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Will there even be a offers for him? I'm not sure.
They've been forced to get off their arses to try and do things differently. It's a shame we had to come to this point for them to act. As an Arsenal I don't demand trophies from the club but I certainly want them to give it their best shot. And the last 5 or 6 years we've held back and ignored areas of the club that needed fixing, and it's not that they weren't fixable. I'm still not 100% sold by everything, cause there are still plenty of work to be done. The Alexis situation is a big part of that and selling him to a rival this summer would be the straw that break's the camel's back.I completely agree.. but somehow every year after all the dissapointment i come back hoping things will change. As much as i didnt want is to finish out of the 4 this year i saw the silver lining of it.
I may be a stupid arsenal hopeful but things seem different this year, we've signed laca with over a month left in the window ffs.. we have ivan gazidis saying to fans that they are trying to sign lemar ffs. Lemar is a player who no one really knew before this year and we could potentially get close to or even break our transfer record on signing him. To top it all off we have wenger saying that alexis will honour his contract multiple times.. thats another £50 million.
Am i being a gullable fool? Please tell me if i am being a deluded arsenal fan like evey other year but i feel like arsenal and Arséne are approaching everything different this year.
I could see him going to PSG. They have the potential and motivation to do well in the Champions League. That's basically the only goal they have right now because the french league will likely be theirs again if they get their act together.
However, this is an opportunity to show the club's strength for once. I always admired Dortmund for sticking the finger to Bayern and keeping Lewandowski for the last year of his contract..
EDIT: If we keep Alexis, add one more quality player and say **** it to the Europa League and domestic cups, then we could very well win the league and get Alexis to sign.
We could still end up selling him you know. The dumbness of our board knows no boundsI'm glad we've put our foot down. Having said that there is a small part of me that would get a good chuckle from extorting City for something like 50m and then hijacking Chelsea's deal for Aubamayang and seeing if Özil could double Henry's assist record with Laca and Auba terrorizing defenses in front of him.
LOL No way Alexis Sanchez makes the same as Messi. 300,000 p/w is about right to me, though.
The thing everyone seems to be forgetting is-
He's going to leave for free next summer. We can play the hysterical "he leaves over my dead body" card and have him whinging and playing up all season before leaving us standing around holding our dicks next summer, or we can think about the £70m that we can take now, reinvest in real quality elsewhere in the team and move onwards and upwards without him.
We seem scared that he's bigger than the rest of our team put together, but I say that Mahrez has shown he could be almost as effective as him -particularly given other teams will no longer be able to single him out all the time if playing for us - and if we can bring in Lemar or Dembele alongside we'll be in a far stronger position than putting all our chips on Sanchez.
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The thing everyone seems to be forgetting is-
He's going to leave for free next summer. We can play the hysterical "he leaves over my dead body" card and have him whinging and playing up all season before leaving us standing around holding our dicks next summer, or we can think about the £70m that we can take now, reinvest in real quality elsewhere in the team and move onwards and upwards without him.
We seem scared that he's bigger than the rest of our team put together, but I say that Mahrez has shown he could be almost as effective as him -particularly given other teams will no longer be able to single him out all the time if playing for us - and if we can bring in a Lemar or Dembele alongside we'll be in a far stronger position than putting all our chips on Sanchez.
Alexia doesn't owe us jack ****. Never seen a harder worker on the field he's given us everything, even when losers like Giroud and Walcott couldn't be assed
If he leaves it means hes lost faith in Wenger
He owes us a year remaining on his contract.Alexia doesn't owe us jack ****. Never seen a harder worker on the field he's given us everything, even when losers like Giroud and Walcott couldn't be assed
If he leaves it means hes lost faith in Wenger
Makes sense. His actions just don't reflect that of somebody who wants to win the CL. He would make Bayern serious CL contenders, the same Bayern who arguably should/could have beaten Real in this year's CL.what I don't get with Alexis is why he priced himself out of a move to Bayern and possibly PSG, both much more likely to give him that CL medal he claims to dream of
surely he's been in England long enough to realize he's unlikely to get it from a PL club
my gut feeling is that he's happy to stay in England, but he doesn't want to play under Wenger any more, and that his refusal to sign an extension has at least as much to do with the bust up earlier this year than money or the CL