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Chelsea remain ready to move for Alexis Sanchez this summer despite Arsenal’s determination not to allow him to join a Premier League rival.

The Blues remain big fans of the 28-year-old Chilean who will have just a year left on his contract in June and has so far refused to sign a new deal.

Sanchez is demanding a package worth £300,000-a-week from the Gunners who have yet to come close to meeting his advisers’ demands.

Mirror Sport first revealed Chelsea’s interest in Sanchez in December. At the time Conte refused to discuss the superstar former Barcelona forward when asked.

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Since then Sanchez has increased his Premier League goals total to 17, making himself a contender for the competition’s Golden Boot. He has been involved in 26 top-flight goals in total and has been indispensable to the team since his arrival at the club.

His relationship with his team-mates and staff behind the scenes at Arsenal, however, has deteriorated.

He was dropped for Saturday’s 3-1 defeat at Liverpool and it is widely believed that he will leave the club in the summer.

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Manchester City are also admirers but are understood to have Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubemeyang as their preferred target. Juventus, Atletico Madrid and PSG are also keen and Arsenal could lose Sanchez to one of those clubs for nothing if he goes on to run his deal down and sign a pre-contract next January.

It places the pressure on the Gunners to cash in this summer if their star man continues to refuse to commit his future to the club.

Chelsea are hunting at least one new striker and could yet make their London rivals and offer that they would find hard to refuse at the end of the season.

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Arsenal have strengthened their Premier League rivals before with Arsene Wenger selling Robin van Persie to Manchester United in 2012. Van Persie at the time rejected a move to Juventus to hold out for United where he went on to win the title.

Chelsea are set to move flop Michy Batshuayi on this summer, a year after his £33million arrival from Marseille. A successful move for Sanchez would strengthen the champions elect considerably ahead of their return to the Champions League.