Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

SOLSKJAER COUNTING ON SANCHEZ

to make Man Utd impact

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Alexis Sanchez still has a future at Manchester United, according to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, despite speculatio­n that the Premier League giants are trying to offload the unproducti­ve Chilean. Reports claim United’s executive vicechairm­an Ed Woodward has repeatedly attempted to find a buyer for Sanchez, who arrived at Old Trafford 18 months ago with high expectatio­ns.

However, Sanchez has scored just five goals in 45 appearance­s for the club after netting a four-and-a-half year deal reportedly worth nearly 500,000 a week.

Those huge wages are the stumbling block to United finding an interested buyer, even with the transfer window for European clubs open until September 2.

And with Romelu Lukaku having left Manchester this month to join Inter Milan, Solskjaer claims Sanchez will remain at Old Trafford to offer competitio­n to Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial in attack.

“Alexis is such a profession­al and he comes in working every single day really hard and he wants to be a part of this,” said Solskjaer.

“These stories that he’s been put in the reserves? Of course he hasn’t, he’s part of our squad and he is a really good player.

“We don’t have the biggest forward line in numbers so Alexis might end up playing a lot more games than you expect because we expect him to come good at this club, he’s quality.” Sanchez was injured on internatio­nal duty for Chile at the Copa America in June, delaying his match fitness for the current season.

 ??  ?? Alexis Sanchez (File Photo)
Alexis Sanchez (File Photo)

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