Alexis Sanchez (official).

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Originally Posted by mastermind84

My issue with Alexis is that he acts like a prick on the pitch at times to his teammates. Why are you mad at them for not pressing up when that is clearly not the instruction from the manager? He is also only busy around the ball. I think in the Bayern match, he ran less than everyone on the pitch.

I don't want him to leave but we can find a replacement for him. Will cost a lot, but they are out there.

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I certainly wouldn't trust Wenger to replace him. Another manager, maybe.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

I certainly wouldn't trust Wenger to replace him. Another manager, maybe.

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Totally. I dont want Wenger anywhere near any decisions after his contract is up at the end of the season.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

I certainly wouldn't trust Wenger to replace him. Another manager, maybe.

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Sanchez is the one player in the squad I'd rather have in the squad if a new manager is starting next season. 20 goals 17 assists this season so far. He's the type of South American forward that you can't find in the market these days and we're looking at a hefty transfer fee to replace him.

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

Sanchez is the one player in the squad I'd rather have in the squad if a new manager is starting next season. 20 goals 17 assists this season so far. He's the type of South American forward that you can't find in the market these days and we're looking at a hefty transfer fee to replace him.

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In a fantasy world i'd like to pillage Juventus if we got in Allegri

Pjanic, Dybala, Alex Sandro

And bring in Carlton Banks from Sporting Lisbon

With whatever money we got from Ozil and Sanchez (and the spare change we get from ridding ourselves of the rest of the chaff) that would incur a net spend of about 80-100million.

Sanchez isnt a unique player, and his best form doesnt lead to an increased performance from the rest of the team.

You can find a replacement out there. Just go find a center forward. Belotti, Aubameyang, and get Mbappe. Mbappe should be our #1 target this summer.

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Originally Posted by mastermind84

Sanchez isnt a unique player, and his best form doesnt lead to an increased performance from the rest of the team.

You can find a replacement out there. Just go find a center forward. Belotti, Aubameyang, and get Mbappe. Mbappe should be our #1 target this summer.

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There few unique players in football these days but that is not the point. It's the one position where a club could easily slap a £60m price tag or more. Torino have just said the £86m buyout clause for Belotti is too cheap!

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

There few unique players in football these days but that is not the point. It's the one position where a club could easily slap a £60m price tag or more. Torino have just said the £86m buyout clause for Belotti is too cheap!

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Which is do with the fact that they know English football is minted because of the TV deals, it hasn't made the clubs richer it's just inflated transfer prices

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

I hear you to extent. It used to be a problem for us when we had just moved into the Emirates but it’s been a while since we’ve lost a key player. Since 2013 we’ve signed key player after key player and had time to build with no disruptions like how we’ve seen before. We’re still no closer to winning the title and the manager is no closer to finding an identity for this team or system despite having many transfer windows to address the balance. That’s just talking on an overall team selection/tactics level. I have no idea how we fix the culture of the squad despite the makeup of the whole line up being very different to the ones Henry, Gallas and Cesc captained.

Also, let’s not forget, Cesc was here for 8 seasons. Even if he had stayed along with RVP to see the day we’d be able to sign star players, I highly doubt we’d be any closer to winning the league. Sanchez and Ozil could stay another 4 years and we’d still see the same sort of results. Alexis looks to be the most likely candidate to shake things up in the dressing room with his temperament but look how he’s being reprimanded. He’s the odd man out and we have a history of this. Despite being a shit, Gallas was the sort of guy to not hold his tongue and demand more from his team but ended up isolated and ousted. Henry was similar. He always looked the odd man out on the pitch for the way he’d point and demand better from his players. Years back I thought that sort of behaviour was disruptive to the team but it wasn’t. We needed that but it takes more than just one player to change the culture otherwise you end up as the odd man out. The players are used to a comfy life at Arsenal.

You only have to think back to that story about when Pat Rice was saying Wenger wouldn’t allow him to shout at the Arsenal players during a training session or something like that because it wasn’t the ‘Arsenal way’. Steve Bould is from the old guard he looks to have been neutered. I at least thought his presence would have changed the culture but it hasn’t. He looks passive these days. You can even read a recent article on Andries Jonker’s recent departure. He wanted to stop us rewarding contracts to every and any 17 year old in our academy. Change things up so the young players have to earn a new contract and not expect it. It breeds complacency. That never happened and he was quickly rebuffed so he had to learn to swim with the tide. When he tried to appoint Henry as coach that was even refused by Wenger. It all points to a man that doesn’t want to change and won’t put things in place to see it come about.

In order for real change to happen we need Wenger to go and I don’t expect any player to sacrifice his career for us. I don’t admire it but I think only a fool or someone extremely well paid would do that (Walcott). We can’t really talk about other clubs because we know most other clubs that have that sort of rock and pillar player get rewarded with competitive contracts and incentives. We don’t offer contracts like that and older players aren’t even given a chance to become part of the coaching staff. We’ve heard the stories.

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I guess the truth is in the point that I've highlighted. I don't expect it either - particularly in this era where the players rather than the clubs hold the ultimate power. But does this hurt us - very definitely - which is the reason for my mixed feelings about Alexis. We can be realists, sure, but real love for a player is a reciprocal thing.

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

There few unique players in football these days but that is not the point. It's the one position where a club could easily slap a £60m price tag or more. Torino have just said the £86m buyout clause for Belotti is too cheap!

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then you pay for it.

I didn't say replacing Alexis' output would be cheap, I just don't believe he is hard to replace.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

John Cross is really digging Alexis out for his recent performances. Ignoring the fact he's scored 3 and got one assist in the past 4 games, 2 of which he didn't start. That's besides the point though, he's happy enough to call out our best player for a perceived lack of performance but what about the manager, for whom it hasn't just been a handful of games but a handful of years?

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