Friday, March 29, 2024

Confirmed: Arsenal sign Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez

Alexis Sanchez is officially a Gooner after Arsenal confirmed the signing of the Chilean striker from Barcelona.

The fee for the 25-year-old is thought to in the region of £30 million, a figure that represents the second biggest deal in the club’s history after last summer’s acquisition of Mesut Ozil, and he’s expected to earn around £150,000 a week.

Sanchez arrives at the Emirates with a wealth of experience at the top level. He’s earned over 70 caps for his country, won league titles in his homeland with Colo-Colo, in Argentina with River Plate and La Liga with Barcelona. He also spent three years on the books at Serie A side Udinese with whom he impressed ahead of his big money move to Camp Nou in 2011.

Last season Sanchez netted 19 goals and made 10 assists in 34 La Liga appearances as Tata Martino’s side finished runners-up behind Atletico Madrid. He also bagged himself a couple of goals at the World Cup where he caught the eye leading the line for Chile before their quarter-final exit on penalties against Brazil.

Obviously excited at having bagged such a prestige signing, Arsene Wenger said of Sanchez:

“Alexis will add power, creativity and much quality to our squad and we are all looking forward to him joining up with us in a few weeks.

“He has consistently produced top-quality performances at the highest level for a number of seasons now and we are all excited to see him integrate into the Arsenal squad. I’m sure all Arsenal supporters will join me in welcoming Alexis to our club.”

The player also had warm words for his new club stating:

“I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London.

“I’m looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.”

Sanchez will now have a bit of a break before he joins his new teammates for pre-season training, and is expected to make his debut in the Emirates Cup, which takes place at Emirates Stadium on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3.

Arseblog News welcomes Sanchez and is happy to tell the world we do so with moistened loins.

 

 

 

 

 

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Eiregun

Thank u wenger 🙂

Gunnin

I’m ready to cry I’m so overwhelmed with excitement. This guy is electric!

JC

Back to the glory days!!!

ARiddlingName

Suddenly the Wenger haters have disappeared to Narnia.

Witoldo

Can’t believe I’m top-posting for this, but have a look at the picture on the official website. There’s still a crease in arm of the Puma shirt, that’s how new it is.

shanthDK

Signing of the season! – And we haven’t even reached the middle of July! 😀

2014-2015 = the year we've been waiting for

Where’s the button to thumbs-up every Goddamn comment on this thread?

Tasks for the day:-
1) thumbs-up every comment on this thread
2) drooling and sharing alexis’s photos, details on every social networking website/app
3) jumping up and down crazily and shouting “this is it!!” “this is it!!” go gunners !!
(at home) :p
4) call/chat with gooner-friends about the awesome signing
……………so much to do…..
its happy gooner day !!! today !!! yaaaaay!!!

Gooner1

YES! YES! YES! YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Gooner1

Wenger hopefully here for another 6 years at least, I’m predicting 6 trophies, 3 leagues, 1 CL, 2 FA Cups

Gooner1

Also, one more thing I’ve noticed about Sanchez, is that he seems to be a big game player.

SB

Now AW reason passing on Cesc makes more sense

Jijo

Guess I have to change my rear view mirror.. I don’t see spurs in it anymore!

Wozfe

I don’t see what’s wrong about that.

Dracular

Good statement of intent, tanx Prof.

Killjoy

Thank you, Luis Enrique. After watching Argentina last night, I think you should sell Messi to Arsenal and buy Lallana.

Emmanuel

Exciting Times Ahead.

TTT

BOOM

now please sign a bloody powerful CDM

COYG

ShimShallstrom

There’s been a lot of talk about Yaya Toure being unhappy at man city. If we could snatch him up, welcome to another invincible season.

ARiddlingName

Yaya plays best at CM as he did this year. He is also 31. Although his skills may not run out soon, his pace will and we’ll have an Arteta problem again. Same reason we won’t bid for someone like Masherano who some people are calling for as he has been one of the best CDMs in the WC so far.

Both are 2 great players, but a younger option and someone whose primarily position is CDM will be better.

ARiddlingName

Also:
Jeremy Wilson @JWTelegraph
Arsenal’s new largesse in transfer market is not change of policy. It’s actually final stage of this 10yr plan

Guess the future really is going to be bright.

gooner_expat

who would have thought that careful long term financial planning to build a massive, new and modern stadium could actually have been the reason we weren’t competing in the transfer market.

actually thought wenger was a joker, and arsenal had no ambition! #oneclickjournalism #wengerout&in=beauty

damn so surprising. so beautifully surprising! WHAT A BEAUTY!

Touched Your Mother

FUCK YES… HE IS SO GOOD
Watched him play at Barca all year, and he is such a good fit. Buzzing for this upcoming season, this is exactly what the team needed, pace, strength finishing, can’t say enough.

