Borussia Dortmund: Jadon Sancho joins German side from Manchester City
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Borussia Dortmund have handed the number seven shirt vacated by Ousmane Dembele to an England youth international, after making the most left-field signing of transfer deadline day.
The German giants have signed Manchester City and England Under-17 forward Jadon Sancho for a fee in the region of £10m.
The 17-year-old - who wanted to leave Manchester - had stopped training with the club to force a move. City did not give him permission to speak to any British clubs and a long-term deal was agreed with German side Dortmund.
Sancho has not played a first-team game for anyone, but was a regular in City's youth sides last season - scoring 20 goals in 35 games.
He scored five goals in six games - assisting another five - for England at the Under-17 European Championship this summer, as they lost the final to Spain on penalties.
Dortmund had not filled the number seven shirt left by Demeble, when he joined Barcelona for a fee of up to £135.5m in the second biggest deal of all time.
Sancho joined City from Watford in 2015, the then 14-year-old moving for a fee of about £500,000.
Another player to leave City is 22-year-old Belgium defender Jason Denayer, who has joined Galatasaray on a season-long loan.
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I hope it works out for him
What's the betting City buy him back for £500m in years to come!
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7 minutes ago
Sancho? Another good English name for you - English by convenience only
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born in London. Take your racist wittering to the Daily Mail comments page
Saying that, I do think he was right to leave, City have too many senior players in the first team squad for him to get much game time.
Very sad state of affairs when Dortmund are doing more for the development of English players than a recent PL winner.
How many players has the academy brought through as first team regulars in recent times? How many players is it likely to in future?
My guesses would be zero and zero.
Perhaps that is slowly changing now.
Pointless youth academy when city are linked with the likes of Jonny Evans and buy players to bench them like delph, rodwell, sinclair- as well as outspending every team all the time
Will never put young players in the 1st team
And their fans (mostly of 9 years or less) bang on about how their youth sides are the muts unts
MOST PLASTIC CLUB IN EUROPE (& PSG)
He'll be poorly advised as well in the future.
"It's heartbreaking to think that so many of our youngsters aren't given the opportunity to grow within our own top league."
Don't you see it as an opportunity that our younger English lads should make more of? Get out into the foreign leagues, learn your trade and come back. Would also stop the stupid fees clubs pay for mediocre English players