Arsenal: Apparently Alexis Sanchez Is Only As Good As Raheem Sterling

Arsenal’s reported contract offer for Alexis Sanchez is setting a precedent for just how cheap the board can be. We’d trade Alexis for Raheem Sterling right?

Arsenal’s growing, problematic situation with Alexis Sanchez desperately needs resolution, but if the contract offer that was rumored back in December is all that we are banking on, then it’s best to just move on as quickly as possible.

Back in December, reports indicated that Alexis was offered a £180,000 a week contract. Since that time, there has been no further updates of a new offer. The only thing we have had since then is the Arsenal board, namely Sir Chips Keswick, coming out and saying that the club would not be held hostage by Alexis’s contract demands.

Those demands may be somewhere around £250,000.

The logic of Keswick is that, even though the market for wages is going up, Arsenal will not give in. They are going to stand true to their ideals.

Which is kind of like being in that school of thought that the earth was still flat, despite it being proven otherwise. When so many other people are doing it and it’s working, it’s probably best to just go with it or you’ll end up looking rather foolish.

The offer that the board made would put Alexis on equal pay as Raheem Sterling. And seeing as how the best way to judge value is by putting a pound sign next to it, that means that the board isn’t willing to say that Alexis is more valuable than Sterling.

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That’s a bit troublesome. And if I’m Alexis, that is grounds for departure.

The Chilean supposedly wants a quarter million. Where would that place him? That would place him equal to Zlatan. It would place him just over Sergio Aguero. It would put him over Eden Hazard.

You know, all these rival players who are propelling there clubs. All of the main men of these rival clubs, the breadwinners, the goal scorers. Those are the guys that are getting paid the kind of money that Alexis wants (unless you count Paul Pogba).

All Alexis wants is exactly what he said in the beginning. He wants Arsenal to invest some faith in him. Also known as, he just wants to be valued at the same level as all other clubs value their main man at.

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And yes, Alexis is our “main man”. There is no harm in admitting that. We may lean more on him than anyone else, but that is a part of the game. If this “brain trust” doesn’t like it, they can buy some more players of Alexis’s quality and balance it out some.

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