Manchester United might face £50million question over their Erik ten Hag request

Two weeks have passed since Jadon Sancho was banished from first-team training at Manchester United and since then the situation has remained unchanged.

The winger was told he was training away from the first-team group after his social media outburst at Erik ten Hag after the Arsenal fixture, when the United manager had said he had left Sancho out of his squad due to training performances.

Sancho's claims that Ten Hag's statement wasn't true and that he was being made a "scapegoat" felt like a heat-of-the-moment reaction on the Sunday night of the defeat at the Emirates, but as time has passed it seems positions are becoming entrenched.

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Next week will mark a month since the incident and Sancho is still unavailable for selection pending what was termed a "squad discipline issue". United sources insist there remains a simple resolution to the stand-off, but Sancho has had 25 days to apologise and is yet to do so.

That makes the question of what comes next a difficult one to answer. Does Sancho finally relent and offer an apology with the aim of getting his career back on track? He eventually deleted his social media post, but at a time when United are short of right-wingers, he is missing out on an opportunity to get back on track.

If that isn't enough of a reward to find a way back into the fold then it suggests his faith in his own stance here is unwavering. In Ten Hag, he will have undoubtedly met his match.

The Dutchman has already shown at United that he doesn't compromise for anyone when it comes to squad discipline. Alejandro Garnacho, Marcus Rashford and Cristiano