Terrace Talk: Man United - One up on noisy neighbours as fiery Chilean ‘netted’

Back in mid-September, when I divulged to punters on the Red Issue website that United had engineered contacts with Sanchez’ people about a possible January move, the reaction to the scoopette was underwhelming.

“He’ll just end up being outbid for by moneybags City,” sighed a typical responder; “and why on earth would he join us anyway?”

As I write today, patting myself on the back for that autumn tip coming good, the latter question still preys on the mind a little. Is he simply coming for the bigger wage packet and signing fee, or does he truly believe he’s going to win more trophies here than at Wastelands?