This is dragging on far too much, and that’s not just Sancho’s fault.
Ten Hag is the manager, when a player refuses to fall in line you can't dig your own grave by allowing him to continue to undermine you. Again, he's hardly the manager to go around creating conflicts just to see how players responds ala Jose, so i don't really understand why so many are happy to defend the player in all of this. When he's gone public with the situation it's because there's already been several failed attempts at resolving things behind closed doors. It was piss easy for Sancho to instantly sort this out.
Exactly. So how are we in feud-land? How did he not know Sancho's reaction would be like this?
Sancho's statement was filled with references to believing he was being scapegoated and that ETH held something else against him - how do you get there? Then to go from that to needing the PFA to mediate, it's ridiculous.
Who cares what he was referencing, Ronaldo did a Piers Morgan interview making up stuff as he went along, they are footballers not someone that should be believed word for word. We were already in feud-land when Sancho refused to adapt to the requirements at the club like the rest of the players. Sancho repeatedly had issues with his professionalism at Dortmund, gaming until early hours in the morning and then showing up late for training, reporting for pre season on the heavy side, its nothing new. Last season we cut him an insane amount of slack, sending him to Holland in order for him to regain full fitness before being integrated back into the first team.
Why I think its an emotional response, I dont think he says it if we had won.
I think you are right but people are missing the point, EtH gives no context, we are filling in the blanks based on Sancho's had previous.
EtH takes about standards but what does than mean? Lets not forget, this wasn't just not making the first team, its the squad.
He didn't lash out at Sancho, it was a rather mild comment. In terms of the rest it's been a gradual progress based on the responses from Sancho, it's not like he was instantly booted out of the club. When he went public with his statement, kept it up there, refused to back down and apologize, he was removed from the first team squad