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£160k per week? Insane of course, but in an insane marketplace that's pretty conservative. With all this cash pouring into the game does the club really think it can keep on lowballing genuine stars in comparison to what those players can get elsewhere so it can overpay the average players or pay players to be injured for years? This has a nasty timing to it with chequebook Pep on his way.
There's talk of Guardiola being interested as well, wouldn't surprise me if it happened, was Sanchez one of his signings? Let's be honest we're never going to convince him of our ambition with Wenger in charge, everyone knows what he considers to be a good transfer window, a couple bargain bucket unknown buys that are better than what we have but oddly not ready to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
The man in charge of convincing Sanchez to stay is the same man who relies on crocks like Rosicky, Diaby and Wilshere to make a major contribution every single season despite evidence to the contrary, hardly fills you with confidence
What's there to even think about - pay it! We're certainly not spending the money on anything else. Offensive sums by any normal person's standards, but relative to other footballers? He's probably delivering twice what other players we have are who are on upwards of £100k a week (even when he spends have the season out injured or being rested!) - hard to argue that he shouldn't be paid twice as much...Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Papers in Spain/Germany both say Ozil wants to leave
If Theo Walcott is the benchmark then Alexis should be on £5billion a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
But it was also going to be difficult to hang on to genuine star players what with the lack of ambition and investment. I wonder if a tour of Stan's new ranch might convince him to stay? This board and their new and eager spokesman Wenger are going to end up destroying the club as a football concern.
Independently, or is one quoting the other? If it all stems from Marca or AS then it's probably bollocks...Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
We're going to need to win the title to keep our top players (apart from Cech who will probably see out his career here now). But Alexis, Ozil and I'd put Bellerin in the same class of desirables - plus players looking for a pay day despite the fact they can't deliver on the pitch, your Theo types, Ox, maybe even Jack, they aren't going to hang around to be paid less at a supposed top club that can't conquer Leicester City and is making noises about retaining Wenger until 2019.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
Or we could beat Barca and the go on to win the CL. We could travel to the final on flying pigs.
But this club needs to do something, anything to demonstrate its ambition lies beyond the personal interests of the owners and a gang of highly paid execs, including the manager. The transfer window this summer was deeply damaging and couldn't have been a clearer indication of our lack of seriousness to compete at the very top of the game. Players at the top of their own game, who deliver on the pitch, are bound to take notice and plan accordingly. In the end even Henry left to win something.
Alexis said it after the last cup win, it's all well and good hoisting what is now a very minor trophy by comparison to the big prizes but it's titles they want (and cash of course). Domestically and in Europe.
While these stories about Ozil and Sanchez are probably nonsense, we shouldn't take them sticking around here for granted. No CL progress and faltering title challenges will see them consider their future, make no mistake about it.
No, of course not - if it gives the club a kick up the star then so much the better! Just saying it's probably not worth working ourselves into a panic over...
Why did they come here in the first place? More promises?