Decision to keep Alexis Sanchez at Arsenal is madness… just when you think it couldn’t get any worse at the club
Transfer window has been financial madness for the Gunners, someone at the board needs to held accountable
THE latest transfer-deadline-day disaster shows you yet again the people handling the business side of things at Arsenal are failing on every possible level.
Letting the deadline pass without selling Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez was just ridiculous.
It did not make any sense in football or financial terms.
Whether it is chief executive Ivan Gazidis or someone else who is in charge of the comings and goings, they need to be held to account for this total shambles.
People are calling for Arsene Wenger’s head at every opportunity.
But that doesn’t mean we should let the faceless men behind the scenes get off scot free.
We have got to the situation where we have NINE players at the Emirates out of contract at the end of this season, and eight more will be in the same boat in another year’s time.
But there seems to be no sense of urgency to either tie them to new contracts or to line up replacements.
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That is financial madness.
And in the short term, why would you refuse to sell Sanchez for £60million, just because you think he is a £100m player? If he had another three years left on his contract, yeah, hold out for every penny you can get.
But we all know he’s off whatever happens next summer, so Arsenal are probably going to end up with sweet FA for him.
And for what? Do they really think that for the next eight months he is going to be the player he was a couple of seasons ago?
Good luck with that one.
Arsenal have known Sanchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and the rest were running their contracts down.
And yet there was still the last-minute scramble for replacements, instead of sensible, long-term planning.
Just when you think things cannot get any worse at Arsenal, you have to witness yet another behind-the-scenes fiasco.
The way they are going about things would be laughable if it wasn’t so damaging to the club.
