Jadon Sancho and Manchester United are expected to reach an agreement about his future after the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund.
Sancho was sent out on loan during the January transfer window after the forward fell out with Erik ten Hag and failed to apologize.
Ten Hag questioned Sancho’s work rate early in the season, prompting a public response from Sancho, who took to social media to claim he had been made a “scapegoat” for the team’s struggles.
Asked to apologize, Sancho refused and this led to a lengthy exile before a January loan to Borussia Dortmund.
Manchester United Coach Benni McCarthy in action during a Manchester United first team training session at Carrington Training Ground (Photo by Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images)
Offering an insight into the feud between Sancho and Ten Hag, McCarthy told 947 Joburg: “If you’re from the streets, no one wants to apologise,. You admit you are not training well, you are lazy, everything you are accused of. Jadon wasn’t going to have that.
“The manager has a strong character and just said that all he wants is an apology. Jadon thought that he had done nothing wrong. He didn’t see why he had to apologise. Sometimes you have to apologise, because a player will never win against a manager.
“I spoke to Jadon as a coach, as a mentor, as a friend, and as someone who grew up on the streets and knows the code. But Jadon just wasn’t seeing it. He said, ‘I ain’t apologising because if I do, I’m apologising for being lazy, always being late, not giving my best – that’s what I’m apologising for’. Those were his reasons.
“I spoke to the manager and I said to him that, you know, the delicacy, and I think Jadon feels that if he apologises then he’s going to be classed as someone who doesn’t train hard, doesn’t work hard, that everything that was said against him was true.”
Dortmund are willing to make Sancho’s loan move permanent or sanction another loan deal for next season. However, Erik ten Hag’s future at United will determine how things will go.
