Rumoured Alexis Sanchez

[BlueLyon 9,359]

I would rather have Bale if we are looking for good winger...

[Rmpr 8,977]

I would rather have Bale if we are looking for good winger...

You would have Bale for the RW? Or would you simply give him the LW and move a stablished player like Hazard to the RW? Would you also believe he would all of a sudden start to love Chelsea, just like Torres, right? I guess you would also be willing to spend 50mi instead of 20mi?

[BlueLyon 9,359]

You would have Bale for the RW? Or would you simply give him the LW and move a stablished player like Hazard to the RW? Would you also believe he would all of a sudden start to love, just like Torres, right? I guess you would also be willing to spend 50mi instead of 20mi?

Schurle is LW too, so Hazard would have to move to RW anyway.

Besides Sanchez is small player, similar mould to Hazard. He is selfish, has bad decision making and lack of stamina.

Bale is experienced and would give us world class attack. Impossible move though.

But if it would be possible, Bale for 45mio or Sanchez for 20-25? I would go for Bale anytime, we need players who will win us games, not just waste of money.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Schurle is LW too, so Hazard would have to move to RW anyway.

Besides Sanchez is small player, similar mould to Hazard. He is selfish, has bad decision making and lack of stamina.

Bale is experienced and would give us world class attack. Impossible move though.

But if it would be possible, Bale for 45mio or Sanchez for 20-25? I would go for Bale anytime, we need players who will win us games, not just waste of money.

LOL!

Schurrle plays RW for Germany NT, so there is no problem in making him adapt. While Bale is solely a LW in form. Besides, I am not discussing Andre vs Gareth, I am against both!

Sanchez is much, much, much better than what you make him. Sanchez is the perfect guy (Pedro would be better, but that is impossible) to balance what Hazard and Mata brings to the table. Also, he is indeed more experienced than Bale, specially in European football.

This is not a video game where you buy the best players in each position, this is a real football team. Bale has no identity with the club, will cost a fortune and will obligate Hazard to move away from his best position (which is stupid)...

[SinineUltra 1,170]

LOL!

Schurrle plays RW for Germany NT, so there is no problem in making him adapt. While Bale is solely a LW in form. Besides, I am not discussing Andre vs Gareth, I am against both!

Sanchez is much, much, much better than what you make him. Sanchez is the perfect guy (Pedro would be better, but that is impossible) to balance what Hazard and Mata brings to the table.

This is not a vide-game where you buy the best players in each position, this is a real football team. Bale has no identity with the club, will cost a fortune and will obligate Hazard to move away from his best position (which is stupid)...

Pedro is a very underrated player in my mind. Would love to see Sanchez prove me wrong in Chelsea colors but first he must regain that special something he had in Udinese days where he was devastating alongside Di Natale, another striker who deserves more credit for what he does. In my mind DI Natale is Udinese's Totti, Del Piero. Consistently bagging goals for his club season in season out.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

LOL!

Schurrle plays RW for Germany NT, so there is no problem in making him adapt. While Bale is solely a LW in form. Besides, I am not discussing Andre vs Gareth, I am against both!

Sanchez is much, much, much better than what you make him. Sanchez is the perfect guy (Pedro would be better, but that is impossible) to balance what Hazard and Mata brings to the table.

This is not a vide-game where you buy the best players in each position, this is a real football team. Bale has no identity with the club, will cost a fortune and will obligate Hazard to move away from his best position (which is stupid)...

So you would buy Sanchez and have trio of 1,70m big players. In theory they would destroy everyone and all wwih their pace and skill, but reality is that they will be doing that in CL, but not in PL. No matter how you say it, but PL was always physical league and Manu, ManC have lot of strong players in attack. We would have only strker bigger (if).

[Rmpr 8,977]

So you would buy Sanchez and have trio of 1,70m big players. In theory they would destroy everyone and all wwih their pace and skill, but reality is that they will be doing that in CL, but not in PL. No matter how you say it, but PL was always physical league and Manu, ManC have lot of strong players in attack. We would have only strker bigger (if).

