GUNNERS IN CRISIS Alexis Sanchez could leave Arsenal for Manchester City while Granit Xhaka will join Shkodran Mustafi on the scrapheap

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is already heading to Liverpool for £40m, though the Gunners plan to hijack City’s bid for West Brom’s Jonny Evans.

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Alexis Sanchez could leave Arsenal for Man City on transfer deadline day

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Granit Xhaka is set to be cast aside as Wenger’s patience runs out

But the stampede out of the Emirates is likely to continue with boss Arsene Wenger swinging the axe and admitting making a £90m triple blunder with last summer’s deals.

That could see Granit Xhaka, Shkodran Mustafi and Lucas Perez — plus Calum Chambers — on the Emirates scrapheap, all after Kieran Gibbs moved to West Brom in a £7m deal.

City chiefs will table another straight cash offer for Sanchez just 24 hours after their first £50m bid was rejected.

Defender Evans, 29, seems set to join Arsenal for £30m.

But losing Sanchez, 28, will be a hammer blow to Gunners fans after Wenger vowed he would not let him quit and preferred to let the South American run down the final year of his contract.

Now the Gunners boss is facing up to the inevitable and City officials have flown to Chile ready for Sanchez’s medical.