I agree with giorgg. Sanchez doesn't really assist nor score goals, but he plays a huge part in creating the chances. Like the 4-3 goal Denis scored against Milan, without Sanchesz dribbling past whoever the fuck that Milan player was(too lazy to look it up), and making a nice pass to Isla(I think) the goal never would have happened. He does those things frequently, but those things never show up when you look at his stats and shit, but those things are huge. That's why saying "he's shit" just because his stats suck isn't really fair, imo.
This is something I feel we're missing atm. Someone who can open up our play, and give players like Sneijder more room so he can successfully create a scoring opportunity. Like the Catania game, Eto'o was the only player we had who could create something by himself, and when they marked him out of the game you could see how clueless we were. With Sanchez we'd have a player who can, like I said before, open up our play by dribbling past 1, or 2 players and give players like Eto'o & Sneijder more room to do what they do. We don't have anyone who can do that atm, except maybe Coutinho, but he's still young and inconsistent, and we don't really know when he'll get back from injury. Biabiany doesn't do anything but run(without the ball) and Milito fell off the fuck off. Do you guys get what I'm trying to say?
Obviously, we shouldn't waste 25M on him, he's not worth that much. No way. But if Branca can work out something like 15-18M for him I don't see any reason to complain. We have ourselves to blame for not buying anyone in the summer.