Jadon Sancho has been exiled from all first-team facilities at Manchester United, including the dining room, amid an ultimatum from Erik ten Hag.
Sancho has been banned from entering any first-team areas at United’s Carrington training base and is training, and eating, with academy players, per a report from the Daily Mirror.
They report that Ten Hag has made it clear that Sancho must apologise after claiming he had been made a “scapegoat” in a now-deleted Instagram post, after his manager claimed his performances in training were not up to scratch. While the post has been deleted, the winger has not apologised to the Dutchman.
Sancho, the Mirror reports, had been late for training more than once prior to his public spat with Ten Hag, which has also seen him dropped from the first-team squad altogether. It has been claimed that United could accept a cut-price fee for the England international in January, and he has thus far played just 76 minutes of football in the Premier League and has not been in a matchday squad since the 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest.
The winger became a star at Borussia Dortmund, scoring 50 goals and providing 64 assists in 137 games before his move to United. At Old Trafford, though, he has scored just 12 goals and laid on six assists in 82 games.
It appears that the two parties are at an impasse, so Sancho is almost certain to be excluded from the squad for United’s Carabao Cup game against Crystal Palace in midweek