SB

I’ve been eagerly waiting for this news for a few weeks now & now for a few more weeks to see our shiny new player in action.

elmeliac

*Falls off chair*

(Alex)

It feels good doesn’t it?

Yoyo Sanogoals

YOU SELL SUAREZ, WE SIGN SANCHEZ, ALEXIS SANCHEZ!!!!!
LOOOL

Girouds Mistress

….kind of like that time Spurs sold Bale and we signed Ozil.

spinner

I quite like the idea of Real Madrid and Barcelona being our feeder clubs 😉

Yoyo Sanogoals

Wonder if we can add PSG to the list next. Hmm Cavani

Witoldo

Not sure if they can be called feeder clubs, when we buy their castoffs in order so they can fund the transfers they really want to make…

Let the thumbs down fly! (But it’s true…)

Merkesacker

If they’re thick enough to cast off players like ozil and Sanchez then I can live with it…

Arsepedant

Ozil is better than Bale. Sanchez is better than Suarez. If they want to “cast off” that calibre of player, then buy their targets for twice what they got for their “cast-offs”, then all I can say is long may it last. I mean, seriously! We bought Ozil so that Madrid could buy the Scum’s best player, and we bought Sanchez so that Farca could buy the Mugsmashers’ best player. The Scum and the Mugsmashers will be fighting for the last Europa spot next year. Who else can we fund? Maybe if we fork out 20 million for Lars Bender,… Read more »

Steve

Thats what we do, sell our players to replace them with players we actually want. We did it with Kolo Toure, sold him, got in Silvestre. lol. haha just kidding. anyway happy gooner today 🙂

Zorro in the box

Rather love the fact that the Suarez/Sanchez song rhymes as well as the Bale/Ozil song…did Wenger anticipate that I wonder?

Matt Blount

Apart from the obvious Ronaldo/Messi category of player, he would have been in my top 5 players I could wish for us to sign.

Most excited I’ve been about a signing.

Awesome.

American Gooner

Welcome Alexis!! Cannot wait to see him along the likes of Walcott, Ramsey, Özil, etc. talk about moist loins…

A to the HA

Soooo so so so moissst

A Gooner in Houston

Don’t forget Giroud 🙂 Imagine him pinging balls to the left and right and finding either Walcott or Sanchez. Ahhh…

Swedegunner

Moist loins from balls pinging left and right. Already loving this new season

GGGA

yes!! I’m ecstatic!

Goonerratic

Absolutely ecstatic. Exciting times ahead. 😀
Feels good to be a gooner.

Gunner From Another Mother

OH TO BEEEEE!

Silent Stan's Content Mustache

Hell YESSSS!

LordKramuk

YEAHHHH BOYYYYYYYYYYY GET IN

zen

so so happy….alexis sanchez>alexis texas….

Merlin's Panini

who’s Alexis Texas?

According to the Laws of Quantum Mechanics, WENGA can be OUT and IN at the same Time

Are you insane?

no, I just genuinely don’t know who that is. Is it someone off the telly? Sounds like a pornstar name or something so I don’t want to Google it at work! I’ll ask again, who’s Alexis Texas?

gammhunn

Your reptile brain is correct. Better not google at work. She does have nice buttocks though, I would recommend google at home.

DöubleDöubleDöuble

I Googled her. She is a young blonde woman, fairly attractive, but with Jimmy Hill’s chin. She has a large posterier, and a penchant for sausage meat.

On a scale of 1 to 10, she’s no Alexis Sanchez.

Scribe

No no no, couldn’t be more wrong. It’s a famous puppy, Google it, RIGHT NOW.

Maximus

GET THE FUCK IN!! YES!!

Edu's Braces

Who is he? Some 15 year old with ‘massive potential’? #WengerOut

Mesut's Kisses

A major signing before August??? Wenger has truly comes to his senses. Keep em coming.

heartbroken_gooner

arsenal is heading on the right direction. reason is Arsene Wenger. ozil last year and now sanchez. happy days are ahead .feeling super duper exited about the new season 😀

James

Arsenal following through on Kroenke calling Ozil ‘just the start.’

Exciting player, can’t wait to see him opening up defenses with Theo, buzzing around Giroud, getting on the end of Ozil’s passing.

Turns out Wenger has been up to a little more than showing off his physique at the beach. Never in doubt.

Goonerratic

AAAAAWWWWWWW YEAAAAAAAHHHH
*goes absolutely berserk, breaking stuff and shit*

SP

Welcome Sanchez :D!

Ghosh

How does it feel to be Liverpool?
How does it feel to be small?
You sold Suarez
We signed Alexis Sanchez
Alexis Sanchez
Alexis Sanchez

Chris O.

