He scored Udinese's first goal today in a 3-2 defeat to Lazio.
Alexis Sanchez | Udinese: No Deal Yet
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Looks like he had a decent game, some very incisive passing and it's interesting to note that he seems to be playing more centrally.
He is more of a Anderson type midfielder if he plays centrally. So molding him into a Scholes is not an option. Plus why do we need him to play centrally when his best position is out on the wings. His speed is very essential for wingers and he could burn defenders. If we get him though, we would have the fastest wingers in the country - Nani, Valencia, Sanchez and Obertan.
Eh? No. Have you ever seen him play? Not at all like Scholes.
Could we could mould him into a VDS type player?
I agree - nothing like Scholes. Also don't see any of our wingers as blazingly quick. Ronaldo & Rooney are quicker.
I'd say everyone if our wingers were quicker than Rooney.
I think the comparisson to Scholes comes from the vision he displays and his incisive passes when he plays in the middle. He's also handy down the wings. He's also got that one little ingredient Fergie loves in his players. A never say die attitude.
Valencia, Nani and Obertan are very quick!
Did i say he plays like Scholes? I said can he be moulded. I know where he plays and i've sin him play the question was do you think he will have the discpline to play centre mid and spray passes like he was doing in the video?!! Lets be honest as good as the guy is we have enough right sided wingers.
He's essentially a dribbler.It would be difficult to tell him to change his game entirely.
That would take some fecking molding
That would take some fecking molding
Schweinstiger?
Different scenario.
I've no doubt Sanchez could play centrally but not in a Scholes esque way.
Schweinsteiger was an average winger tbh.That's not the case with Sanchez.
If he's good in his natural position why would wanna try something else ?
If he's good in his natural position why would wanna try something else ?
Becaue we don't require him in his current role. He's not left footed and isn't miles better than or current right wingers so unless he can also provide creativity centrally, i don't see why he's one of our number one targets.
Schwinsteiger was fare from an average winger he just had slow developement due to injuries... He was a great dribbler.
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If that's the case he shouldn't be bought at all.
Yes Bastian was average, too much dribbling with little end product.Compare his performances as a pure CM and a winger and it's day and night.
Sanchez has got the dribbling and the productivity at his young age already, much better as a winger than Bastian used to be
With a player as talented and versatile as Sanchez I think Fergie would look at all he brings as opposed to worrying about position right off the bat.
I agree. Sanchez's talent is somewhere between Nani and Ronaldo. With that kind of talent, you don't pass them up only caring of what you have already. Players like them can adapt and change roles quite easily. I think people are thinking too much about position. In the past we never replace the great ones with the same kind of players, whether it was Keane, Beckham, RVN, Ronaldo. The reason there are so many formations is because you can choose how best to utilise the players you have got against your opponents, rather than stick to a certain system and find the best players to fit in to it.
However I'm not saying we have to buy him. It really depends on SAF, who would judge whether we have enough attacking talents or if Sanchez too good a player not pass up.
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Brilliant! He might move to a new team as well.
Brilliant! He might move to a new team as well.
would be gutted if we miss out on him 
but but but but we invited the miners!!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
No quotes or anything, can't see alot of truth in that to be honest. There will be alot more speculation before he actually goes anywhere, which will probably be next summer at least.
We won't be buying him anyway at that price and his move to Inter makes perfect sense apart from the fact that they don't have a manager at the moment but directors can sign players too.
What do you think we could sign him for like 5-10M? He will cost anywhere between 15-20M for any team.
No, I expect him to be expensive because that's how much he's worth but I don't think we have €20m to spend on a winger, or any player to be honest.
Park, Nani, Valencia, Obertan, Cleverley, Bebe, Giggs.
Why do we need to sign another expensive winger?
Valencia cost 18m, Berba 30m, Smalling 12m, Bebe 8m, Hernandez 7m, Nani and Anderson cost quite a lot as well..
It's not that we can't spend that kind of money, we chose not to because our current squad right now is strong in every area.
Rafael-Rio-Vida-Evra
Valencia-Anderson-Carrick-Fletcher-Nani
Rooney (Berba..)
