As if that was such an unforgivable offense. Ten Hag's ego is to blame for this situation as much as Sancho's.
The way people talk about this you might think he conducted himself like Maradona at Napoli, going partying for three days after each match and only training twice a week. When in reality, he was late a couple of times in his teenage years and that's it.
I guess it depends on what he believes he's been scapegoated for? I personally dont think EtH mentions it if we won. Also not sure why mention a player who hasnt contributed to us losing thats not in the ground? Once he's done that, even if he wants Sancho gone, automatically creates further drama in the media at a time the club didnt need it and writes off 60% of Sancho’s sell on value.....
Agreed, wasting an asset worth many millions and £11 million a year salary just to prove a point, while the attack is the least creative in the league, is unforgivable.
Because he was contributing loads before he got called out for being useless?
Sancho has been useless so it's not like it's been some kind of huge blow. Would he even make it off the bench if this hadn't happened?
Laughable comparison. Totally different day and age with entirely different demands placed on players, and we’re also talking about a player who was delivering the goods.
Regardless of what’s really happened behind the scenes, I doubt Sancho’s advisors have told him that his best course of action was to blow up on instagram over a fairly innocuous comment, and then put his career on hold and miss out on training and matches for months on end.
He played preseason and reasonably well in false 9 so it’s clear Ten Hag planned for him to play and then froze him out. He has more than twice as many league goals as Antony, including goals against Liverpool, City and Spurs. Not saying he’s been great or anything, far from it, but he’s still better than what’s been picked to play in attack this season.
Why are you still making things up?
Yeah, he just casually froze him out for no reason whatsoever. It should be fairly obvious to everyone that everyones preference, including Ten Hag, would be that Sancho never turned this into a public feud and that he was available for the team and performing well. Not only is it a shit situation, but it’s also a fecking expensive situation given the transfer fee
Actually from the club point of view, the correct decision would be fine him for being late, and then play him afterwards, but not frozen him out totally. At this point its become personal issue/farce between the player and the manager. One had to go in order for the other to stay/play.
He didn’t freeze him out for no reason. He omitted him from the match day squad, made a fairly innocuous comment on why he made that choice, and Sancho lost his shit and blew up and posted a really unprofessional post on instagram.
There is nothing stopping Ten Hag from organising a meeting with him to get him back on board, might even get an apology if he communicated with him, he’s top earner in the club it’s an incredible waste to make no effort to reach him halfway, when we have arguable the worst attack in the league too, it’s an even bigger waste. That’s the job of manager, to use your resources to the best of your ability. Not using your resources properly is on you as a manager. Is it a coincidence that Rashford’s play changed after the row too? Sorting out this issue could save things for Ten Hag. His stubbornness may cost him.
Jesus christ. Managers drop players for various reasons, every once in a while they’re also told off in public. It’s not a problem for the vast majority, and those who do have a problem with it have enough brancells to make it nown in private conversations with the manager. Sancho has been unprofessional for large parts of his adult career, considering he’s one of the most expensive signings ever, one of the highest paid players in the Premier League, it’s completely unacceptable and Ten Hags comments and actions were mild. Just the fact that we had to send him off to a fecking training camp, under a strict regime, is completely baffling.
I think you're missing the point, the poster is acting like Sancho's behaviour is okay in that circumstance but ETH's isn't. Complete double standards.
What are you on about, there’s been plenty of meetings between Sancho and Ten Hag in order to sort this out. The problem is that Sancho refuses to make a public apology and everyone knows the manager and the club can’t step away from that.
Our manager drops Sancho for Antony. Jesus Christ.
That's fine, but wanting him to get sacked to get Sancho back into the team is weird. He's not even the 1st manager who Sanco has struggled for game time with here and his performances have been very underwhelming.
I was being sarcastic.
......probably not but my point was, dont think thats solely about ego either. It could be about principles even though some on here dont think he has any!!!
If he gets ask the same question I think he says the same thing, win or lose.
Sancho hasn't been close to being one of our best 2 attackers at any point during his time here, and it's not like we have an amazing attack...
Hes already said things differently, didnt he recently say, we keep those things in the club?
He was asked about Sancho by one of the journalists. It's not like ETH just sat down and said out of nowhere that he hadn't been training well.
What is so controversial about saying somebody didn't get selected because they didn't train well that week? The way you and others talk about it is as if it was some Mourinho-style attack on a player, when in reality it was a fairly mild comment that any player with even close to the right kind of professional attitude would respond to by pulling their socks up and proving him wrong the next week.
....but like said, he has already answered differently when asked before it and since it. This is the same manager that suggested DDG was staying, only to bin him. Have you seen some of his responses to the Varane decisions?
Its controversial cause the only manager that generally has done it, is one of the most controversial managers of the prem era.
I always had it in my head that it was another way of trying to get the penny to drop for Sancho and kick him on to be what we know he could be.
Ah. Sorry, you see some wild takes so it’s hard to tell at times
I guess it could be principle, but it’s a weird hill to sacrifice the momentum of your career on.
Not in my mind. He was diabolical before being dropped.
Yeah, know what you mean. I just can’t wrap my head around fans wanting him to return without properly owning up his own mistakes hell bent on showing everyone how good he actually is. This isn’t just a manager vs player situation, it’s very much about the sort of characters we want at the club. This isn’t just Sancho burning bridges at Manchester United, but it’s also having a rather detrimental effect on his career opportunities, it’s not as if top clubs are lining up to sign him and even Southgate got tired of his lack of professionalism. It’s bonkers that he’s willing to cause this amount of damage to his own career over something so insanely small and innocent. I had very high hopes for Sancho, i thought the arrival of Hojlund would do wonders for him, as such i am extremely disappointed by the lack of character he’s shown. It was an innocent comment by Ten Hag, and considering Sancho’s performances, which have overall been very poor, he should have enough self awareness to admit as much and make an actual attempt at proving everyone wrong. Instead, he’s sticking to his guns and flying off to parties around the world living the glam life on social media.Ah. Sorry, you see some wild takes so it’s hard to tell at times
So because Sancho was expensive he shouldn't be criticised? And saying someone didn't train well this week slashes 60% of any potential fee?
C'mon they're both awful, terrible attitudes/workrate we need to move on, Ten Hag has got things wrong but moving away from these two is a no brainer.
