Wenger has ‘no regrets’ about leaving Sanchez out of starting line-up

Wenger said reports of a training ground row between Sanchez and his team-mates are also “completely false”.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s surprise decision to drop star player Alexis Sanchez backfired as Liverpool won 3-1 in the English Premier League to reignite its ambitions of Champions League qualification on Saturday. “Nothing at all”, he told reporters.

“I try to forget but I’m not allowed to forget”, Ancelotti said of his past defeats. If you lose, as they did, then you’ve got a real problem too.

‘It doesn’t matter what the manager said, you play for Liverpool so everyone has to perform, ‘ he added. “Sometimes with excessive behaviours, but he’s been in every squad”.

“The definition of a happy person is very hard, I have never found an ideal situation”. I never found the ideal one.

‘Of course it is a young group who can develop more during the time we are together but on the other hand everyone expects a lot from us.

But Sanchez is still eager to play in one of the top divisions and the Champions League, so a move to the continent is more likely.

There had been plenty of surprise at Anfield when the Arsenal team sheet showed no place in the starting XI for either Sanchez or in-form Theo Walcott in such an important clash in the battle for Champions League places.

Wenger claimed after Saturday’s game that Sanchez had been left out for tactical reasons.

Bayern’s opening goal in that game came after just 11 minutes and Arsenal have a strong recent trend of giving away a goal just as the game is getting started.

“What I find hard for Arsene Wenger here is that he’s not in a real position of strength at the minute”, Lampard said on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football.

Arsenal faces a summer of instability, with the future of Wenger also unclear.

Wenger said: “Alexis has 15 months of his contract so the decision of will he be here or not will depend completely on Arsenal Football Club and not on anybody else”.

And Wenger pointed to Paris Saint-Germain’s 4-0 win over Barcelona in the first leg of their tie as proof that even Europe’s top clubs can have an off night.

That Arsenal improved drastically with Sanchez on the field – he set up Danny Welbeck for Arsenal’s goal that made it 2-1 – will be all the more galling to Arsenal’s increasingly disgruntled fan base. The Colombian has reportedly become frustrated with his role as cup specialist, having failed to play in the Premier League this season.

If Wenger didn’t want Sanchez playing as a striker, then surely he could have employed him as a winger?