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LOS ANGELES, California — Outwardly, at least, there has been little sign of the turmoil during preseason that had engulfed Jadon Sancho’s career for the best part of a year.
Arriving on a golf buggy for training at UCLA’s Wallis Annenberg Stadium on Friday afternoon, he was smiling and joking with Marcus Rashford. And while other teammates have been battling jet lag at the start of Manchester United’s preseason tour on the west coast of America, Sancho has been sleeping soundly. One member of the traveling squad couldn’t believe that he’d managed to sleep for almost the entirety of the 11-hour flight from Manchester to LAX, and then enjoyed a full eight hours on Wednesday night once the team had landed.
It’s a very different mood to September 2023, when Sancho hit out at manager Erik ten Hag in an explosive social media post that led to a banishment from first-team facilities at Carrington for more than four months. It was followed by a hastily arranged loan move to former club Borussia Dortmund in January and a successful return to Germany, which ended with a Champions League final appearance against Real Madrid at Wembley in June.
For now, though, Sancho is back at United. He wouldn’t be in California at all had it not been for clear-the-air talks with Ten Hag earlier this month, a surprising development given the rift had shown no signs of thawing over the course of the preceding 10 months.
The official explanation is that Sancho has been reintegrated into the squad after “reflecting on past issues,” and that Ten Hag has agreed to draw a line under the matter and move on. It’s not clear whether the Dutchman got the apology he had initially demanded, with sources only prepared to say that there has been a…
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