Manchester United close to offloading Jadon Sancho with wage agreement

Manchester United close to offloading Jadon Sancho with wage agreement

Man Utd's Jadon Sancho is about to complete a move away from the club on summer transfer deadline day again.

Jadon Sancho pictured at Villa Park in February. (Image: 2025 AMA Sports Photo Agency)

Manchester United outcast Jadon Sancho is closing in on a season-long loan to Aston Villa.

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Sancho has been looking for a new club since Chelsea decided to break their obligation to sign him permanently. Villa have made an awful start to the season and are set to sign Sancho on deadline day.

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Villa have agreed to cover 80 per cent of Sancho's wages, but the deal includes achievable bonuses, which essentially means his full wages should be covered during his stint in Birmingham.

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United will also receive a loan fee for Sancho, who will leave on deadline day for a successive summer.

Sancho will follow in the footsteps of Marcus Rashford, who was loaned to Villa in the January transfer window after a breakdown in his relationship with Ruben Amorim.

Former United defender Victor Lindelof is also set to sign for Villa on a free transfer.

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Sancho has trained on his own at Carrington since reporting for pre-season in July. Chelsea paid a £5m penalty to break their obligation to sign the winger and Roma were later in discussions to sign him.

Roma proposed a season-long loan with an obligation to Sancho for £20million next summer. United were happy with their proposal, but Sancho failed to agree personal terms.

United signed Sancho from Borussia Dortmund for £72.8million in the summer of 2021 and former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suggested he could become an elite player at Old Trafford.

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Sancho was an England international and one of the most exciting players in Europe when he arrived at United.

However, Sancho contributed 12 goals and six assists in 83 appearances for United before his fallout with Erik ten Hag. He missed four months of competitive football due to that disagreement and re-signed for Dortmund on loan for the second half of 2023/2024 in an attempt to rediscover form.

Chelsea subsequently signed Sancho on loan at the eleventh hour of last summer's transfer deadline day.

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