Alexis Sanchez

Acquiring Alexis Sanchez has transformed Manchester United. He’s always been a favorite player of mine: his work ethic, creativity, field vision and pure aggressiveness are remarkable. He’s also my size. At ManU, he’s working with Romelu Lukaku, who is big, and Juan Matta, who is my size. Shrinking the front line in height has made ManU a force to be feared again. I say that having watched them play against a fairly spirited but offensively limited Huddersfield. Just as interesting, Arsenal brought in the superb striker Pierre-Emrick Aubameyang from Dortmund. This kind of makes me crazy: I rooted for the Gunners – I mean seriously, Arsenal Gunners? – and yet they only do enough to stay at the level they’re at. They lost Alexis and brought in Aubameyang. They added Henrikh Mkhitaryan as well, so maybe they’ll be better but that’s a big bet on that last player. My larger interest is that the Premier League is getting more offensive players, more offensive skill. That’s always been lacking: it has a history of scrappy play with only a few gifted scorers. The more offensively gifted teams are, IMO, separating from the rest.