Football: Manchester United removes Jadon Sancho from the group for a “disciplinary problem”

The Mancunian club announced it in a press release on Thursday. This decision follows the conflict that became public between the English player and his coach Erik ten Hag.

The 23-year-old “will follow an individual training program away from the professional group, pending the resolution of a disciplinary problem within the team,” said the current eleventh in the championship. from England.

The club from the northwest of England did not provide further details on the origin of the conflict. But his communication comes around ten days after the emergence of a public falling out between the player and his coach.

Sancho was not called up for the September 3 trip to Arsenal because of "his performance in training", ten Hag explained at a press conference after the 3-1 defeat at the Emirates, a media outing which had led the attacker to react on social networks.

“Please don’t believe everything you read! I will not allow anyone to say things that are completely false, I behaved very well in training all week,” Sancho counterattacked. “I’ve been a scapegoat for a long time, it’s not fair,” he added.

Since his arrival in 2021, against around 85 million euros paid to Dortmund, the Englishman has struggled to justify the amount of his transfer and he appeared as a second choice for ten Hag.