Premier League giants Manchester United have a poor season, finishing eighth in the league and bottoming out of the Champions League group stage, with manager Erik ten Hag on the brink of sacking due to a poor record and a series of negative presses.
The United's players have not had a good time, with their eight strikers scoring just eight Premier League goals in total, including Jadon Sancho being barred from the United's training ground due to a feud with Ten Hag, and the 23-year-old's departure from the winter window was a foregone conclusion.
According to a number of European media sources, Manchester United and Dortmund have reached a preliminary agreement that Sancho will join Dortmund on loan and play the rest of the season, with Dortmund only paying for Sancho's salary.
Jadon Sancho was born on 25 March 2000 and came through Manchester City's academy. Jadon Sancho has shown exceptional footballing talent from an early age and is at the heart of England's attacking team at all levels of youth. In the summer of 2017, Dortmund bought the 17-year-old Sancho for 9 million euros, and under the careful training of Dortmund, Sancho quickly entered the first team.
Sancho's absolute speed is not very fast, but he has a good start-up ability, he is skilled at his feet, he is good at passing, and he has good awareness and passing footwork. He plays right winger with his right foot, but he rarely goes down the pitch and more often moves from the flanks to the middle, like a wide midfielder.
Sancho's style of play has allowed him to play very well in the relatively open Bundesliga, scoring 50 goals and assisting 64 times in 137 appearances in the four seasons from 2017 to 2021, averaging close to one goal per game, and playing double-doubles in multiple seasons. For a young player who is only 20 years old, this performance is already very strong, and in 2019 Sancho finished second in the Golden Boy award, and he was valued at 130 million euros at his peak, and was hailed as a superstar of the future.
In the summer of 2021, at Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's insistence, Manchester United finally signed Jadon Sancho for €85 million and offered a weekly salary of £300,000, the third highest transfer in Manchester United's history.
However, after coming to the Premier League, Sancho's shortcomings were exposed, first of all, he did not have absolute speed and explosiveness on the wing, and could not be used as a breaking point to complete the breakthrough, and his physical confrontation was too poor, in the fast-paced and strong confrontation of the Premier League, the opponent lost the ball as soon as he got on the body. Coupled with the frequent change of managers in recent seasons and the irregular tactical style of play, Sancho has never been able to get into the best form for Sancho, who has obvious strengths and weaknesses.
So far, Sancho has scored just 12 goals and provided five assists in 82 appearances for Manchester United, and his performances have plummeted from his previous time at Borussia Dortmund.
Especially after Ten Hag arrived, Sancho was reduced to a substitute in the competition on the left and right wings, and Ten Hag also publicly criticized him for his loose attitude and inactive defense, and Sancho also fought back-for-tat, so the two fell out completely. Sancho has never been given a chance to play again, and he is currently worth only 25 million euros, down 60 million euros from when he first arrived two years ago.
In order to get rid of Sancho's high-salary baggage, Manchester United promoted Sancho to Juventus and Dortmund clubs, but there was basically no response. In the end, it was the old club Borussia Dortmund who were willing to take Sancho in, but their demands were also quite demanding, that is, they were only on loan for half a season at this stage, and they only paid a third of Sancho's salary.
This is equivalent to Manchester United giving Dortmund 85 million euros in 2 years, if after returning to Dortmund, Sancho will be alive again, wouldn't it be a slap in the face?
In fact, Manchester United's previous transactions with Dortmund were not too successful, Shinji Kagawa and Mkhitaryan did not play their value after coming to Manchester United, it seems that the Hornets are really a pit for the Red Devils!