figueroa in the podium. I think that if he makes history with United, and he gets to win a couple of leagues and especially the Champions League (which no Chilean player has ever won on the pitch–Bravo won it when in Barcelona but as a sub), he will definitely go down as THE best Chilean player ever.
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Excellent post @matador
Thanks for the insight!
 
matador said:
Well, Zamorano and Salas really made an era. The former one being top scorer (pichichi) while playing for Real Madrid circa 1995 and then joining Inter de Milan, sharing the pitch with Ronaldo, Baggio, Djorkaeff, etc; the latter winning the Best Player in America in 1997 if I remember correctly, becoming an idol in River Plate of Argentina, and then jumping to Lazio and Juve. Both of them were the top scorers for the National Team until Sánchez came along and dethroned them. Now Alexis holds the record with 39 goals or so, and with a good few years in front of him to increase his record.

There's another historic Chilean player who always makes it to the Top 3: Elías Figueroa (CB). He played in the same era as Pelé and won 3 consecutive Best Player of America in the 70s. He's still regarded as the best local player in our history.

When Alexis moved to Barcelona in 2011, the argument about who was the best was reborn, and now Alexis and Vidal are easily in the top 3 of our most successful players, probably with Figueroa in the podium. I think that if he makes history with United, and he gets to win a couple of leagues and especially the Champions League (which no Chilean player has ever won on the pitch–Bravo won it when in Barcelona but as a sub), he will definitely go down as THE best Chilean player ever.
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Thanks for the history lesson.

Thinking about Alexis' achievements from a historical point of view, its interesting that he hasn't been more widely recognised outside of Chile. I am sure most would agree Alexis is one of the best players in the Premier League, which makes him one of the best players in the world, but arguably he should be given more respect.

For example, Luis Suarez is given a lot of respect, because he has won stuff with Barcelona and because he led Uruguay to the Copa America in 2011. However, Alexis also won stuff with Barcelona and led Chile to the Copa America in 2015 (and the Centenario in 2016). However, people's perception of Suarez and Alexis seems very different. I think its fair to say Alexis gets less credit. Perhaps its because of the Champions League, which Alexis is yet to win as you say?

I think Alexis is even better than many people realise, I just have this feeling that he is going to do something very special at Manchester United.
 
Greck said:
It's not bad but nothing special. Front 3 could be lethal but let's see
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An attack with Martial, Romelu, Sanchez, Rashford and Lingard with a supporting cast that has Pogba is nothing special? Top two in the premier league and top 6 in Europe for me.
 
#07 said:
I think its fair to say Alexis gets less credit. Perhaps its because of the Champions League, which Alexis is yet to win as you say?

I think Alexis is even better than many people realise, I just have this feeling that he is going to do something very special at Manchester United.
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if Alexis were argentinian, the perception would be so much different. (just take Di Maria for example...)
 
In the space of 30 minutes on this thread, @matador has gone from 4 to 7 likes. The other Chilean on this thread has 5 likes from 13 messages. Taking a lead from Woodward, our mods are fast-tracking Chile to United.

I for one would like to welcome our new Chilean overlords :devil:
 
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