£102m windfall may not solve Manchester United's Jadon Sancho and Mason Greenwood dilemmas

While Saturday's Champions League final at Wembley may have no English representation, for Manchester United it will be a contest watched with interest.

Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund will tussle it out in the final at the home of English football this evening for the right to lift the most glittering prize in the domestic European game. Ahead of Euro 2024, England star Jude Bellingham will seek to burnish his already stellar reputation by adding a Champions League winners medal to his collection at just 20.

On the opposition will be one of Bellingham’s compatriots, Jadon Sancho, a player who has been able to rebuild his faltering career thanks to a loan spell back at Dortmund from Manchester United, the club he joined in 2021 in a £73million deal. What happens next season remains an unknown.

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United, poor at player trading in comparison to their rivals in recent years, will look to move on fringe players and those no longer part of the future plans. Whether or not Sancho fits into that bracket remains to be seen, with the club likely to need a sizeable fee to encourage them to sell.

Sancho’s £73m signing on a five-year deal created an amortised cost in the annual financial accounts of £14.6m. Three years have almost passed on that initial deal and £43.8m has been accounted for, with Sancho’s remaining book value standing at around £29.2m. Only a fee over and above that would represent any kind of player trading profit for United.

Sums of around the £50m mark would seem feasible in the current market, but while Sancho's loan deal has been a win-win-win