Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was right about Jadon Sancho's £73m transfer to Manchester United

The signing of Jadon Sancho at Manchester United this summer was the first of three marquee transfers at the club.

It was hard not to be impressed by Sancho, Raphael Varane and Cristiano Ronaldo all arriving at Old Trafford in the summer. While United didn't address their need for a midfielder, their transfer business was a statement of intent. It's just a shame that United haven't posed much of a threat in the Premier League this season. That statement of intent tragically only lasted a few games.

Although all three signings were shrewd acquisitions, Sancho was the first through the door and the £72.9m fee that Borussia Dortmund accepted seemed outstanding value for United. They had landed one of Europe's most exciting young forwards. Sancho was a player that scored 50 goals and recorded 64 assists in 137 games in Germany. The transfer appeared quite the coup.

United had been relentless in their pursuit of Sancho. The club had pushed hard in the summer of 2017 to lure Sancho from Manchester City's academy, but Dortmund won the race and that happened to be the perfect move for the player. Sancho accelerated his development walking the unorthodox path to Germany and the transfer was the making of him.

It took five years for United to sign Sancho but they finally got their man. Such were the heavy links with the player over the years, Sancho had already felt like a United player at heart. His style of play was conducive to that. He was exciting and inventive.

"This is his home, this is where he belongs," was written across United's social media accounts upon Sancho's unveiling. It strangely felt like Sancho's homecoming yet he was born in Camberwell, South London, which is just over 200 miles away from Manchester.

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