Alexis Sanchez (official).

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis is an important player, not as important as Koscielny but he important.

The hit piece came from stats and not Arsenal. He don't work as hard as many think and he acting a prick. He can be replaced, even if he costs a lot. Just don't want Wenger making that decision.

Sure, his time is up. He's checking out. But not for want of trying to make things happen. At least somebody tried, we should thank him for the novelty factor at least. Wenger has fucked this up beyond belief. He gets Ozil, good. He gets Alexis. Now we're talking. And then he stops. Again. Except he doesn't just stop, he blows 90 mill in a panic when he could have used that money, all of it if need be, to get the next piece in place - the top tier striker. And of course he should have been in for Vidal a few years back if we really wanted to complete the puzzle to a level where we could compete. I wonder what was said to Ozil and Alexis to get them through the door in the first place? That's where I'd start looking to try and understand the current situation. And yes, Alexis CAN be replaced, but he WON'T be. Or what they'll do is trade Ozil and Alexis out for one big player like Reus, if he's fool enough to come here having seen what's happened with our current stars.

But all that aside, what I'm saying is one week Alexis is the best thing since sliced bread. Then something happens behind the scenes and all of a sudden the media is in full 180 and Alexis is not all that. Tell me it's not Arsenal pulling those strings. It's another demonstration of Wenger's lack of ability where it really matters. He's a guy that burns bridges rather than mends boats. Plenty of players in the past have suffered a similar fate when they didn't bow suitably low to this guy. I'm not saying players should be permitted to run around the place calling the shots in general. But with Wenger we have a special case. If it's not going to be Alexis who calls this club out for the bullshit unfolding season after season then who? Kroenke? Gazidis? Sir Chips? Steve Bould? Certainly not Wenger himself. Listen to the guy today, on the back of the latest hiding, everything is fine, we have a great team, we're all determined, we focus on the next game... Business as usual. Reality doesn't touch the guy. He frustrates the fuck out of me. I wonder what it'd be like if he was my boss. Not pretty I imagine.

[mastermind84]

Sure, his time is up. He's checking out. But not for want of trying to make things happen. At least somebody tried, we should thank him for the novelty factor at least. Wenger has fucked this up beyond belief. He gets Ozil, good. He gets Alexis. Now we're talking. And then he stops. Again. Except he doesn't just stop, he blows 90 mill in a panic when he could have used that money, all of it if need be, to get the next piece in place - the top tier striker. And of course he should have been in for Vidal a few years back if we really wanted to complete the puzzle to a level where we could compete. I wonder what was said to Ozil and Alexis to get them through the door in the first place? That's where I'd start looking to try and understand the current situation. And yes, Alexis CAN be replaced, but he WON'T be. Or what they'll do is trade Ozil and Alexis out for one big player like Reus, if he's fool enough to come here having seen what's happened with our current stars.

But all that aside, what I'm saying is one week Alexis is the best thing since sliced bread. Then something happens behind the scenes and all of a sudden the media is in full 180 and Alexis is not all that. Tell me it's not Arsenal pulling those strings. It's another demonstration of Wenger's lack of ability where it really matters. He's a guy that burns bridges rather than mends boats. Plenty of players in the past have suffered a similar fate when they didn't bow suitably low to this guy. I'm not saying players should be permitted to run around the place calling the shots in general. But with Wenger we have a special case. If it's not going to be Alexis who calls this club out for the bullshit unfolding season after season then who? Kroenke? Gazidis? Sir Chips? Steve Bould? Certainly not Wenger himself. Listen to the guy today, on the back of the latest hiding, everything is fine, we have a great team, we're all determined, we focus on the next game... Business as usual. Reality doesn't touch the guy. He frustrates the fuck out of me. I wonder what it'd be like if he was my boss. Not pretty I imagine.

I agree that Arsenal's PR team is running a narrative. Not denying that one bit. I have not been fully convinced by Alexis that's all. My posts on this forum show that, so I am only speaking for me. The Arsenal PR team is the Arsenal PR team, and they are doing a lot of messy things which tehy have done in the past. That article I posted was germinated from them, but its statistics.


IDK why any big player would come to Wenger's Arsenal now going forward. He has no idea how to create a team for today's football and he wasted the primes of Ozil and Sanchez, and wasted the potential of many others.

[Marc Overmars]

Horrific rumour doing the rounds today that Alexis is Chelsea's top transfer target. Particularly if they lose Hazard to Madrid.

Christ, can you imagine?

[Niall_Quinn]

Horrific rumour doing the rounds today that Alexis is Chelsea's top transfer target. Particularly if they lose Hazard to Madrid.

Christ, can you imagine?

Even more horrific rumour that if they put 50mill down we'll take it. That despite the club saying he's going abroad. I wonder did Arsenal put this out themselves? So we'll be relieved instead of outraged when he goes to PSG? Regardless, everyone is now speaking in terms of where, not if. So looks like we're one world class player down and one to go, in our world class stadium where we're supposed to be competing with Bayern.