Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, the best selling newspaper of any kind in Italy, on Monday have a report on transfers and what they feel the likelihood is of certain players going to various clubs. Most of the usual suspects are in there and, for example, they believe Javier Hernandez will likely end up at Inter Milan and Luis Nani's most likely next club is Juventus, followed by Galatasaray and Inter Milan again.
Using percentages is something of a crude addition to transfer reporting but it at least paints a picture of who Gazzetta feel will be going where and for Alexis Sanchez the claims are interesting for Manchester United fans. Gazzetta say that Alexis Sanchez has a 60% chance of being a Manchester United player next season and a 40% chance of being at Juventus. The prospect of a stay at Barcelona doesn't even get a percent.
Manchester United are said to be favourites because of one thing... money. Juventus have been trying to do the deal on the cheap and Barcelona want funds for their own transfers. It's explained that Juventus can't go much higher and would also have to wait for the sale of current players, with Fernando Llorente stated as a possibility.
On Friday another Italian newspaper, La Stampa,
said that Manchester United had opened talks to buy Sanchez and were ready to bid €25m for the player.