Not necessarily, £25m might have always been his value but fans will always want more for their 1st choice, youth-promoted, Spanish international 'keeper as opposed to a dropped, 3rd choice 'keeper with a perceived attitude problem. Just so happens that both those players are the same man
It's also worth adding that, although in the end we were happy getting £25m for Sanchez, there was a time during the previous summer that people on here were sniffing at getting "only £40m" for him
This was the key thing for me, he had the ability to go really far (and he's had a pretty decent career already) but it's his lack of concentration that always worried me. He could make 5 or 6 superb saves and then chuck one in under no pressure just because he seemingly wasn't paying attention.
He was dropped because a) he wasn't suited to the way De Zerbi wanted to play and, more importantly, b) did want to learn whilst sitting on the bench.
“He wanted it this way (not travelling to be on the bench). Not me, not the club. We spoke before the Arsenal game and we decided together the...