Simon Thomas

He's making that pretty clear.

Steve Bowlen to Arsene Wenger as well.

But they keep him on for another two minutes.

The one thing you have to say about him, he has that South American grit in him.

You know, he's like tough.

And when you've got your best flair player, and he was brilliant today, man of the match in my opinion, and to have that grit and work rate and everything else that comes with it,

He's gold dust, that boy, and Arsenal, obviously, in the summer, got to do a lot of work to keep him there.

I know, we're hoping to do a lot of work to make sure he's fit for Tuesday at home to Sunderland.

That's their next game.

Look at this, in terms of most goal involvements this season, he's out on his own, above Romelu Lukaku now, 21 goals, 10 assists.

That is outstanding, but so too is this, because he gets to that half-century of Premier League goals and it puts him third fastest behind Thierry Henry and Ian Wright.

He's keeping some company and he's some player.

But in terms of what happens with Sanchez and his future at Arsenal, getting into the top four, is that going to be decisive as to whether he stays or he goes?

When you have a substantial player like that, who's all the top clubs would want, his argument or his agent's argument will be, if you ain't got Champions League football, we want away.

So it strengthens the argument to keep him and it weakens the argument in his camp because Sanchez is probably going to be advised by three or four different people who all have different agendas.

The most important thing is that if they want to...

get above Tottenham and be champions again, you can't let him go, because they are very, very difficult to locate and bring to your football club, even for the top clubs.

So I would say that is probably a more important decision than the manager, actually, keeping him.

And I just wonder how important that fourth goal from Olivier Giroud is going to prove to be, because it puts them level on goal difference with Liverpool.

But it's a factor now, the goal difference.