People have become fixated on the high line.The system. He can play high line, I’d rather he be 4th choice but any defender we have now needs pace, it’s how we play and Sanchez has that. If we get say Tosin and keep Sanchez as 4th choice it’s not perfect but we have some cover. As for Dier he is simply too slow to play high line, Ange would rather play Davies our left back in place of him. Dier if he stays will be lucky to even see the bench.
What they fail to realise is the system also encourages a press from opposition sides so we can play through the lines and turn defence into attack very quickly, this requires incisive accurate passing.
In all 3 league games we’ve had squeaky bum moments where we build from the back.
There might not be a worse CB in the premier league than Sanchez to play that sort of high-risk high-reward style of football.