Sir Jim Ratcliffe could kickstart his tenure at Manchester United with a row by forcing Erik ten Hag to make up with Jadon Sancho.
The billionaire Brit is set to he handed control of footballing matters at the club with his £1.3billion investment returning a 25% stake. Daily Star Sport exclusively revealed this week that he won’t take long to demand that Ten Hag bring Sancho back into the fold.
The Mirror now report that it could cause a row between the pair as Ten Hag ‘will not be dictated’ when it comes to having his dressing room authority challenged. Ten Hag’s stance is that Sancho can return to the squad should he make a genuine apology.
The Dutchman is said to prefer the idea of the 23-year-old finding a new club just two years after his £73million arrival from Borussia Dortmund. The report adds that Ten Hag also feels that he can work well alongside Ratcliffe’s INEOS team.
Sancho, who has nine goals and six assists from 58 Premier League appearances, has trained both on his own and with the youth team in recent weeks.
Having rejected the chance to stay at Manchester City to go to the Bundesliga back in 2017, he starred in Germany with 50 goals and 64 assists across just 137 senior appearances with Dortmund.
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The fallout began earlier this season when Ten Hag said that Sancho’s performances in training didn’t even warrant a place on the bench in the Premier League.
Sancho then said he was being made a scapegoat in a public social media post in which he hinted at “other reasons” for being left out of the team.
He said in the deleted statement: “Please don’t believe everything you read! I will not allow people saying things that is completely untrue, I have conducted myself in training very well this week.”
