Roy Keane believes Jadon Sancho can still rescue his Manchester United career with an apology to Erik ten Hag.
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Sancho has been banished from the first-team after his public criticism of the manager after being dropped from the squad for the Premier League meeting with Arsenal earlier this month.
The former Borussia Dortmund star has reportedly been banned from all the club’s first-team facilities, eating his meals with the club’s academy players and training alone having refused to apologise to ten Hag.
Sancho’s future at Old Trafford for now looks bleak with no return to the first-team squad in sight. Speaking on Stick to Football, Keane said he would ‘be ashamed of my life’ to be called out for a lack of effort in training by a manager.
But the United legend insists there is always a way back, insisting football dressing rooms ‘move on quickly’ once a player begins to show signs of humility.
‘I don’t think he is training right,’ Keane said of Sancho. ‘I have no issue with his personality.
‘I am not bothered about that [a player being withdrawn], the one thing we don’t really forgive a player for… we have all worked with players who have come in, they can be grumpy or whatever, but when they are training, they are training properly.
‘My annoyance with Sancho would be if he is not training properly. Whatever it is about his personality, we all different.’
He continued: ‘I’d be embarrassed, I’d be ashamed of my life if the manager ever came up to me, or even spoke through the media because you get over that stuff.
‘People say you can’t say stuff about the players through the media, yes you can, you can send messages out to people.’
Discussing Sancho’s next move, Keane said: ‘If you have got questions marks over this player, he is not training properly and he does turn around and show some sort of humility and says maybe I got it wrong, you can move on very quickly.
‘We’ve been in dressing rooms where players have come in and said: “Sorry lads I have made a mistake”, it is forgotten about very quickly.
‘Football dressing rooms are a strange dynamic, if a player shows they care and they are human, it’s fine. We move on quickly.’
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