I am and can tell you that break clauses in any type of contractual agreements are not a new or unusual thing.
Jadon Sancho | Official: Loaned to Villa
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Break clause should have been kept at 50% at least. Maybe we thought Chelsea will pay 25m for him.
I look at it in 2 ways;
1. Chelsea need to spend a minimum of 5 million on Sancho anyway. The question is whether they value him to spend another 20 million on him. I doubt any club would currently value him at more than 10 million.
2. Given point number 1, Chelsea can pay the break clause and try to offer 10-15 million for him. They'd save some money if we are desperate and agree to that.
1. Chelsea need to spend a minimum of 5 million on Sancho anyway. The question is whether they value him to spend another 20 million on him. I doubt any club would currently value him at more than 10 million.
2. Given point number 1, Chelsea can pay the break clause and try to offer 10-15 million for him. They'd save some money if we are desperate and agree to that.
That’s great idea, in fact a better idea would have been to charge them £60m for the loan and then when he comes back use some of that money to buy out his contract and release him.
Paying out his contract like that is pure PSR profit as well
In which case we should have loaned him to Chelsea for £120m and then overpaid him
any chance we can convince Ten Hag to sign him for Leverkusen?
They were famously really good friends.
That's some mental gymnastics there! It was originally announced to the world as a loan with obligation to buy, unless Chelsea emulate us by finishing 14th or lower. Then they announced the 5m opt out in the very real chance it turns out Sancho is what everyone expected - utterly fecking shit.
Sure, at which point Chelsea would've probably just said no to the deal.
Right. That’s PR though and as I’ve said before it’s semantics.
Usually when clubs take players on loan they pay a fee. In this case Sancho was free for Chelsea with subsidised wages on the basis that they were going to buy him.
They are now not going to buy him so therefore they are paying us £5m.
Call it a penalty, call it a loan fee, call it whatever you like but it means that Chelsea will have paid £5m for Sancho’s time with them rather than paying £25m to make it permanent.
I'm not so sure, he will almost certainly convince himself it's everyone else's fault, he is brilliant and they are all morons for not seeing it or just bullying him.
You would need to convince Simon Rolfes, not EtH, to make a deal with Leverkusen
So your saying theres a chance
Surely ETH just fakes his own death if Leverkusen sign Sancho
How about Antony and Onana, For old times sake 50M only for both.
He's yours for keeps.
Can they pay up now.
Surely they’ll keep him after that
Sign him up Boehly!
opt in chelsea
Keep him now you cowards
Pay the money you twats
Please sign him now.
Sign da ting!
Worth every penny. Chelsea would be stupid not sign him!
Goes to show you how much crap has gone on at United that plenty (myself included) have forgotten it was ETH that Sancho fell out with 
The thing about Sancho is he really isn't that bad, he's just stuck on an incredibly inflated wage from a young age he didn't deserve. If he was on £80k, then he'd be the sort of player Chelsea would like.
He's been good in recent months and 25m pounds is not big money really. But with CL football Chelsea will probably now be looking at better wingers and just pay 4-5m to us in order to get rid.
I haven't watched Sancho for months but caught their game against Forest and he was very involved. He's by miles apart a better suited player for the 10 then Mount but his temperament has been poor.
This what I've been wondering.
At United I didn't think he was that bad, he just wasn't that great, didnt match his wage & transfer fee whilst he didn't have the best work rate.
I can't remember it in particular but I don't remember any events where he would be this "bad guy" that people say he is. Maybe I've just kind of forgotten.
I think Chelsea will buy him and try to put pressure on him to agree better contract terms
Yep -- there's a bit of a standoff between Chelsea and Sancho I'd say in contract terms. Do you really want to go back to United? Because we can make you go back to United and have them loan you to the Turkish league or something instead.
Otherwise, sign this 100k p/w contract.
Well I’m more confident than I was pre game that they will sign him
What a player this lad is @Maresca
He publicly disagreed with EtH about his performance level, that's it.
Apparently as a character he seems to be nice to be around according to all reports I'm aware of, but his lack of workrate and lack of self awareness about that caused the fallout they had.
And while you're at it, sign Onana and Rasmus too.
I'm hopeful we can sell him some of the same players assuming he'll pull the same stunt there.
Great goal. Beautiful way to end his loan spell.
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