Pep Guardiola's warning about Jadon Sancho's mindset was ignored when Manchester United secured the winger's services in 2021.

Sancho emerged through the Manchester City youth system in 2017 under the Spaniard's guidance, but the 25-year-old never managed to make a senior appearance for the Citizens before being transferred to Borussia Dortmund in a deal valued at around £8million. When asked in 2019 about why Sancho was sold rather than utilised by Guardiola, the 54-year-old said: "I don't know.

"He didn't want to take this challenge [to fight his way into the first team], this opportunity to discover if he was able to. He decided to go there. So, it's perfect. It's going well and congratulations on what he is doing.

"He is doing an incredible performance. He did it incredibly

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