So here we are, the Alexis Sanchez conundrum.
The forward, and Arsenal’s best player, is into the final 12 months of his contract and is apparently looking for a move away from the club – and that club seems to be Manchester City after Bayern Munich’s interest has petered out, added to the fact that they have just signed James Rodriguez (on loan) from Real Madrid.
So the million-dollar question is should Arsenal sell him?
The £50 million valuation from Arsenal seems to be a sticking point as no club has yet to officially submit a concrete bid for the Chilean. So the question is are Manchester City looking at getting him for far less?
As a £50 million bid from the blue side of Manchester would put the ball in Arsenal’s court.
Alexis Sanchez is currently on £130,000 per week and it’s reported that Sanchez is looking for an increase to £400,000 per week – a figure Arsenal are never going to pay in a million years – the consequences to our existing wage structure would be catastrophic.
Our first option is to basically keep Sanchez, hope he keeps performing at his usual high level and use him to try and win the Premier League – selling him for nothing at the end of the season.
And the other is to sell him for £30-40 million (no club will offer the reported £50 million for a player with 1 year left on his contract) and re-invest that money into buying another player, such as Thomas Lemar from Monaco.
The thing is, for all his mood swings and negative demeanour on the pitch, he is our best player, someone who can win games on his own. Arsenal fans forgive his hissy fits because he is truly world class. You may laugh, but he is a player we are lucky to have at Arsenal and in the Premier League, only a handful of players come close to his level. Don’t make any mistake; if we lost him we’d suffer.
So is it worth strengthening our rivals? Manchester City want him and Chelsea, who lost out on Lukaku this summer, need a forward. Selling to either one of those clubs automatically makes them much stronger and solves a problem they have. Keeping Sanchez however gives them problems that help us in the long run.
But with Arsenal, it will probably come down to the maths.
Why We Should Sell Alexis Sanchez:
Selling him is probably Arsenal’s first preference considering the big lump sum we would get. Arsenal would argue that the fee received could go towards another player to strengthen the side and added to that, we would get rid of a “negative influence” from the squad.
And why would we want to keep a player who doesn’t want to play for us?
Why We Should Keep Alexis Sanchez:
We have one of the best players in the world at the club, and are paying them £130,000 per week – when players of similar stature are demanding well in excess of that.
Alexis Sanchez is apparently not the kind of player to sulk and would still give 110% week in, week out for the team, which would help us go as far as we can in the Premier League.
Arsenal paid £35 million for Alexis in 2014, have had 3 productive seasons from him and would get one more. £35 million for a player of his calibre, for 4 seasons, could be considered a bargain looking at the transfer market as it is today.
So what if we have to release him next summer for free? We’ve had one of the best talents the Premier League has seen for 4 seasons and paid the same amount that Liverpool did for Andy Carroll for Christ’s sake!
Vote & Comment:
Anyway, place your vote below and also leave a comment about your thoughts on the Alexis Sanchez situation – and I will replying to any comments!
Personally I enjoy Alexis Sanchez and I will like him to play for Arsenal by signing at least 2yrs deal for Gunners. up gunners!
I don’t think signing a new deal is possible now it’s reached this stage, unfortunately.
Arsenal keeping alexis is like moving the club to a very high capability of competing with other clubs and again strenghting attacking midfeild of the club
he should play for arsenals four more seasons
I don’t think that will happen!
If Alexis needs more moneys,he should go. After all they have increased his money for the good job done. Big eyes can kill. Let himself work for arsenal to Win the league before dictating how much should be paid to him
But he knows he’s our best player by a mile.
seriously i will like sanchez to play for us next season bt with his attitude i will like Arsenal to let him Go………. we can given wat he is asking.
Are you for real, did Aguero win the league for Man.c
plssssss for the fans sake, do not sell him, for once lets give the fans something.
Keep him for one more season, if he perform at the same rate as last season and we win the league, let see if he signs or not.
Its a 50-50 option.
It will be interesting if he does stay, whether he does play at 110% like he usually does.
1 million + salary / week for 1 year ???
Dont ever sell Alex, if we need to buy more players we should, dont sell ur main man.
Money talks though, unfortunately.
ARSENAL SHOULD NOT SELL HIM AT ANY COST.
Let Arsenal make is wages 300,000 a week he is best player let us not sell him to any PL club if not let him end is one contract.