I signed for Manchester United and wanted to quit after my first training session

Having scored 38 goals since the beginning of the 2016/17 season, excitement levels soared when Manchester United lured Alexis Sanchez to Old Trafford from Arsenal in January 2018.

The Chilean, who had joined Arsenal from Barcelona in 2014, joined United as part of a deal that saw Henrikh Mkhitaryan move in the other direction. Considering United had secured themselves the services of a winger who had been free-scoring for the best part of 18 months, there was little doubt about who had got the better end of the deal.

Sanchez joined the club for a £14million fee and had already scored nine goals in the first half of the 2017/18 campaign, seven of which had been plundered in the Premier League. In truth, it was a relatively small fee to pay for such a reliable source of goals.

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"I am thrilled to be joining the biggest club in the world," Sanchez told United's club website after completing his move to Old Trafford. "I have spent three-and-a-half wonderful years at Arsenal and I bring with me very positive memories of that great club and its fans.

"The chance to play in this historic stadium and to work with Jose Mourinho was something I could not turn down. I am very proud to be the first Chilean player ever to play for United and I hope I can show our fans all around the world why the club wanted to bring me here."

Two-and-a-half-years, one loan spell and 45 appearances later, Sanchez's United career reached the end of the road when he was allowed to join Inter Milan, who the aforementioned loan spell was with, on a free transfer in