Cole isn’t part of that group and reckons Sanchez will eventually come good.
“That’s the million dollar question because there’s noises that he might not be there, whatever,” Cole told the Independent.
"Sanchez is a bit like the [Fernando] Torres thing. You know, when Torres left Liverpool and went to Chelsea, all of a sudden he wasn’t the same individual and left everyone scratching their head.
“I think the situation with Sanchez now has got everyone scratching their head.
Alexis Sanchez has struggled for form since joining Manchester United (Image: GETTY)
Alexis Sanchez has only found the back of the net five times since joining Manchester United (Image: GETTY)
He will turn it around
Andy Cole on Alexis Sanchez
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“For what he was at Arsenal and then coming to Manchester United, you turn and say, ‘well, where has it kind of gone wrong?’ Because you can’t become a bad player overnight. You cannot do it.
“For some reason, I keep saying to myself he’ll turn it around. He will turn it around.
“If it’s at Manchester United we’ll have to wait and see but you just can’t become a bad player overnight because he has too many qualities.”
United endured a nightmare end to the season, winning only two of their last 12 games.
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Manchester United are paying Alexis Sanchez a staggering £390,000-a-week (Image: GETTY)
Andy Cole believes Alexis Sanchez will eventually come good (Image: GETTY)
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men only scored eight goals during that period and Cole believes his old team-mate will be on the lookout for attacking reinforcements this summer. Will do this as a separate line for the morning
“We don’t score enough goals,” he said. “Manchester United was always built on playing entertaining, galvanising football.
“The centre forwards score goals, the wide men score goals – and you do miss that. You do miss that because that’s what you’re supposed to do. You’ve got to score goals when you’re are Man United.
“So, no doubt Ole will look at that in the summer and say, ‘Right, where can I get more goals from?’, ‘where am I looking to strengthen in the summer?” and just go from there.”