Joe Cole has offered to try to nurture Jadon Sancho back to being one of the brightest talents in English football.
The Manchester United winger has been left at home for tonight’s game against Copenhagen after falling out with manager Erik Ten Hag.
But former Chelsea, Liverpool and England international Cole, who turned down a £10m chance to join United himself as a 16-year-old, believes Sancho could turn things around with the right advice.
“I would love to speak to him and his people and try to help,” he said. “He’s clearly a young player with a heck of a lot of talent
“It’s not going to work for him at Manchester United and I don’t know what his next move is, but there’s still a player in him.”
Cole knows what it is like to be earmarked as a top talent at a young age after growing up in the spotlight of the West Ham academy breaking age records along the way.
Now he wants to channel some of those lessons into helping Sancho complete the transition from his successful spell at Borussia Dortmund back to the Premier League.
“If i was a young coach I would take Jadon Sancho and fancy I could get the best out of him,” the TNT Champions League pundit said
“Give me Sancho as a manager every day of the week, rather than a ham-and-egg, run-of-the-mill player.
“But a player of that quality needs a little bit of nurturing and help.”
Sancho has remained away from the senior United group since his acrimonious bust-up with Ten Hag, and has not even been permitted to eat with his team-mates at the club’s Carrington base.
Former club Borussia Dortmund had been linked with a return move for Sancho, though so far the German giants have distance themselves from the conversation.
A lucrative switch to Saudi Arabia remains a firm option for Sancho in January, and would permit the youngster to continue earning in the region of his current eye-watering £250,000-per-week wages at Old Trafford.
Though it remains to be seen whether the player has his heart set on remaining in the Premier League and proving his capabilities at the highest level.
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