Manchester United devise plan to sell Sanchez in summer

Manchester United go to extreme lengths to get rid of Alexis Sanchez and pay half of his huge £26million salary to sell him this summer, according to the Mail.

 

The Chilean is currently paid £500,000 a week by the club, despite starting only eight Premier League matches this season. United's chiefs have come to a realisation that they will have to pay half of his contract in order for a club to realistically be tempted to make a move for Sanchez. 

***: In hindsight, it's easy to label Sanchez's move to Manchester as an expensive mistake. The 30-year-old might've joined without a transfer fee (with Henrikh Mkhitaryan swapping clubs with him to move to Arsenal) but Sanchez has only returned five goals in over 14 months at United. His mammoth contract acts as a deterrent to any potential transfer away from the club, so it wouldn't be the worst thing for United if they were to take a £13 million hit to release a player who barely features and reduce their wage budget by £250,000 a week.