He's gonna be another Ozil cos their CM is made up of Arteta and Flamini
Not arsed really. He's decent but he's not world class
Not arsed really. He's decent but he's not world class
Alexis Sanchez
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There's no honour amongst thieves........
Anyone who chooses them over us is a fucking retard.
So we are a less attractive option as Sanchez would face competition with Lallana yet he would go to Arsenal where he will compete with about a million players who are of the same ilk as him? What Whirly?
We also have no idea how exactly the Sanchez fee will be paid by Arsenal. #Guesswork
We TRIED to sign Sanchez. Barca probably wanted to do business with us too but he didn't seem to want to come. It wasn't because we already signed Adam Lallana.
There are fewer slots in our system for a Sanchez/Lallana type than in Arsenal's. Wenger always finds a way to shoehorn in his favorites, practicality be damned.
Our pursuit of Sanchez was hindered by our pursuit of Lallana to some degree. If Adam Lallana didn't exist, I can guarantee you that we would have been more aggressive going after Sanchez.
Lallana and Sanchez would have been playing in completely different positions for us. Lallana is a midfielder whereas Sanchez is a forward.
Not having that at all Whirly.
Why are we trying to sign Lazar then? How aggressively in a scale of 1 to Sanchez are we trying to sign him?
If Rickie Lambert didn't exist I can guarantee we would be trying to sign Sanchez more aggressively.
I'm not implying he wasn't up for the fight. He just didn't want to come here.
Maybe it was his principles, didn't want to be a make weight in a transfer. Maybe it was the London factor.
Dunno.
I am pretty sure it wasn't because we already signed Adam Lallana.
Markovic won't be the nailed on first teamer that Lallana/Sanchez would be.
You can ease Markovic into the role you want him to play. Spend over 25M on a player in their prime and they have to factor into the first team immediately. Otherwise it's a waste of money.
Stuffing Lallana and Sanchez into the first team could prove to be inconvenient, hence our declined interest and lack of aggressiveness. And now, our look at long term options.
I was being facetious mate.
All we know is that we tried to sign Sanchez and didn't want to come.
Aspas will be gone to Sevilla and used as a possible makeweight in the Moreno deal or at least I hope so. Borini may stay if we don't accept the Sunderland bid. BR will have hatched a plan. I'm keeping the faith that there'll be a top class forward coming in still.
I dont think that really matters mate. Wenger has been after Sanchez for years and that has also been key.
He had a verbal agreement with Wenger about joining after a meeting in Brazil.
This was always going to be very difficult for us.
Lallana and Sanchez arent in any way connected imho.
Lallana and Sanchez play in different positions.
What's driving this on Whirly? I wanted Sanchez too, I wanted him badly. I just don't think it had anything to do with us signing Adam Lallana who plays in a different position anyway. Their potential signings were not mutually exclusive.
Now if you aren't happy with the Lallana transfer, that's fair enough but there is no point blaming him for Sanchez not coming. That's silly.
If Lallana didn't exist, maybe we'd have beaten them at Anfield, in which case, we'd be champions and Suarez wouldn't go to Barcelona and we would only buy one attacking player instead of four and I guess that one could be Sanchez. So yes, maybe you are right...
Are you saying Sanchez would play as a lone striker for us, or Lallana at CM?
Because otherwise they will basically be playing the same position for us. The floating CAM/Winger role.
Playing Lallana at CM with Henderson is really wasting his talents going forward. And Sanchez alone up front doesn't do it for me personally.
Don't you mess with the butterfly effect here.
Or is this like BTTF, if Lallana didn't exist would it mean Gerrard wouldn't have slipped against Chelsea?
Okay. If Lallana suddenly decided to go to Columbus Crew this summer to be their marquee player instead of us...
I'm pretty sure Lallana will pop up in varied positions for us this season as would Sanchez IF we have signed him.
Look, I wanted Sanchez too. BIG TIME. We are on the same page their. He isn't here because he didn't want to be. It isn't because Adam Lallana exists. That's where I'm at. That's all.
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