Let’s look at it from this point and that is that this is Sancho’s third season with us and he’s never looked like a Premier League player in terms of physicality, speed, desire or the pace of the game.
Last season ETH gave him months off to work on himself from a mental standpoint and maybe take Sancho out of the limelight and absolutely nothing has changed in Sancho’s performances with his training now also in question, ETH doesn’t strike me as the type to go full Jose and throw players under the bus.
For how poor Antony has been for the fee we paid for him his desire, physicality and ability to keep up with the pace of the game isn’t in question and much more him being a one trick pony due to his lack of real pace and being so one footed but despite that Sancho can’t displace him or fit into a role anywhere in the team.
Obviously I don’t know Sancho personally but he comes across as one of these modern day self entitled types that believes as long as he turns up on the pitch he’s done his job and is happy collecting his salary for minimal effort, celebrity first and top footballer a very distant second.
This is why I’d rather have hard working players that will fight to join United over highly talented players (a mix would be a dream though) that see us as a massive wage. It’s clear ETH is trying to change the squad mentality with players that WANT to come like Onana, Martinez, Mount, Antony and Hojlund with players that love the club like McTominay, Rashford, Garnacho and Fernandes.
We’re still stuck in that bubble that the parasites and that cnut Woodward put us in of ‘disneyland for adults’ where we’re seen as a massive wage for minimal effort and a CL place each year being seen as success and the sooner we’re clear that last lot of deadwood in Bailly, Maguire, Sancho and Martial the better as we can genuinely move on mentality wise.