Manchester United Offer Alexis Sanchez A Lifeline After Torrid Time In Italy

Former Arsenal and Current loany Manchester United player Alexis Sanchez is set to be welcomed back at Old Trafford next season but may have to settle for a back-up role.

The Chilean striker is currently on loan at Inter Milan, where he has continued his disappointing form in major European football after being exiled at United last season.

The 31-year-old is currently on a £500,000-a-week contract and has two years on his current Manchester United deal.

According to the Daily Mirror, United manager Ole Gunnar Solksjaer has met with the club's chief executive Ed Woodward, with the club choosing to keep Sanchez in its ranks next term instead of paying off the striker to terminate his deal.

Financial constraints at the club caused by the coronavirus pandemic has forced Manchester United's hand on this matter, though the Chilean is likely to be used as a back-up option next season.

While Solksjaer is happy to include Sanchez in his plans for the 2020/21 season, he is wary of the forward blocking the development of other youngster such as Daniel James and Mason Greenwood.

The 31-year-old joined Manchester United from Arsenal in January 2018 in a swap deal involving Henrikh Mhkitaryan.

He has since made 32 league appearances for the Premier League giants.

He enjoyed a torrid first full season at United, which saw him score just once in a league campaign where he fell out of favour with both Jose Mourinho and his replacement Solksjaer.

He moved to Antonio Conte's Inter at the beginning of the current campaign along with fellow United exile Romelu Lukaku, who joined the Serie A club for £73million, but has yet to pick up his form.

The Chilean has played just 16 games in all competitions since joining Conte's team due to injury problems and stiff competition for places.

Sanchez was a second-half substitute for Inter in their Coppa Italia second-leg tie on Saturday night, which the Nerazzurri drew 1-1 to crash out of the competition.

Before joining Manchester United two-and-a-half years ago, Sanchez enjoyed a goal-laden spell at Arsenal, where he scored 80 times in 166 games for Arsene Wenger's Gunners.

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Manchester United have 'no interest in re-signing Cristiano Ronaldo', scuppering the Real Madrid forward's hopes of a romantic return to Old Trafford.

According to Spanish newspaper Marca, the arrival of Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal has put paid to any chance of the 32-year-old Portuguese star coming back to United.

Sanchez will take the No 7 shirt in Jose Mourinho's squad, a number that had been reserved for Ronaldo until this point.

The Spanish press reported last week that Ronaldo had grown increasingly frustrated that Real had not acted on a promise to offer him a more lucrative contract following his role in their Champions League triumph last season.

They claimed Ronaldo had already told team-mates he was going to leave the Bernabeu and had his heart set on a return to United, where he played with distinction between 2003 and 2009.

But with United sealing a deal for Chile forward Sanchez, who will earn £450,000-a-week, the door appears to have closed on Ronaldo.

United are not planning any more signings this month and their priorities in the summer will be central midfield and central defence.

Marca also report that Mourinho is not interested in Gareth Bale, another key Real player who has been linked with a Premier League return.

Sanchez said farewell to his Arsenal team-mates at their team hotel on Friday evening as he prepares to join United.

A breakthrough was reached earlier in the day when Henrikh Mkhitaryan agreed to move in the opposite direction, although the Armenian wasn't pleased at how he had been pushed out.

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Sanchez Very Close - Mourinho

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had earlier admitted that the Chile star would soon call Old Trafford his new home when he told reporters it was 'likely' the deal was as good as done. 

Reports indicate that the out-of-favour Henrikh Mkhitaryan will move to the Emirates Stadium in part-exchange for Sanchez, and the midfielder will not face Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday.

Mourinho said: "There is no point in trying to hide or deny, but it is not done at all. I think clearly everybody knows that we are there and especially when Arsenal manager speaks so clearly like he did.

"But [it is] not done, not done at all. In this moment Mkhitaryan our player, Sanchez is an Arsenal player. With a match tomorrow, I want to switch off and focus on what is the most important thing. Sometimes people think transfers involve the managers a lot in the negotiations. 

"I think it depends a lot on the profile of the club, the way we establish our jobs and in my case when it goes to the table of negotiations I like to be out. I'm out. I will just be calmly waiting for news. No more than that." 

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Dyche: Sanchez Deal Will Impact Burnley

Transfers fees have risen rapidly over the years, with the likes of Neymar, Coutinho, Paul Pogba and Gareth Bale all being bought for hefty sums.

And with Alexis Sanchez closing on a reported four-and-a-half-year £14 million per season contract deal to join Manchester United that is expected to be in excess of £60m, Dyche knows it only makes like harder for the Clarets to sign players.

Speaking ahead of facing United on Saturday, that could well feature Sanchez, Dyche explained the potential impact of the expected signing.

He said: "It creates a tougher challenge because every time one of the super powers spends enormous money on a player that drip-feeds down the market.

"So every player you then phone about has miraculously gone considerably up in value because they'll say 'well if he's worth that our players must be somewhere near as good as that'.

"So where does the next move from us come from? Where's the next valuation on one of our players or one of our targets?"

Sanchez could potentially earn £350,000 a week at United, which is a long way off the wages that the Burnley players take home.

Dyche continued: "It will be a while I think. Our chairman certainly backs our team the best the board feel we can. We're quite a long way off that but the numbers have jumped the last couple of years, so who knows?"

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Mkhitaryan To Join Arsenal In Exchange For Sanchez, Confirmed by A Journalist

Mkhitaryan will join Arsenal from Man Utd in exchange for Sanchez, confirmed by Armenian journalist.

The 28-year-old Armenian is believed to be deliberating over the move and is in no rush to make a final decision.

United pipped Arsenal to the signature of Mkhitaryan from Borussia Dortmund for £26m in July 2016.

He is not demanding to leave Old Trafford at all costs but has a different footballing philosophy to manager Jose Mourinho and that has raised the possibility of his departure.

Here he writes on Twitter: The transfer between Mkhitaryan and Arsenal is finished! Sanchez will join Man United.

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Sanchez Has Qualities of Theo Walcott - Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger believes summer signing Alexis Sanchez has the qualities of Theo Walcott.

The Chilean international arrived at the north London club from Barcelona earlier this summer. The 25-year-old was the Catalan club's second top scorer in the league last season, behind Lionel Messi.

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Arsenal have officially confirmed the signing of Chile and ex Barcelona forward Alexis Sanchez. The Chilean who widely impressed at this summers World Cup joins the North London side on a four year deal for a fee reportedly set to reach £30m with add ons.

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Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger is due to fly back to London in order to help finalise the transfer of Barcelona’s Alexis Sanchez, stating that the deal is ‘almost done’ and that everything should be wrapped up by Wednesday.

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