They say that a watched pot never boils, and if you’ve been following the minutiae of the Jodon Sancho to Roma transfer saga, you can feel that saying in your bones. Two weeks after the wantaway Manchester United winger appeared on the transfer radar, we’ve been privy to a slew of updates that amount to little more than “he’s still thinking about it.”
With no other serious suitors and United accepting a loan plus obligation deal from Roma, Sancho seems to have only two options for the upcoming season:
ride the pine at Old Trafford and hope someone gives him the proverbial bag next summer, or move to Roma and revive his career under the guidance of one of the game’s sharpest attacking minds.
The choice seems obvious to us as Roma fans, but we’re more than two weeks into this saga, and Sancho seems paralyzed by indecision. That, or according to recent reports, his agent has prioritized taking Sancho to free agency, where they both stand to make more money, theoretically anyway—it’s difficult to imagine that Sancho, one year older and having wasted another season, would attract as much attention as he has this summer.
As we continue to play the waiting game, transfer expert Gianluca Di Marzio has given us a glimmer of hope—not that Sancho will choose Roma, but hope that this ordeal will end soon, possibly as soon as today.
Roma Sporting Director Frederic Massara arrived in London yesterday to try and secure the club’s final transfer targets and reportedly had a face-to-face meeting with Sancho’s agent in a final effort to push the deal over the line.
If nothing else, this nightmare is coming to an end.
