According to the Daily Sports newspaper, Barca and Inter Milan are negotiating a loan loan for 32-year-old Sanchez, most likely signing the Chilean superstar for the second time. In exchange, Luke De Jong will join Inter.
Sanchez's first stop in European football was serie A side Udinese, where he played for three seasons before moving to Barca in the summer of 2011. During his three years at Barca, Sanchez made 88 appearances, scored 47 goals and provided 34 assists. In the summer of 2014, Sanchez joined Arsenal for around $40 million, then moved to Manchester United and moved to Inter in the summer of 2019, when Manchester United was eager to sell Sanchez and let go of the Chilean star for free.
Joining as a free agent, Sanchez earns a whopping €7 million at Inter, making him the highest-paid player in the team. However, as he gets older, Sanchez's role is mainly a substitute, and Inter hope to send him away to reduce the financial burden.
On the other side, Aguero has just announced his retirement, Luke De Jong is not efficient and Barca need to add a striker and they are considering signing Alexis Sanchez again. Barca and Inter are almost on the same page, both sides want to facilitate the deal, and the negotiations are going very well. Barca are said to be preparing to go on loan for Sanchez for half a season and then see if they remain, depending on his performance, and Inter accepted Luke De Jong in the same way. During his time at Barcelona, Xavi and Sanchez fought side by side, and now they may be mentors and apprentices.
So far this season, Sanchez has played a total of 378 minutes, scoring 2 goals and assisting 3 times, and the 32-year-old is in good shape and is completely enough as a rotation. It's a promising win-win deal, with Inter and Barca each taking what they need, while Sanchez and Luke De Jong are happy to switch sides, with the latter still in Sevilla's hands, and the other side has no objection to this.
Meanwhile, Barca plan to send a number of players away in the summer window, with Umtiti and Coutinho being favourites to leave. According to the report, Umtiti's whereabouts have been settled, and Portuguese super giant Benfica is interested in bringing in the French centre-back. Umtiti joined Barca in the summer of 2016 and performed well in the first two positions, settling in the main position. But since the 2018 World Cup, Umtiti's form has plummeted, he has not played this season, and for Barca he is now a "waste wood".
Umtiti was once worth more than 60 million, but now Barca are considering agreeing to Benfica's 5 million offer to send the French star away. Only then will Benfica be willing to pay its annual salary of about $10 million, and the deal should be completed in this winter window.