Jadon Sancho has been ostracised. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)
Manchester United have held discussions over terminating the contract of Jadon Sancho, should the club fail to find a buyer for the winger.
The playmaker has been ostracised since falling out with Erik ten Hag in August.
Sancho essentially accused the Dutchman of being a liar in a since-deleted social media post.
The winger has been forced to train individually and away from the first team ever since following his refusal to apologise to Ten Hag.
United are now minded to sell Sancho in January but few clubs in the world could afford the winger’s reported £250,000-a-week wages on top of a £50m transfer fee.
But, according to Sky Sports, Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his incoming consortium want to take a hard line approach in the transfer window and will not allow financial decisions to get in the way of ‘cultural’ ones.
INEOS feel Arsenal are an example to follow, following the Gunners’ treatment of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mesut Ozil since Mikel Arteta’s appointment in north London.
Aubameyang had his deal terminated (Photo by Visionhaus/Getty Images)
And, while the club would ideally recoup a large chunk of their £73m outlay on Sancho, they are paying the winger £1m-a-month to train individually.
It’s therefore claimed that the board have held discussions over terminating his deal.
INEOS want to move away from Ed Woodward’s policy of handing contract extensions to unwanted players in order to ‘protect’ their value.
Often, United have found themselves lumbered with players like Phil Jones and Eric Bailly, after the club gave the green light to give them new contracts.
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