How close are we to an Alexis Sanchez-Romelu Lukaku reunion in Italy?
Depends if you think about $236,000 a week is a reasonable amount of money to pay a guy to not work for you.
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Inter Milan is ready to offer that figure -- half Alexis Sanchez’s salary -- per week to take the Chilean on loan from Manchester United, but the Red Devils don’t really like the idea of paying the player that much.
We wouldn’t be surprised if Inter wouldn’t want to go much higher than that, and that’s a weight United needs to bear considering they greenlit the wild wages when they sent Henrikh Mkhitaryan to Arsenal in exchange for Sanchez.
The 30-year-old entered the summer with the sixth-highest salary in football. Only Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Paul Pogba, and Andres Iniesta make more.
Put in perspective further, Lukaku’s new deal at Inter is reportedly close to $309,000 a week.
