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Alexis Sanchez is a player that many Arsenal fans look back on with great fondness but tinged with an element of betrayal considering the end of his time. He made the decision to switch to Manchester United in the final year of his contract.

This was a decision he soon came to regret. So soon in fact he has gone on record saying that he wanted to come back to Arsenal after just one training session playing for his new side.

"After the first training session I realised many things, I came home and asked my family and my manager if I could not break the contract and return to Arsenal, something did not fit me, but I had already signed," Alexis Sanchez said.

"Months passed and I kept feeling the same. We were not united as a team at that time. The journalists also spoke without knowing and it hurt. Former players also spoke and had no idea what was happening inside the club. And they hurt me.”

Alexis arrived at Arsenal in 2014 as a 25-year-old having spent the early stages of his career at Barcelona. This wasn’t the Barca of today but the La Liga and Copa del Rey winning side that has seen Pep Guardiola leave a year prior to Sanchez’s sale.

Alexis had won six trophies and wanted a new challenge that Arsenal could give. Fast-forward to 2022 and this summer Arsenal have signed another 25-year-old South American attacker who spent his early years under the tutelage of Guardiola at one of Europe’s most successful sides.

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