efensive crop of Phil Jones, Marcus Rojo, Chris Smalling and Eric Bailly into an even tighter unit. The Premier League leaders have made contact with the left-back’s agent to sound out whether he would be willing to make a January transfer window switch to Stamford Bridge. And that followed Oscar leaving Chelsea to trouser a mega £500,000 for every seven days work with city rivals Shanghai SIPG. But the Old Lady were gazzumped by yet another bumper offer from the Far East. term future of Kieran Gibbs at Arsenal is unclearThe fact Gibbs would need to be moved on before Arsenal could make a formal offer for Rodriguez has handed the initiative to Chelsea in the battle for his signature. ored by the Arsenal faithfulGetty Images6Alexis Sanchez has been in fine form this season for ArsenalHowever Juventus have always shown an interest in Sanchez even when he was playing for Udinese in Serie A but Barcelona beat a host of top European clubs to his signature. us fixtures, results and live match commentaryCase in point was the £100,000-a-week renewal of Hugo Lloris last month. derSunSport have been told a fee was not even discussed as the former Stoke man is happy in Spain with the current Europa League winners, and playing in the Champions League where they face Leicester City in last 16 next month. But the 27-year-old holding midfielder would not get a deal close to that kind of money from any clu. n instant hit since arriving at Juve in the summerCazorla, who turned 32 in December, is a key player in Wengers side but a replacement for the ageing midfielder could be on the managers mind.