So have you heard about the intricacies involving the mega deal taking Alexis Sanchez to Manchester United?
- £117m in wages to the Chilean forward
- £35m would be given to Arsenal
- £10m would be splashed out to his agent
- £20m signing on fee for the chap
The best part of this deal is that we would also be getting an Armenian midfield maestro wrapped and stuffed in a shiny box. This chap was in prolific form in his final season at the Bundesliga, scoring 25 goals and providing 26 assists for his teammates. We were linked with the lad that had a year left on his deal but Manchester United, being the bullies they are, shoved us away and got him, only to throw his career down the drain. For some reason, he struggled to make an impact there and was ostracized by Jose Mourinho.
He had a resurgence at the start of the new campaign, scoring a couple of goals in preseason, and that prompted me to select him in my Fantasy team at the start of the 2017/18 season. Five assists in his first four games got everyone buzzing then Man Utd lost Paul Pogba to injury and it seemed to affect him or something because nothing just worked for him. His manager didn’t help his cause either and continued to freeze him out of the first team.
Without Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, Arsenal has looked bang average with Danny Welbeck and the out-of-sorts Alex Iwobi making fools of themselves behind an Alexandre Lacazette that had no service to the extent he decided to drop deep to get a glimpse of the ball. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is a very creative midfielder and I’d prefer to have him on our ranks and playing attacking midfielder rather than the aforementioned duo of Iwelbeck.
I’m hearing that the club is having issues with wages for Mkhitaryan and I’m just here being hopeful that we would seal the deal. Alexis has wanted out since the summer and his play this season has clearly showed that his heart was no longer at the Emirates. Unlike the Robin van Persie move that kinda hurt a lot when it happened, I’m not even batting an eyelid on Alexis moving to that lot. The sooner this swap happens, the better for everyone involved. Mkhitaryan will get a new lease of life and the freedom he requires to do his thing like them Dortmund and Shakhtar days I hope, while we will no longer remove the hair from our heads for another time Alexis gets dispossessed.
Elsewhere, things are quite intense at Borussia with their star striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, submitting a transfer request to leave the club. Arsenal is believed to be interested in the lad and the papers also say we have agreed personal terms with the Gabonese international. Since his move from St. Etienne to Borussia Dortmund in 2013, PEA’s rise in the team has been meteoric. Shunted out to the right wing to accommodate Robert Lewandowski allowed the lad to hone his attacking skills but when Lewa moved to Bayern, the center forward role was Auba’s for keeps and he made it his in grand style.
He has smashed 16, 25, 39 and 40 goals in his first four seasons with the club and he picked up where he left off, scoring 21 goals in 23 games for Dortmund this season. Arsenal has lacked goals in recent weeks, and bringing in a forward as lightning quick as Aubameyang will be an awesome move for the club.
Aubameyang also forged an extremely good understanding with Mkhitaryan in his Dortmund days and having that reunion at the Emirates is a sign of good things to come. I can wait for both lads to put pen to paper as we aim to salvage what’s left of the season. Qualification for the top four is a long shot at the moment with other teams in good form but we can challenge for the Carabao Cup and the Europa League, two trophies Arsene Wenger has never won with the club.
Sayonara.
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