Garner oli ainakin jokin aika sitten käsittääkseni loukkaantuneena. Seuraan kyllä u23-pelejä hyvin vähän eli en nyt päätä laita pantiksi, mutta näin muistelisin lukeneeni jossain vaiheessa. Eihän Garneria ole kai aikoihin näkynyt edes pahimmissa tilanteissa edarin penkilläkään.
Päivän "Sander Berge on tullut Carringtoniin medicaliin" -> "Se olikin reservien molari" -janaroinnit kuvasivat hienosti koko tätä loisteliasta siirtoikkunaa.
Olenkin puheet ovat parissa päivässä taas muuttuneet. Ensin jankkasi ikuisuuden sitä "ostetaan vain jos on oikea tyyppi", sitten sanoi myös että toivottavasti seura saa 1-2 hankintaa maaliin ja tänään olikin jo että "kuinka usein tammikuun hankinnat edes onnistuu?"
Surkeasti hoidettu seura ja OGS selittämässä mustaa valkoiseksi.
Veikkaan että joko 1) ei tule ketään tai 2) Fernandesin kanssa tehdään maguiret
Sanchezista: kannattaa lukea tämä juttu:
https://theathletic.com/1168975/2019/08/29/alexis-sanchez/e. tässä osa yo. jutusta:
Critics may argue United putting £6 million in the bank account of somebody playing for another club is bad business whatever the context. But given the atmosphere a poorly-performing Sanchez carried with him, having the 30-year-old away from the training ground is what Solskjaer wished.
Sanchez cut an isolated figure at Carrington. He performed his duties but declined to interact much with team-mates, bar Romelu Lukaku, who moved to Inter earlier this summer. Any small sense of camaraderie was undermined by those colossal wages, which could reach £560,000 per week with all add-ons included.
Sanchez was in mind when a United insider told The Athletic a month ago: “Ole needs to get certain players out. He’s trying to change the culture, but that takes time. He wants to sign players who are on an upward trajectory.”
Sanchez kept to himself at Arsenal too. A source with with close links to the Emirates had a fairly abrupt opinion on Sanchez when asked this week. “Pain in the arse,” was the response.
At Arsenal there were cliques within the dressing room but Sanchez rarely belonged. Santi Cazorla and Nacho Monreal were natural bedfellows as Spanish speakers but Sanchez did not socialise regularly with any of his peers. In the dressing room, he was a quiet presence who became agitated after games.
One source says: “He did not have friends at Arsenal. He was one of those players who, if we won 1-0 and he had not scored, would come into the dressing room and kick things. If he’d scored twice but we’d lost, he’d be absolutely fine. He did not mix with the players. He rarely, if ever, came into the players’ lounge after games.”
His friend and fixer, Mauro, who has lived with Sanchez in Manchester, would watch games in the Arsenal players’ lounge. Sometimes, an elderly lady would also be present, who most presumed to be Sanchez’s mother. Yet even when his nearest and dearest were in attendance, Sanchez would not mix and mingle afterwards, ushering them to the door and heading for the car park.
At United, due to the size of the club, the players’ lounge is less of a culture. After the weekend loss against Crystal Palace, new signings Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Daniel James and Harry Maguire all headed into the family and friends area, posed for photographs and stayed for over an hour. This, they presumed, was the norm but most others steered clear. Paul Pogba was there, having invited the boxer Deontay Wilder. Maguire is said to have looked devastated by the Palace result.
Sanchez was allowed to stay away from Old Trafford at the weekend, The Athletic understands, as discussions over his move edged closer. But Smalling, who was not in the squad either, took time before kick-off to sign autographs for fans waiting by the South Stand entrance as the team bus pulled up.
Sanchez’s relationship with both the players and the coaching staff never did take off at United. The very public airing of his salary — estimated at 30 percent more than the next highest earner — had a direct impact on United’s ongoing negotiations with David De Gea. Some feel the goalkeeper’s form has also been affected by the contractual uncertainty.
Mino Raiola felt his client Pogba was unfairly paid in comparison to Sanchez, while every representative of a United player who has since entered contract talks will have raised the Chile international’s salary as a barometer of their own client’s value. Ander Herrera left after not getting the pay rise he desired.
Accommodating Sanchez on the pitch was also problematic. His United league debut in a 2-0 defeat at Tottenham on January 31 saw Pogba substituted then dropped for the first time, while Anthony Martial was jettisoned having scored three goals in four games before Sanchez’s arrival. Martial didn’t score again that campaign.
In a dressing room fuelled by loathing and resentment under Jose Mourinho, life became uncomfortable for Sanchez. One source close to the player says the manager often referred to Sanchez as merely “Chileno”, rather than by his name. Two sources have also given accounts of Mourinho raising Sanchez’s extortionate wage package — once in front of team-mates — in a bid to provoke a reaction from the player. A spokesperson for Mourinho declined to comment when contacted by The Athletic.
