Qwiss! wrote:
Tony Montana wrote:
Do people begrudge Sanchez moving to City?
No. He owes us nothing. If we sell him this summer that's on us. Not extending his contract is on us. He's not forcing a transfer, he's just being a professional footballer. Now that could change if he sends out a public letter about how shit we are or he goes on strike, etc but right now we have no right to be upset with him. This is Wenger and Gaizidis fault, rage at them.
Agreed 100% that this is on the club only & not the player.
Been seeing a lot of anger about directed towards Sanchez & about how the club should take a stance & play hardball, and how the player is part of the 'problem' just as RVP was - guess some of the club's anti-player PR campaign they started during the annual Feb-Mar cluster fuck must have stuck.
AFC selling to Citeh or ManU says more about the club than it is the player. RVP may have forced the club's hand re ManU but IMO his reasoning was not 'wrong'. Further to this that he was the difference to ManU winning the PL says more about how AW & Co are holding the club back and preventing the team from achieving success.
Read something earlier that basically said that the club has made the choice re it's youth development policy in the knowledge that doing so will cost the team in terms of performance and points dropped each season, because that is the price they are prepared to pay in regards to maintaining the policy & reputation for developing Youth, despite that it appears the 'real' value of the policy is in terms of transfers re buying low and selling high (although even that is debateable as an outcome) - astounding = talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Despite all the posturing this year we have yet to see anything that indicates any 'real' change on or off the pitch. Thus fare it seems that the club is more likely to sell than to do what is required to entice the player/s to stay = reactive yet again rather than proactive. The truth is that selling to Citeh will have less effect now in terms of outcomes than selling RVP to ManU. Citeh is not a direct rival as the club is in no position or shape to challenge for the title next season without major changes on and off the pitch.
At best we are contenders for top4, subject to how well we rebuild and our strategies to deal with EUROPA. Truth is we are possibly a better bet to pull a ManU to regain CL by winning EUROPA than be reclaiming top4, but I doubt that AW & Co will see it as such because that would go against their ideals re their season targets and top4 as defining the club status.
IMO as far as the team goes the danger in letting Sanchez depart is in replacing his contribution in terms of goals/assists and ability to change a game. Yes there is the impact in regards to selling our best player & the associated tag / inference that we are still a selling club in doing so, but the obvious counter is to then ensure that the team capability and performance is improved in doing so - not just in individual terms, but in regards to overall quality and most importantly balance.
