Random Arsenal Shit (When it's not worth starting a thread)

[selassie]

This is what we call the media echo chamber. It sounds to me like something Alexis has said "i want to stay in London but play for a team that wants to win" - which could just as easily mean that he wants Arsenal players to have the same hunger he has, to mean he wants to go to Chelsea.

Whilst it's never good to trust anything Wenger says, i'd like to believe the club is as good as it's word that it will never sell one of it's players to a premier league rival now it can afford not to. I could be the one being ridiculously naive.....but there doesn't seem to be much to this story other than media guess work.

The thing with this Sanchez Saga if you want to call it that is that he hasn't once come out and said he wants to stay. Where he goes or wants to go is anyone's guess and to be brutally honest would we really let him sulk and leave on a free to stop him from moving to Chelsea?

This is Arsenal we are talking about here, we pride ourselves on being professional

I honestly wouldn't be that surprised if we sold Sanchez to Chelsea...seriously.

[Globalgunner]

You cant sell a player to a club he doesnt want to go. These are not the 70`s any longer. If he wont go where we want he stays, kicks his legs in the resrves for a year and leaves on a free to Chelsea with a 20m signing bonus or £400k pw.
Arsenal have little say in the matter.

[Niall_Quinn]

Seems like it all hinges on Hazard. If he decides to go to Spain the chavs will move fast for his replacement and Alexis is ideal, unsettled and PL tested. The player wants to win and there's not the slightest hint he can do that at Arsenal. So I'd think if the Hazard deal happens then the Alexis deal will be on rails. One last humiliation as we cement the also-ran status Wenger has toiled tirelessly to achieve.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

You cant sell a player to a club he doesnt want to go. These are not the 70`s any longer. If he wont go where we want he stays, kicks his legs in the resrves for a year and leaves on a free to Chelsea with a 20m signing bonus or £400k pw.
Arsenal have little say in the matter.

But if he goes to Chelsea on a free that's not us selling him to Chelsea is it?

And anyway what would we surmise that he will only go to Chelsea upon?......that he says he's happy in London which is a statement that is pretty ambigious

[Niall_Quinn]

But if he goes to Chelsea on a free that's not us selling him to Chelsea is it?

And anyway what would we surmise that he will only go to Chelsea upon?......that he says he's happy in London which is a statement that is pretty ambigious

Move a few yards down the road for more cash and carry on playing in the highest profile league in football, for the champions? There's a certain lure to it I'm sure. What are we offering in return? A demand for professionalism, if you listen to Wenger's thinly veiled criticisms this morning.

[selassie]

But if he goes to Chelsea on a free that's not us selling him to Chelsea is it?

And anyway what would we surmise that he will only go to Chelsea upon?......that he says he's happy in London which is a statement that is pretty ambigious

We won't let him run down his contract, we spent what 35million on him and he's been on 140k per week in wages since he's been here...that is too big an investment for us to let him walk away for free.

We will sell him this summer and IMO he will go where he wants as long as the buying club meets our valuation.

He has us by the balls.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

And in my opinion you are basing yours on baseless newspaper reports

I think he'll go, but it will be to a club abroad. In 2014 we had the option to sell Vermaelen to Manchester United, we sold him to Barcelona.

[Globalgunner]

And in my opinion you are basing yours on baseless newspaper reports

I think he'll go, but it will be to a club abroad. In 2014 we had the option to sell Vermaelen to Manchester United, we sold him to Barcelona.

Obviously you are basing your opinion on the conversation going on in your head. We sold Van Persie didnt we?

[selassie]

And in my opinion you are basing yours on baseless newspaper reports

I think he'll go, but it will be to a club abroad. In 2014 we had the option to sell Vermaelen to Manchester United, we sold him to Barcelona.

Sanchez holds all the cards though, it's totally different to the Vermaelen situation. Our only hope is that he would rather move abroad than join a PL rival because if he wants to join a rival then that's what he will do, we won't risk losing him for free.

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis won't have any hang-ups about joining a rival. He hasn't grown up with PL rivalries, he hasn't been here long enough to become invested in the club, his priority will be what's best for him. Can't blame him. Everything about football is commercial these days so little surprise when those involved make commercial decisions.