And the Gunners boss is also weighing up a £45m bid for Southhampton centre-back Virgil van Dijk as he bids to rebuild his team into title contenders. Despite insisting Chile star Sanchez could be forced to honour the last year of his contract, Wenger is well aware keeping an unhappy star and losing an asset worth at least £50m would be economic madness. Wenger and the Arsenal board are still taking a hard line about not letting yet another key player go to title rivals Manchester City, having previously seen Emmanuel Adebayor, Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy and Bacary Sagna go to the Etihad. But with Paris St-Germain and Bayern Munich keen on the 28-year-old, who scored 30 goals for...
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