Arsenal Banter Archive January 12 2018

12 Jan 2018 22:14:30
Can anyone yell me why we just can't say to sanchez, agent or city, right we want 35mil for sanchez to go to citeh today not tomorrow or you all wait while june. I don't care how you sort it but decide. If we want 35 then that's it. The same should also be said to ozil. Then maybe we can all get on with what we are all here to do.

12 Jan 2018 22:44:22
He will spend the whole of january on his knees begging sanchez and ozil to stay whilst shipping out all the players that want to stay. He will only spend big if they leave but he doesn't want them to leave your the manager either tell them to sign or get out and get in replacements.
Buy players that will make them want to stay rather than letting them dictate the play. He is in cloud cuckoo land.

12 Jan 2018 22:49:34
well steve then I think he walks in the summer. city know he's coming sooner or later. upto us if we accept less but I don't see 35million. maybe a deal at 25million.

either way i'd take the cash now.

12 Jan 2018 23:09:58
Doesn't really make any sense for city to take him now. We don't know if there's any agreement with Sanchez (although I bet there is) and he will go in the summer. The only real reason city could want him now is to rest some if there better players before CL games. I'm sure a move in the summer would be financially beneficial for Sanchez as well.

{Ed002's Note - So the situation with MC is that they will wait for the summer because (a) they don’t really have space in the squad, and (b) money will be easier in the summer giving the player a better sign on fee, and the club having wages available to pay him. The have the edge as they can dominate for perhaps two or three years after this season. Manchester United want rid of HM and this may be an option - but they too have a wage issue due to the truly, truly ludicrous deal with ZI. Chelsea won’t bite because of the wages and that should take Liverpool and PSG out of the deal in January at least.}

12 Jan 2018 23:17:09
Apparently, City are offering £20m.

Take the money and run.

12 Jan 2018 23:27:12
Thanks ed 02 that explains why HM came into the equation, they would need him off the books. My view is that sanchez wants only citeh and in the end everyone will wait while june. My problem is the utter garbage that's being reported on a daily basis and most of it, like ypu say is not possible due to wage constraints.

{Ed002's Note - I agree Steve. He wants to be challenging to win PL and Champions League and over the next few years they can offer him that chance better than others.}

13 Jan 2018 08:58:16
Might get hammered for this but we don’t need 30,000,000 do we? I’d rather keep him as he offers us a chance to get into the CL, the revenue from that exceeds the 30Mill.

13 Jan 2018 09:26:50
If I was Sanchez, I would want to go now, just walk in to a league winners medal without lifting a finger.

13 Jan 2018 13:07:57
It's not in Sanchez hands tho Eden . Or at least for the next 6 months it's not.

13 Jan 2018 12:52:07
Just seen your reply ed. cheers.

{Ed002's Note - You are welcome.}

13 Jan 2018 13:38:46
Banbury i now look at it slightly differently. We are not getting CL with or without sanchez, so if we got 30 mil from citeh now at least we will be 30mil better off. But i don't trust wenger to buy the correct players and without sanchez, i don't get too exited watching our players toiling to cope with mediocrity. i'm really split, i want to watch a truly world class player playing for us but in june the money would have come in nicely. Us without sanchez makes us so predictable in a dreary way.

12 Jan 2018 19:55:28
Wenger judgement is seriously impaired in regards to defenders. Mert, Gabriel, Debuchy
Monreal, Chambers, Squillacci, Santos have all been signed and none of them have brought us nearer to premiership wining team let alone Europe, 25 mill on Mustafi and if it hadn't been for the injury to Chambers he would have been moved on after one season. Koz was world class but injuries and his age are catching up on him. Apart from his display in the Cup Final Holding as a long way to go. If you go back further you got Stepanovs, Cygan and Senderos all not good enough. The best defender buys were made in the early days
like Sol, Kolo, Lauren, Luzhny and Lehman. The sadness of it all is that players like Giberto, Pires where sold far far too early. The situation regarding Sanchez is a complete farce, For the last few years we have been held up as a shining example of how to run a football club as a business module, so who made the decision to let Sanchez run down his contract and lose 65 mill and over 100% profit was it Wenger, Gazidis, Kroenke. He should have been told last summer sign or your sold irrespective if we get a replacement or not. and the same message should have been sent to Ozil. I said in my post/ rant a few days back that this is Arsenes fault and he should be made accountable. Coquelin has gone and quite frankly should have been moved on a lot sooner as should. have been Walcottl. I have just been hearing that Mourinho is interested in buying Sanchez and to be honest i don't care as long has he goes this month. Whatever the rest of this season brings and i cannot see it bringing anything this should be Arsene Wengers last season, no more Arsene enough is enough
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12 Jan 2018 20:06:44
Well said Heybridge.

