Old friends reunited! Sangiodias will be in the Champions League final and was once known as the three masters of Manchester City's academy along with Foden

Snow Wolf Kanball

2024-06-01 09:40Posted in Guangdong Sports Creators

In the early morning of June 2, Beijing time, the 2023/24 Champions League final will be staged at Wembley, where La Liga giants Real Madrid and Bundesliga powerhouse Borussia Dortmund meet in a narrow way to fight for a Big Ears Cup. The match features two former Manchester City Academy standouts, Brahim Dias and Jadon Sancho, old friends, who will face each other head-to-head tomorrow night. After a bumpy career, two young people have rediscovered themselves.

After Sheikh Mansour officially acquired Manchester City in 2008, he began to invest more in youth training, building a modern youth training center, and reaping fruitful results. Among them, Foden, Brahine Dias and Sancho are three new stars, known as the three masters of Manchester City's academy.

However, after being promoted to the first team of Manchester City, the three friends chose different growth paths. Jadon Sancho and Brahindias joined Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid respectively in order to get more appearances, while Foden continued to stick to the Etihad. Of course, the fate of the two who left the team was also different. Jadon Sancho has thrived since joining Borussia Dortmund and has quickly developed into a superstar in European football. Brahindias, on the other hand, entered the giants as deep as the sea and was reduced to a marginal player in Real Madrid. After playing just 21 games in a one-and-a-half-season season, he was forced to compromise and opt for a loan spell at AC Milan.

In the summer of 2021, Sancho returned to Manchester for 85 million euros, but instead of his old club Manchester City, he joined Manchester United next door, but this transfer became Sancho's nightmare. At Old Trafford, he completely lost the style of a talented teenager in the Bundesliga, and he played very strugglingly. Last season, Jadon Sancho was away from the first team due to injuries and mental problems. This season, he fell out with manager Ten Hag and was forced to return to Dortmund on loan.

However, this move allowed Sancho to regain his form. In the knockout rounds of the Champions League, he performed well against Paris with Mbappe and became one of the biggest contributors to the Hornets beating their opponents to reach the Champions League final. Although the future is still uncertain at the end of the season, Sancho is confident about his future again.

Brahin Dias didn't have the same blockbuster moments as Sancho, but the good news is that his career has been very solid one step at a time. During his three seasons on loan at AC Milan, Brahim has steadily improved his quality and helped Milan win the 2021/22 Serie A title as a regular player. His performance also impressed Real Madrid and re-recruited him. This season, Dias has contributed 12 goals and 8 assists in 44 games in all competitions for Real Madrid, although he is not an absolute mainstay, but he has also contributed to Real Madrid's La Liga title and Champions League final.

In the latest German transfer market, Dias is worth 35 million euros, setting a new career high. And Sancho's value has also risen from 25 million euros at the beginning of the year to 30 million euros, although it is still far from the 100 million euros at his peak, but his efforts are also obvious to all. Of course, compared to Foden, who sticks to the Etihad Stadium, the two are still a lot worse. Manchester City's crown prince is already worth as much as 130 million euros, and the two friends together are only half of him.

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