Jadon Sancho has overestimated his own value to the club: Dimitar Berbatov

Sancho has been barred from Man United facilities

After his well-reported public altercation with manager Erik ten Hag, attacker Jadon Sancho, according to former Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov, is walking a fine line.

On the 26th of August, Sancho, 23, was absent from the 3-2 Premier League victory over Nottingham Forest at home. The subsequent 3-1 defeat at Arsenal was notable for his absence, which Ten Hag blamed on Sancho's negative attitude in practice.

Jadon Sancho responded sharply to that on social media. The Englishman stated in a since-deleted tweet that he had been used as a scapegoat, which certainly didn't sit nicely with the manager and the team.

"If it continues like this, Jadon Sancho going to go nowhere at the club. I'm very disappointed that a situation like this has been made public, and a lot of people are discussing it. Things like this happen often, but they're not made public."

Once he's done that, he needs to earn his place in the team - and the only way to do that is by training harder and playing well when the chance arises. Sometimes a player, and I hope this isn't the case for Sancho, who takes this long to resolve conflict has overestimated his own value to the club."

"United can easily decide to get rid of Sancho over this. As talented as he is, and we all saw it at Dortmund, he has yet to show any of this at United. We can only speculate why that is, maybe it's his surroundings or the people who he's around."

In response, Manchester United asked the attacker to work out and even eat with the academy players after kicking him out of the first team. Sancho's position at the club appears to be in doubt because he doesn't appear willing to make amends with Ten Hag by expressing regret for his outburst in public.

Dimitar Berbatov made a similar implication when he told Betfair (via The Daily Mail) that Sancho's conflict with Ten Hag has only one victor.