It isn’t.
Remember when Keane defended Ronaldo and said he was treated unfairly? It was fairly obvious Keane was drawing parallels between the way his United career ended and what he saw happening to Ronaldo, in turn he personalised something that wasn’t really the same situation but it brought those memories flooding back for him. The posters in here who are defending Sancho are doing the same. They got called out at work by their managers, downed tools and now they’re projecting onto this situation.
ETH’s initial statement was absurd. But I’ll grant you that Sancho’s performances have been horrendous and his statement in response to ETH’s statement was completely inexcusable and if ETH drops him for the rest of the season I’m ok with that.
Why would he protect him much longer when he has been poor in all aspects for years? It is time he put things right, especially since he had issues here since joining
I couldn’t give a rats backside about my caf social credit score.
Still doesn’t mean much does it. After the World Cup he was a beast. But that beast is gone. If he stayed at that level I’d be fan girling out as well, but he’s not, he doesn’t have it in him mentally to be that good for long periods.
Yeah useless was a bit strong, if he didn’t score against Arsenal then he would be labelled so. He doesn’t do a lot at all during games. He’s basically Sancho with a few goals.
Would he though? Or would he have been another Welbeck because Sir Alex standards are much higher than what he’s used to. He wouldn’t get away with walking around like he does.
Has he even had an 8/10 game for Utd?. Even in his better games it has been 5/10/20 mins of good play then long periods of anonymity. I find it really difficult to care about all of this because of how ineffectual and pointless he has been, never really arrived as a Utd player, so I have never developed any connection to him as a fan.
Not just that but the guy has a history of similar behaviour at City and Dortmund.
Really good is not words that I would use to describe Sancho in pre-season. I would however be comfortable saying he was improved on the 4/10 performances he was putting in last season but he wasn’t great and we were playing no pressure friendlies.
He had very few moments of brilliance in his time with United, most notably his goals against Villarreal and Liverpool. I think the closest he came to a full good game was last season against Chelsea.
Last season I thought it was mental health related and felt compelled to give the benefit of the doubt. It's clear that it's just a really bad attitude and insufferable amounts of excuses. This isn't a generational problem - there are still plenty of hard working and unentitled players in this age group out there. It's just that Sancho is , it turns out , a very rotten apple.
It is. He played on the left for Dortmund most of the time. And now he’s refusing to play on the right so he clearly thinks that’s his position.
Check his stats on transfermarkt for Dortmund. He played on the left.
Be interesting to know how many 90 minutes he’s completed since joining. His conditioning is dreadful, always seems to run out of steam soon after halftime.
Refusing to play on the right? Haven't heard anything about that. And it's correct that he was playing more at the left his last season at Dortmund, but before that, we was mostly utilised on the right. I believe he was brought in as a L/R winger, not a left OR right winger.
Fair.
We'd struggle to give Sancho away for free with his wages, so yes I would agree with that.
Kind of starting to get the same vibe from the last days of LVG/Mourinho with the unhappy players just waiting it out.
Well it doesn't look like it's working with Sancho does it.
What is not working? Sancho doesn't performance with whatever approach they had tried so far.
Did Sancho take Eric's public criticism of him the right way, knuckle down work hard in training and give the manager a dilemma of picking him?
This is the frustrating thing, the players not giving it their all on the pitch seem to get a pass as long as they're putting the yards in in training. The unfortunate thing for Ten Hag is that while he might want to change the culture at the club, he still needs to finish in the CL places as without doing so will mean no money for replacements. Recruitment also needs to be close to perfect and it's looking pretty far from being so.
I hadnt seen teammates were frustrated, can you post a link?
but ETH gave him his space last year. Made him take time off, train separately and tried to integrate him into the team again. If a player is lazy in training and underperforms, he should be dropped.
He didn't respond well to Ole or Ragnick either. Just because Sancho has been dropped after being sh!te for 3 years doesn't mean ETH is handling this wrong.
Which is ridiculous. Sancho would make absolutely zero difference in games like this.
He's been here for 2 years.
You're right, I meant in his third season.
