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LONDON. — Alexis Sanchez will miss Arsenal’s pre-season camp in Austria this week — because he doesn’t have a visa.
The Chilean ace was given extra time off following the World Cup and did not join the Gunners squad on their whistle stop tour to New York.
Boss Arsene Wenger was hoping to get the chance to finally work with his £35m man yesterday when his squad landed in Austria for four days of training. But Sanchez will instead go to Paris to sort out his visa.

He will train on his own at the Gunners’ Hertfordshire training base before the rest of his new team-mates return on Thursday.
German World Cup winners Lukas Podolski, Mesut Ozil and Per Mertesacker will not return until August 11 — the day after the Community Shield clash with Manchester City.

Wenger said: “I am looking forward to integrating Sanchez into the squad but I don’t think Sanchez will come to Austria because he has to go to Paris to get a visa.
“So he will only go to London Colney on Tuesday and we come back from Austria on Thursday so he will work in London.

“Alex Oxlade Chamberlin didn’t come to New York. We haven’t done a lot of training in the last two days so I wanted him to stay back and work with the fitness coaches.”

While Sanchez, Mathieu Debuchy and Colombia World Cup goalkeeper David Ospina are already in the bag, Wenger will this week complete a £12m deal for Southampton’s teenage right-back Calum Chambers.

The 19-year-old has played just 22 times for Saints. Wenger knows eyebrows will be raised at such a huge sum for such an inexperienced player.
But he reckons the England under-19 defender is a class act.

Meanwhile, English soccer champions Manchester City got their International Champions Cup campaign off to a flying start with an impressive 5-1 win over AC Milan at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh on Sunday.

And Chelsea’s Summer signing Diego Costa found the net on his Chelsea debut as they came from behind to secure a 2-1 pre-season friendly win over Slovenian side Olimpija Ljubljana.

Fellow new arrival Cesc Fabregas also featured in Jose Mourinho’s side for the first time in Sunday’s clash at the Stozice Stadium, and it was his through ball which allowed Costa to cancel out Nik Kapun’s 40th-minute opener with an emphatic finish. — Mailonline/Skynews.