The last time I checked, ManCity won the league with Nasri, Silva, Tevez and Aguero.

You can balance that with players like Khedira and Falcao or Cavani (or even Lewandoswki). Even big defenders such as Terry and Luiz...

Building a team focusing first on physicality and second on talent is the biggest step to failure!

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

NO.

Why not he's better than Schurrle, De Bruyne, Moses, Kakuta, Piazon........ he'd give us a different option too as hes a natural wide man and is quite powerful despite his small size.

[Spike 12,049]

Alexis while being a shortass is very stocky and muscular. Height does not equate to strength. Sure taller people are more likely to be stronger but that doesn't count for every case, there are outliers.

For example: (warning shirtless men)

Fernando Torres 183cm

Alexis Sanchez 169cm

Peter Crouch 200cm

Michael Essien 178cm

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

So you would buy Sanchez and have trio of 1,70m big players. In theory they would destroy everyone and all wwih their pace and skill, but reality is that they will be doing that in CL, but not in PL. No matter how you say it, but PL was always physical league and Manu, ManC have lot of strong players in attack. We would have only strker bigger (if).

Sanchez is a small but stocky and powerful player. He has put a bit of muscle on too since moving to Spain from Italy. Hes not Drogba or Ronaldo but hes certainly no Mata or Oscar. Hes probably a much more muscular than Hazard is.

Alexis while being a shortass is very stocky and muscular. Height does not equate to strength. Sure taller people are more likely to be stronger but that doesn't count for every case, there are outliers.

For example: (warning shirtless men)

Fernando Torres 183cm

Alexis Sanchez 169cm

You bastard I was going to make a similar post. 110% right though.

[Peace. 4,352]

Like some people have already stated, your size does not define your strength. There are many more factors ! For instance, how your body his built, and how muscular you are. But there is also your balance, and how do you use that balance ; even a tall and big man can be throw to the ground by a smallish man if he is off balance, for instance.

Alexis might be small (1,69 m), but as you can see on the picture posted by Spike, he has a lot of muscles, is robust/tough and is stocky as Spike said. To compare with our own players, Oscar is 1,80 m and McEachran is 1,78 ; Alexis is significantly much more stronger than them — hell, Josh could be throw into the sky by a gust of wind ! The Chilean is stronger than Hazard, Mata and Oscar, believe me, and he would not be jealous of Moses' strength. So writing him off because he is 1,69 is not a valid reason.

And I do not understand people who say that our team would be weak because our three AMs would be small... As Rmpr stated, you can have physical strength elsewhere ! If we buy Falcao, we won't have a physical weak striker ! And sooner or later Lukaku will come back, and in the meantime we will have Ba ! We will most likely have strength and physicality within our defense and defensive midfield, too. So that's not exactly as if our team will be full of 1,69m-players, huh ?!

And people like to throw in the recent decline of Barça as argument against having small players in the team. Barça problems are much more complex than this question of size. I can guarantee you that even if Iniesta, Xavi, Pedro and Alexis were all 1,85 m, they still would have lost to Bayern... Probably not in such a fashion, but they would have lost. I won't develop much further because it isn't a discussion about Barça, though I can tell you that Barça problems have wayyyyy more to do with their Messi-addiction (and other flaws as well) than with their small size.

Finally, as I have already stated, I believe it is a good option for our squad. First off, we do not have any right winger. Even though Alexis is not exactly a right winger (he is more of a second striker), he would be perfectly fine on our right wing — significantly better than any of our options at the moment. And he will add to our squad abilities we do lack at the moment. He likes to provoke and to take on defenders (something we do cruelly lack) and he is much more direct than Mata and Oscar, and I believe a tad more than Hazard. That addition would add variety to our squad which is something nice. Moreover, he is also a player with a good ethic when it comes to work-rate and to accomplish his defensive duties ; we all know that Mata and Hazard aren't the best in this aspect.... As a matter of fact, we won't have anymore to play Oscar out of position in order to have defensive abilities within our three Ams. The only downside is his finish product, which tends to be a bit off.

