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(Reuters) – Inter Milan striker Alexis Sanchez said he was ready to end his ill-fated stint at former club Manchester United after just one training session with the Premier League team.
United had signed Chilean international Sánchez in January 2018 after he scored 80 goals in 3-1 / 2 years at Arsenal, but failed to reach those heights at Old Trafford with José Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, with five goals in 45. matches.
The former Barcelona player signed on loan from Inter at the start of the 2019-20 campaign, before the Italian Serie A club signed him permanently for three years in August.
“I accepted the opportunity to go to United, I felt tempting and it was a good thing for me … but I did not ask for information about what was happening inside the club,” Sky Sports quoted Sánchez in an Instagram post. https://www.instagram.com/alexis_officia1/?hl=es.
“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 came home and said to my family and my agent ‘Can’t you break the contract to go back to Arsenal?’ They laughed, I told them that there is something that does not suit them, that it does not seem good.
“But I already signed, I was already there. After the first months I still had the same feeling, we were not united as a team at that time.”
Inter Milan, last season’s Serie A runners-up, will visit the promoted Benevento in their first game of the 2020-21 season on 20 September.
(Report by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Edited by Himani Sarkar)
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