According to the formal Arsenal Playmaker Alexis Sanchez who has admitted that he once snubbed Pep Guardiola and Manchester City after he received a phone call from Jose Mourinho telling him he could have the famous No 7 shirt at Manchester United.
The Chilean played under the City manager at Barcelona and described the Spaniard as being like his ‘dad’. The duo won several major honours at the Nou Camp before Sanchez joined Arsenal for £30 million back in 2014.
Under Arsene Wenger, the 34-year-old went on to prove himself as one of the most dangerous forwards in the history of the Premier League netting 80 times across 166 league appearances for the Gunners, before moving to Old Trafford for an ill-fated spell in 2018.
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Although City had approached Arsenal to buy Sanchez, bidding around £70m for the forward. In an eye-opening interview with Santiago-based daily newspaper La Tercera, he claimed he ‘would have won the Champions League’ with Guardiola’s side and revealed he ultimately snubbed them after receiving a phone call from Mourinho.
‘I was about to go to City,’ he said. ‘I spoke to Guardiola every day, he told me happy birthday. He was like my dad. He was my dad at Barcelona and he was like my dad at City.
‘We talked, we talked every day, he sent me messages. And everything was ready, there was a player who was going to go to Arsenal.
‘Then Wenger tells me you are not leaving because the other player did not want to come and they do not have another.
