Alexis Sanchez cost Man Utd a staggering £29k per TOUCH and £20M per Prem goal thanks to sky-high £505k a week wages

ALEXIS SANCHEZ cost Manchester United a staggering £20MILLION per Premier League goal and £28,800 per TOUCH thanks to his sky-high £505,000 a week wages.

The Chilean forward, 31, joined the Old Trafford ranks in January 2018 as part of a swap deal with Arsenal, as Henrikh Mkhitaryan moved the other way.

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At the time, fans believed the club had played a blinder in signing a superstar without paying a penny.

However, the "free" signing has actually cost the club an eye-watering £60m - with just THREE Premier League goals to show for it.

Man Utd have struggled to compete with the big-boys of English football since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.

And the signing of Sanchez was supposed to be the turning point - with the club happy to splash out on his wages.

But the dream quickly turned into a nightmare.

In 18 months, Sanchez managed just three Premier League goals - and five goals in total.

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In those first 79 weeks, Man Utd paid Sanchez an obscene £39.9m.

Eager to get his pay-packet off the books, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer looked to sell Sanchez last summer - with no-one either willing or able to afford him.

Eventually, Man Utd allowed the Chilean to join Inter Milan on a season-long loan.

But even then, the Serie A giants were only willing to contribute around 20 per cent of his wages, at £110,000 a week in total.

In the 49 weeks Sanchez has been in Italy, Inter have paid him just £5.4m, with Man Utd paying the remaining £19.4m of wages owed.

That means, since moving to Old Trafford, Sanchez has been paid a total sum of £59.3m by Man Utd.

All in all, that equates to around £20m per Premier League goal scored and £12m per goal across all competitions.

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And it was later revealed Sanchez cost Man Utd £28,000 per TOUCH of the ball during his torrid.

United have now managed to offload Sanchez, after Inter Milan took him off their hands on Wednesday night.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed the news after Man Utd's 2-1 win over LASK in the Europa League last-16 second-leg.