“Even though he wins the champions league with Borussia Dortmund I won’t accept him to Manchester United dressing room, he has to apologize-Erig Ten Hag has sent Jadon Sancho a Shocking message ahead of Champions league clash with Reao Madrid

While there is no English presence in Saturday’s Champions League final at Wembley Stadium, Manchester United will be watching with interest.

Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund will face off in the final in the heart of English football this evening for the opportunity to raise the most prestigious medal in domestic European football. Ahead of Euro 2024, England star Jude Bellingham will want to further his already excellent reputation by adding a Champions League winner’s medal to his collection at the age of twenty.

One of Bellingham’s countrymen, Jadon Sancho, will be up against him. Sancho has been able to recover his floundering career owing to a loan stint back at Dortmund from Manchester United, whom he joined in 2021 for £73 million. What happens next season is uncertain.

United, who have been bad at player dealing in recent years when compared to their competitors, will try to offload peripheral players and those who are no longer part of their long-term ambitions. It remains to be seen if Sancho falls into that category, with the club likely to want a significant amount to persuade them to sell.

Sancho’s £73 million signing on a five-year contract resulted in an amortised cost of £14.6 million in the yearly financial records. Three years have already elapsed since that first sale, and £43.8 million has been accounted for, leaving Sancho’s residual book value at about £29.2 million. Only a charge over that would indicate United’s player trade profit.

Sums of approximately £50 million appear to be conceivable in the present market, but while Sancho’s loan arrangement has been a win-win for the player, United, and Dortmund, whether or not BVB will be able to reach that zone is debatable. Dortmund has been one of Europe’s finest at player trading: from Bellingham to Erling Haaland, they’ve been able to purchase low, sell high, reinvest the proceeds, and repeat the cycle.

This season’s success has been aided by significant loan signings for Premier League players who were unable to get playing time at their respective clubs, with Sancho joining Chelsea with Ian Maatsen. The Bundesliga club paid a €3.5 million (£3 million) fee to loan Sancho for six months, with a further €4 million (£3.4 million) in potential add-ons and Champions League options. United insiders told MEN Sport that a’significant’ incentive was unlocked when Dortmund advanced for the semi-finals, with another payment triggered after BVB defeated PSG to reach the Wembley Final.

Dortmund are not huge spenders in the market, and considering that their previous greatest spending was €35 million (£30 million) for Ousmane Dembele for the 2023/24 season, taking a major financial jump on incomings hasn’t been the Black and Yellow’s style. However, Champions League success may have transformed both their capacity and inclination to reinvest more, with the club being connected with a bid for another United youngster, Mason Greenwood, who is on loan at Spanish club Getafe.

Dortmund has earned around £102 million from the club’s journey to the final this season, which includes participation fees, prize money, the UEFA coefficient, and the makeup of Germany’s TV market pool. This provides the team more financial freedom moving into the summer.

While Greenwood has been linked with a potential extension to his United deal in order to preserve his market value – with the forward having only one-year to run on his current contract and any sale of his representing pure profit due to him being an academy graduate – Sancho appears to be further along the line when it comes to a potential permanent departure, especially given that a loan spell where he helped a side to the Champions League final on the grandest stage of Greenwood’s next move will most likely be a loan, with Dortmund mentioned as a possible destination.

Dortmund’s stumbling point will not be the transfer fee; they will have the financial resources to cover it. It will be the long-term payroll impact of signing someone like Sancho, who is rumored to earn over £300,000 per week, significantly more than any existing Dortmund player.

It highlights a problem caused by the Premier League’s own wealth generation: wages have risen as a result of booming media rights deals, but the lack of riches elsewhere in Europe means that selling to other major European leagues is now more difficult than ever because the cost of acquisition is simply too high for even the continent’s heaviest hitters.

Dortmund, a club whose clear strategy has enabled them achieve persistent success despite needing to sell their greatest assets on a regular basis, may be hesitant to invest their Champions League winnings on a player they previously sold for a large profit.