Regarding his not so good form at Barça, I am not too bothered. I have already explain why on the last page, so I will be brief. I do believe that he can re-catch the spark which made him so special at Udinese if he plays in a team which suits him. For something around £20m, I do believe he is worth the gamble and I would gladly welcome him here ! By the way, he was bought for 26 millions euros, which makes today £21m ; if Barça wants him out (or if he wants to leave), they will likely not be looking to make profit (for the reasons I explained in my last comment on the previous page), thus his price tag might be less than £20m...

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Alexis is same mould as Nasri.

He might have muscle and all, but he loves to dive. I want our winger to push through defence, not going down to ground all time...

[Rmpr 8,977]

I don't know how he was at Udinese, but I watch him at Barça. Actually, I can understand where they come from. Indeed, his finishing this season has been quite frustrating ; he has bottled a lot of chances (I believe that the match au Parc des Princes embodies this fact). Also, his season has been mixed between hot and cold. He has made his way into the team just as quickly has he got benched, and thus it has provoqued a lack of consistency (alternating between the good and the poor). So yeah, it's not a very good season for his standard — and for Barça's standard as well.

Though, we can find some kinds of explanations for this. As I aforementioned, he has been continuously in and out of the starting team, thus altering his consistency. Also, it's not like he is the first choice, for the two spots remaining in attack. They are shared between Villa, Pedro, Tello and him (and sometimes Fabregas) ; they have respectively played 35, 39, 30 and 39 games. And finally, one could say that the graft didn't take ; Alexis doesn't fit Barça, and vice versa (kinda like with Ibramovich). At the end of the day, it still has been an average season and frustrating as well, though I do not believe who should right him off.

The question now is, would Alexis be a good addition to our squad ? Hum, into my eyes, it might. I believe he would add something different that what Oscar, Mata, Hazard and Moses can offer. Indeed, he is a lot more direct than these players. At the contrary of the players we already have, he is not really the type of guy wainting for the ball to come into his fit, he will lurk around defenders to try and make runs behind the opponent's back-line. In that sense, he would add another dimension to our squad. Furthermore, being a part of the Barça team, his ethic regarding the work-rate is pretty good. Not the best work-rate out there (less good than Pedro or Oscar, for instance), but he puts in a lot of work and is mobile — that's what we tend to lack from Hazard and Mata. Then again, one could argue that it would be another "midget" in the team... Though, he is pretty robust for size.

The cons would be his finishing — which tends to be dubious (he will miss the easiest goals, though score the hardest) — and his tendancy to make things way more difficult than they actually are (he tries too many dribbles and has his eyes on the ball — which is part of the frustrating taste he gives to the Barça fans).

It might be wort a try, considering we could have him at an interesting price. Barça is not renowed (in recent years at least) to try to make profits when a player want to leave, or when they want to get rid of a player. Chygrinsky, bought for £20m, sold for £10m one year later ; Hleb, bought for 15m euros, cancelled his contract by mutual consent with Barça after numerous loans ; Ibraimovich bough £40m + Eto'o, sold for £20m one year later. I could go on. My point being that we can assume that he will not be too expensive.

All in all, to my belief, some of his abilities (like his directness, work-rate and will to take on opponents) would be welcomed into our squad's abilities range. And for a sensible price, I would be happy with him.

As for his goal record this season, it's always a bit tricky when it implies Barcelona... It's kinda like when you say that Iniesta and Xavi have poor goal records. Indeed, when it comes to goals, there's Messi, and then there's the rest. Villa's scored 14 goals out of 35 games, Pedro 8 goals in 39 games, Tello 8 goals in 30 games, Fabregas 13 goals in 42 games, Iniesta 5 in 35 games, etc... so yeah, that's pretty homogeneous behind Messi, in term of goals. By the way, he has scored 7 goals this season, not 5 (he scored twice in El Copa Rey ; your stats didn't ake into account this later competition), in 39 games (and had 11 assists). It's true that doesn't change the world, though..

