Thread: The Premier League 2017/2018

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Sanchez? What part of Manchester is he from? Less than half of MU players are from England, let alone Manchester. What is the point of watching a bunch of wog millionaires kicking a ball about for an hour and a half? Plenty of good honest football out there, just none of it in the premier league.

I enjoy watching my eldest play in his Sunday league over any overpaid "superstarss", some rising stars in their team.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

I enjoy watching my eldest play in his Sunday league

The mrs look after the books?

Very good Zulu.

At your service, Sir.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Very good Zulu.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

I enjoy watching my eldest play in his Sunday league over any overpaid "superstarss", some rising stars in their team

I bet youll have some football legends kids coming through in that area

Somebody else who's under the impression Man United have paid a fortune to get Sanchez...

The Chelsea manager is presumably clueless too, compared to the TD Man U brains trust...

Alexis Sánchez’s wages out of Chelsea’s league, says Antonio Conte

"Only one or two clubs can pay this type of salary. This is the market. If you want to buy Neymar, you must be ready to give him €25m in wages. If you want to buy Messi, Ronaldo, now Sánchez, you must be ready to pay his salary. We never were in this race for Sánchez, ever, and one of the reasons was this amount of salary.”

https://www.theguardian.com/football...er-united-city

^ Do you believe that Conte knows his salary?


Are you actually gonna accept that you don't his salary and the only probable people that do are himself, his immediate family, agent, manager and club executives.... or are you going to continue embarrassing yourself over it?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I bet youll have some football legends kids coming through in that area

Something up with some images on TD again.

That pic of Peter Crouch was showing this morning.

Not showing now.

Was the same with a pic in another thread.

It's hardly just him...you have the internet, obviously.

Are you really so clueless that you believe he's turned down a virtually guaranteed Premier League winner's medal and the chance to work for the best coach currently working...and gone to United because of perceived 'bigness' of club?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Somebody else who's under the impression Man United have paid a fortune to get Sanchez...

The general consensus is that Sanchez will receive in the region of 63 million pounds AFTER TAX over the duration of his four and a half year contract.

Some would call that a fortune....

Originally Posted by cyrille

It's hardly just him...you have the internet, obviously.

Complete list of people that know his salary:

Himself.
His agent.
His manager.
Club executives.
immediate family (likely)
Simple Sybil.


Did I leave anyone out?


Maybe do yourself a favour and link to someone who actually knows....

Using your 'reasoning' you must do to be able to claim this, you bogtrotting dimwit...

Originally Posted by Luigi

He would earn more money at city.

Originally Posted by cyrille

you must do to be able to claim this

Nope.

Cannot.

Was being presumptuous.

Previous reports were of the signing on fee City were gonna pay him (around £30 million), as opposed to a transfer fee now.

Could well be wrong. Could well be right.


You don't know the figures either. Do you.


doesn't stop you harping on about it though....

Multiple sources are saying the same thing, and reasonable conclusions can be drawn.

Obviously your comment only differs from mine in that you had no back up whatsoever.

You're wriggling on the hook rather badly.

Will you be here all day again?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Multiple sources are saying the same thing

Do any of these 'sources' know the figures?


I'll help you out...

The answer is no.


Please give a source that actually knows...... oh noes.... you can't.


Silly Simple Sybil.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Complete list of people that know his salary:

Himself.
His agent.
His manager.
Club executives.
immediate family (likely)
Simple Sybil.


Did I leave anyone out?


Maybe do yourself a favour and link to someone who actually knows....

When a certain Premier league manager who shall remain nameless signed for his club, I made a few quid backing him because an unscrupulous friend of mine (most of them are) worked in the law office that processed his contract and sent me a pic.

The press have their contacts, too.

Of course they do.

Only a simpleton would think that a bunch of people paid to find out this stuff wouldn't have the skinny on the biggest signing of the season.

I don't think mao even believes what he's typing. He just has too much time on his hands waiting for his tandoor components to arrive.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Of course they do.

So which source and which amount (which ranges from 300k to 600k) are you going with as absolutely correct and absolute fact?




I guess you'll continue going on for page after page, even though The Fact, the undeniable fact is.... that you don't know.


Correct?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Somebody else who's under the impression Man United have paid a fortune to get Sanchez

Jeez Cyz let it go. They can afford it. How much do you think his shirt sales alone will be?

Add on a player of that calibre available in the January transfer window who is not cup tied from CL. Hes also not in the world cup, so will be nice and fresh and injury free for the start of next season
Of course you're gonna get sour grapes from feeder clubs like Conte's Chelsea.

Youre starting to sound like one of those dribbling spastics off Arsenal fan t v

Go on tell us what you think he's worth, bearing in mind you turned down 18 million for Jonny Evans

Originally Posted by Dillinger

you turned down 18 million for Jonny Evans

Gonna be 3m in the summer.


Come back home and teach Bailly how to have a cooler head.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Jeez Cyz let it go. They can afford it. How much do you think his shirt sales alone will be?

Besides, what other team could offer you your debut be at Wembley?


(besides Spurs)

Just underlining the reality that United are paying a fortune for him dill.

You're right...they can afford it so why not.

