Muppets don’t care. They have committed to it, and are now emotionally invested. The fact that, in real terms, replacing Greenwood in our XI is seen as the most urgent need says enough. Regardless of whatever narrative, RW is factually one of our strongest positions in our XI. Fans and media only like to continue to write about ‘addressing our glaring weakness on the RW’ because, in their minds, Sancho lies on the other side of this addressing. That and the fact that Greenwood wasn’t bought, so he somehow doesn’t come into consideration in this ‘addressing’. We went from Dan James to Mason Greenwood on our right, and the whole world is literally acting as if they haven’t noticed. Because - Jadon Sancho.
I’m a big Sancho fan, and would be delighted if we got him, but Greenwood really is THAT good. I also agree that he will eventually move inside, but fact is, this season, he’ll be a RW. We could, theoretically, sign Sancho next summer, but fans and media are so invested that they don’t want to hear it. So instead, in their lashing out, we get 100 pieces being written a day to try and hurt the club, muppet anger thinly disguised as reasoned and considered debate, and all the talk about the club being mismanaged, incompetent and the rest of it because the fans, nor the press, got their £100m+ Sancho move to talk about. The board, I’d imagine, are not as emotional as that and are simply ignoring it all, as they should. I’m sure they would like to sign Sancho, as would I, but they won’t be bullied into making the decision that, spending 120m on a player to effectively ‘add competition’ to one of our strongest positions, while los money every week, when they feel they could get the same player either for less or when they are financially better positioned to, at a later date.
I love Sancho, and think he is worth the fee, to answer the question, but I am less sure he is worth that fee TO US and RIGHT NOW. Emotion and feet stamping aside, the team won’t be much worse off, if at all, if the club went and got Coman or Dembele on loan and signed Sancho next year. Again, Greenwood is that good, already.