Manchester United’s coaching staff are “not happy at all” with Jadon Sancho after his public falling out with head coach Erik ten Hag, as journalist Fabrizio Romano exclusively provides GIVEMESPORT with an internal update from Old Trafford.
After being criticised for his conduct and performance in training, the Red Devils man hasn’t featured for the Manchester giants in almost two months.
Man Utd have internally disciplined the winger, but ten Hag and Sancho still don’t see eye-to-eye as his future at the club remains uncertain. The ex-Borussia Dortmund star must evaluate his options as we head towards the winter transfer window in the new year.
It’s been a tumultuous few months for Sancho at Manchester United, who hasn’t played a minute’s worth of action since being criticised by ten Hag following the club’s 3-1 defeat at Arsenal last month. United travelled to the Emirates in indifferent form, having scraped past Wolverhampton Wanderers and Nottingham Forest in the Premier League whilst being comfortably beaten 2-0 at Tottenham Hotspur.
A late defeat at Arsenal will have raised tensions, but nobody expected what was to follow. Asked why Sancho wasn’t part of the Manchester United squad that travelled to the capital, ten Hag told Sky Sports:
“Jadon, on his performances in training, we did not select him. You have to reach a level every day at Manchester United, and we can make choices in the front line. So, for this game, he was not selected.”
Later that evening, Sancho hit back on a now-deleted X post, claiming he felt like a scapegoat and believed there were other factors surrounding his manager’s decision to leave him out of the squad. He also claimed he would fight to regain his place in the Man Utd team.
Two weeks after the incident, Man Utd released a club statement which revealed Sancho would remain on a personal training programme away from the first team pending the resolution of a squad discipline issue. Meanwhile, the MailOnline claimed that Saudi Pro League outfit Al-Ettifaq enquired about securing the 23-year-old on a season-long loan but were put off by the Red Devils’ demand for a £50m obligation at the end of the temporary spell.
Romano has also told GIVEMESPORT that Sancho will have opportunities to leave Manchester United during the January transfer window. But for now, the winger must focus on keeping fit whilst enduring a prolonged spell out of the first team.
