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Topics: Jadon Sancho, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Football, Premier League, Transfer News
Ben McCrum
Topics: Jadon Sancho, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Football, Premier League, Transfer News
Manchester United are reportedly unhappy with home Jadon Sancho has performed at Aston Villa.
Four years after his £73million move to Manchester United from Borussia Dortmund, former England international Sancho has found himself in a difficult situation.
After falling out of favour with several managers at Old Trafford, Sancho has failed to find a consistent place in the United squad since his arrival.
This has led to him spending much of his recent time on loan with several clubs, with his most recent move being to join fellow Premier League side Aston Villa on a season-long loan.
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But things don't seem to have worked out for the 25-year-old at Villa Park, leading to concerns within Manchester United about his future.
When United agreed to let Sancho join Villa for the season, the club likely would have hoped that his spell would be similar to that of fellow outcast forward Marcus Rashford.
Having also fallen out of favour with Ruben Amorim, Rashford joined Villa on a short-term loan for the second-half of the 2024/25 season, impressing during his spell.
Off the back of the loan with Villa, Rashford secured a season-long loan to current club Barcelona, with the La Liga giants reserving an option to buy on a permanent basis for £30.3million at the end of the season.
Since making the move to Barcelona, Rashford has continued to impress, leading to reports that the Spanish club are hoping that they can reach a new agreement with United that will allow them to make the move permanent in January.
And it is exactly this that United likely viewed as the ideal outcome with Sancho, ahead of his contract expiring at the end of the current season.
In an ideal world, Sancho would have proved himself to be so invaluable to Villa that they would have been willing to offer United a small fee in January in order to ensure that he wouldn't sign for a new club as a free agent in the summer.
Speaking about the situation transfer insider Graeme Bailey told United In Focus: "There is concern at United about Sancho’s situation.
“It’s not that they were hoping a return to form would signal a return to Old Trafford, far from it, but the chances of getting any money back for a player that cost over £70million are looking as slim as they ever have.
“In ideal world Sancho would have featured constantly and impressed and United would have a decision to make about whether to take up his option and possibly sell him, or even sell him in January.
“Sancho could clearly return to form and the hope within United is that he does so they might have a decision to make.
“They will continue to monitor the situation but hopes are not high.”
So far at Villa, Sancho has made just one in Premier League appearance, an eight-minute cameo as a substitute, with a total of three appearances in all competitions at the time of writing.