Borrusia Dortmund reportedly rejected Manchester United’s most recent offer by Jadon Sancho while the 2020 summer moving window is underway.
It was learned that after securing the position in the Champions League for next season, Man Utd would begin his attempt to signal Dortmund Sancho, which has been his big goal in recent months.
According to the German publication BILD, Man Utd has made an offer of $114 million for the 20-year-old midfielder, who rejected it because the Bundesliga is adamant not to sell his player for less than $140 million despite the existing monetary crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
After a poor first part of the 2019–2020 Premier League season, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has changed course. In his last league match of the season, his team beat Leicester City to finish third in the Premier League standings, while this result made the King Power Stadium team out of the four most sensitive.
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (right) said his team’s good form had slowed him down when he was kicked out. Photograph: POOL / PETER POWELL
He reported earlier that if Manchester United is desperate to point to Sancho, a move to Old Trafford is also the player’s “dream move”.
Sancho, who introduced his career to Watford, moved to Manchester City at the age of 14. The England midfielder then moved from Etihad to Dortmund in 2017 for a payment of just $10 million. Sancho made his senior debut in the 2017–18 season and scored a goal in 12 first-team appearances. Sancho scored thirteen goals in the 2018–19 season before unleashing his skill this season, where he scored 20 goals in 44 competitive games.
Meanwhile, it is also understood that Dortmund have started with a replacement for Sancho, who still has two years left on his current contract, but the German team is in a position to make a sale. The BILD report also revealed that Dortmund had met Jonathan Ikone from French club Lille as an ideal replacement for Sancho.
From now on, Sancho is expected to return to education on Thursday 30 July, as Dortmund aim to challenge Bayern Munich in 2020-21 after the latter has won the eighth consecutive Bundesliga title in this campaign.