Arsenal Transfer News: Alexis Sanchez will give his all to us this season - Arsene Wenger

ARSENE WENGER is set to send Alexis Sanchez out at Anfield to start the last year of his contract with a strict message to give the club what they are paying him for.

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Arsene Wenger wants Alexis Sanchez to honour his Arsenal contract

Unlike Philippe Coutinho at Liverpool, Sanchez has not made a formal transfer request this summer, despite remaining adamant that he is not currently prepared to sign a contract keeping him at the Emirates beyond the end of the season.

And despite interest from Manchester City, Wenger is adamant that Arsenal are prepared to allow Sanchez walk away for nothing next summer rather than sell him to one of their rivals – and he fully expects him to knuckle down.

“Look, in a professional job I always think that you have to make sure with your commitment that the guy who pays you gets what he is paying you for,” said Wenger. “Alexis is in that mode and I think he will be until the last day he is here, he will give his best.

“What is good is that our mutual interest is that he does well for us. His interest is to do well, on top of that I deeply feel that he loves to be here and he loves the club and he arrives at a stage of 28, 29 and looks at the quality of his contract but I think he deeply loves to be here.”

His interest is to do well, on top of that I deeply feel that he loves to be here

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

To that end, Wenger hinted that Sanchez’s situation is subtly different to the one Liverpool are experiencing with Coutinho.

“It is difficult for me to know about the individual cases but sometimes players have been promised things that have not been kept,” he said. “I can only tell you what happens here and Alexis works for hard and is focused to play.

“Alexis, when he is in the squad, he can score a goal for you at that is always good for morale.”

Illness and injury have hampered the Chile international’s start to the campaign but he has impressed in training this week.

Controversially, Sanchez was dropped from the side for the trip to Merseyside last season in the aftermath of criticism of his team ethic following the humiliating Champions League exit against Bayern Munich.

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