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Any clubs interested in signing Jadon Sancho from
Borussia Dortmund this summer will have to be prepared to cough up one of the
biggest transfer fees in football history.
That’s according to German football reporter Kevin
Hatchard, who believes the England winger is easily worth €140million (£118m)
ahead of the next transfer window.
This fee would make him the most expensive English player
in history, dwarfing Harry Maguire’s £78.3m move to Manchester United last
summer.
Jadon Sancho is scoring and assisting for fun in Germany
and shows no sign of stopping
It would also make the 19-year-old the fourth most
expensive player ever, after Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Philippe Coutinho.
But Hatchard insists Sancho is worth such a huge fee,
hailing the England international as ‘one of the most exciting players in
Europe’.
“He’s an absolute stone-cold superstar,” he told The
Sports Bar. “You look just before Christmas, he was turning up late to things
and he was sanctioned by the club numerous times for not behaving the way they
would want.
“He could have sulked, pushed for a move, basically
thrown his toys out of the pram – but he didn’t do that at all.
“He actually said, ‘I’m going to be leader, I’m going to
score goals and make goals’, and he been playing lights-out week after week
after week.
“I think England have one of the most exciting players in
Europe on their hands and when we get to the Euros he’ll be one of the most
dangerous attacking players at the tournament.”
Sancho has been absolutely flying for Dortmund this
season.
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He shares a record with Lionel Messi as the first two
players in Europe’s top five leagues to reach double figures in both goals and
assists this term.
Sancho was first to the landmark with 12 goals and 14
assists in the league for Dortmund so far, while Messi took his tally to 14
strikes and 11 assists after setting up three goals in Barcelona’s 3-2 comeback
win over Real Betis last Sunday.
The English flyer only signed a new contract back in
October last year, which boosted his wages to around £190,000-a-week and runs
until 2022.
But Hatchard believes Dortmund will definitely cash in at
the end of the season if the price is right, with reports claiming Chelsea are
interested in the boyhood Blues fan.
Asked about Sancho’s future in Germany, Hatchard added:
“I think he will leave Dortmund at the end of the season, that’s been the
perceived wisdom for quite some time.
“Even though he
enjoys playing alongside Marco Reus, and Erling Braut Haaland has gone there
and they’ve struck up a relationship already – they seem to get on pretty well
on and off the pitch – I do think he’ll move.
“The finances for Dortmund make sense; we’ve seen them do
that with Ousmane Dembele, they will sell players on if they get the right
price for them
“The Premier League is a possibility and I think Chelsea
would be interested and he’s got a soft spot for them.
“Personally I think if somebody bid in the region of
€140m, I think that’s a fair price.
“If you look at what players go for now, and at the fact
Dortmund agreed a new contract with him and that several clubs will go for him,
I don’t think €140m is unreasonable.”
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