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Manchester United struggles this season have come both on and off the pitch, with Erik ten Hag having to contend with multiple issues, particularly early in the campaign.
The fall-out with Jadon Sancho was an unexpected problem for Ten Hag, who lost one of his key players after exiling the forward for a public outburst toward to the boss.
Sancho hasn’t played for United since August and was sent on loan to former club Borussia Dortmund in January.
The 24-year-old is getting back up to speed in Germany and showing flashes of his undoubted quality in a league that certainly better suits his style of play.
His wonderful strike in Saturday’s 4-1 defeat to RB Leipzig gave Dortmund a lead on the day and took his overall tally to 40 goals in Germany’s top flight.
As reported by The Daily Mail, Sancho’s 40th strike makes him the highest scoring Englishman in Bundesliga history.
The excellent curling effort put him one past the record of former Nottingham Forest and Arsenal winger Tony Woodcock, who made made 155 appearances for Köln across two spells in the 1970s and 80s.
However, it’s not expected Sancho will hold the record for long, with England captain Harry Kane already breathing down his neck after one season in Germany.
Kane is currently on an extraordinary 35 goals in 31 games for Bayern Munich, and with three Bundesliga games left, might even overtake Sancho by the end the season.
If not by the end of this, it will surely not take Kane long to find himself top of the list in the new season, particularly with Bayern out to avenge the loss of the German league title they held for 11 consecutive years.
Sancho’s long term future is looking less secure, with a reconciliation at United reliant on a change in the dugout which is looking more and more likely with each passing week.
United have four league games to navigate before the huge Manchester Derby in the FA Cup final, which may well be Ten Hag’s last hurrah as United boss.
INEOS will then make a decision on Sancho who would either provide the new coach with another option in his front line or command a decent fee in the transfer market should he be sold.
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