However not everyone here seems to have a clue what they're talking about.

'Takes two to tango' and all that.

^ That's a bit of back tracking. You're stating (or stated) that he is going to Utd purely because he is a whore.


You did move back from the trophy side of things when it was pointed out that Utd won 3 last season, compared to City's big fat zero, in fairness.

And the aging side of things when it was pointed out there's only a month's difference in their age.

The fact that you don't know his salary hasn't stopped your pages after pages on the other un-provable point though.

The storm thats been kicked up about his wages is unbelievable, anyway It's got me excited in Man U again and I'm even starting to believe in The Special One now

This is a great article IMHO and sums ita all up for me

Pouring scorn on Manchester United for paying millions for Alexis Sanchez? You must be joking... he's a bargain and they should be praised for stealing a march on Premier League rivals

Are Manchester United the subject of a transfer embargo? No. Have they done anything nefarious in their pursuit of the most talented footballer on the market this winter? No. Is there a rule that says just because they were England’s dominant team for much of the 1990s and 2000s that they are not allowed to do everything they can to recapture old glories? No.

So, I’m sorry, but I really don’t get the outpouring of outrage and sanctimony that has greeted their apparently imminent signing of Alexis Sanchez.
Sanchez is one of the best players in the world and United are about to get him in what appears to be a swap for Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Take anti-United jaundice out of the equation and there is only one way of viewing that: they got themselves a steal.


They got a bargain. Yes, I know, they could have waited until the summer and got him for nothing. Except they couldn’t. Because if they had decided to wait until the summer, Manchester City or Chelsea or Liverpool would have bought him this month. There’s no question about that. United wanted him and so they went out and got him.
So they’re paying him so much money that he has to carry his wages to his car in a wheelbarrow? So what? In case you hadn’t noticed, the best players on the planet don’t come cheap any more. Not unless you negotiate your deal with Daniel Levy.
United are paying a king’s ransom to Sanchez but if you want the elite, you have to pay for the elite.
It was only last month when Jose Mourinho laid down what amounted to an ultimatum to the club’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.


He told him United had not spent enough to keep pace with their rivals. It was a stern warning from the United manager and Woodward has not wasted any time heeding it. He needs to make Mourinho a success or he will be gone, too.
So United should be applauded for getting the deal done. Not castigated for it. Sanchez is the kind of signing who has the power to transform their season and turn them from City’s lap-dogs into a side that suddenly looks capable of launching a credible challenge for the Champions League. Sanchez has got diamonds on the soles of his shoes. He’s old-style United.
When United fans have moaned this season about how Pep Guardiola has bought the title, we laughed them out of the house.
So those who are criticising United for going out and getting the best deserve the same treatment. It’s United’s money. It’s Mourinho’s judgment. He and the club will stand or fall by it.
In the midst of European football’s Age of Excess, when transfer fees take the breath away as a matter of routine, it is odd that United, who are still short of the quality they need to launch a title challenge, are being so widely criticised for stealing a march on some of their rivals. Everyone assumed City would sign Sanchez. That United stole him away represents a great coup.
It is odd, too, that scorn is being poured on Sanchez. Mainly, it seems, that is because he rejected the higher calling of joining City. He chose cash over job satisfaction, people are saying.


Martin Keown said he was the biggest mercenary in football. Well, maybe, but he’s got an awful lot of competition for that accolade.
It’s not as if he’s signed for Wycombe Wanderers. It’s not as if he moved to China and turned his back on a top-level career.
Look, I’m not Mourinho’s biggest fan but he is one of the best coaches in the world. I’m not Woodward’s biggest fan, either, but United are one of the biggest clubs in the world. Sanchez has not compromised here. His career just took a big leap forward.
The dynamic of the move is relatively straightforward. It has very little to do with emotion or loyalty or sentiment. It’s simple: United needed him more than City and, in the end, they wanted him more than City. So they offered him - and Arsenal - more than City. In nine cases out of ten, in most walks of life, that tends to swing it.
I don’t get the criticism of the deal. Not from any angle. Even with those wheelbarrow wages. Barcelona paid Liverpool £140m for Philippe Coutinho, don’t forget.
Coutinho’s younger, sure, but we could all have a decent argument about who’s the better player and nobody would win because it’s too close to call.
Yes, United have paid an eye-watering amount in wages for Sanchez. And Liverpool paid an eye-watering amount for Virgil van Dijk. And Chelsea paid an eye-watering amount for Alvaro Morata. And City paid an eye-watering amount for Benjamin Mendy. It is the way the market is now. United are throwing money at the situation. So are their rivals


United legend Gary Neville pointed out recently that seven of the United starting XI for the league game against West Brom last month hailed from the Ferguson era.
The signing of Sanchez will be a step towards fixing that. United’s transfers under Woodward have not been particularly impressive. ‘Disjointed,’ Neville called them. Sanchez should improve that batting average, too.
Sanchez improves United. That’s all that really matters. He makes them a better team. He won’t make them a threat to City in the league this season but next season he might.
He may yet enable Mourinho to have a tilt at the Champions League this season. That’s why the scorn about the deal is so misplaced. It’s the best bit of business United have done for some time.