SANCHEZ IS NOT LEAVING UNITED SHIRT

ALEXIS SANCHEZ has already paid back a slice of his record £500,000-aweek salary after his shirt sales smashed all records.

Sales of Sanchez’s No.7 Manchester United shirt were three times higher than any other January signing in the club’s

history. His arrival from Arsenal also generated 75 per cent more interaction on social media than Neymar’s world-record £199million switch to Paris Saint-Germain last year.

United’s executive vicechairman Ed Woodward revealed the figures to investors, saying: “Alexis Sanchez has set a new January signing record in terms of shirt sales.

“It was the biggest United post on Instagram with two million likes and comments, the most shared United Facebook post, the most retweeted, and #Alexis7 was the No.1 trending topic on Twitter.”