Like some people have already stated, your size does not define your strength. There are many more factors ! For instance, how your body his built, and how muscular you are. But there is also your balance, and how do you use that balance ; even a tall and big man can be throw to the ground by a smallish man if he is off balance, for instance.

Alexis might be small (1,69 m), but as you can see on the picture posted by Spike, he has a lot of muscles, is robust/tough and is stocky as Spike said. To compare with our own players, Oscar is 1,80 m and McEachran is 1,78 ; Alexis is significantly much more stronger than them — hell, Josh could be throw into the sky by a gust of wind ! The Chilean is stronger than Hazard, Mata and Oscar, believe me, and he would not be jealous of Moses' strength. So writing him off because he is 1,69 is not a valid reason.

And I do not understand people who say that our team would be weak because our three AMs would be small... As Rmpr stated, you can have physical strength elsewhere ! If we buy Falcao, we won't have a physical weak striker ! And sooner or later Lukaku will come back, and in the meantime we will have Ba ! We will most likely have strength and physicality within our defense and defensive midfield, too. So that's not exactly as if our team will be full of 1,69m-players, huh ?!

And people like to throw in the recent decline of Barça as argument against having small players in the team. Barça problems are much more complex than this question of size. I can guarantee you that even if Iniesta, Xavi, Pedro and Alexis were all 1,85 m, they still would have lost to Bayern... Probably not in such a fashion, but they would have lost. I won't develop much further because it isn't a discussion about Barça, though I can tell you that Barça problems have wayyyyy more to do with their Messi-addiction (and other flaws as well) than with their small size.

Finally, as I have already stated, I believe it is a good option for our squad. First off, we do not have any right winger. Even though Alexis is not exactly a right winger (he is more of a second striker), he would be perfectly fine on our right wing — significantly better than any of our options at the moment. And he will add to our squad abilities we do lack at the moment. He likes to provoke and to take on defenders (something we do cruelly lack) and he is much more direct than Mata and Oscar, and I believe a tad more than Hazard. That addition would add variety to our squad which is something nice. Moreover, he is also a player with a good ethic when it comes to work-rate and to accomplish his defensive duties ; we all know that Mata and Hazard aren't the best in this aspect.... As a matter of fact, we won't have anymore to play Oscar out of position in order to have defensive abilities within our three Ams. The only downside is his finish product, which tends to be a bit off.

Regarding his not so good form at Barça, I am not too bothered. I have already explain why on the last page, so I will be brief. I do believe that he can re-catch the spark which made him so special at Udinese if he plays in a team which suits him. For something around £20m, I do believe he is worth the gamble and I would gladly welcome him here ! By the way, he was bought for 26 millions euros, which makes today £21m ; if Barça wants him out (or if he wants to leave), they will likely not be looking to make profit (for the reasons I explained in my last comment on the previous page), thus his price tag might be less than £20m...

THIS!

[Leif 6,006]

Read this. 2 months old and it's about a possible transfer to City/Liverpool but it's worth a read:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/alexis-sanchez-transfer-manchester-city-1736673

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

Alexis is same mould as Nasri.

He might have muscle and all, but he loves to dive. I want our winger to push through defence, not going down to ground all time...

What gives you that idea? Nasri is not stocky like Sanchez? Hes also not in the same mould in terms of playing style either. Nasri is a attacking midfielder where as Sanchez is a winger. Sanchez is a player capable of drawing a lot of fouls like Hazard and Moses due to his speed and ability to ride a challenge if he wants to, yes he has perhaps gone to ground a bit easy sometimes for Barca but this can be ironed out of his game as it was with Ronaldo at United and more recently Bale at Spurs. He could also work and try to improve his finishing and working on his composure when hes in good goal scoring positions.