Alexis Sanchez: Man Utd and Inter Milan yet to reach agreement
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Manchester United and Inter Milan are yet to reach an agreement over a deal for forward Alexis Sanchez.
The Serie A side were hoping to find out if they had a chance of signing Sanchez, initially on loan, by the middle of this week.
But 30-year-old Sanchez's £390,000-a-week salary is proving to be problematic as Inter are only prepared to pay less than half of the amount.
United view this offer as unacceptable, while Sanchez himself wants to leave.
The former Barcelona and Arsenal player is looking to link up again with his friend and former United striker Romelu Lukaku - but he is thought to be loath to accept the kind of significant wage cut that would make the move easier to complete.
Inter remain keen on the Chile forward, who has had a hugely disappointing time at Old Trafford, scoring just five goals in a season-and-a-half. Sanchez scored as many times for his country at the Copa America this summer as he did through the entire 2018-19 campaign.
If Inter fail to significantly increase their figure by the time the European transfer deadline closes on 2 September, Sanchez will remain at Old Trafford until at least January.
Unless United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has a change of heart, Sanchez, who played alongside Matteo Darmian, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones in a closed doors friendly against Sheffield United on Tuesday, is only likely to be involved in United's Carabao Cup and Europa League campaigns this season.
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Sky presently sells to 6 countries, when China gets hold of UK football the subscribers will go through the roof
Then you’ve got Prime BT FB etc all wanting a piece of the action
The £1m/week player is not far off, 10 years from now that will look like chicken feed
Meanwhile Bury can’t pay to have the grass cut, never mind pay the players!
I do feel sorry for Sanchez.
Worth every penny of that £20m a year!
There are no words.
What exactly is the BBC football dept's agenda?, seems the local club are part of the license fee.
How do you have the brass neck to write ‘Not sure why we bought him really’.? When Pep merely hinted he was interested in signing Sanchez you lot could not wait for Manu to sign him. When they eventually did all of you treated it as some kind of trophy you had won and filled these HYS’s with utter rubbish of how your team was now complete! How did that work out then?
The sooner the bubble bursts, the better.
These players have so much wealth and entitlement, they and their clubs might as well be on a different planet to their home communities.