Alexis Sanchez | Done deal

[cyberman]

Arsenal fans obession with Martial is disturbing.
Its not even an issue as in Martial being mismanaged, they were beating themselves up over him since his debut goal.

 

[Dobba]

Arsenal should be targeting Anthony Martial rather than Henrikh Mkhitaryan, says Charlie Nicholas
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...than-henrikh-mkhitaryan-says-charlie-nicholas

What is he smoking? Sterling went to City for 50million quid and then he says that Martial is a far better player. He cant tell his elbow from his arse, this fella.

There is definitely something in the water at Sky Sports. Saying that he's closer to Martial's current value than Merson was when he was telling West Ham to sell Mahrez and buy him for £20m. Not by much mind.

 

[sosolid4u09]

70k in relation to everything he’s getting out of this deal is nothing when comparing between playing for City and United. It’s nothing. If me and you are say on average wages in our jobs then £70 would make a massive difference to us. But to him it’s not a deal breaker. He could of easily gone to City to play for Sir Pep peanut head inventor of football and took easy medals straight away. For more or less the same money, when you include the addons and signing on bonus he would of been a very very wealthy man very quickly. He didn’t. He chose United, the timeline fits his decision. In my opinion he chose United over City regardless of money but his agent did what a good agent does, got him his worth. Sanchez, yes, is in the loop knowing how much is being asked but he isn’t demanding certain figures.

Anyway I’m not ignoring your next response, I’m about to take off from Lanzarote and I refuse to pay the exorbitant price for WiFi on Ryan air.
At least I’m being morally correct.

That's fair enough! I do think the 70K extra is a massive difference (its a 25% increase in his wage). But agree to disagree! What we CAN agree on is that this notion that he is money grabbing and was dying to play for city and is being a mercenary coming to UTD is a complete load of shit and a lie being perpetuated by the media.

 

[VanGaalEra]

WPMUFC said: ↑
It's a Raiola briefing. First Sky mention the representative side of the deal not being finished, now BBC is focusing on the Mkhi deal.

It's Raiola blabbering all over the journos again.

Sky Italia are the closest to Raiola. Not BBC.

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

I'm sure there's a good player in Mkhi and it's always a pity when things don't work out at United but to get this deal done would be a huge marker to lay down, considering the big money flops in the past who have left for half their initial fee or even less.

We're shaking off the shambolic nature of the upper echelons and getting good business done (if we get it done ). The problem with following this deal in every detail is you're at the beckon call of Raiola and what tit bits he chooses to release to his pets in the media.

 

[P-Nut]

I swear this thread would be half the size if people checked if a tweet has been posted before they post it themselves, amount of bloody duplicates I've just read through while catching up

Imagine taking out all the ones asking when he has to be registered by, despite it being answered on pretty much every page. (Before the thread title change)

 

[WPMUFC]

Lol who ever said BBC gets briefed by Raiola?

Sky Italia has good links to Raiola.

Raiola is actively speaking to english journos. He even let a few of them openly quote him this week.

First Sky mention the representative side of the deal not being finished, now BBC is focusing on the Mkhi deal.

It's Raiola blabbering all over the journos.

 

[AshRK]

If this was with any other club this deal would have happened 2 or 3 days back itself. Arsenal board dither too much. They went chasing malcom for 2 weeks only to call it off and now are after aubameyang which I won't be surprised if doesn't go through. I hope we have back up option and are ready with 30m cash and get sanchez. Arsenal are dithering too much.

 

[sosolid4u09]

Arsenal should be targeting Anthony Martial rather than Henrikh Mkhitaryan, says Charlie Nicholas
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...than-henrikh-mkhitaryan-says-charlie-nicholas



What is he smoking? Sterling went to City for 50million quid and then he says that Martial is a far better player. He cant tell his elbow from his arse, this fella.

He's saying an extra 50m.
So I guess he's saying Sanchez + 50m for Martial?
Or am I giving him too much credit

 

[Moiraine]

Ballbag next on Sky Sports News for his "Expert" opinion ...

Watch that bitter cnut makes me wanna break my TV.

 

[Slops]

Haven't we been over this, Charlie?

 

[Crackers]

Sky Italia are the closest to Raiola. Not BBC.

Agreed, but BBC must have a source right? This seems like Raiola pressure.

 

[CM]

What is he smoking? Sterling went to City for 50million quid and then he says that Martial is a far better player. He cant tell his elbow from his arse, this fella.

I think he means £50m plus Sanchez

 

[Ban]

We all got carried away, remember that Arsenal walked away from £60mil cash in the summer, if they don't get a replacement they could end up keeping him.

