🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jadon Sancho

[DH1988 1,348]

10 minutes ago, Vesper said:

this aged well

See my post in transfers thread re: Jadon. 

Take it on the chin though.

[Vesper 30,185]

1 minute ago, DH1988 said:

See my post in transfers thread re: Jadon. 

Take it on the chin though.

I think he will end up a massive upgrade over Mudryk and Sterling

and his price was so low and he took a huge pay cut to come here

[TheHulk 2,457]

16 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Man United are not covering wages, but we are not paying him Man Utd wages either.

The Athletic reports that the Englishman took a significant pay cut to force his move out of Manchester United as he looks to get his career back on track under manager Enzo Maresca, whose style of football suits Sancho's game much more than that of Erik ten Hag.

From what I understood we are indeed covering most of his wages this season and United a tiny portion and after this season when his transfer will be made permanent he will be on a wage cut salary.

[Vesper 30,185]

lolol

Sancho’s Post-Match Interview Angers Man Utd Fans

 

https://www.givemesport.com/manchester-united-fans-unhappy-jadon-sancho-Chelsea-interview/

Those who favour the Old Trafford outfit are unhappy with Sancho’s blend of ‘confidence’ and ‘arrogance’ to speak so freely in a post-match interview, given how poorly he performed for them over an 83-game stint.

A video of his interview, which has gone viral on X (Twitter), had a Manchester United fan narrating over it, and he admitted to being angered, saying: “Do you know what? I’m actually wound up. Watching Jadon Sancho in his interview. The confidence, the arrogance after he’s had two, three years of mediocrity at United.

“As a United fan, I think we’re justified to feel a little bit pissed off at the fact that he can come on 45 minutes into this game, get Man of the Match on his Chelsea debut. Look at the confidence with him! Where was that Sancho at United, seriously?”

 

[Vesper 30,185]

Could Jadon Sancho be the left-side threat Chelsea have lacked since Eden Hazard left?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5767296/2024/09/15/jadon-sancho-Chelsea-left-side-threat/

In recent weeks, the first bullet point of the opposition scouting report on Chelsea has become increasingly clear: stop their right flank and you have a great chance to beat them.

Wolves had paid a brutal price for giving Cole Palmer and Noni Madueke space to combine on that side in the second half of last month’s 6-2 defeat at Molineux.

Bournemouth were determined not to make the same mistake — Lewis Cook man-marked Palmer in the right half-space while Milos Kerkez harassed Madueke from behind near the touchline. Even if one of Chelsea’s two most dangerous attackers received a forward pass with a successful first touch, no second touch went without a foul.

Although it was not particularly subtle, it was highly effective. Madueke, scorer of four goals in his last six appearances for club and country, was reduced to gesturing in frustration when substituted in the 62nd minute at the Vitality Stadium. Palmer endured his quietest stretch on the pitch since his peripheral first half against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on the opening weekend.

Yet despite successfully shutting down the area of the pitch that contained Chelsea’s only reliable path to chance creation, Bournemouth lost. Their unlikely defeat was a tale of Sanchez and Sancho, and the way it played out could be hugely significant to the development of Enzo Maresca’s team.

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Robert Sanchez enjoyed the biggest night of his Chelsea career in goal, capping a string of solid saves with a spectacular dive to his left to keep out Evanilson’s first-half penalty kick and bail out Wesley Fofana for a horrendously botched backpass.

Stirred by that reprieve, the half-time introduction of Jadon Sancho truly transformed the game and offered a tantalising glimpse into how he could change Chelsea for the better.

 

Over the last six seasons, Chelsea’s attack has changed as much in style as it has in personnel, from a unit dominated by a master creator operating from the left (Eden Hazard) to one primarily deployed on the right (Palmer). Between those two polar extremes came a steady flow of influence from left to right under Thomas Tuchel, primarily driven by the understandable desire to maximise the rare attacking talents of Reece James as a rampaging wing-back.

The graphic below shows how the distribution of Chelsea’s final-third entries in the Premier League has changed, with nearly a third of their attacks coming down the left flank six years ago but under a quarter last season.

Any team’s attacking patterns will invariably skew towards the location of their best players, but a dramatic imbalance is rarely healthy. Hazard’s brilliance in 2018-19 was even more astonishing because Chelsea’s opponents frequently loaded their defensive resources towards him, away from the opposite flank where Cesar Azpilicueta and Willian offered more tactical ballast than creative balance.

