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Confessions of Alexis Sánchez: "At Arsenal I am happy"
Alexis Sanchez took his time to answer the questions of La Tercera (Chilean Newspaper). He received them Tuesday in his e-mail, probably while he prepared his Christmas celebration away from Chile. The rigurosity and tradition of the premier league schedule forced him to stay in London in this days of celebration, for the first time, away from home and his friends in Tocopilla. It was worth it, because this Friday in the 18th premier league match day the wonder-kid rose again as the man of the match in the Arsenal victory, with a goal and an assist, he got all the praise from the press.
just yesterday we received his answers, and with them a highlighted condition from him to allow the publication of them. "Please don't change the answers, it's important that it comes out exactly as I say" with this commitment (minor some text corrections) this is the conversation that we had with the forward and top goal scorer from Arsenal. The main star of the Chilean football in this time.
2014 is coming to an end, do you think that this has been so far your best year? I'm saying this because of your great last months at Barcelona, the world cup and your excellent start for Arsenal.
I think it was a good year, with more positives than negatives. From all the years, I take away the good things, the joys, and so far, all my years have been great, of course that some have been more than others, but the most important it's ahead of me, and to try to keep learning and improving, that is the only way to move forward. more here in Spanish. Translation here at reddit
Gary Neville: Jose Mourinho attempting to put pressure on referees by saying there is a campaign against Chelsea
Jose Mourinho has "planted a seed" and put pressure on referees after claiming there is a clear campaign against Chelsea, says Gary Neville.
Mourinho was left incensed when referee Anthony Taylor failed to award a penalty for a 55th-minute trip by Matt Targett on Cesc Fabregas and instead booked the Spain international for diving.
Mourinho blamed the Fabregas booking on recent accusations of diving made against Gary Cahill and Branislav Ivanovic, who was named by Sam Allardyce in the wake of West Ham's Boxing Day defeat at Stamford Bridge. Mou does what he does, throws a tantrum to deflect from his players.
Chatter from the sidelines
- Tumblr entry on Fernando Torres' injuries and the backstory it is alleged that Torres was mislead by Liverpool into believing that his injuries were healed so that they could rush his transfer through to Chelsea (when he decided that he wasn't staying) and everything snowballed from there. I'm surprised that it didn't come out re: the physical from LFC to Chelsea - that's why they do the physical before handing over £50 million dollars. I thought it was interesting, so it's here
- German Sky: Xherdan Shaqiri close to finalising a loan deal to Juventus with option to buy. source. Goodbye kraftwhatever they call you
Most bookings so far for simulation in the PL. Is your team on there?- Newcastle manager Alan Pardew keen on Crystal Palace managerial vacancy after Neil Warnock exit I'm sure they'll be happy too, Pardew
- Tim Howard: Obama phone call was nothing compared to Fergie's 'hairdryer' Fergie could make curly hair go straight with his goings on
- Neymar: Hard to reach the level of Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi people are giving him some grief for saying this. Why?
- OFFENSIVER MITTELFELDSPIELER DER HINRUNDE: KEVIN DE BRUYNE De Bryne is the best midfielder in the BuLi this season. Link is in German
- Real Madrid keeping tabs on teenage goalkeeper Tenerife's teenage goalkeeper Carlos Abad-Hernandez. Go where you can be a starting XI prospect, boo. Look at Navas at Real and despair
- David Moyes 'wants star Prem trio at Real Sociedad' Adnan Januzaj, Emre Can and Charlie Adam January transfer targets for Real Sociedad, according to Spanish reports.
- Silva: Madrid would be a dream this is like Neymar to Europe all over again
- Bayern want Pep to commit they like it so they wanna put a ring on it
- Jose Mourinho loves Christmas fixtures, missed them when he wasn't managing in England if loving it is wrong, he doesn't want to be right
- Louis van Gaal bemoans the English fixtures for every Mourinho there's a van Gaal
- Alex Song wanted to come back to Arsenal but Wenger said hells no it seems Fabregas wanted to come back to Arsenal too, but Wenger said no. Wow.
- Uefa president Michel Platini is refusing to give up on his plan to introduce a 'white card' into football. insert jokes about the French and waving white here
- Under-pressure Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet says his removal from the first team has helped him develop. I feel for Migs here, because he doesn't seem to be supported in terms of specific coaching (like de Gea has with Manchester United. People forget that de Gea wasn't the finished article like now, and did intensive coaching with three coaches over the past eighteen months)
- Strootman happy with Roma. yay
- Real Madrid will define an era- Capello the story isn't finished yet, to be fair
OP: sorry internet is dodgy. Will do picture posts in another post, because LJ is giving me conniptions with this one. Will try for the match pictures later