Alexis Sanchez is less than a month and only six games into his Manchester United career, but enthusiasm surrounding his arrival from Arsenal diminished almost as quickly as the commercially driven tweets that announced it. Sanchez has become a talking point for negative reasons but, as with the decision for him to be pictured playing a piano when he signed, it's not entirely his fault.

The Chilean forward is world-class; he doesn't need to prove that to anyone. He's not Lionel Messi, with whom he played for three years at Barcelona, but Sanchez is the real deal. Just as Juan Sebastian Veron was when he arrived at Old Trafford in 2001 and, more recently, Radamel Falcao and Angel Di Maria.

What would you do as United manager if you were asked whether you want a player with the class of Falcao, Di Maria or Sanchez? You would say yes, especially if -- in the case of Sanchez -- you could also stop a main rival like Manchester City from getting a player they want.

But the work doesn't stop once he puts pen to paper. Then you have to work out how you're going to fit the new man into your team, which might approach things differently to his old one, at short notice. You also have to hope that he settles in his new home and that his families settle................
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