Manchester United coach reveals why Jadon Sancho hasn't apologised to Erik ten Hag

Manchester United coach Benni McCarthy has lifted the lid on Jadon Sancho's fallout with Erik ten Hag and explained why the forward did not apologise to the manager.

The 24-year-old was banished from the first-team environment at United after he refused to apologise to Ten Hag for refuting the the suggestion his training performances had been poor.

Sancho had been dropped from United's defeat to Arsenal last September because of a perceived lack of effort in team training, something he took to social media to publicly deny.

The English forward was subsequently frozen out by Ten Hag before he was sent on loan to former side Borussia Dortmund in the January window. Sancho has enjoyed success in Germany, playing a key role in their run to the Champions League final.

Now, United coach McCarthy has lifted the lid on the saga and explained the reason why Sancho did not want to apologise to the Dutch manager, despite being encouraged to do so by some of his teammates.

"I spoke to the manager and I said to him that you know the delicacy and I think Jadon feels that if he apologises then he's going to be classed as someone who doesn't train hard, that doesn't work hard, who that everything that was said against him was true," McCarthy told 947 Joburg. "If you are from the streets, no one wants to apologise, you admit you are not training well, you are lazy, everything you are accused of. Jadon wasn’t going to have that. The manager just said that all he wants is an apology."

"I spoke to Jadon as a coach, as a mentor, as a friend, and as someone who grew up on the streets and knows the code. But Jadon just wasn’t seeing it. He said, 'I ain’t apologizing because if I do, I’m apologizing for being lazy, always being late, not giving my best. That’s what I’m apologizing for', and those were his reasons".