This Sanchez saga is the model of how not to do things:

1 - let the player enter the last year of his contract;
2 - Hope beyond hope he'll accept a new deal, but do not cave in to his wage demands
3 - (2) leaves the club in a position where they plan for life with AS when they should really be planning for life without him.
4 - (3) forces the club in a position where they have to keep him regardless of whether he signs a new deal, potentially losing 10s of millions.

5 - the whole situation is toxic and who knows if keeping him isnt going to get messy as the season progresses.
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1. Have you got confirmed news from our club or Wenger on this? how about Wenger and board tried to tie him down to a new deal since last 1.5 years but he refused? you can't force player to sign an extension? at least Arsenal doesn't. Sanchez has always postponed contract talks stating he wants to focus on this and that.

2. Wage demand in football is growing issue and u cant do anything, Sanchez is not an exception.

4. Loss of £50m is not an issue for Arsenal atleast from what Wenger stated in his press conference.

1. Have you got confirmed news from our club or Wenger on this? how about Wenger and board tried to tie him down to a new deal since last 1.5 years but he refused? you can't force player to sign an extension? at least Arsenal doesn't. Sanchez has always postponed contract talks stating he wants to focus on this and that.
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I think he meant we should have sold him last summer. Which, in hindsight, would have not been a complete disaster tbf.

No top club let's their best players run their contracts down only arsenal

If a team offers us £60-70Mil he will be sold no doubt. Our board and Wenger would not turn that down. If someone bid £40-50Mil I genually don't think we would sell for that fee and would take the hit financially.

comment by Whyalwaysme (U9900)
posted 2 hours, 36 minutes ago
This Sanchez saga is the model of how not to do things:

1 - let the player enter the last year of his contract;
2 - Hope beyond hope he'll accept a new deal, but do not cave in to his wage demands
3 - (2) leaves the club in a position where they plan for life with AS when they should really be planning for life without him.
4 - (3) forces the club in a position where they have to keep him regardless of whether he signs a new deal, potentially losing 10s of millions.

5 - the whole situation is toxic and who knows if keeping him isnt going to get messy as the season progresses.
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1. Have you got confirmed news from our club or Wenger on this? how about Wenger and board tried to tie him down to a new deal since last 1.5 years but he refused? you can't force player to sign an extension? at least Arsenal doesn't. Sanchez has always postponed contract talks stating he wants to focus on this and that.

2. Wage demand in football is growing issue and u cant do anything, Sanchez is not an exception.

4. Loss of £50m is not an issue for Arsenal atleast from what Wenger stated in his press conference.
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1) have a feeling we messed about offering well below his demands

Anybody saying to sell him is mental.

A £70M bid from PSG would be appealing but selling for less to that and/or selling to a PL rival would be a brain dead decision

Do an Alexis for Draxler + £30m swap deal. Everyone wins.

Arsenal don't