Bola.com, Manchester - Manchester United dikabarkan akan segera mendapatkan tanda tangan striker Arsenal, Alexis Sanchez. Seperti apa tawaran Setan Merah sehingga mampu menarik minat bintang asal Cile tersebut.
Alexis Sanchez berniat hengkang dari Emirates Stadium sejak musim panas 2017. Namun, ketika itu, proses transfernya ke Manchester City gagal terealisasi pada menit-menit terakhir.
Satu di antara penyebabnya adalah kegagalan Arsenal mendatangkan pemain muda AS Monaco, Thomas Lemar, yang diproyeksikan sebagai pengganti. Padahal, saat itu, Manchester City siap menggelontorkan dana 60 juta pounds.
Kini, Manchester United justru mengeluarkan biaya lebih sedikit, yakni 30 juta pounds. Namun, beberapa penawaran dan klausul menarik ditengarai menjadi kunci menarik minat Sanchez.
Berikut ini adalah detail proposal penawaran yang diajukan Manchester United untuk merekrut Alexis Sanchez, seperti dilansir Mirror, Minggu (14/1/2018):
Manchester United diberitakan siap menggelontorkan dana 30 juta pounds untuk merekrut Alexis Sanchez. Jumlah ini 10 juta pounds lebih sedikit dari tawaran yang diajukan skuat asuhan Pep Guardiola.
Akan tetapi, satu di antara pertimbangan besar Arsenal bakal menerima tawaran tersebut lantaran Manchester United siap memasukkan nama Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Spekulasi kepergian sang bintang Cile dari Emirates makin kuat setelah ia tidak dilibatkan dalam laga melawan Bournemouth. OLEH DEDE SUGITA Ikuti di twitter Kepindahan Alexis Sanchez dari Arsenal agaknya semakin mendekati realitas. Nama bintang Cile itu tidak dicantumkan dalam skuat matchday The Gunners untuk laga menghadapi tuan rumah Bournemouth, Minggu (14/1) ini.
Absensi Sanchez menjadi sinyal kuat bahwa dirinya bakal meninggalkan Emirates Stadium pada jendela transfer bulan ini, kemungkinan besar untuk menuju Manchester United atau Manchester City.
Seperti diketahui, City sebelumnya menjadi favorit kuat untuk mengamankan tenaga Sanchez, yang tertarik untuk kembali bermain di bawah komando Pep Guardiola, mantan pelatihnya di Barcelona. Terkait
Namun, United tiba-tiba bermanuver untuk berusaha membajak eks penggawa Udinese tersebut. Kubu Old Trafford menawarkan proposal bernilai lebih tinggi kepada Arsenal dan Sanchez.
Sementara City "hanya" berani mengajukan maksimal £25 juta sebagai dana transfer dan menggaji Sanchez £290 ribu per pekan, United mengalokasikan bujet transfer £30 juta, dan Sanchez coba digoda dengan bayaran mingguan sebesar £350 ribu.
Di samping itu, United punya faktor pemberat lainnya dalam diri Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Gelandang Armenia yang pernah menjadi target Arsene Wenger pada 2016 itu siap ditawarkan kepada Arsenal guna memuluskan transfer Sanchez.
Selain Sanchez, Mesut Ozil juga absen menghadapi Bournemouth. Tetapi, playmaker Jerman itu tak dibawa ke Vitality Stadium lantaran cedera.
• Arsène Wenger says forward’s future will be decided ‘in the next 48 hours’ • Sánchez did not feature against Bournemouth with United move likely • Arsenal close to signing Malcom and interested in Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Arsène Wenger says he expects Alexis Sánchez to leave Arsenal in the “next 48 hours”, with Manchester United having emerged as the forward’s preferred destination. The manager omitted Sánchez from the squad he took to Bournemouth for their 2-1 defeat on Sunday, although he remained a major talking point.
Wenger explained he did not select Sánchez because of the knife-edged nature of his situation and suggested his transfer could even have happened during the buildup to the Bournemouth game – a distraction he could not have tolerated. Wenger described Sánchez as having been on standby and the Chilean did not travel to the south coast with the rest of the Arsenal squad on Saturday.
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United have indicated a readiness to outbid Manchester City for Sánchez and to offer him more lucrative personal terms, and they have turned the 29-year-old’s head. He had looked certain to join City and enjoy a reunion with Pep Guardiola, the manager under whom he played for one season at Barcelona.
City almost got him for £60m last summer and they have indicated a willingness to pay £20m for him this month. But United have moved ahead of their crosstown rivals and there is a confidence at Old Trafford that they are poised to pull off a coup. City are not willing to raise their offer.
Sánchez’s agent, Fernando Felicevich, is due in England for negotiations and Wenger made it clear the saga had entered its end game.
“It will be decided in the next 48 hours,” Wenger said. "It was a bit difficult for Alexis [to play at Bournemouth] because he was on standby, a little bit. That’s why I decided not to do it [select him].
“He did not refuse to play. He would have played but it’s a difficult period for him. He’s always been committed until now but he could have moved yesterday, today or not.
