£300k WAGE IS ON TABLE FOR ALEXIS
Arsenal offer to make him best-paid player in league
ARSENAL have offered Alexis Sanchez a new contract worth £300,000 per week. The striker’s deal runs out at the end of the season and he has refused to sign an extension. Arsenal previously offered £225,000, with bonuses that would bump up his pay to £275,000 a week.
Sanchez has made it clear he wants upwards of £300,000 before even considering fresh terms, and it remains to be seen whether the new offer will be enough.
The deal would make Sanchez the highest-paid player in the league. Only Wayne Rooney has nudged the £300,000 a week mark, and that was while he was at Manchester United.
Manchester City and Paris SaintGermain would like to sign the Chile forward, but Arsene Wenger is growing increasingly confident he will stay. The manager refuses to entertain any offers for him, despite the threat of losing him for nothing next summer.
The 28- year- old will miss tonight’s Premier League opener against Leicester and next weekend’s match at Stoke with an abdominal injury.
Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey, who both missed the Community Shield on Sunday with injuries, trained yesterday but may not be ready to line up tonight.
Ozil and fellow midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are also out of contract at the end of the season, and offers of more than £50m for either of them or Sanchez would test Wenger’s resolve.
Arsenal rejected a £25m bid from Chelsea for Oxlade-Chamberlain this week, but Chelsea boss Antonio Conte is determined to strengthen his squad before the transfer deadline. Chelsea named youngsters Kyle Scott, Jeremie Boga and Charly Musonda as substitutes in the Community Shield, highlighting their lack of depth.
However, they have loaned out over 20 players this summer and sold Nemanja Matic, Nathan Ake, Nathaniel Chalobah and Bertrand Traore.
Wenger said he doesn’t feel sorry for Conte. ‘ If you look at the number of players on loan, they can call a few back. I’ve sympathy for him. But do I feel sorry for Chelsea because they don’t have enough players? No.’