Solskjær needs more than Jadon Sancho to challenge for the big prizes | Jamie Jackson
04-Aug-2020 17:00:07 | The Guardian
The Manchester United manager needs funds to buy defenders for his team to compete domestically and in Europe
Jadon Sancho has 11 England caps. He was in the Bundesliga team of the season at 19. He makes in-game decisions as prescient as a teenage Wayne Rooney. He is a two-footed, goalscoring assist maker with a Harry Houdini array of tricks.
Yet if Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s pursuit of the Borussia Dortmund forward is not backed by further transfers then Manchester United have only a distant hope of being contenders next season. Sancho is an expected £100m-plus signing who has to be the start, not end, of United Phase Two under Solskjær.
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