SÁNCHEZ TO START AGAINST CHELSEA DESPITE MANCHESTER CITY’S £20M OFFER

Arsène Wenger will start Alexis Alejandro Sánchez Sánchez in tonight’s Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Chelsea, despite doubts over the Chilean future after Manchester City made a £20m offer to sign him during the January transfer window.

Arsenal has been hit series of injuries as Mesut Özil joins the casualty list with Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Sead Kolasinac, Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud.

 Wenger is particularly stretched in defence and he will include the new signing Konstantinos Mavropanos among his substitutes. The 20-year-old centre-half arrived last week from PAS Giannina in Greece and Wenger’s plan was to loan him out. “He’s not ready to play for us,” the manager said last Wednesday. “We’ll give him out on loan.”
  
City have shown keen interest in Sánchez since the summer, when they made an attempt to sign him, and, with the 29-year-old running down his Arsenal contract, they have been confident of signing him as a Bosman free agent at the end of the season. Pep Guardiola will be without Gabriel Jesus for two months because of a medial collateral ligament injury and this has increased the City manager’s desire to sign Sánchez now. City have opened talks with Arsenal and have indicated a willingness to pay £20m.
  
Sánchez, who played under Guardiola at Barcelona, is now permitted to discuss terms with overseas clubs, with Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich believed to have shown an interest. But City remain the frontrunners for his signature. A contract worth £13m a season until 2023 – or £250,000 a week – is understood to have been offered to Sánchez’s representatives. Wenger was asked whether he expected Sánchez to stay at Arsenal in January. “I expect nothing,” he said.

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