Alexis Sanchez | Udinese: No Deal Yet

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Would be a great signing. Equally adapt at playing ST or on the wing. Would surely mean Berba was off. Can't see it happening though.
 
I think this is the one player this summer that is clearly available we should sign regardless of need.
 
Unlikely he will take less money and come here but football can be a funny game.

And the article says City will be devastated as he is a long term target of theirs!! What cack! They just go after whatever players we get linked with.
 
That would be a great signing!
 
Doubt there's any truth in it.Telegrapth is as bad as the other tabloids when it comes to football rumours.
 
Has he been playing right wing for Udinese, or can he play on left wing as well? Because as much as he seems to be a very exciting player, I wouldn't want Valencia's place in the first 11 to be sacrificied for any player.
 
Kaiketsu_Zorro said:
Has he been playing right wing for Udinese, or can he play on left wing as well? Because as much as he seems to be a very exciting player, I wouldn't want Valencia's place in the first 11 to be sacrificied for any player.
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We rotate our wingers all the time, thus Valencia can never lose his place.
 
We're only being mentioned to drive the price up for City. Who will then pay £50 mil. To stick him on the bench
 
Drifter said:
Doubt there's any truth in it.Telegrapth is as bad as the other tabloids when it comes to football rumours.
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I keep hearing the same about every paper - Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independant et al; is there a paper in England that, whilst perhaps not the word of god, at least commands a certain degree of credibility?
 
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That's right, but if the right wing is the only position he plays in then Valencia's appearances would be limited compared to now.
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Valencia can easily play CM/AM and has done for spells in games this season.

I'd actually like to see him start and finish a game there for us at some point rather than just be shifted there for rare occasions during games so perhaps if Sanchez came we might see more of this.
 
BAMSOLA said:
Valencia can easily play CM/AM and has done for spells in games this season.

I'd actually like to see him start and finish a game there for us at some point rather than just be shifted there for rare occasions during games so perhaps if Sanchez came we might see more of this.
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Well, maybe he can play there, but Valencia is a 100% orthodox winger who hugs the line and his main goal is to cross. That's what he's best at. To move him to other positions in order to accomodate Sanchez would not be reasonable.
 
Udinese are driving up the price for City and thats all there is too this. Last summer there was these wild BS rmours that Fergie was crazy to buy Balotteli and it was just Inters way of driving up the price Same thing happened just before they bought Milner and possibly Johnson and a few others too!
 
Ringo 07 said:
Udinese are driving up the price for City and thats all there is too this. Last summer there was these wild BS rmours that Fergie was crazy to buy Balotteli and it was just Inters way of driving up the price Same thing happened just before they bought Milner and possibly Johnson and a few others too!
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You're probably right.
 
I imagine the Telegraph has a shred of credibility, it's after all the paper that exposed MP's expenses and such.
 
Kaiketsu_Zorro said:
Has he been playing right wing for Udinese, or can he play on left wing as well? Because as much as he seems to be a very exciting player, I wouldn't want Valencia's place in the first 11 to be sacrificied for any player.
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Sanchez has played right behind Di Natale in all the Udinese matches I have watched this season. Their width comes from their wing-backs.
 
Manchester United and Manchester City want Alexis Sanchez and Wesley Sneijder | Mail Online

Manchester United are going head-to-head with Manchester City in a £55m summer transfer tussle over Alexis Sanchez and Wesley Sneijder.

United have outlined an £18m offer to Udinese for Chilean winger Sanchez — just weeks after City underlined their desire to sign the player.

The move comes with City also trying to gatecrash United’s bid for £35m-rated Sneijder, 26, and hoping his Dutch team-mate Nigel de Jong can exert some influence.

Both deals are currently in United’s favour but City are working hard to persuade the players to come to Eastlands and know they have the greater financial muscle.

Udinese want close to £32m for Sanchez, 22, who United have followed since he was a teenager at Chilean side Cobreloa. His performances in Serie A have drawn admirers and he impressed for Chile in the World Cup last summer.

City’s football administrator Brian Marwood has already been to Italy three times to talk to Udinese officials about Sanchez and emphasised his desire to sign the player but sources at the Italian club say United are the first to show their hand.
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