It was a similar story last season when Palmer frequently tormented teams from the right but Mauricio Pochettino struggled to get any consistent attacking production out of his left side. On that flank, Raheem Sterling did not deliver goals and assists at the level of a squad’s highest earner and Mykhailo Mudryk frequently looked unprepared to make a positive impact on Premier League games.

Pedro Neto’s arrival from Wolves for £51.4million ($67m) last month was Chelsea’s first attempt to address this specific need in the transfer market but the Portuguese left-footer looks a little too predictable in his movements on the left flank. In the first half at the Vitality Stadium, he even struggled to get consistent touches amid a swarming Bournemouth press.

His toils were amplified by Maresca’s surprising deployment of full-back Marc Cucurella as a receiver in the left half-space when Chelsea were in possession. Tracked dutifully by his marker Antoine Semenyo, Cucurella offered little more than an unusual distraction in the opening 45 minutes, giving the entire left side of the team the look of a post-modern tactical experiment.

It took Sancho three minutes on the pitch to make sense of it all, receiving the ball in space on the left and playing a quick, incisive pass to pick out Cucurella’s underlapping run into a crossing position; the resulting delivery came agonisingly close to giving Madueke a tap-in.

From that moment, he oozed confidence and class, immediately sure of his place in Maresca’s system and his ability to find his new team-mates in front of the travelling Chelsea fans, who needed no second invitation to sing his name. Shortly before the hour mark, he edged infield from the left, freezing two Bournemouth defenders with a tight dribble and manufacturing a window through which he flicked a pass right to an unmarked Jackson, who curled over.

That proved a prelude to the sequence that resulted in Chelsea’s winner: Sancho angling his body infield to survey his options, jinking and shifting to create separation from his defender, then picking the perfect time to find Christopher Nkunku with the momentum and weight of pass that enabled the Frenchman to swivel and wriggle between three Bournemouth defenders and beat Mark Travers with a quick shot, as clever as it was clinical.

Chelsea fans have grown accustomed to seeing Palmer nonchalantly dissect Premier League defences with similar passes from the right side over the past year. Now, in Sancho, they have a winger with the vision, spatial awareness and ball mastery to do the same from the left, which should make life much harder on opponents with finite defensive tools to stifle Maresca’s attack.

“I said when we brought in Jadon that the reason why is because we were looking for another winger like Noni,” Maresca said after the Bournemouth win. “Noni is doing that on the right side, winning one-v-one, creating chances, scoring goals and we were looking for the same on our left side with Jadon.”

The key for Chelsea’s new attacking balance is ensuring they get this version of Sancho consistently — the Borussia Dortmund vintage rather than the tainted Manchester United variety. If they do, supporters will be singing his name weekly and Maresca’s front line will soon be the spectacular sum of its hugely talented individual parts.

Edited September 19, 2024 by Vesper

[Vesper 30,185]

EA FC 25 CENSOR Jadon Sancho as gamers notice the franchise blurs out the Chelsea winger's tattoos

Tattoos including characters, such as Bart Simpson, have not been included for copyright reasons

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13894909/EA-FC-25-CENSOR-Jadon-Sancho-gamers-notice-franchise-blurs-Chelsea-wingers-tattoos.html

Eagle eyed gamers have noticed a key difference in Chelsea star Jadon Sancho's likeness on EA FC 25.

The latest installment of the series will officially go on sale on Friday across various consoles.

Fans who bought the 'Ultimate Edition' have been able to play the game since September 20.

Some gamers have noted that several of Sancho's tattoos have been censored, with the designs not carried over.

This includes a sleeve on his right arm, which features well known characters including Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario, Spiderman and Bart Simpson.

 

 

 

 

While the overall shape of the tattoo sleeve has been maintained, the characters have been censored.

The move comes due to EA not possessing the copyright for the characters, leaving them with no option but to make amendments to Sancho's likeness.

The ink on the tattoos is shown in black on his arm in the game to avoid breaching copyright.

Speaking in 2019, Sancho had previously bemoaned his tattoos not being in FIFA, as the game was known at the time: 'My tattoo has got to be in the next FIFA game.

'EA should also take a closer look at my hair to get my hairstyle better.

'Because my hair actually has a transition on the sides, but not in FIFA 20.'

