Jadon Sancho Returns To Dortmund, Manchester United Gets A Replacement

Winger Jadon Sancho will leave Manchester United (X/@ManUtd).

JAKARTA - The puzzle of the future of Manchester United winger Jadon Sancho will soon be answered. He will return to the old club, Borussia Dortmund. MU also received a replacement as part of Sancho's sales.

Sancho is confirmed to leave MU. However, he will join a club where there is no certainty until Dortmund finally gives a signal to bring him back.

The German Bundesliga club's plan to recruit Sancho was a bit surprising. Moreover, previously Juventus also seriously wanted to bring in this England national team player.

However, there is no certainty that Juve will recruit this 23-year-old winger. It could be, Dortmund brought in the former player first.

If Dortmund brought him, Sancho would follow in the footsteps of his senior, Shinji Kagawa, who was recruited by Manchester United in 2012.

Kagawa was one of the Japanese and Dortmund stars when they bought Manchester United which was still being handled by Sir Alex Ferguson.

Kagawa was recruited after Manchester United lost another Asian player, Park Ji-sung, who decided to return to South Korea after being poor in Europe.

However, Kagawa failed to repeat Park's glory at Old Trafford. However, he helped MU win the Premier League.

When Manchester United made a change of manager because Ferguson retired, Kagawa, who played midfielder, returned to Dortmund in 2014.

If Kagawa leaves MU well, on the other hand, Sancho will leave in a bad situation.

His relationship with Manager Erik ten Hag has been broken and since September 2023 he has never been played again.

Sancho declined to apologize for his remarks that offended Ten Hag on social media.

In the aftermath, Ten Hag never played it. Sancho also accepted the consequences by not being called up by England's national team manager, Gareth Southgate.

When he returns to Dortmund, Sancho is certain to have his salary cut. The reason is, he gets a high salary at MU. In addition, the Red Devils will get Dortmund players as part of Sancho's recruitment.

Yes, Die Borussen will release striker Donyell Malen to join MU. Malen will be paired with Rasmus Hojlund to increase the strength of the bang.

Malen is actually familiar in the Premier League. The front player of the Dutch national team was educated by Arsenal when he was still junior.

Although his achievements were quite brilliant in Arsenal's youth team, Arsenal's manager at the time, Arsene Wenger, was not interested in bringing him to the first team.

He was instead released to PSV Eindhoven and then joined Dortmund since 2021.