Really? I thought both of them are flair players.
Jadon Sancho | First player in Bundesliga history to score 25 goals before his 20th birthday
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Just watched his performance against Leverkusen back, this kid has a lot of potential to go very far. The way he controls the ball, uses the opposition players to dribble, and already has good decision making at barely 18 combined with the ability to pick a pass..
He needs regular game time and fast. Could be good as Dortmund were struggling a bit, and they do play young talents if they're good enough (Dembele, Pulisic). But they also have a lot of attacking options.. if he gets three seasons of regular football before he turns 21 he could turn out really well.
He needs regular game time and fast. Could be good as Dortmund were struggling a bit, and they do play young talents if they're good enough (Dembele, Pulisic). But they also have a lot of attacking options.. if he gets three seasons of regular football before he turns 21 he could turn out really well.
Buy him
I think he will stay at Dortmund for a couple of seasons at least. It's good to see him playing well though.
Found a little seasonal highlight clip on twitter:
1 goal and 4 assists in 685 minutes looks pretty decent for an 18 year old who had to play in a mostly dysfunctional team.
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1 goal and 4 assists in 685 minutes looks pretty decent for an 18 year old who had to play in a mostly dysfunctional team.
going to be a huge star, good luck to him
That stupid wink in the title makes me laugh every time.
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Great to see a young player doing well overseas. If he'd stayed at Watford I wonder if he be in their first team now.
Sancho has to start more, looks impressive everytime he gets on the pitch. Pulisic was disappointing and Sancho did more than him in the few minutes he was on. Maybe they can play Reus in a central role and move Jancho to one of the wings.
With Pulisic not signing a new contract there's a big incentive to play him, benching him will destroy his value.
I though that is the plan. To have Reus down the middle permanentely.
Reus and Sancho seem to play really well together too.
It’s a poor reflection on Dortmund that he has the most assists since the start of last season with a measly 5!
Are Dortmund in the CL this season? Will be interesting if he features for them.
There was a thread on here claiming that assists were a meaningless stat but all Sancho’s assists for Dortmund have been of high quality as far as I can remember, great crosses, throughballs etc.
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Can see him getting an England call up this year... And by this time next year (or the year after) back in the pl for a lot of money
Sancho....reus....pulisic
They should be fun to watch... Quick counters etc
Favre played a more defensive 3 man midfield of Delaeney, Witsel and Dahoud. They really struggled in the first half when Leipzeg pressed them endlessly and neither was really able to control possession, one of the major reasons I felt was that there was a big gap between the 3 midfielders and 3 attackers (also the technically inept fullbacks). The gap was occupied by the Leipzeg midfielders and defense, therefore Dortmund had to resort to hopeful balls over the top to their attackers and therefore were not able to control possession well, they needed a CAM to operate between the lines of midfield and attack to help them in that respect.
Reus isn't exactly the perfect player for that, Gotze would be, but he can certainly fill that role.
Yep. Though if Dortmund continue to play like they did on Sunday, they won't go far.
Yeah. At first I thought it was because the season there is shorter but they scored just four fewer goals than us in four fewer games.
Our top league assists for last season:
10 - Pogba
7 - Lukaku
6 - Lingard
5 - Martial, Mata, Rashford, Young
I don't get how it is possible for their top assister last season to have four when they scored 64 goals.
Leipzig's pressing had a lot to do with how Dortmund played and most teams in Europe won't set up in a similar fashion, especially not over a whole 90 minutes. Even Leipzig seemed a bit deflated after like 30 minutes and a couple of yellow cards.
It isn't possible. Across 17/18 competitions Pulisic, Kagawa and Götze had 7 assists, Dahoud, Schürrle, Yarmolenko and Dahoud had 6 assists. Looking at 17/18 Buli matches alone, Pulisic and Schürrle had 6 assists and Yarmolenko 5.
To arrive at that Squawka tweet you have to exclude all other competitions aside from Bundesliga, as well as the initial winning streak under Bosz.
Sancho is doing exceptionally well for his age at Dortmund, he doesn't need stat twisting to highlight that.
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The most exciting talent in Bundesliga these days
Is he the biggest English Talent or is it Foden? How did they compare when they played in the same teams?
Is he the biggest English Talent or is it Foden? How did they compare when they played in the same teams?
Yeah, my guess was the stats were league only so just did the same for United and even then it made no sense. Talk about cherry picking from Squawka. You'd expect better from the stat collator sites.
I'm not sure Foden's even as good as some of the other ones at that age group, just one of the more well known ones.The most exciting talent in Bundesliga these days
Is he the biggest English Talent or is it Foden? How did they compare when they played in the same teams?
They're about the same. Sancho won the best player at the u17 Euros last year and Foden won the best player at the u17 World Cup last year.The most exciting talent in Bundesliga these days
Is he the biggest English Talent or is it Foden? How did they compare when they played in the same teams?
Sancho made the smart move though Look at the level of talent Foden has to get through to get a game compared to Sancho. I tend to think that Foden only gets a few minutes here and there because the hierarchy at City really want some home grown players coming through. Ominous that Foden doesn't even make the bench at weekend when KDB is injured. Hopefully Foden takes a loan. Biesla is supposed to be interested but they've decided between them that its best he stays with Pep.
Sancho's success really makes me want to see Foden escape City, he'd probably just end up back there for big money anyway, but it'll do him and more importantly the English national team a lot of good to see another bright prospect playing regularly.
Am 6 assists? Wow.
What counts as an assist varies sometimes based on the source/league. I actually thought Bundesliga assists are inflated (Mkhi)
Foden is the dog itself. Not just its bollocks.....The most exciting talent in Bundesliga these days
Is he the biggest English Talent or is it Foden? How did they compare when they played in the same teams?
By that logic Angel Gomes should have left for Spain as well.
Sancho was always a excellent talent though. Best in his age group.
England have some class talent coming through in younger groups.
Imagine the scenes if he somehow ends up at United. Signing him would be much better than Pulisic. Would be great to have a home-grown player of his potential in our lineup.
Was he playing on the right for Dortmund in that game?
Was he playing on the right for Dortmund in that game?
We definitely need to be in for him when the time comes to him leaving Dortmund. He's going to be a fantastic player.
That smiley at the end of the thread title always produces a big grin on my face every time I see this thread.
He's only been used as a sub in the first two games under the new manager but has got a good assist in both brief appearances.
In that clip he was brought on to play on the right but for most of his career he has been used as a LW.
Havent seen anything of him but respect his ambition and courage in going to Dortmund. he's already performing better than Januzaj did and is considerably younger by all accounts. He'll probably end up at Liverpool with the Klopp connection, plus he looks like he could related to the Ox.
With Pulisic and Alcacer being absent he should have a good chance of starting tonight. 
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The papers must be making up the Sancho and Foden for England seniors stories because they've both been called to the u19s.
For his sake he should tbh. Not Spain, but Germany/France.
Thought it was weird they didn't get called up to the 21's
Strong u21 group. Can you really justify calling them over Gray or Lookman?
There's also a desire to give minutes to players with lots of caps that are stuck in limbo with their clubs like Solanke, Abraham and Lookman.