I'm not sure we will get 2.5 years out of him, Sanchez is the same age RvP was when we signed him. However, getting one RvP year, say next season, out of him would be worth it if it can drive us to the title. I don't think he has as good technical ability as RvP though, so if he loses his pace he could decline quite quick. His physique does suggest he looks after his body though!
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Signing Sanchez will make a big difference for us. We will be feared again.
Well they certainly looked good for that, but United getting Sanchez is massive. It shows United can compete and win against City, which makes us more attractive to other players (as well as our own, e.g. de gea), but Sanchez alone is the kind of game changing player United were missing and getting him means we should now be challenging.
12 points behind if we tomorrow still seems too much, but next year with a fully rested Sanchez and we should be looking good.
Couple more signings in the summer and we really are up there. Sanchez was probably the only feasible signing that meant we could challenge in the here and now, rather than having to plan several years ahead.
Sanchez must know that at United he can make the difference. It’s not as simple as City just picking up titles for the next 5 years. Very few clubs retain the title.
If United get Ozil in summer we’d be looking elite, possibly a chance at Champions League!
Hopefully it wont happen because Im balls deep
Signing Sanchez means we have genuine elite class in attack as well as midfield (Pogba) and defence (DDG).
Manchester city does not need him. He will be a luxury signing for them when you consider the quality they have in their front 3.
Sanchez is a perfect fit for our unaspiring, unimaginative front four. United move makes too much sense. With the possibility of adding another galacticos to our team and if you take into account all those high wages, we will need an ego check every week to stop some these players head from getting to large.
Sanchez is a perfect fit for our unaspiring, unimaginative front four. United move makes too much sense. With the possibility of adding another galacticos to our team and if you take into account all those high wages, we will need an ego check every week to stop some these players head from getting to large.
Those 3 horrible draws over Xmas are beginning to look a lot worse now.
Underrated part of this transfer saga is that we should get to see the word "gazumped" in use
For the first time in decades, I can finally see United is showing a sign of intention to improving and strengthening themselves. Our scouting is very brilliant, we signed unknown players like Bailly and Lindelof. We got Bailly for a bargain price when you see Liverpool brought defenders for 75m. Lindelof is adapting but he still improving as it goes. I didn't see United showing the bad progress they made in years so it's all good and will progress to become the stronger team in next few years at least.
The him being a United supporter as a kid not true then?Looks like money will be ruling over football
Woody loves a good gazump
Mourinho loves one even more. Sanchez, Lukaku, Pedro, probably more that I can't recall.
Or him turning down £300k a week from the gooners last year.
I remember when David e̶l̶l̶e̶r̶y̶ (O'Leary) and Leeds were going to dominate English football for 5 years. This was etched in granite. I don't remember a cup or even a second place finish.
Not saying Pep's team won't win much, winning the Abu Dhabi lottery is a big factor, just I wouldn't bank on it. Football can turn pretty quickly.
Not saying Pep's team won't win much, winning the Abu Dhabi lottery is a big factor, just I wouldn't bank on it. Football can turn pretty quickly.
Good points. We're supposedly numpties in transfers but if another club managed to pull these off the pundits would be drooling semen.
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I had heard of him being a fan of United when he was at Udinese. So I don't think that's fake. Plenty of players don't end up playing for clubs that they supported as a kid. Zaha used to be an Arsenal supporter who moved to United and also considered moving to Spurs or Chelsea. Luke Shaw was a Chelsea supporter and so on.
Olly's & Code's stuff is great. 
I disagree with Wenger. It was the same at Udinese - far better when moved infield as opposed to playing on the right. So I would be very surprised (pleasantly, of course) to see him come in and perform anywhere near the expectations that folk will have for him from the right hand side. It would solve the team’s big issue but wishing for it to happen won’t make it so and historically he has quite simply failed to produce the quality a player of his calibre should be from that position.
Yes, Lingard would ideally like to play no.10, and although he moves and runs everywhere he has a particular affinity for that little pocket of space inside left, and in times where he has not played in that position he has looked better coming off the left side into space (it’s certainly more natural for him shooting).
Martial may prefer no.9 as a starting position, but he most definitely looks to play left-of-centre and drifts into space either deeper or wider - his tendency to favour the left is clear.
Pogba I think just plays more naturally and effectively in the left channel as opposed to the right, not that he can’t play well there in a three or deep and more obviously central and disciplined in a two. Quite a few have spoke about getting the best from Pogba in midfield while accommodating Sanchez on the right, which seems a bit backwards to me because they are not concerned about misusing Alexis.
Do you disagree that we play heavily down the left half of the pitch compared with the right, or that our players generally position themselves more to the left side of the pitch than the right? As a collective, we are grossly unbalanced and although the glaring problem is the tendencies of the right winger, I think it’s very difficult to argue that his position is the only one in the side which is skewed to the left.
That's the ref. O'Leary was the flavour of the month back then.
