Alexis Sanchez has revealed that he was open to leaving Manchester United after just one training session with the club.
In January 2018, Sanchez was involved in a swap deal which saw Henrikh Mkhitaryan move in the opposite direction to Arsenal, a double transfer which did not pay off for either team.
Sanchez has since completed a permanent switch to Inter Milan, a deal which materialised after he spent the 2019-20 campaign at San Siro.
However, the Chile international has revealed that he wanted to depart Old Trafford before having played a single game for the North-West giants.
Speaking to followers on Instagram, the attacker said: "I accepted the opportunity to go to United, it felt tempting and it was something good for me, I liked this club a lot when I was a kid. Eventually I signed but I didn't ask for information on what was happening inside the club.
"Sometimes there are things that you don't realise until you get there, and I remember the first training session I had, I realised a lot of things.
"After the session I got home and I told my family and my agent 'can you not rip up the contract to go back to Arsenal?'. They laughed, I told them there's something that doesn't sit right, it doesn't seem good.
"But I already signed, I was already there. After the first few months I carried on having the same feeling, we weren't united as a team in that moment."
Sanchez only scored five goals from 45 appearances in all competitions for United.
Darren Plant
