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Manchester City have ended their interest in Alexis Sanchez as they feel he is too expensive, according to Sky sources

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I never thought I would ever see that series of words coming from City

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Dunno why Chelsea and Liverpool have not been making a run at him either

He’d be perfect for the system but no way at those wages. We’re not as stingy as Spurs, but we still have some kind of wage structure that would probably be shattered with him right after we reached a little bit on VVD paying him £180k a week

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He’d be perfect for the system but no way at those wages. We’re not as stingy as Spurs, but we still have some kind of wage structure that would probably be shattered with him right after we reached a little bit on VVD paying him £180k a week

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I'd think at most, we'd go to £250k/wk... but considering we've never broken 200k/wk, that may be a stretch... We were only willing to go up to £200k/wk for Coutinho

I would be more worried about disrupting the harmony in the dressing room.. Salah is only on £90k/wk (though I would be ripping that up and giving him a new deal)

Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, I wouldn't commit more than three years at those high wages, he has a lot of miles the last few years..

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I never thought I would ever see that series of words coming from City

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A lot of it has to do with what happened this summer with Dani Alves. Pep, Txiki, Alves and his agent had apparently all agreed on terms and then PSG called and offered PSG, frick you money. Alves' agent came back to us and said, "hey, we have this offer, you need to match it" and Txiki was supposedly super butthurt about it.

This same thing has happened again. Terms were agreed upon between City and a player and another club offered more money at the last moment.

I don't blame the players or their agents, I get they want to get the best deal possible. But I also get it from our point of view that we expect players to hold true to their word, which hasn't happened twice now in six months.

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I do too... and why would a player want to pay him a cut of his salary when the club just pays it...

I just think it leads to them getting their own pay days instead of always doing whats best for the player..

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Pep got upset Sanchez didn’t fully commit and decided to shop around

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I'd be pissed if I had agreed to pay my lawn guy $100, but he came back a day or two after negotiating and said he wanted another $100 a visit because someone else offered him better terms.

I understand it from the person getting paid's point of view, look out for yourself and your well being, but it's something that a lot of people are going to take personally.