“I don’t master the rhythm of it [the transfer] but it could happen today, tomorrow or not at all. That’s why I didn’t take a decision [to select him] – I didn’t want to travel with him and, suddenly, he goes somewhere.”
Wenger said that, if Sánchez left, he had been assured Arsenal would replace him. His No 1 target is the Bordeaux winger Malcom and a deal for him is believed to be close. A meeting to discuss personal terms with the Brazilian’s representatives took place in France on Sunday, with Arsenal expected to pay £45m for the 20-year-old.
Wenger was asked whether Malcom was the player he wanted. “It’s better I don’t come out on any specific name,” he said.
Guardiola also refused to comment on Sánchez after City's 4-3 defeat by Liverpool but admitted they are in the market for new players. “We have the squad and I don't know what will happen in this transfer window or if we will buy someone,” he said. “We have four competitions and a lot of games to play so we will try. You have to think about what you need to do. We have been thinking about what we need for a long time and it doesn't change because of one result.”
Arsenal also have an interest in the United attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, whom they wanted in the summer of 2016 when he was leaving Borussia Dortmund. In the end he chose Old Trafford. Arsenal’s new head of scouting, Sven Mislintat, was the man that took Mkhitaryan to Dortmund.
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“If Sánchez goes, we need to replace him,” Wenger said. “We have, of course, to respond to it. Will he go or not, I don’t know. But at the moment it’s transfer period and in these kind of periods you try to use the players who are completely focused on being at the club.”
Arsenal led 1-0 at Bournemouth through Héctor Bellerín but they were unable to create many clear-cut chances. They were unhinged by errors at the back – Bournemouth’s scorers were Callum Wilson and Jordon Ibe – and the London club now lag eight points off the Champions League places.
“We made the most difficult part and we were 1-0 up,” Wenger said. “And after that we made two very surprising mistakes, not even forced errors. It was just a lack of the right decision-making. Overall we come out of the game and you think: ‘How did we lose the game?’
“I would say as well we haven’t created enough with the possession we had. We looked a bit lacklustre in the final third, not sharp enough to create chances. We did not look dangerous enough. It’s very frustrating.
“I cannot say that the team hasn’t worked or not played with a good spirit. They were focused. The attitude is one thing but, at that level, it’s a combination of quality and attitude and today, I question more the quality of what we have created than the attitude of the players. The attitude of the players was strong.”
Alexis Sanchez was on the bench for the first leg of Arsenal's League Cup semi-final in midweek
Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez's future will be decided "in the next 48 hours" after he was left out of the team for Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Bournemouth, says manager Arsene Wenger.
The 29-year-old is out of contract in the summer and has been linked with a January move to Manchester City.
However, Manchester United have also been linked with the Chilean.
"I don't master the rhythm of it, but it could happen today, tomorrow or not at all," said Wenger.
"It will be decided in the next 48 hours."
Speaking before the match, Wenger had said: "He's being vague at the moment. The situation is not completely decided one way or the other, so I left him at home."
Asked if a decision was imminent, he replied: "Yes. Don't read too much in it because even I don't know which way it will go."
City are unwilling to match the £35m asking price and, asked about the prospects of signing Sanchez after his team's 4-3 defeat at Anfield on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola said: "He is an Arsenal player.
"I talk about the players in my squad now. We have the players we have. I don't know if we will finish with that. We have four competitions, a lot of games and we are going to try."
United boss Jose Mourinho said on Friday that Sanchez is a "phenomenal player".
He added: "What we believe is there are some players in the football world, if you have the chance to sign them in January, March or July, you have to try. And that's it."
Paris St-Germain have also been linked with Sanchez, but the player's preference is to join City.
It is understood Arsenal's hierarchy have accepted Sanchez is likely to depart after three and a half years at Emirates Stadium.
However, the Gunners are reluctant to sell without replacing him, and their first choice is Bordeaux's 20-year-old Brazilian forward Malcom.
If a deal cannot be agreed with any club, Sanchez will be able to leave when his contract expires in the summer - a situation Arsenal are keen to avoid as they would receive nothing.
Sanchez almost joined City for about £60m on the final day of the summer window, only for the transfer to collapse when Arsenal failed to sign Monaco and France midfielder Thomas Lemar.
United will pay a few extra million for Sanchez - analysis
By Simon Stone, BBC Sport:
Manchester United have taken advantage of Manchester City's unwillingness to meet Arsenal's £35m valuation to move to the head of the queue to sign Sanchez.
Much as the same thing happened with Romelu Lukaku and Chelsea last summer when Jose Mourinho, hearing of an impasse, stepped in and sealed a £75m deal seemingly unthinkable a few weeks earlier.
As recently as Friday, sources at United and City were expecting Sanchez to link up again with Guardiola, his former boss at Barcelona. That prospect is now regarded as highly unlikely.
It could still happen and this is one of those deals that can't be regarded as done until the ink is dried on the contract.
However, Mourinho said himself on Friday that if a special player came available he would fight for them.
And while United are highly unlikely to win the Premier League this season, they are intent on regaining their former status - and if that means paying a few million extra for a player who would have been available for nothing in the summer, it is now plainly obvious that is what they will do.
