WHAT HAPPENED?
With five goals and 10 assists, including the game-winning goal in the Conference League final triumph over Real Betis, Sancho, who played his whole 2024–25 season at Stamford Bridge, made an impression. Chelsea helped pay Sancho between £180,000 and £200,000 a week when he was living in west London. The 25-year-old turned down the offer, and the Blues concluded they had little choice but to give United a penalty. The club was willing to keep paying that sum if the winger was prepared to accept a wage reduction in order to stay with them.
WHAT BOEHLY ALLEGEDLY SAID
This week, things took a strange turn when remarks purportedly from the Italian publication La Repubblica that were credited to Boehly started making the rounds. According to reports, Boehly stated: “We had an agreement to buy him (Sancho) for €20 million, but the player missed a number of training sessions, including a game at the stadium, last season.” He slept throughout the day, talked with his girlfriend all night, and then, whenever he had two days off, he visited his sweetheart in Los Angeles. We decided to pay the penalty for this reason.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Transfer insider Fabrizio Romano quickly moved to rubbish the story. On social media, he wrote: “Quotes reported by Italian press from Todd Boehly about Jadon Sancho are completely fake. Todd Boehly didn’t release any interview to Italian newspapers about Jadon Sancho and never commented about the English winger situation.”
WHAT NEXT FOR SANCHO?
Emery believes Sancho has the ability to revolutionize both their home and European campaigns. Villa is battling on several fronts, but the 25-year-old’s imagination and foresight might provide their offensive a fresh angle. Sancho sees it as another opportunity to silence those who have questioned his professionalism and mindset. Even though he is only 25, he still has time to turn things around, but with the 2026 World Cup looming large and the possibility of another significant shift hanging in the balance, the stakes have never been higher.
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