Kag
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Less of a threat than a 20 year old right back that has barely played professional football.
Is Alexis hiding? Shades of Luca Lentini. I don't think he can handle the shirt or the weight of expectation. Looks damaged.
Fraud is such a dumb expression - George Weah's nephew was a fraud. Sanchez is just on the downside of his career.Fraud of a player. He is the elephant in the room. The game changed for us when he went off.
I've never really given those rumours any credence before (media love a good beat-up), but that situation today made me think there's a fair chance it's true.I found it really strange when he was down injured and our players didn't put the ball out of play. Perhaps the rumours of him not getting along with the team are true?
Average performance would be about the same, but Sanchez actually had a few fairly good matches for us when he first joined which is better than Falcao ever did.It's difficult to decide who was worse for us, him or Falcao?
That's harsh if he is actually injured. Knee injuries aren't exactly something that you want to mess around with and it's not wrong of him to want the medical staff to help him out a bit. I know he didn't look to be in a huge amount of pain, but I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt. Despite all the negatives we've had with him, he does try hard and doesn't seem the type to just give up and stop trying.I thought the Sanchez moment was more damning than Kepagate. 1-0 down at home with momentum going forward and he just lays there with a knock or a pull. His teammates gave him the finger and just kept the ball, whilst expecting him to get up or get off the pitch. He did neither and was a disgrace to the shirt. His teammates think so little of him that they gave zero credence towards him being in real pain.
His United career today died. I’d be amazed to see it come back from here. He was made to look a complete twat.
Our record with bringing in mature players is not too good.
Henrik Larsson - resounding success under SAF
Falcao - Flop
Schweinsteiger - Flop
Ibrahimovitch - Success under Mourinho until he got injured.
Alexis Sanchez - complete resounding Flop.
We need to be aware buying these mature players is very hit or miss (mostly miss for us). Any contracts to them have to have an out in case things don’t work out. Based on our record, I wouldn’t even want to see Christiano Ronaldo or Messi coming to our club. We need to play fast paced attacking football.
Note a lot of these players had injury problems before or after we bought them.
Ibrahimovic was a good signing but looked shot when he got injured.
There’s no harm in signing experienced players if they can remain injury free and we don’t shoe horn them in the team because of their name.