Football: City ponder £34m move for Sanchez

LONDON:

Manchester City are set to make an offer for Udinese’s Chile forward Alexis Sanchez that could be worth £34 million, according to a report in Britain’s Sunday Times.

The report said City executives were due to fly out to Italy today and were ready to improve an offer of £22.1 million for the 22-year-old which has already been turned down by the Serie A side. The paper added City might have to go as high as £34 million to sign the striker. Sanchez impressed at last year’s World Cup and followed up by scoring 12 league goals as Udinese qualified for the Champions League. City won this season’s FA Cup – their first major trophy in 35 years – and finished third in the lucrative Premier League.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 13^th, 2011.