@mancan92 @amolbhatia50k
Don't get me wrong those are decent and valid reasons. I simply think the end goal was signing Sancho, and thus many justifications were given for replacing Greenwood in the lineup:
i) Greenwood is too young and needs to not burnout.
ii) We need a specialist RW, Greenwood is a striker not a RW.
iii) Our depth in the forward positions is bad/ the forward players are young and inconsistent, and need competition for places.
iv) Sancho is an English generational talent, we shouldn't miss him if we can afford it.
etc.
As you can see in this very thread varying reasons have been given. If Sancho didn't exist and Greenwood had the same breakout last season, I'm skeptical that there would be a pressing need to sign a specialist RW to take his place. Depth I can understand, but then the depth options presented during the window were pretty much scorned for not being Sancho, so I'm skeptical on that front as well.
For fans of Utd especially, I see no other logical reason why we'd try to push out an academy player who broke through with flying colours scoring 17 goals, except muppet season. And to be clear I too would have liked to sign Sancho, but simply because of reason (iv) which I feel is a more honest reason than the others.