Much like Bruno, who I was also calling a 'must sign' player after watching him previously, I'm starting to think I was wrong about Sancho too. I don't know what the hell has happened but this isn't the player I saw at Dortmund.
It feels like at Dortmund he was just buzzing to be playing and enjoyed putting teams to the sword with his teammates. He was really lively all the time and trying things. Since he's come here it looks more like he's just going through the motions carrying out his day job. He doesn't look like he enjoys it at all and he's not got the same energy about him.
One thing I will say is that he's come to United and played under Ole, Rangnick and ETH. We're the only team he could have joined that just has no interest in playing football in a way that suits him. Perhaps with Martial back, who has similar tendencies to Sancho, we can see them link up and bring out more in each other. For some reason though it seems like we're forever going to be this team that needs individuals all over the pitch. Wingers that can just sprint in behind for Bruno's long balls over the top etc.
I get that you need to have teammates to linkup and work with, but a winger/forward player must be assertive and try things on their own sometimes, if you look at Foden for example, he is not particularly quick or strong, but if you watch him in an England game (outside of City setup that he knows well), you can see him at least trying to do something, move around, run at players and take them on, exploit spaces and all that, maybe not much will come off for him, but you don't need to be a prime CR7 going past several players in the wing, you can just try to make things happen on your own and be more assertive, Sancho doesn't even try that much, he gets the ball, and if he didn't mess up his first touch, he would just pass back or cut inside half heartedly and just pass sideways probably, it is very frustrating watching him and I think defenders have it easy defending him, all they need to do is just get tight on him and that's it!