Arsenal transfer news: Alexis Sanchez WILL sign new deal and wants Gunners stay, according to Arsene Wenger
Chilean has just 18 months remaining on current contract and has been tipped to leave but boss confident he'll stay
ARSENE WENGER insists he is confident Alexis Sanchez will pen a new Arsenal deal.
The world-class forward has just 18 months remaining on his current contract and has been tipped to leave the Emirates next summer.
Juventus are reportedly keen after missing out last year, as are Serie A rivals Inter Milan and French giants Paris Saint-Germain.
And even Premier League leaders Chelsea have been linked as Arsenal fans also fret over the future of fellow contract rebel Mesut Ozil.
But Wenger is keeping a cool head despite the rumours, and reckons Sanchez himself wants to remain in north London past 2018.
Wenger told : “It always starts with money, it finishes with money and in between the players want to stay or want to go.
“When the players want to stay it’s easier to find an agreement. We can certainly find an agreement. You cannot put the club in jeopardy as well for the players.
“I think no matter what happens we’ll try to keep them and we’ll go as high as we can if we cannot go further, we cannot go further. That’s basically it. That’s the way you have to manage a football club.
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“Alexis Sanchez is a committed player who wants to stay. I’m convinced we’ll find an agreement. It has to be in our potential.
“We are not scared to spend the money, and we are not scared to show the players we love them and we want them to earn big money, but we have to have a line of conduct.
“What is absolutely fantastic for the players today is the club for me is about identity, about values, and we have as well to work from that.”