With reports of developments in Alexis Sanchez to Manchester City emerging from England, the Chilean press are doing as best they can to keep everyone updated on what is going on with their star, and it’s not gone down well with his national team’s manager, Juan Antonio Pizzi.
Earlier on Tuesday, we relayed a claim from t13 that Sanchez had asked for 24 hours from Wednesday night onwards to sort out ‘personal issues’, which basically meant a transfer.
Well, La Tercera back up these claims, and provide a few more details.
According to the Chilean newspaper, Sanchez arrived yesterday at the Juan Pinto Duran sports complex, his national team’s base, at around 12.19pm, and waited for his teammates to finish training so he could talk to his manager.
As La Tercera put it, ‘he had something very important to tell him’.
They claim the Arsenal forward presented Pizzi with an ‘official document’ and asked him ‘formally’ to ‘relax tomorrow’s pre-game meeting’ in order to ‘carry out a series of personal procedures related to his future’ a.k.a his transfer.
Apparently, this took the Chile manager by surprise and made matters even more complicated ahead of a vital World Cup qualifier against Paraguay.
However, La Tercera state Pizzi is resigned to the fact there isn’t much he can do, regardless of whether this has disrupted his plans or not, and it seems he is likely ‘to have to concede’ to the player’s request.
Good news for Manchester City, it seems.
