With the January transfer window looming and his contract situation unresolved, this could well prove to be the final few weeks of Alexis Sanchez’s Arsenal career.
His reluctance to sign a new deal and Arsene Wenger’s refusal to part with the Chile international during the summer has inevitably left something of a sour taste, but Sanchez’s potential departure does oblige us to consider how significant a player he’s been for Arsenal since arriving from Barcelona in 2014 and whether he’s put himself amongst the club’s greatest players of the Premier League era.
Alongside winning two FA Cups, Sanchez has bagged 57 goals in 117 top flight outings for Arsenal – serving as their talismanic presence for much of that time.
But considering some of the forwards the Gunners have boasted down the years – Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires and Sylvain Wiltord to name a few – does he actually make Arsenal’s ultimate XI of the Premier League era? Let us know by voting below…
