Jadon Sancho is one of five players who were excluded from Manchester United’s pre-season plans and the England winger is desperate to secure an exit after being frozen out by Ruben Amorim
Manchester United misfit Jadon Sancho is said to be willing to take a 50 per cent pay cut on his eye-watering salary at Old Trafford in order to secure a move to his former club, Borussia Dortmund.
Sancho joined United in a £73million deal from Dortmund back in the summer of 2021 but has struggled to meet expectations and has fallen out of favour under both Erik ten Hag and Ruben Amorim.
Last season he was loaned to Chelsea but his form suffered at Stamford Bridge as he scored just three Premier League goals from 19 top flight starts.
And in a brutal end to his spell with the Blues, the London side opted not to turn his move permanent for £25m – instead paying a £5m penalty fee to send him back to United.
Sancho has since been cast aside from Amorim’s team and forced to train alone as part of the “Bomb Squad” at their Carrington complex.
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He has been strongly linked with a move to Juventus but news on that front has gone cold. Now, reports from German outlet Bild report that he has held initial conversations about a possible return to Dortmund.
Sancho already enjoyed a successful return to the Bundesliga side on loan for the second part of the 2023-24 season, where he scored three times and led the team to the Champions League final. And another season at Signal Iduna Park could now be on the cards, with Sancho said to be pushing for the move.
The report adds that Sancho is willing to take a huge pay cut in order to seal his return to Dortmund and would even consider dropping his current £275,000-a-week salary by half. Sancho is believed to have spoken with Dortmund chiefs Lars Ricken and Sebastian Kehl in the hopes of sealing the transfer and ending his exile at Old Trafford.
Sancho is one of five players who were left out of United’s pre-season tour of the United States, joining Alejandro Garnacho, Antony, Tyrell Malacia and Marcus Rashford – who has since signed for Barcelona on loan.
Amorim said the thinking behind excluding the group of players was to give them more time to think about their futures and said they would link up with the squad if they did not find new clubs.
“We are just allowing these players to have time to think and to decide,” he said. “If we reach a point where they have to join the team, they will join because they are our players. I know Jason, Omar and the club have a number for these players.”
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