Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34656247-20180602151532/@comment-32685487-20180602194529

He wouldn't kill Sasuke, he would just switch eyes with him since he would have to take his out in order to put Sasuke's in anyways and with Sasuke still alive it would be easier to kill the rest of the Akatsuki and whoever else decided to fuck with Itachi and Sasuke. Itachi said if he was to acquire the EMS he would be the only Uchiha capable of surpassing EMS Madara, as with that statement Itachi was literally thinking about EMS Madara as it even shows the real Madara from VotE in that panel. He may think Obito was Madara at the time, but Obito didn't make it a secret that "he was a shell of his former self" so I doubt Itachi was thinking of that "current Madara" when saying that.