Icemav
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Its always hard to disect with hindsight why a fairly highly regarded player turns out to be a dreadful signing. Think Torres and when he arrived at Chelsea.
Personally having watched Sanchez live something never clicked for me and therefore despite his performances and praise I have never been particularly concerned about him. Unlike say Van Persie. So that aside and also things like his form prior to the signing.....
What I can't get is the logic of bringing him in. That season we had a beautiful tandem on the left with Martial/Rashford and they were genuinely ripping teams apart and developing extremely well. Then the surprise Sanchez signing happens and the CAF are all guessing that he will fill the hole on the right wing. But no he comes in and takes the left wing spot and kills one of the most productive areas of our team, stumps the development of our 2 most talented youngsters, and this materializes in a stretch of very poor form.
I still for the life of me can't understand why the club and the manager would pay out such outrageous fees and destabalize our squad for a position that we didn't need to strengthen. For all his detractors I can't see Ole doing something as assinine.
Personally having watched Sanchez live something never clicked for me and therefore despite his performances and praise I have never been particularly concerned about him. Unlike say Van Persie. So that aside and also things like his form prior to the signing.....
What I can't get is the logic of bringing him in. That season we had a beautiful tandem on the left with Martial/Rashford and they were genuinely ripping teams apart and developing extremely well. Then the surprise Sanchez signing happens and the CAF are all guessing that he will fill the hole on the right wing. But no he comes in and takes the left wing spot and kills one of the most productive areas of our team, stumps the development of our 2 most talented youngsters, and this materializes in a stretch of very poor form.
I still for the life of me can't understand why the club and the manager would pay out such outrageous fees and destabalize our squad for a position that we didn't need to strengthen. For all his detractors I can't see Ole doing something as assinine.