He'll end up out on loan anyway.
Wouldn’t be mad at that.
He'll end up out on loan anyway.
By the looks of last preseason, it’s Ten Hag’s way of telling Sancho to take a pay cut and leave.This Sancho 9 thing looks quite unsustainable to me, I hope it is not Ten Hag’s preferred option to start the season.
Going by reports, it seems we're not willing to be realistic here. Who is going to pay 40m and take on his wages when he offers absolutely nothing and has a bad attitude to boot? We need to cut our losses. If he halves the price of Ugarte then we've gotten rid of a bad influence higher earner with no upshot.
Yup, 40m looks impossible. It'll be another loan to Juve or BVB.Going by reports, it seems we're not willing to be realistic here. Who is going to pay 40m and take on his wages when he offers absolutely nothing and has a bad attitude to boot? We need to cut our losses. If he halves the price of Ugarte then we've gotten rid of a bad influence higher earner with no upshot.
No thanks.Straight swap with Chiesa? Alternatively pocket change + Sancho for Bremer
Last season didn't really prove anything. His performances for Dortmund were massively overhyped. The fact we can't get rid of him speaks volumes for the sort of player he is. He's really not a 'very good footballer', at least not at the top level.We are short on attacking options anyway. We can't ged rid of someone like Sancho even if we overpaid for him. He's still a very good footballer as we saw last season with Dortmund again and is one of the few in the squad who can stay calm and keep the head up in the final third.
Problem with that is, what's to stop a repeat of last season? We have players who are far more suited to a transition game which is the style we're going for and I just don't see a scenario where an 80 million pound player with alleged disciplinary/motivation issues is happy. Amad, Garnacho and Rashford should be higher in the pecking order on the wings, Hojlund and Zirkzee should have the centre forward role and personally i'd even pick Bruno as a false 9 ahead of Sancho.I think he’ll be in and around the squad for the first few weeks just because he’s more match fit than Zirkzee, Garnacho, Hojlund etc. but once everyone’s back he’s definitely lower down the pecking order. Think Amad has done enough to prove he’s a better option out on the right (where Sancho doesn’t want to play anyway)
Oh I completely agree. I think if he sees out August whilst still being here — he’ll either fall out with the manager again, and/or he’ll be back up for grabs in January.Problem with that is, what's to stop a repeat of last season? We have players who are far more suited to a transition game which is the style we're going for and I just don't see a scenario where an 80 million pound player with alleged disciplinary/motivation issues is happy. Amad, Garnacho and Rashford should be higher in the pecking order on the wings, Hojlund and Zirkzee should have the centre forward role and personally i'd even pick Bruno as a false 9 ahead of Sancho.
Maybe i'm wrong, and he'll have a good season but i just can't see this going well at all unless Sancho miraculously discovers some form that hasn't been evident in three years (and his Dortmund loan spell was not a great success). Best option is probably to loan him again since clearly we can't sell him.