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Man Utd and Real Madrid backed on live radio to complete stunning summer deal
MANCHESTER UNITED should attempt to swap Alexis Sanchez with Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale.
Manchester United should SWAP Sanchez for Bale claims pundit
That is according to talkSPORT pundit and former Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour.
Both Sanchez and Bale see their futures at their respective clubs in doubt.
Sanchez joined Manchester United from Arsenal in January 2018 in a straight swap with Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
But the Chile international has failed to live up to the heights he hit during his three-and-a-half-year spell at the Emirates.
I’d go to Real Madrid and say ‘I’ll swap Gareth Bale’ and he’d be on the same sort of wages, I should imagine
Alexis Sanchez has scored just five goals in 41 appearances for United and looks set to miss the rest of this season with a knee injury.
Bale, meanwhile, has been in and out of the Real Madrid team and has suffered booing and jeering from his own supporters.
Zinedine Zidane has returned as Real boss and the pair did not completely see eye to eye during the Frenchman’s first three seasons in charge at the Bernabeu.
So Parlour believes it would be good for both parties to broker a deal that sees Sanchez and Bale swap clubs.
“Alexis, he was brilliant at Arsenal. Fantastic,” Parlour said.
“He was probably one of the players that you would pay to watch when he was at Arsenal.
“There’s not many where you could say ‘I’d pay to watch him’.
“[Eden] Hazard is another one at Chelsea.
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“Sanchez was in such great form at Arsenal.
“There’s a lot of Man United fans I know and I said to them ‘you’ve got an absolute bargain there, he’s going to make your team a lot better’.
“It just hasn’t happened for him has it. I don’t know why.
“I’d go to Real Madrid and say ‘I’ll swap Gareth Bale’ and he’d be on the same sort of wages, I should imagine.”