Former Gunner, Alexis Sanchez revealed in an Instagram post that he wanted to leave Manchester United soon after his switch from Arsenal.
Sanchez’s deal to Manchester United was a swap deal that saw Henrikh Mkhitaryan head in the opposite direction.
The once top goal poacher at Arsenal never hit the ground running Manchester United in his two-year spell, scoring just five goals in 45 games before he left to Inter Milan.
In a video posted on his Instagram, Sanchez said: “I accepted the opportunity to go to United, it felt tempting and it was something good for me, I liked this club a lot when I was a kid. Eventually, I signed but I didn’t ask for information on what was happening inside the club.
“Sometimes there are things that you don’t realize until you get there, and I remember the first training session I had, I realized a lot of things.
“After the session, I got home and I told my family and my agent ‘can you not rip up the contract to go back to Arsenal?’. They laughed, I told them there’s something that doesn’t sit right, it doesn’t seem good.
“But I already signed, I was already there. After the first few months I carried on having the same feeling, we weren’t united as a team at that moment.”
Sanchez arrived at United in the 2018 January transfer window with big expectations on his shoulders, even more so after becoming the club’s top-earner, and he feels he became a scapegoat for the team’s failures.
“I’m telling you my experience, the journalists at times would speak without knowing the facts and it hurt, they had no idea what was going on inside the club,” he added.
“They said it was my fault, and this, and that, but sometimes a player depends on the environment, the family that is created around him, and I think that at that moment we weren’t really a family.
“And that translated onto the pitch, and since there needed to be someone to blame, they blamed me.”
However, Arsenal fans don’t care as they feel betrayed by the 31-year-old.
Here is a spectrum of emotions they let out on Twitter:
— ∞ (@TheFalseNein) September 3, 2020
Manchester United fans will turn on you in an instant. Sometimes you gotta stay where you’re loved. So many good players left Arsenal for money or “titles” and then realized how those teams just used them and tossed em.
— Jessica Black (@jessellyseblack) September 3, 2020
He was so good at arsenal… what could have been man but he had to ruin his career pic.twitter.com/tMjOYUaiYl
— kevin (@Sxlibol) September 3, 2020
Too late pal, and we’ve got this elite gunman. pic.twitter.com/rIc5UZVOdI
— Alan (@afcalann) September 3, 2020
No way Sanchez said he wanted to cancel his United contract and return to Arsenal after ONE SESSION. I’m crying man 😭😭😭
— Max. ♣️ (@AFCMax9) September 3, 2020
He regretted moving to Man U from Arsenal and that’s understandable. His time at Arsenal was incredible. pic.twitter.com/ZdW5YFa93x
— ✨👑 DaddyMO👑✨ (@therealdaddymo1) September 4, 2020
