If you ask Manchester United fans who they feel would be ideal to bolster their team’s attack, the name Jadon Sancho would probably come up eight out of 10 times.
The English forward, currently at Borussia Dortmund, is setting the football world alight in Germany, and, with three goals and five assists in his first six Bundesliga games, has already started building on last season’s great form.
At just 19, the London-born winger is one of, if not the most coveted player in world football, and it will take a lot of money to convince the German club to sell.
That’s why only a handful of clubs are linked with him, notably Manchester United, who have been known to open their chequebook for the right player.
Michael Zorc, Borussia Dortmund’s director of football, is aware of all of this, and knows full well Sancho’s time in Dortmund is limited, much like Ousmane Dembélé’s was.
He told Kicker: “We haven’t made a decision yet (about Sancho’s future). You do not have to be a prophet to say that surely Jadon will not spend five years here, but he knows very well that he has taken a positive development at Borussia Dortmund.
“I doubt that would have been possible at top English clubs. We trust players very early, we aren’t afraid to let them play. He acknowledges that”.
As for any offers on his desk for the player: “No, there aren’t [any], because we made it very clear at a very early stage that we planned to go beyond the summer with Jadon and that a sale in a 2019 was therefore out of the question, but of course, the absolute big clubs aren’t blind…”
This admission that Sancho is destined to leave Signal Iduna Park at some point in the near future will be music to Manchester United fans’ ears, yet there will always be that worry he could end up elsewhere.
After all, he is near guaranteed Champions League football with Dortmund, whereas that is not the case at Old Trafford these days, as the club undergoes a rebuilding process under Solskjaer.
If the time comes and he has to choose whether or not to move to Manchester United, it’ll like be a tough one to make: turn it down for Champions League football elsewhere (and likely earn a little less), or take the money and have the confidence in his ability to be the guy to help turn things around and get the Premier League side back in the elite, where many feel a club of their stature belongs.