Sanchez will then get plenty of offers in the summer, I still think there is a twist in this yet.

All hail king of the doom mongers!

 

[Maradona10]

 

[Canagel]

Sky Italia are the only ones with concrete information in this saga. Everything else is pure speculation.

 

[Slops]

I think he means £50m plus Sanchez

It's irrelevant though, isn't it. It's pretty clear that Martial isn't for sale.

We don't sell our best players to Arsenal, and chances are they don't want to go.

 

[buchansleftleg]

Sky Italia are the closest to Raiola. Not BBC.

It's a classic closing technique - brief to one side it is close to falling apart - brief to another source - we are so close! - Cue final point of conflict resolved.

 

[Nick7]

I love Chileans

 

[Tom Van Persie]

Sky Italia are the only ones with concrete information in this saga. Everything else is pure speculation.

This.

 

[KM]

I swear this thread would be half the size if people checked if a tweet has been posted before they post it themselves, amount of bloody duplicates I've just read through while catching up

That's why I've been thread marking tweets.

I told people to tag me if there's a significant update so that I can thread mark and people don't have to go through this shite thread to find tweets but nobody listened.

 

[manuchamp88]

Arsenal should be targeting Anthony Martial rather than Henrikh Mkhitaryan, says Charlie Nicholas
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...than-henrikh-mkhitaryan-says-charlie-nicholas



What is he smoking? Sterling went to City for 50million quid and then he says that Martial is a far better player. He cant tell his elbow from his arse, this fella.

This is why I don't trust people with 2 first names.

 

[VanGaalEra]

Agreed, but BBC must have a source right? This seems like Raiola pressure.

Ornstein is normally directly from Arsenal. Perhaps Arsenal trying to pressure Raiola and Mkhi?

 

[Samid]

Ballbag talked sense on SSN just now. What has this world come to?

 

[Slops]

Ballbag talked sense on SSN just now. What has this world come to?

What did he say?

 

[The Man Himself]

Ballbag talked sense on SSN just now. What has this world come to?

What did the twat say?

 

[Cee90]

Just buy him outright for 30m and when Arsenal finally wakes up we can sell Mkhi to them for the same price.
We're being punished for Arsenals incompetence here.

Well to be fair, we're also getting Sanchez because of Arsenal's incompetence...

 

[harms]

Arsenal should be targeting Anthony Martial rather than Henrikh Mkhitaryan, says Charlie Nicholas
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...than-henrikh-mkhitaryan-says-charlie-nicholas



What is he smoking? Sterling went to City for 50million quid and then he says that Martial is a far better player. He cant tell his elbow from his arse, this fella.

They should probably target Neymar instead of Auba as well

 

[Mainoldo]

This is why I don't trust people with 2 first names.

Lol. Let’s taking a starting 11 player from a better team and bring him to our declining team. What’s next Arsenal should sign Kane.

 

[Sly]

50 pages to go. We can do it.

 

[Pace Abuser]

Ballbag talked sense on SSN just now. What has this world come to?

Pep must have slated him for making their love fest too obvious.

 

[Crackers]

Ballbag talked sense on SSN just now. What has this world come to?

What did he say?! Feed the muppets!

 

[NK86]

Merson said sell Payet and get Martial for 20M.

Paul Merson.

I think it was Paul Merson.

Yep

 

[Trizy]

I'd rather not get Sanchez if it meant that Martial was sold. Surely we're not that stupid?

 

[Nick7]

I'd rather not get Sanchez if it meant that Martial was sold. Surely we're not that stupid?

no but charlie nicholas is

 

[KM]

I'd rather not get Sanchez if it meant that Martial was sold. Surely we're not that stupid?

Wait..what?

 

[Fridge chutney]

Arsenal should be targeting Anthony Martial rather than Henrikh Mkhitaryan, says Charlie Nicholas
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...than-henrikh-mkhitaryan-says-charlie-nicholas



What is he smoking? Sterling went to City for 50million quid and then he says that Martial is a far better player. He cant tell his elbow from his arse, this fella.

They did target martial but we told them to feck off!

 

[Needham]

This is why I don't trust people with 2 first names.

...such as Alex Ferguson

 

[soad]

Just wait for Jose's interview. Hope he will say something.

 

[Slops]

I'd rather not get Sanchez if it meant that Martial was sold. Surely we're not that stupid?

We went over all this a few days ago when it was widely reported Arsenal were looking for Martial in exchange for Sanchez and got firmly slapped down.