Somewhere in my heart of hearts I was hoping we would sign Aubameyang and the Sanchez deal would fall through. Then after initially sulking, he would warm to playing with Auba and laca, which would fire us back up to a champions league spot.
Not going to lie, it hurts when one of our players goes to a rival, but it’s souls crushing when they go to UTD and Mourinho.
I don’t get the dislike for Mkhitaryan. Whilst he won’t make us champions he still is a good player IMO who can help in our current quests. Furthermore we now have a player with two years on his contract; more breathing room to build.
Sanchez isn’t all that either. It will probably look like that because United just has a better team.
People have been saying that, but all the smoke on Özil right now is that he will be signing an extension shortly. No rumors floating around that he’s flirting with leaving us, like zero, zip, none.
If Ozil has seen what Sanchez is earning at Man U, he and his agent will be outside Mourinho’s door at the end of the season wearing Man U shirts pleading with him to sign him.
Probably.
But that really is big bucks.
I don’t think anyone was expecting him to be the highest paid player in the PL and get a massive signing on fee.
Why is the signing on fee a surprise to people? I was expecting it. It was always going to be a big one. There were rumours that City would have given him a £30m signing on fee. That is how this kind of thing works. Özil can get a massive one too. He doesn’t need to “see” Alexis’ deal to know that!