Tell me again why do we need to spend these 20m players?
Why do we need to sign another expensive winger?
Valencia cost 18m, Berba 30m, Smalling 12m, Bebe 8m, Hernandez 7m, Nani and Anderson cost quite a lot as well..
It's not that we can't spend that kind of money, we chose not to because our current squad right now is strong in every area.
Rafael-Rio-Vida-Evra
Valencia-Anderson-Carrick-Fletcher-Nani
Rooney (Berba..)
Tell me again why do we need to spend these 20m players?
Calm down. Noones said we need to.
However giggsys time is coming to a close and apart from valencia and nani none of the above players are consistent match winners yet. So if fergie feels we need third really threatening winger, I don't see the issue. We anyway probably will have to when giggsy retires, and if the above mentioned youngsters don't step up in time.
His talents are pretty obviously but hes still a work in progress. the defensive side of his game is very weak.
We wont sign him, or any established player in the near future.
I think we cold use another winger but it's not a necessity. I'd ratger we signed a midfielder to be honest because Scholes won't be there for more than four years I think and while I rate both Anderson and Fletcher, I don't think it's enough. Carrick will be 30 soon too but that's not a big problem since he's never had any pace anyway.
Smalling cost less than £10m by the way and Bebe's fee hasn't been revealed but it's not £8m I don't think. Difference between signing them and buying a £20m player is that if any of them fails, we will sell them at a similar price because as I have said sometime wgo, having United in their CV raises their value noticably. We wouldn't be able to sell a £20m player for anything close to £20m though.
I thinj we might buy one midfielder in the Summer but even if we don't it'll be fine because this side is strong enough.
Cheers meg.
No offense but did you just come back from a party high or something? You said Scholes won't last more than four years, Smalling cost less than 10M. He cost us 12M. What you said about Bebe I can't understand. "Its not 8M I don't think"? And being a United does not necessarily raise your value in the transfer market. It depends on how good you are. And three to four spelling mistakes as well.
I was using an iPad to post that, I'm not completely familiar with a touchscreen keyboard yet which is a reason for all the spelling mistakes. I also cut my posts short because all the effort it takes to type them out, which is why sometimes they will probably make no sense at all, so there we go.
I think Ferguson quoted Smalling's price at some conference at £10m (I might be wrong though), and in Bebe's case price has usually been quoted at £7m but I doubt we paid that all up front. I know people usually talk as if we did but truth is we don't know that and I find it doubtful that we'd all of a sudden pay £7m up front for a completely unknown player when we based most of transfer fees on installments in the past.
Scholes is 36 and will retire sooner or later, I don't expect him to be out by the end of this season or even the next one as some think but he will definitely be gone by the time he's 40 and that will leave us with only three midfielders - I trust Fletcher, I think Anderson may have turned the corner and will be good for us and Carrick is decent enough, but that isn't enough.
And being at United definitely adds a couple of quid to a price. We've been able to sell players at similar prices to what we bought them for most of the time in the past - Manucho went for £3m or £4m, Tosic went for £9m and they never played while they were here. Same would happen to Smalling or Bebe if we were to sell them on, we could lose a couple of million but not much.
Oops sorry mate, I did not know you were using the iPad. But you are highly mistaken if you think we are going to have Scholes for two more seasons after this one or if we are not going to buy another midfielder in the next four years.
I never said we weren't going to buy a midfielder in the next four years, I think it's definitely a possibility and I'd say it's very probable. Just not a very expensive one in my opinion, someone like Defour more so than someone like Hamsik.
Scholes I might be wrong about, to be fair when I wrote that I thought he was only 34 this season. Time does fly.
Okay Defour is again going to cost 12-15M if we buy him and he is not a attacking playmaker but another defensive midfielder. We need a playmaker to replace Scholes not just any midfielder.
Isn't Defour more of a box to box? Could work with Fletcher and Anderson around. Besides I'm talking more about a profile of player - i.e. talented but not very expensive. Hamsik would probably cost twice as much. It's not unthinkable that we will pull out another unexpected signing.
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