Qwiss! wrote:
Tactics wrote:

I think if we insist on Aguero or no deal City will budge in the end. Guardiola knows fully well his job is not guaranteed beyond this season, so he'd rather get his man now than wait till next season.

We'd need Aguero to agree to come here too though. Easier said than done.

True but City telling him he's no longer needed could make things much easier for us. Top players generally have huge egos. I remember reading various reports after Vieira was sold that he left Arsenal crying when told we had accepted a bid from Juve.

RAHEEM FAKIN STERLING LOOL YOU HAVE TO GET HIM IF GOU CAN.

Considering Alexis' age and his contract, letting him go for Raheem would be good business in the long run.

It'll burn for the short term, but you need quality and longevity.

Sterling/Draxler/CB and you'll be alright.

Sterling is another Ox/Walcott. Letting Sanchez go and replacing him with Sterling is a definite downgrade. Welcome to midtable obscurity for the foreseeable future.

Don't know why we are subjecting Sterling to this circus. We should just take the money for Sanchez and pay it out to StatDNA. It's what we really want to do

Jed wrote:

Sterling is another Ox/Walcott. Letting Sanchez go and replacing him with Sterling is a definite downgrade. Welcome to midtable obscurity for the foreseeable future.

Sterling is a downgrade on Sanchez, but he's better than both Ox and Walcott.
It also sounds like he'd be happy to play for us, which seems to be a rare thing these days.

Shady wrote:
Jed wrote:

Sterling is another Ox/Walcott. Letting Sanchez go and replacing him with Sterling is a definite downgrade. Welcome to midtable obscurity for the foreseeable future.

Sterling is a downgrade on Sanchez, but he's better than both Ox and Walcott.
It also sounds like he'd be happy to play for us, which seems to be a rare thing these days.

Significantly. Despite not getting much praise he had quite a good season last year and so far this season he's looked good too. Hard to find a 22 year old with the sort of talent and record Sterling has that would be willing to come here.

Sterling has never hit double figures in the league, would be a poor transfer.

He gets plenty of assists too though, more last season than Ozil.

I don't think we'll get Sterling or anyone else for that matter. City will make fairly large bid for Sanchez, we will ask for a player in return, City will say no, and then we'll cave. With little time before the transfer window closes, we'll either end up with some stupid panic buy or no one.

I struggle to see how we are in any way attractive to the likes of Sterling, Aguero, or any other player of a good level. We have nothing to offer them that they cannot get elsewhere and we do not look in good shape from the outside. Why would you swap a potential league challenge at City to come to this mess?

Reports coming out tonight that we've rejected a straight cash offer of £50m. We will probably fold once they get to 60m.

So, we'll get 40m for the Ox and 50m for Alexis? Seems legit.

It's absolutely pathetic to sell him a day before the window closes, especially after Wenger promised that he'd make Alexis see out his contract no matter what happened. If we intended to get rid of him we should have done it while there was still time to get a replacement.

Taking a cash only deal now would make us an even bigger laughing stock and leave no time to get a replacement.

David Ornstein‏Verified account @bbcsport_david 5m5 minutes ago

Arsenal have rebuffed all approaches from Man City for Sanchez. #AFC stance remains not for sale - unless huge money + player offered #MCFC

Debuchy being straight up offered to Brighton on a free

Gunner89 wrote:

David Ornstein‏Verified account @bbcsport_david 5m5 minutes ago

Arsenal have rebuffed all approaches from Man City for Sanchez. #AFC stance remains not for sale - unless huge money + player offered #MCFC

At least they're not completely mad.

Reports coming in that Inter Milan have offered us a £4.6m loan fee with an option to buy at £23m for Mustafi - given that that's nowhere close to our valuation he might end up sticking around after all.

It;s not the valuation that's the problem it's that the deal is option to buy not obligation.

Klaus wrote:

It's absolutely pathetic to sell him a day before the window closes, especially after Wenger promised that he'd make Alexis see out his contract no matter what happened. If we intended to get rid of him we should have done it while there was still time to get a replacement.

Lacazette is the replacement.
Looks now as if all the guff about not selling Alexis was a "tactic" to squeeze as much out of City as possible.
The thinking being that if you admit that he doesn't want to stay, and therefore have to sell due to contract issue then the buying club offers a whole lot less.

We've reversed full throttle back to being a selling club now.