Former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær has revealed that an ear infection contributed to Jadon Sancho’s unsettling start to his Red Devils career.
After lighting up the Bundesliga for several years with Borussia Dortmund, Sancho garnered plenty of transfer interest and, eventually, United struck a deal worth £73 million ($96 million) to bring him back to Manchester in the summer of 2021.
The winger was projected to be a significant difference-maker at Old Trafford, but Sancho has since embarked on a bitterly disappointing career with the Red Devils. Come the end of 2025–26, he would’ve spent the past two-and-a-half seasons out on loan, with Dortmund, Chelsea and, currently, Aston Villa.
Sancho hasn’t appeared in a Premier League game for Man Utd since August 2023, and is unlikely to ever represent the club again. In his 83 outings for the Red Devils, the Englishman scored 12 times and notched six assists.
A major fallout with Erik ten Hag undoubtedly contributed to his demise, but his first United boss, Solskjær, has suggested Sancho’s career in Manchester was doomed from the start.
