Wenger tight-lipped on £300k-a-week Alexis Sanchez offer

ARSENE WENGER HAS refused to confirm rumours regarding Alex Sanchez’s new £300,000 (€353,550) per-week contract.

Reports claimed that Chile international Sanchez, whose current deal expires at the end of next season, has been offered the biggest deal in Arsenal’s history.

The striker has been earning interest from elsewhere, and the reported increase in earnings may persuade him to stay at the Emirates.

Wenger would not clarify if the figure was accurate however.

“I cannot confirm that we have offered that,” he told a press conference.

“We have to consider our financial potential to sustain the wages of the whole squad. What is for sure is that what is paid per week today is what 20 years ago was paid per year.”