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Topics: Jadon Sancho, Jose Mourinho, Football, Erik Ten Hag, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund
Marcus Chan
Topics: Jadon Sancho, Jose Mourinho, Football, Erik Ten Hag, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund
Jose Mourinho has broken down why Jadon Sancho has struggled at Manchester United.
Back in the summer of 2021, United splashed out £73 million to sign Sancho from Borussia Dortmund.
However, the Englishman has struggled to perform as a Red Devil and after a public spat with manager Erik ten Hag, Sancho was loaned back to Dortmund during the January transfer window.
Ahead of the Champions League final, former United boss Mourinho spoke about the reasons why Sancho may have struggled.
He said on TNT Sport: “As a player we know his talent. We saw what he can do, there are no doubts about it. What happened at United, I look at my own history, sometimes I failed with players. Sometimes I couldn’t create the right empathy, couldn’t understand the player DNA, couldn’t help the players to work in the right direction.
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“The majority of the times, yes I did it, but some occasions I couldn’t. I think sometimes we have to learn from these experiences, which I tried always to do, to try to understand the nature of the player, sometimes they have the talent but they don’t have the mindset you want from the player. For sure, the kid made mistakes, but for sure also the manager was not able to get the best out of him. Of course he failed [at United] because he wasn’t playing.”
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Mourinho added: “Normally it’s multi-factorial, not just the manager and the player. The family, the agent, the club. Looking at myself as a coach, I did many many times get the best out of players and help them be what they were in the future.
“In a couple of times I failed. As coaches with more experience, with many situations of de-ja-vu as we get older, we try to help players go in the right direction. I think in this case, for sure they look at it an for sure they try to analyse what happened at United and what he found in Dortmund.”