by freshie » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:52 pm
According to Sky Sports Barcelona are back in the running to sign Sanchez and are confident of agreeing a deal with Udinese
Barcelona have opened talks with Udinese over a deal for Alexis Sanchez and are optimistic about winning the chase for his signature.
Udinese declared earlier this week that Manchester City were the favourites to land the highly-rated Chile international, who has also been linked with Juventus, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Manchester United.
However, the player's agent later insisted his future was still wide open and Barca now appear to be very much back in the running.
The Spanish and European champions have been linked with the 22-year-old winger for some time and vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu is Bartomeu is hopeful an agreement will be reached.
"We are optimistic, but this has just begun. We are negotiating for Sanchez," he told Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
"We know he is a valuable player; that is why there are so many teams after him. We have to continue talking and we will see what is going to happen in the next few days."
Sanchez is thought to prefer a move to Camp Nou but Bartomeu recognises that it is Udinese who hold the key to his arrival in Barcelona.
"We will first have to come to an agreement with Udinese," he said
It's pissing me off how the media reports are changing on a daily basis. Last week we were out of the race to sign Sanchez, then a few days later we were the favourites to sign him with Barca seemingly out of the running, then the rags were in pole position to sign him and now Barca are back in contention all of a sudden.
Is anyone else's head spinning?
