‘Jadon Sancho’s Man United transfer hits stumbling block’
Jadon Sancho’s prospective move from Manchester United to Juventus is a non-starter for two key reasons.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson explained why he doesn’t see the outcast Man United winger heading to Turin this summer.
Sancho‘s future looks certain to lie away from Old Trafford after he and four other Man United players were given extra pre-season time to find a new club, after the winger’s season-long loan at Chelsea.
Juventus have emerged as candidates to offer Sancho an exit route from Old Trafford, but Robinson told Football Insider that both wage demands and the structure of any possible deal could scupper his move.
USA winger Timothy Weah and Brazil midfielder Douglas Luiz have been mooted as players who could move the other way as part of a swap deal for Sancho, but this will complicate any possible transfer.
Robinson told Football Insider that Sancho’s weekly wage of £300,000 is too expensive for Juventus regardless of how many players they move on, not to mention the logistics of a swap involving multiple players.
Sancho switch a ‘non-starter’ despite Man United stance
Chelsea paid a £5million penalty clause to renege on their obligation to buy Sancho after his season-long spell at Stamford Bridge, and Robinson wasn’t optimistic that Juventus will be able to sign him.
Speaking on the latest Inside Track, he argued that Sancho’s extortionate wage demands remain the biggest stumbling block to his Man United exit, with Juventus in no position to meet them at present.
“There’s two ways that this deal is a non-starter”, Robinson told Football Insider.
“Swap deals very rarely happen – getting one over the line is hard enough, but when you’re talking about Timothy Weah, Douglas Luiz? That’s a number of players, agents, salaries.
“Swap deals are already difficult to do when it’s a like-for-like or a one-for-one, but when you talk about two or three for one, it’s almost impossible.
“The massive stumbling block in this is Jadon Sancho’s salary – Juventus can’t get anywhere near his salary at the moment.
“The biggest stumbling block in this transfer – not only the swap deals – is his wages.”
Man United made to regret Sancho transfer decisions
Were the Red Devils able to turn the clock back 12 months, there’s little doubt that the £5m opt-out clause in his Chelsea loan contract would have been swiftly removed in order to guarantee his exit.
Sancho is just one of Man United’s massive earners on the lookout for new clubs this summer, but the wage demands of Marcus Rashford and co are also set to cause difficulty as they plan their exit routes.
The impending arrival of Bryan Mbeumo to follow Wolves’ Matheus Cunha to Old Trafford is a positive sign for United after their season to forget in 2024–25, but the mistakes of the past are still coming back to bite.