I see heads are well and truly being lostTen Hag has shown plenty of time that he’s willing to stick with the same players. Garnacho can’t even get in the team at the moment. He’s not going rush Sancho back in for the sake of it.
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I see heads are well and truly being lostTen Hag has shown plenty of time that he’s willing to stick with the same players. Garnacho can’t even get in the team at the moment. He’s not going rush Sancho back in for the sake of it.
Presumably it's the same reason he's hanging onto McTominay this window as well. 4D chess.
Well Dortmund would agree their own wages with Sancho. Think he was on 120k or something before he came to United, and Dortmund were offering somewhere close to 175k I think if he were to stay. Nobody is going to offer him his current salary. So between how the deal is structured/United paying some of his wages plus him taking a wage drop from his obscene 350k right now.
He's not in a scenario where he wants to just die off as a footballer and sit on wages. I feel like most would want to sort something out to get themselves playing well again.
Surely he must feature against Forrest...
Come to think about it when was it actually released from a credible source that it was a mental health issue? Was it even reported by anyone? We just took some comments and tried to read between the lines. One of the strangest sagas ever. We could just as easily one day find out it's something totally different.
I'd completely forgotten about him during the Reading game. Disappointed he wasn't ready for a run-out.
The idea that Dortmund will sign him back on a big wage is absolutely nuts. Dortmund are a selling club and the value they place on players in terms of sale price amd salary is based on what they think the player is worth else where. Right now Sancho isn't worth much to anyone so why would they pay him?
The whole "they are a selling club" thing is nonsense. They are a club that has to buy younger players and develop them yes, and often they turn into stars who big clubs poach off them. It's not because the club wants to grow them to sell them. They would have loved to keep Sancho just like they kept Reus all these years. These players always just want to leave when the big clubs come asking, and Dortmund don't stand in their way provided a fair price is paid.
So why would Dortmund buy Sancho? Because they know how to get the best of him and they would have a player who can perform to a ~world class level for them, and if they got him now, they would keep him for good basically and he wouldn't be poached. Which helps their team.
How many players have they sold that flopped (a lot) then came back to be a success, simply because they "knew how to use them"?
Yes, and I think any prospective buyer would want to know the full story before making a commitment, we've got to hope he gets back to full fitness soon because the longer it goes on, the more rumours will fester.
It's obviously not a hamstring tear anyway, tbh it does seem like the club is taking a deliberately opaque stance on it.
They took Kagawa, Hummels and Gotze back, to name 3.
I think he will. It’s a dead rubber game and he should be coming off the bench for the last 15-20 minutes to get himself going.
It would be great if we could just sell underperforming players like Martial, Williams, Bailey, Jones etc etc but when they they are paid huge salaries its just impossible.
Dortmund probably wouldn't pay anymore than 30m for Sancho now, we are not going to pay on top of that massive financial hit some or any of the 200k per week shortfall between what he earns now and what Dortmund would be prepared to pay him.
EtH knows exactly how to manage the situation. He will be back when it’s right to bring him back.
Hopefully makes the bench for forest midweek. Gonna keep saying this every game even though it’s unlikely to happen.
Exactly. EtH being mastermind yet again
Yeah I mean I trust ten hag here, I'm not exactly sure I trust Sancho though. The longer he doesn't come back is on him IMO and points to bad training/mentality. We'll see though how involved he is in the next few games. At this point though, I can't see a scenario where he proves he's worth the money (fee and wages), as I think we are very set with Antony and Rashford as the starters. So best case is being competition for places at 350k per week, which is definitely not a sustainable thing.
He'll play against Forest.
He played well as a 10 for Dortmund in the rare times he was moved inside so maybe we could drop Bruno a bit deeper and have Sancho as a floating 10?
Either that or we'll play Fred, either way it shows our squad is paper thin.
Maybe he'll have his phoenix-like rebirth playing as a CM.
Hopefully, would be the perfect game to ease him back in. It’s a home game and we’re currently 3 goals to the good, so there should be less pressure on him to perform from minute one.
I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see him for the remainder of the campaign.
Ten Hag has confirmed he'll be in the match squad.
Good.
It's time.
Hope he brings his mojo back
It's time.
Hope he brings his mojo back
Wonder how close he was to playing Saturday
Excited to watch him again. Lovely footballer and I think people have forgotten that in recent times. Will be a huge boost to our attacking depth
So glad he'll be making a return, if we could get him anywhere near his Dortmund form by the tail end of the season it would be massive for us.
Noo sighnin
would be a great boost if he came back and started to show some form, in lieu of the injury to Erikson, any additonal creativity is most welcome. I'd imagine he'll be gradually see some playing time over course of next matches, I don't expect he'll be thrown right in and asked to play 90 mins.
Yeah definitely not and really hope if he plays a part tonight he gets reception from the crowd
Good luck to him. It's a great opportunity for him to shine again.
Honestly, what a player we have if he does.
Honestly, what a player we have if he does.
Yeah totally echo those sentiments too
Will be given a heros return cheer when he comes on later at OT. Time for him to bring the noise!
Look forward to him being slated on here when he doesn't score a hat-trick and assist 5 goals after coming on as a sub.
That's minimum. I don't understand why we should expect less.
Brilliant.
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