 Sancho had explained his growing collection of tattoos in 2021, with characters included due to liking comics when he was younger.

The forward also has a tattoo in tribute to his younger brother, who passed away when he was young.

Sancho is seeking to rebuild his career at Chelsea after completing a summer move from Man United.

He moved to Stamford Bridge on a season-long loan with an obligation to buy for around £23m next summer. 

Sancho has contributed assists in his two Premier League games for the Blues to date. 

 

[Mário César 1,274]

Sancho has been just decent, but the difference between him and Mudryk is incredible.

[TheHulk 2,457]

Think most of the new attackers need a couple months to really settle in, I'm confident we will look even better in a few months.

[DH1988 1,348]

Seems to be relishing not being under pressure and his relationship with Cole is so noticeable.

Happy to be wrong, his shit housery retweeting after United lost yesterday doesn't go amiss either.

[DH1988 1,348]

Went under the radar today, thought he looked leggy and less dynamic than when he first arrived. Still made an impact and his movement is particularly good at providing us balance. Odd one.

[King Kante 1,643]

8 hours ago, DH1988 said:

Went under the radar today, thought he looked leggy and less dynamic than when he first arrived. Still made an impact and his movement is particularly good at providing us balance. Odd one.

This is what Utd fans hated about him. That he appears most of the time like he has just rolled out of bed. 

Today, I actually thought he had a reasonable first half with the ball and then disappeared in the second half. For me, he should only ever be expected to play a max 45-60 mins and then only really be used when possession is key. He isn't really a player to run around and/or press much. 

[Vesper 30,185]

I am glad we bought him.

Same for Felix.

[Thor 2,712]

I like the balance he brings to the team. 

Whenever he has the ball, you never think he will lose it, and he somehow plays the game at a pace that puts defences at unease. 

I really like what he is doing on his wing, but like someone mentioned, 60 minutes is enough generally.

[King Kante 1,643]

On 02/12/2024 at 13:29, Thor said:

I like the balance he brings to the team. 

Whenever he has the ball, you never think he will lose it, and he somehow plays the game at a pace that puts defences at unease. 

I really like what he is doing on his wing, but like someone mentioned, 60 minutes is enough generally.

Yeah, my friend mentioned that he seemed to be playing like Willian. I think that was a good comparison. A player who need for high possession games that will get decent stats but not amazing. However, most likely won't go completely apologies, even if he can be a bit patchy within a 90 minute spell. Key will probably be not allowing him to take set pieces as we all remember that story. 

[DH1988 1,348]

Very pleasing to see him get his first goal, tap the badge (for what it's worth), and play with some vigor again.

[TheHulk 2,457]

Steal of the season for 24m. 

[NikkiCFC 8,324]

28 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

Steal of the season for 24m. 

We basically swapped Mount for Sancho and 40m. And got way better player.

Mount for United 1g 1a in 16 months. 

Sancho 2g 5a for Chelsea in 3 months here. 

Edited December 8, 2024 by NikkiCFC

[ZAPHOD2319 4,819]

 

[Thor 2,712]

I think Sancho just about deserves to be a full time locked in starter out there on his wing. 

He provides that pressure release valve much like Hazard use to in a way - where he will get the ball at times with 4 or so players in proximity and it doesn't look good, but he weaves his way around and lets us retain possession and start an attack with the other team somewhat out of position and scrambling.

With the ball at his feet, he is the player in my opinion the ball feels safest with. His close control is insane. 

[Vesper 30,185]

Is Jadon Sancho turning into the player everyone thought he would be at Chelsea?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5993826/2024/12/17/jadon-sancho-Chelsea-analysis-manchester-united/

The most surprising thing about Jadon Sancho’s brilliant goal against Tottenham was not that his low, arcing shot from outside the penalty area whipped into the net off Fraser Forster’s far post. It was that he decided to shoot at all.

Receiving the ball on the half-turn near the touchline, Sancho’s go-to move at Chelsea has been to play a well-timed, perfectly weighted pass infield to an underlapping runner. In the sequence below, that runner was Enzo Fernandez. But the Argentina international’s movement also opens up space for Sancho to dart into a more central area with the ball. On this occasion, he does, and actively hunts his own shot rather than searching for an incisive pass:

“In training, I’ve been working on my shooting a bit more,” Sancho told Sky Sports after the win at Spurs. “The staff and the players have been telling me to be a bit more selfish in front of goal, so I’ve been working on that.”

