Alexis Sanchez is being paid more by Manchester United than it cost to rebuild his home town after a devastating earthquake... but the locals still love him

Daily Mail | January 23, 2018

They are running out of wall space in Alexis Sanchez’s home town of Tocopilla.

First came the mural of him in all his South American club shirts through to River Plate and on to him wearing Udinese and Barcelona colours.

Then in 2013 local artists added a new mural of his first No 17 shirt at Arsenal on the four-block tourist route around the house where he grew up.

Alexis Sanchez will make almost u00a3600,000 a week after signing for Manchester United — Alexis Sanchez will make almost £600,000 a week after signing for Manchester United

Sanchez as a boy in his home town of Tocopilla, he is now worth more than the city itself

Now it will not be long before the image of Sanchez in the Manchester United No 7 shirt will feature on a new wall — just as soon as someone can find the right spot.