Sanchez wants to rejoin Pep
ARSENAL star Alexis Sanchez sees himself playing under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City next season, reports claim.
Sanchez’s future at Arsenal is uncertain beyond this summer with his current contract expiring in 12 months time.
The Chile international is attracting interest from Europe’s elite after a stunning campaign that saw him score 30 goals across all competitions.
Bayern Munich and Chelsea have been linked with moves for him, though Arsenal remain desperate for him to stay at the Emirates.
However, their fifthplaced finish last te rm means the Gunners are unable to offer him Champions League football for next season.
Transfer Market Web claim that a move to Bayern seems a long way off at present.
And, as a result, the former Barcelona star supposedly sees himself wearing the sky blue of City next term.
Arsenal are reportedly reluctant to let their star asset leave for a domestic rival.
The likes of Samir Nasri, Bacary Sagna and Emmanuel Adebeyor have all jumped ship to the Etihad in the past decade, while the Gunners also lost Robin van Persie to Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United in 2012.
However, it is said that Arsenal could relent and let Sanchez join City.
Guardiola is supposedly ready to offer him a salary worth £7.8m (RM43m) a year in order to convince him to move to Manchester.
Speaking in April, the City manager lauded the Arsenal star and admitted it was no surprise that the world’s best clubs wanted to sign him.
“You can understand why teams would be interested with one year left,” he said.
“Put Kevin De Bruyne with one year left on his contract and see how many teams you have. It’s the same for all big players with one year left on their contract, two years, three years.
“All the clubs around the world are going to improve in the summer time and how are you going to improve the teams? Better players.
“And of course all the players around the world – and Alexis is one of them – they are going to know this is the situation.” – Express Newspapers