What must they be smoking? 😀

Ben

Yesssssssssss!!

Joel

YEEEAAAASSSSSSSH

poooner

You had me at iHOLA!

The Mert

For the second year in a row, the supposed best player in the EPL (Bale and Suarez) gets sold to a team in La Liga (Real Madrid and Barcelona) and Arsenal receive the buying team’s second best player (Özil and Sanchez)! Nice doing business with you chumps! What an unbelievable piece of business!!

DJGOONER

I’m not sure Sanchez is better than Iniesta, but still: F*** YES!!!!

Andy Mack

I agree but Sanchez isn’t 30 years old either.

Big Chief from Antarctica

Gotta love the change in mentality when it comes to signing players. The wait for a trophy has come to an end, let’s hope that such players continue to develop and come to Arsenal along with the silverware.

Andy Mack

It’s not a change in mentality, it’s a change in finances.

Amaury Bischoff's Agent

I’m glad somebody pointed this out.

Youssef

Its not a change, it is the culmination of a long term plan

Big Chief from Antarctica

Don’t get me wrong, I wholeheartedly agree that finances and long term planning are involved. In fact, time and again I’ve used the stadium argument why Arsenal shouldn’t be vilified as a sellers club nor Wenger as someone without a vision. I agree, that plan is heading towards its last phase. With the FA Cup, and the signings of Ozil and Sanchez as prime examples why spending money occurred cautiously. Money that has been generated by Arsenal and with the Puma deal now we have solid base to invest more. Perhaps my choice of the word “mentality” is a bit… Read more »

Gooner

Now sign a quality DM and I’m heading straight to the bookmakers!

Arsepedant

I’m straight to the bookmakers NOW.

Edu's Braces

No one told me today was deadline day 😀

poirobi

Hell yeah!!! No more “Higuain’s father seen at the airport ” bullshit stories. That’s how you do business. Alexis, welcome on board!

Merkesacker

To be fair, this was confirmed by Sanchez’s fucking barber

Hi-brid

Get in!

TR7 > CR7

*Hyperventilates uncontrollably*

Finsbury Park Gooner

FUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!

THIS IS AMAZING!!!!

Joe Starkey

I’m so excited I’m going to give myself a dirty sanchez!

Rufusstan

You know what, I’m so happy right now I’ll upvote almost anything

Has Debuchy fallen into a black hole, or are they waiting until 11pm tonight?

Özil is a goooooner

Holy fuck

Edu's Braces

Fuckin Wenger just chillin on the beach #WengerOut

50 shades of gandalf the grey

Win

Edu's Braces

Fuckin Wenger just chillin on the beach #WengerOut

Man am I giddy right now 🙂

bansi

A nice big zero on the Poometer

JB

*Faints*.. *Wakes up*.. Welcome Alexis!:) COYG!:)

GGGA

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20140710/gallery

lol first pics without the customary “hold home-kit with name at the back”. I’ll cut some slack since Puma already stumped huge amount of money for us in the first place.

Rufusstan

I’m guessing they have not sorted a number for him yet, and all the traditional ones are gone, unless someone is getting some really bad news soon.

With Poldi and Jack holding the 9 and 10, he’ll have to prise those numbers out of their: ‘cold, dead, hands’.

Witoldo

The kit has yet to be officially revealed. He’s wearing the warm-up gear.

I bet we see pictures of Sanchez in the kit tomorrow after the official kit launch. Probably even with a number, because AFC has said it will be revealed “soon” on their Instagram account.

RayC

It’s 4am in Seoul, Korea right now…
I must be living the best dream ever!
Hell yeah!

Suedey

Shit I need some help I don’t know what youtube compilation to watch first

Mozilla
Javis

Get fucking in..absolutely brilliant signing. We have added serious quality to our forward line!

Matthew

YIPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ohene

Wonderful player. So glad we got him.

Glasgow_Gooner

Brilliant News. I’ve been hitting f5 for over a week.

Geefive

(me 15 seconds ago)……..F…5…….hmmmmmmm….hey!……that’s pretty cool! SAAAAAAAANCHEZ!!!!!!!!!!!

Liebenrood

Fuckin’ Excellent!

LongTimeReader_FirstTimeCommenter

Now just tell me his squad number so I could buy the jersey already.

El Fabuloso

BOOM… That was out of the blue… Never knew we were in for him… We’ve got fucking Alexis…

Franzsigel

Great news!!! If our germans can convince Khedira to join us, and we also get a solid replacement if Vermaelen leaves, we should be contenders for the title.

Arsene knows…

Mozilla

signing of the season again, first ozil and now Sanchez

can’t wait for next season

wenger please work your magic and seduce sami Khedira

🙂

Ramesh

Boss is still in Brazil. Khedira is still in Brazil. Hmm. Just joining the dots.

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