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Be interesting if he does well at Inter though. Would make his catastrophe at Utd even more curious.
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I suppose the proof will be in the pudding. If either of those step up, score a few goals and Utd don't struggle in attack this season while Sanchez continues to struggle then Ole will be prooved right. If Sanchez starts banging them in and Utd struggle then it will be held against him.
For what they are 'gaining' from the deal, I'd rather Sanchez remain at the club if I was a fan of Utd - unless there is some overriding issue where he simply does not want to be there and isn't applying himself. Utd are going to need difference-making players at points this season given how understrength their options are, and even an underperforming Sanchez still has that capability. That quality isn't shared by some of his teammates.
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Regardless of how Sanchez does at Inter, he wasn't banging them in here so it is irrelevant.
So because he's had a poor 18 months at Utd, it's now impossible for him to play well for Utd? It might seem to be the case right now but Sanchez hasn't suddenly forgot how to play football. You signed him knowing that he was a bit of a sulker and had performed poorly for Arsenal prior to joining you but he's still a very talented player that you'd hope most managers would back themselves to get something out of him.
Had Utd not very few and hugely inconsistent attackers at the club then I could understand doing whatever it took to get rid of him but it seems like a decision with far more that could go wrong than go right.
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Age conquers every footballer eventually, Sanchez is done at a high level. He's not shown good football for 18 months, for club or country. Martial has scored more goals this season than Sanchez managed the whole of last season. We're losing nothing here.
I thought he was older than 30, there's still life in him, you don't go from being that good for Arsenal to losing all ability. I'm sure playing with that big, lumbering idiot at Inter will recapture his form
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In the most 'out of nowhere' move of the summer, seems Smalling is going to Roma on loan.
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Was it Jones or smalling that got contract extensions not that long ago?
Utd have got 6 senior CB's on the books so it's not a massive surprise that they're shifting one of them. The fact that it's Smalling is probably because they can't find anybody that will take any of the others.
I think both have signed new deals fairly recently.
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7, Rojo, Tuanzebe, Lindelof, Bailly, Jones, Smalling and Maguire
Tuanzebe has barely played a game for Utd and won't be on big money but 7 if you want to include him. Smalling leaving on loan probably goes some way to explaining why Utd didn't bring anybody else in during the summer - with no CL football there is probably an element of balancing the books or at least not further increasing their wage bill.
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Well he's been on the bench all games so far so Ole clearly sees him as 3rd choice. I think ideally we'd rather sell/loan Rojo but failing that there is no harm in getting rid of another.
Ok, my point was more on the financial side of things and given that he's not likely to be on big money he didn't really apply. Utd as a club won't want to have 6 full international CB's, each likely to be earning over £100k per week, at the club.
On Tuanzebe being 3rd choice, is that because they feel he's the 3rd best CB or because they're trying to get one of the others to leave? As above, it looks to me a bit like Utd are trying to find anybody not hugely important that they can shift to balance the books.
On Tuanzebe being 3rd choice, is that because they feel he's the 3rd best CB or because they're trying to get one of the others to leave? As above, it looks to me a bit like Utd are trying to find anybody not hugely important that they can shift to balance the books.
Because you're run as a business, your revenue will drop by at least £50m this season and you're literally pushing players out of the door.
I know it's a bit like being the tallest dwarf but Smalling's been your best defender over the last few years.
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Yes, but we also sold them Alexis Sanchez, so we win