12 Jan 2018 20:34:13
Top post.

12 Jan 2018 20:35:28
But there are still people who can't see the damage he is doing. Maybe the odd one never will, whatever state he gets us in.

12 Jan 2018 21:11:23
You will never convince everyone. Some people see it early others take a while then there's always a few who will see black as white. Life I'm afraid.

12 Jan 2018 21:21:15
Sano, i accept that is the case but they would all be thinking different if this was another club that the level of incompetencey was happening at.

12 Jan 2018 22:05:50
In the same respect they might not care less mate. It is what it is. I'm hoping that it gets the plug pulled on this daft going on by summer.

12 Jan 2018 22:51:20
remember the days when he was proud of his one year deals for over 30s. always baffled me. meanwhile we had diaby stealing wages. strange.

13 Jan 2018 05:45:23
Do you even remember Luzhny? Lehmann a defender?

Honestly, you all blow so much smoke up eachother’s arses it’s a surprise you’re not all chimneys.

This wasn’t a good post, most of it didn’t even make sense due to the illiterate ramblings of the poster. That you want to get rid of Sanchez to United just capped off the lunacy. Bizarre rant that for some reason people supported.

13 Jan 2018 05:46:14
And Derbygooner, Diaby stealing wages? Crazy thing to say.

13 Jan 2018 10:58:28
Monreal was a good buy.

13 Jan 2018 20:14:20
Nick why wouldn't I say that. he never played and earned great money. left to france and never played there.

14 Jan 2018 02:05:48
You make it sound like he wanted to sit around not playing at all. I imagine having a short career anyway and not being able to play most of it because of a reckless, unpunished challenge by a meathead like Dan Smith is what all professional footballers aspire to, just so they can steal a living.

14 Jan 2018 09:11:10
never said it was his fault or he wanted it. he was employeed to play football and he rarely did. we released him 6 years too late. great player but no good to us in physio room.

12 Jan 2018 19:31:17
Anyone watched much of that Malcom kid? The rave reviews he is getting is interesting considering previous talent rising from that league is usually met with a little caution!

12 Jan 2018 06:48:59
Interesting that Wenger has sold Arsenal's sole defensive midfield player, following on from selling defender Gabriel last summer. Does Wenger want a team without defenders and defensive midfield players? To think that during his most successful times at the club we had defenders such as Adams, Keown, Campbell and DM's such as Vieira, Gilberto and Petit. Our priority this window is clearly a tall, athletic CB and DM. So far we have signed a young CB for the future, if he makes it.

12 Jan 2018 09:14:12
the strangest one was when he sold lasana diarra. that's when I started to suspect his judgement.

12 Jan 2018 09:39:42
Diarra wasn't really good enough tho was he. What did he do after. Doesn't pop into my head as anything amazing or am I wrong? And Gabriel and coq he was right to sell as they aren't good enough. Just be nice to replace them with people that are.

12 Jan 2018 13:07:05
@Debygooner - Wenger doesn't appear to like players that question his methods or confront him. I can presume Diarra was one of these.
Wenger shifted Gabriel out suddenly and there have been others in the past.

12 Jan 2018 15:26:36
RG61- you might get your CB in smalling if the sanchez rumours are correct! don't know if yous would be happy with him because we aren't overjoyed.

12 Jan 2018 16:36:57
The whole mustafi thing is also very concerning.

12 Jan 2018 17:42:25
Xhaka must be keeping his mouth firmly shut.

12 Jan 2018 18:25:53
I appreciate you guys aren’t all wenger fans but flip the coin, he is the manager and so many fans Noah about player power. Wenger o respect massively but think the game changes and he’s gone from the forefront to it passing him by. I’d say mourinho is following suit to be honest. Sanchez Flores is free ;)

12 Jan 2018 18:33:10
Werner is making it impossible for any new manager so when he's gone it will be great for his ego.

12 Jan 2018 19:30:58
d16 only went on to play for real madrid mate. was better than what we had and better career that coq. we missed out imo.

12 Jan 2018 19:32:09
RG61 spot on mate 100 percent. but he can only do that and get away with it when he is on top. no longer the case :)

13 Jan 2018 05:52:27
Diarra left because he wanted first team football there and now which we couldn’t offer him.

13 Jan 2018 20:34:35
yes nick and why I don't know he was what we needed.