It is a bit of a weird one, though, tbh, you don’t really see Alexis as especially liked or good friends with anyone in the dressing room, and while you might put that down to language, there’s no lack of spanish speakers. He was well-liked at Barça and didn’t seem the type who would, according to that article, shower after being subbed off and leave before any of his teammates had gotten back, but either it’s false or I guess he’s just found himself feeling the club (in it’s current state) is a bit too small for him.
Looking at how @Maxi_Gooner and a few others are going about it, calling him unprofessional, they are succeeding at it too. Alexis Sanchez is not the problem here.
The first step in improving is admitting something is wrong. Being confronted with the wrongs is a part of that…
I’ll preface this by saying that really none of us have a clue what has truly happened.
But I don’t think what is being said is entirely unbelievable. We’ve been in this situation before many times, when a player is decided upon leaving and/or not signing a new contract. I could be wrong but I don’t remember Wenger ever deciding to drop Fabregas, van Persie, Adebayor, Nasri or Sagna etc, especially not when we’re in a tough top four battle and facing a rival in a very important match.
As far as I remember Wenger utilised all of these players as much as he could without a hint of pride or annoyance creeping in and causing him to drop the player to make a point or display his power as the boss. He played van Persie in every game because he was by far our best player and we really needed the points, similarly to how Alexis is our best player by a distance now and we need his goals and assists because every point will be crucial for the rest of the season.
I think it is perfectly possible for us fans to be on hashtag team Alexis and totally accept his frustrations with Wenger/the club/his teammates and see why he wants to leave, but accept the possibility that he over stepped the mark and might have behaved unprofessionally.
I don’t know why it has to be quite so black and white in that we either fully support Alexis no matter what happened and dismiss anything negative said as the clubs PR campaign, or go the other way and say that we don’t want players who behave that way and that if any player wants to go they can fuck off, I’ll hold the door open for them etc etc.
I’m just wondering what the benefit of dropping him was. If it was a power play then he should have been left at home, like we don’t need you.
But we were always going to need him so subbing him on at half time (I honestly can’t remember Wenger doing an unforced half time sub in years so that makes it extra special) surely sends the opposite message, that we’re desperately reliant on him to save us and he’s effectively above the rest of them.
Think it was more Giroud’s progression, tbh. Don’t think Sanogo really blocked anyone, except maybe at youth level we should’ve bought someone like Malen a year earlier.
All is well with the world. There has been a handshake between Sanchez and Wenger. In front of all the cameras and journalists who are there for the open training session too, fancy that.
Though in my day to day life I tend to offer my hand when I say hello…or goodbye to someone.
Basically it tells us nothing other than the club is trying to portray happy families. Well clearly that’s a steaming pile of shit- but we’re fucking morons who’ll fall for this aren’t we. I’m getting really sick of the endless bullshit spewing from this club to manipulate us. They think they’re so fucking clever and fans will continue to lap it up. Well I say fuck em. Fuck em all.
I’ll always support Arsenal, but I’m really struggling to like anything about the club atm. I just want the endless cycle to stop. And before anyone offers sage wisdom, highlighting that I should be careful what I wish for, well, I’ve considered it and after absolutely no deliberation whatsoever, I say bollocks to the consequences. Bring it on.
Victoria Concordia Crescit. (Just make sure you mumble the first bit for the time being.)