That city team has literally won feck all! It's mind boggling.
This makes total sense from United s point of view.
1) coming at sort of peak and can provide 2-3 years of good football. These days players are fitter than ever and he genuinely looks like a guy who looks after himself.
2) With Griezmann most likely off to Barca, provide us with 2nd best alternative. Not a big fan or dybala and we have other areas to address in the summer
3) comes in cheap considering Liverpool just paid 75m for a defender, wage will offset Ibrahimovic once he leaves so no net impact on bottom line
4) has premier league experience and give us some creative which we really lack sometimes
1) coming at sort of peak and can provide 2-3 years of good football. These days players are fitter than ever and he genuinely looks like a guy who looks after himself.
2) With Griezmann most likely off to Barca, provide us with 2nd best alternative. Not a big fan or dybala and we have other areas to address in the summer
3) comes in cheap considering Liverpool just paid 75m for a defender, wage will offset Ibrahimovic once he leaves so no net impact on bottom line
4) has premier league experience and give us some creative which we really lack sometimes
Yeah but like, honour and stuff.
In my naivety, I somehow expected football journalists to be better & more balanced than knee-jerk twatty ultramuppets like me. Amazingly, I was wrong.
Thanks for the correction. It was a while back I guess, I remember his nose more than his name to be honest.It's only Utd that seem to be able to make transfers that genuinely anger and upset supposed neutrals on a bizarre moral level.
Remember the fecking drama when we sold Welbeck and got Falcao in on loan?
I have to say the reaction to this possible Sanchez deal has surprised even me, I cannot believe just how offended people appear to be. It's hilarious
Remember the fecking drama when we sold Welbeck and got Falcao in on loan?
I have to say the reaction to this possible Sanchez deal has surprised even me, I cannot believe just how offended people appear to be. It's hilarious
Steve, you've more personality, wit, charm and a better command of the English language than 90% of football journalists, put together.
Yeah, the tattoo parlours will make a killing.
It's like people woke up yesterday and just found out about Man City and where they got to where they are. All this just makes me hate Pep even more, self-righteous twat.
I hope we win the league playing the shittest football ever but winning all our games 1-0. While City whimper in second blasting everyone 5-0 playing amazing football but finishing 1 point behind us. The fecking universe would implode.
Not matter how concrete the source, until he’s holding up the UTD jersey I ain’t getting excited.
“Nos Vamos En Manchester” if you know you know my pain!
“Nos Vamos En Manchester” if you know you know my pain!
It's maddening. I know this place is a black hole of negativity at the best of times, but seeing the narrative picked up by so many high profile commentators is infuriating. If they'd actually won a treble, or 3 back to back titles, or had any such genuine tangible success, then fair cop, but having to endure this incessant hagiography over half a seasons worth of good football is tiresome as feck.
This is a baffling statement. Even since their takeover (which is all of 9 years ago) we've beaten them in virtually every big transfer battle, from Berba to RVP. We're Man Utd. One of the biggest and most fashionable names in the biggest and most fashionable sport. We've been mentioned in The Simpsons FFS...and even Buffy The fecking Vampire Slayer! The majority of the footballing world didn't even know there was another team in Manchester 10 years ago. And even since City's emergence, in our apparently disastrous post-Fergie crisis period, we've still technically won more trophies than them. So in what bonkers Bizarro universe should beating them to a transfer be considered an achievement? I get why City are a much more attractive proposition than they used to be, but I must have missed the part where we went from an elite global powerhouse to an Aston Villa/Notts Forrest-esque has been. When did that happen? Because judging by a lot of fan attitudes it must have done.
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So I guess from now on any time a player signs for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham... whoever, any team not in first place at that specific time, all we'll hear is that is was for money or they had no other choice. Hmm, yeah right.
Maybe Damien Green just started working there.
I don't particularly have any hard feelings toward them, they need to reach a certain amount of clicks to generate revenue. It doesn't seem better in other areas of journalism and they're more impactful.
Acting like City are the pure bastions of football morality. fecking City!!!???
An absolute no mark of a team that would be yo yoing between the Championship and the lower ends of the Premiership were it not for being funded by an entire fecking nation.
Christ knows what will happen when City and Pep actually win something. There'll be campaigns started to give him a fecking knighthood. And like @Mockney said it's not even City themselves really. It's the media, even experienced hard nosed Journalists are at it.
A lot of journos are nailing their colours to the tree with this though.
The ABU levels are bordering on surreal.
We've won 3 proper trophies in the last 2 seasons, we're 2nd in the PL and we score a lot of goals.
This level of bias is disgusting, and even against us, is unprecedented.
I guess those oil sheiks must be really kind in their payouts.
Will he be eligible to play for us in the CL if he does join?
So why did they let him go?
Perez doesn’t want Barcelona cast offs. Figo, Ronaldo and Neymar are different stories as Barcelona wanted to keep them.
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