Manchester City appear set to wait until the summer before making a move for Alexis Sanchez, after it emerged they would have to cough out £30million if they want to go ahead and sign him in January.
But it seems the Premier League leaders have no plans to make a bid for the Chilean forward during the January transfer window.
They are ready to wreck revenge on the Gunners over their decision to scupper a £60million deadline-day deal for the 28-year-old by signing him for nothing when his contract expires next summer, according to the Mirror.
The reports has claimed that City are still angry at the way Arsenal handled negotiations for Sanchez in August.
After telling the Etihad club that the player was going nowhere, the Gunners changed tack at the 11th hour when it became clear that Sanchez would not be signing a new deal and had deliberately priced himself out of moves to both Paris St Germain and Bayern Munich by demanding wages of £500,000-a-week.
Arsene Wenger’s attempt to get City to agree to a deal that would see Raheem Sterling move to the Emirates was rejected by Pep Guardiola.
And the London club then accepted a bid of £60million from City just hours before the deadline – only to pull out when they failed with their own £90million mission to replace him with Monaco’s Thomas Lemar.
Now Arsenal’s decision to force Sanchez and Mezut Ozil to serve the final year of their contracts is set to cost the cash-conscious Londoners a fortune.
