Alexis Sanchez: Juventus and PSG both confident they can tempt Arsenal into selling rebel star striker

ALEXIS SANCHEZ could be set for a move to either Juventus or Paris Saint-Germain as his contract renewal saga drags on.

The Chilean has yet to sign a new deal at the Emirates after switching to North London from Barcelona in 2014.

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And according to , the giants of Italian and French football are ready to do battle with each other over the 28-year-old, who has scored 19 times for Arsenal this season.

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The Gunners have reportedly offered Sanchez a contract of £180,000 a week, but he has been pushing for a far greater salary.

As SunSport revealed last week, he would rather wait till the end of the season and see the club's final league position before making a hard and final decision on whether to leave English football.

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Mesut Ozil is also a player understood to be in the same position, bargaining hard for a bigger deal, with the German's agent reportedly corroborating information gleaned from meetings with Arsenal's board.

Meanwhile Sanchez has been attracting interest from elsewhere in Serie A, with cash-rich Inter Milan also ready to go in for the forward - but Juventus have been the leaders in the chase so far.

PSG are encouraged by the fact that Sanchez's wage demands are high, being one of only a few cash-rich clubs that could seem to afford his pay packet.

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Sanchez has been in red-hot form at times this season, but has also shown his frustration on the pitch when he has deemed his team-mates ill-equipped for the Gunners' Premier League title push.

He scored a brace as Arsenal beat Hull 2-0 in the Premier League over the weekend, to keep their top-four charge on course.

The first goal appeared to be a controversial handball into the net and the second a penalty and in time-honoured fashion Arsene Wenger claimed he did not see the incident.