It was only Sancho’s sixth shot attempt in 10 league appearances for Chelsea (only seven of which have been starts), but he went on to have two more against Tottenham. This one came from a much more recognisable move: slipping in the underlapping Marc Cucurella from the left side, then moving diagonally into the penalty area to connect with the Spaniard’s deft return pass and poke a shot which Forster just managed to tip away from danger.

Sancho also hurt Spurs with his playmaking, dropping a shoulder to evade Timo Werner on the left flank before slipping a no-look diagonal pass into the box for Moises Caicedo to draw a reckless tackle from Yves Bissouma and win the first of two Chelsea penalties in the game.

It was a classic example of the qualities that Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca was keen to highlight in Sancho. He had returned to the team with two assists from the right wing in a 2-0 away win over Heidenheim in the Europa Conference League.

“He is what we need, especially against a team that defends with a low block,” Maresca said of Sancho in his post-match press conference. “We need that quality in the last third, the last pass and he can shoot, sometimes he will shoot more than he did against Heidenheim. But I think he is going to help us a lot.”

Sancho’s second assist against the Bundesliga side was eerily reminiscent of his Borussia Dortmund days: sucking a defender towards him before initiating a slick one-two with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and then picking out Mykhailo Mudryk with a cutback to the edge of the box:

That outing was something of an exception in the early months of Sancho’s career at Chelsea. One significant reason why he is looking more like the best version of himself is simply that he is getting more opportunities to play in his favoured left-wing role than he did at Manchester United, or even at Dortmund.

Another is Maresca’s appreciation of the fact that Sancho is a footballer who does his best work in small spaces rather than big ones. He does not have the top speed nor lightning acceleration that helped make Eden Hazard so devastating at Chelsea, but he does possess a similar level of ball mastery and passing vision to the great Belgian.

In particular, he is a maestro at manipulating defenders with the ball to create valuable passing angles to team-mates. This sequence in his impressive Chelsea debut against Bournemouth in September was a sign of things to come: he moves down the left flank, drawing three defenders towards him with a series of body feints and jinks, before picking the perfect moment to poke the ball infield to a wide open Nicolas Jackson, who curls his shot narrowly over:

Sancho’s combination of ball-carrying and passing has already become an important element of Chelsea’s attacking play whenever he is on the pitch. The below totals are even more impressive when you consider he has played just 582 minutes in the Premier League this season, considerably fewer than many of his Chelsea team-mates; his 7.4 box entries per 90 minutes are the most of anyone in Maresca’s squad.

With three assists in his first nine Premier League appearances for Chelsea, Sancho has already equalled his assist totals in each of his two full seasons at United. In terms of creation, he already seems to be on a path back to something that more closely resembles the wing terror who racked up 45 assists in four full Bundesliga seasons with Dortmund.

But for his playmaking to be truly maximised he must also be a more consistent threat to score, which explains the recent emphasis on upping his shot attempts. Sancho has taken seven shots in his last five appearances across all competitions for Chelsea, having had only one in his previous seven. Even with this recent burst, he is still averaging fewer shot attempts per 90 minutes in the Premier League (1.2) than Maresca’s right-back/auxiliary No 8 Malo Gusto (1.4).

Sancho has never been a high-volume shooter. His career-high average of 2.2 attempts per 90 minutes (for Dortmund in the 2020-21 Bundesliga campaign) would rank well below Noni Madueke (4.3 shots per 90), Cole Palmer (3.5 shots per 90) and Jackson (3.1 shots per 90) at Chelsea in the Premier League this season.

But when he does shoot, Sancho has demonstrated the ability to be a highly efficient finisher. In his two best scoring seasons at Dortmund, he found the net with around 30 per cent of his shots, which is broadly in line with his conversion rate for Chelsea so far in 2024-25 (two goals from eight shots, or 25 per cent).

In that respect, he is also similar to Hazard, who frequently had to be cajoled by team-mates and a series of coaches to be more selfish in the final third. “I like to give my friends the glory in front of the camera and assist them as much as I can,” Sancho said with a smile in a recent interview with Sky Sports.

That creation alone is enough to make him highly valuable to Maresca, but if Sancho can balance his playmaking tendencies with scaling up his shot attempts, Chelsea may well see him blossom into the all-round attacking superstar that United thought they were getting from Dortmund three years ago.