MANCHESTER UNITED target Jadon Sancho’s departure from Borussia Dortmund is reportedly ‘set in stone’.
The Red Devils failed to land their No1 transfer target last summer as they refused to meet BVB’s £108million asking price.
Jadon Sancho’s Borussia Dortmund exit is said to be ‘set in stone’Credit: Getty Images – Getty
Struggling Dortmund are set to cash in on a number of players if they don’t qualify for the Champions League.
Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Freiburg – their third in four league games – leaves Edin Terzic’s side down in sixth spot, four points off the top four.
And journalist Constantin Eckner reports Sancho’s exit is ‘set in stone’, while Gio Reyna and Raphael Guerriero could also be sold.
The German side are keen to hold onto star Norwegian striker Erling Haaland for at least another season.
Haaland’s sensational goalscoring form has seen him attract interest from a number of European giants including United, Chelsea and Liverpool.
Reports had suggested United may be able to snare Sancho at a cut-price bargain after his form dropped off this season.
A reduction of up to £20m off Dortmund’s valuation had been talked about.
But ESPN Bundesliga reporter Archie Rhind-Tutt has suggested he will still be highly in-demand this summer – and is unlikely to come cheap.
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When put to him that Sancho would go for half of what was being talked about in 2020, Rhind-Tutt replied: “I disagree with that. I think that he’s still had a decent season amongst these circumstances.
“Okay, he had a dip at the start, but I don’t think that Jadon Sancho leaving last summer would have had any impact.
“The bigger problems here are the way that this squad is being constructed.
“That, Roman Burki, despite his ability to stand up after theg ame and bluntly make his analysis – I’d say in a good fashion – I don’t think he’s the goalkeeper that Borussia Dortmund need right now.
“I think you have leaders in the side who need to be focusing on their own game.
“Marco Reus seems like an unwilling parent to a lot of these younger players in the squad.
“We see young talent a lot of the time, and we think ‘Oh wow, why can’t this all come together?’ But the chemistry is lacking in this Dortmund side – you see it, week in, week out.
“You look at examples of young teams in the past and how they gel like Manchester United in the 90s – that was the exception, not the rule.
“And I think we are seeing what the rule looks like at Borussia Dortmund – if you throw together so much young talent, they are learning on the job, they are going to be inconsistent.
“So that is part of the reason why we are seeing Dortmund in the form they are in.”
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