Jadon Sancho whipped off his shirt as he raced away to celebrate, having just sealed the deal in last night\u2019s UEFA Conference League final with a fantastic strike into the side-netting to make it 3-1. If that is to be his final contribution in a Chelsea shirt, it\u2019s certainly not a bad one \u2014 especially for a player against whom one of the more consistent knocks had been his reticence to take shots.<\/p>\n
Chelsea do have the option to make Sancho\u2019s stay permanent, and given today\u2019s market, that \u00a325m is not exactly an outrageous fee (even with just a year left on his contract). On the other hand, it\u2019s not exactly a huge penalty either to pay just \u00a35m if we were to not take up that option, and simply send Sancho back to Manchester United<\/a> (sorry, Jadon, it wouldn\u2019t be personal I\u2019m sure).<\/p>\n Enzo Maresca seemed to hint last night that he\u2019d prefer the 25-year-old winger to stay.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom now on is when we sit down with the club and decide about next year. Jadon Sancho, if we finished fourth, it\u2019s because of Jadon, if we won tonight it\u2019s because of Jadon. […] During the season, everyone is up and down a little bit, that\u2019s part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n -Enzo Maresca; source: TNT Sport via Yahoo! Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The final decision could come down to wages, as detailed by Sky Sports<\/a> today. Sancho\u2019s currently being paid as per the terms of his \u20ac85m move to United from Borussia Dortmund<\/a> four years ago. While we don\u2019t actually know those terms, they may be as high as \u00a3300k per week (with United covering 50 per cent during his loan<\/a>). Regardless of the exact amount, it\u2019s probably fair to say that it doesn\u2019t fit into our current wage structure.<\/p>\n Would Sancho forgo that final lucrative year and take a paycut in order to stay at Chelsea? If yes \u2014 and talks are apparently ongoing \u2014 he might just do so. (And more reasonable wages could also improve any future market conditions for him, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jadon Sancho whipped off his shirt as he raced away to celebrate, having just sealed the deal in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[59824,885,6274,59826,59828,6092,25036,94,163,21735,2348,256,61898,59827,19773,49079,61899,79,59825,47583,19878,25034,16,15,43070,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-143311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-ain","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-chelsea-fc","11":"tag-chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news","12":"tag-chelsea-transfer-news-rumours","13":"tag-contract","14":"tag-english-premier-league-transfers-news-rumors","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-front-page","17":"tag-got","18":"tag-history","19":"tag-in","20":"tag-jadon","21":"tag-manchester-united-transfer-news-rumours","22":"tag-no","23":"tag-over","24":"tag-sancho","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-t","27":"tag-talks","28":"tag-terms","29":"tag-transfer-rumors","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-we","33":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114595167369830895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n