After spending the entire summer waiting for clubs to approach him, Jadon Sancho completed a deadline-day loan move to Aston Villa.
The misfit winger will play for Villa Park in 2025–2026, where he will also have the opportunity to participate in the Europa League.
In contrast to Villa’s agreement to recruit Harvey Elliott from Liverpool for the season, which includes a £35 million commitment to make the transfer permanent, the loan arrangement does not include a buy clause.
Sancho is currently in the last year of his United deal. The club may choose to extend his contract by an extra year, though, and they will probably do so in order to preserve his resale value.
How Sancho’s summer panned out
When Sancho’s loan with Chelsea ended in June, the Blues chose to send him back to Old Trafford rather than pay his £25 million transfer cost, instead spending £5 million on a penalty.
Although his performance in London was marginally better than that of United, it was still far from ideal.
| Club | Games | Goals | Assists |
| Manchester United | 83 | 12 | 6 |
| Chelsea | 41 | 5 | 10 |
The 25-year-old and United were forced to start again in their search for a suitor for this season as a result. Sancho turned down advances from Besiktas and AS Roma, the latter of which at the time would have allowed him to rejoin Ole Gunnar Solskjaer before manager was fired.
Juventus also established their interest in the forward, but never materialised it in the form of an official bid.
Sancho will never represent United again
Even though Sancho will return to M16 yet again next summer, Fabrizio Romano has assured that there is no chance he will play for United again.
“Manchester United will cover 20% of the salary of Jadon Sancho and Aston Villa will cover 80%,” explained Romano on YouTube, as cited by UtdJoshua03.
“Manchester United will have some bonuses linked to the performances of Jadon Sancho, and to the performances of Aston Villa, so Manchester United can also generate some money apart from the loan fee for Jadon Sancho.”
“Between Sancho and Manchester United, it’s completely over for present and future,” he continued. “Nothing will happen anymore, it’s over and they’ve already said their goodbyes, so Sancho and United, forget about that.”
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