Arsene Wenger believes that Alexis Sanchez wants to stay at Arsenal, but says the club have to find an agreement with the player’s agent to make that happen.
The Chilean striker is heading towards the final 12 months of his current deal, and with 22 goals and 13 assists to his name this season, is in the kind of form that makes other clubs take notice.
The rumour mill is in overdrive and the 28 year old has been linked to Chelsea, PSG and Manchester United in the last seven days.
Asked at his press conference today if it was simply a matter of financial incentives or, if as was reported he required a show of ambition tb in order to pledge his future to the club, the Arsenal manager said it was down to a combination of things.
“I believe that basically he wants to stay at the club and it’s down to finding an agreement with his agent,” he said
“I think the players first have to see are they are happy to the club and after most of the time it’s down to finding an agreement, but the finances are involved in it, yes.”
Wenger once more fielded questions about his future, leaving us still none the wiser about what’s going to happen this summer, but what’s going to happen with the star players is still a worry for fans.
I think if we did the triple last year he’d sign in an instant.
I think if he wanted to sign he would sign.
Thought Alexis has agents instead; Atom and Humber. We can always reach an agreement with those I believe
A chew toy and two scoops of pedigree chums finest dog biscuits should do it
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I find this actually encouraging for the first time. The manager putting it on the agent instead of the player shows, in my mind anyway, they seem to have a good relationship. Otherwise if it was down to Alexis I would imagine him to be pretty pissed off with the managers quotes. Could Arsene have been talking sense when he said he’s relaxed and doesn’t see the worry? This is entertaining at the least(even if it does drive us nuts) which is what the great game is for if I’m not mistaken?
Question to all: Would 225K p/w contract be enough for him to stay ?
How the feck would we know?
I’ll ask him when I see him
No Jim, he is looking for 279K p/w contract.
Besides reaching an agreement with Alexis’s agent, I believe it will also hinge on whether Arsenal can offer Champions League football next season… It’s therefore imperative that we clinch top 4, to say the least.
Costa still hasn’t excluded going to China. Samuel Eto’o in his prime went to play for Anzhi. Show me the money is what drives players not Champion’s league.
If they’re playing in Europe, players would prefer clubs with CL football. Then again, some players signed for clubs offering Europa League football, if their pay packets were huge enough to overlook that small detail.
Alexis isn’t really like either of those people. Costa and Eto’o are (were in Eto’o’s case) mercenaries. Alexis isn’t as cold-blooded.
Alternative headline:
Wenger: Agents are dicks.
If that were the case, couldn’t Alexis agree to the deal and sack his agent?
In other words, it’s down to Alexis to agree or not.
Nice, the Blame-the-agent-game. Absolves everyone involved of any resonsibility including Wenger. What can you do with these gants everywhere?
EDIT: *agents
I preferred gants
Once again the board and the manager will be required to make a statement by keeping our top players and you can almost guarantee they will fail us.
Well I’m not so sure, all the pressure and also alexis wanting ambition I think this summer will be most excited one on term of players we could well see 2 top players coming and then Alexis signing a new deal.
Let wait and see.
Its not down to the agent, its down to Alexis. He’s not five.
To be fair, many transfer/contract negotiations now also include settling upon a fee for the player’s agent. Arsenal (from what I’ve read) have historically been very reluctant to cough up a large sum that will go straight to the agent. So even if Alexis is ok with his 250k/week or whatever it is on offer, we might not be willing to pay his agent millions for no reason.
Yes, the agent gets his cut, that’s his payment for doing his work. The players now shift part of the payment to the club so that their cut is bigger, but in the end the club will take the wage package into consideration. No deal at this level just implodes because no one is willing to pay the agent otr rather that’s never the real reason. Agents are just a convenient scapegoat for clubs and players to shift the blame the agent is willing to take.
Exactly. The agent is just a convenient, willful villain for everryone to shout at. At the end of the day Alexis decides if he wants to sign the contract. The agent is just a bargaining tool and consultant to Alexis. These stories that it’s only down to that or that Alexis wants to stay in combination with the story by Cross seem all to delibertaley placed to be taken seriously. Looks more like the PR depertment being productive.
From these quotes I’m imagining Alexis’ agent to be a Hank Scorpio-esque flamethrow wielder and Arsene as Agent Bont.
Somewhere in the corner, Alexis is going D’Oh
So you’re saying that you imagine Alexis’ agent looks just like Shkodran Mustafi
Aslong as we buy a great replacement I dont mind him leaving.
How about 4 cute beagle dogs Alexis? Ok I’ll throw in the neighbors Dalmatian too
There’s no such thing as a cute beagle….
-Alaskan Husky, now that’s a dog amongst men
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Funny Arsenal Inc. crying poverty over paying him and some delusional fans believe they are gonna sign Griezman, Reus and Cristiano too.
Did they not sign Sanchez, Ozil Xhaka, Mustafi, and Chec? I think you are delusional.