Arsenal transfer news: Juventus 'approach' for Alexis Sanchez rebuffed
The 27-year-old forward has two years remaining on his contract at the Emirates
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Your support makes all the difference.Arsenal have reportedly rejected an enquiry from Juventus regarding the availability of Alexis Sanchez.
The 27-year-old forward has been the subject of much speculation over the course of the last year, with the Serie A club one of his several potential suitors.
According to the Daily Mail, Juventus have now seen an approach for Sanchez rebuffed and Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, remains insistent that the player will not be sold.
Sanchez has two years remaining on the contract he signed upon his arrival at the Emirates, from Barcelona for £35million in 2014.
The Chilean international is yet to agree an extension to those terms and at times appeared frustrated with life at the Emirates during the course of the last campaign.
Sanchez reportedly stormed out after being substituted in the 84th minute of Arsenal’s 1-0 home win over Norwich City in May.
Wenger played down the incident and claimed it was a sign of the player's desire to appear regularly for his team.
“I know Alexis very well, for a long time now, and he wants to play every minute,” Wenger said at the time. “My job is to make decisions, and to make people 100 per cent happy there, as well, is very difficult.”
In March, following back-to-back defeats to Manchester United and Swansea City, Sanchez criticised a perceived lack of desire among his Arsenal team-mates to win titles.
“If we go out on to the pitch with hunger to become champions, to win the Premier League or the Champions League, we can achieve it, to win big things.
“There are great players. I train with them daily and they have got the mentality and the desire to win but we lack hunger, the mentality that we are [already] winning 1-0 when we go out on to the pitch.”
Sanchez, who has scored a total of 42 goals in 93 appearances since joining Arsenal, is currently nursing an ankle injury sustained in Chile's Copa America final win over Argentina.
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