Erik ten Hag admits he would not know if Jadon Sancho will ever play for Manchester United once more. The Englishman has been excluded from the Red Devils' first staff after an explosive falling out together with his supervisor.

Sancho is coaching away from the remainder of the squad after refusing to apologise to Ten Hag for claiming he had lied concerning the causes behind him not being picked within the squad to play in opposition to Arsenal earlier this month. Ten Hag acknowledged that Sancho wasn't chosen resulting from "poor performances" in coaching, which the 23-year-old took exception to. 

Sancho went on to refute Ten Hag's claims in a now-deleted social media publish. He claimed he had been handled unfairly by his supervisor and was used as a"scapegoat". But Ten Hag stood agency on his resolution and sought an apology from his participant - one which by no means got here.

When requested if he would contemplate choosing Sancho to play for United once more in his pre-match press convention forward of this weekend's Premier League conflict in opposition to Brighton, Ten Hag replied: “I don’t know. We have a big game and we're going into a new block of games, many games in a condensed programme. I will focus on that.”

He was then quizzed on whether or not he had thought-about maintaining the rationale for Sancho's absence in opposition to Arsenal in-house, reasonably than going public with it, however once more Ten Hag caught by his resolution.

“I'm always honest. You have to keep things inside, but sometimes you can’t. When I'm asked the question, I will be honest,” he stated earlier than shutting down the road of questioning when pressed additional on the state of affairs.

“He's not available so, at this moment, he's not important, because he can’t contribute to our performance and our result, so I block it out.”

“I don’t think this subject is important. I think what's important is that I have to prepare my team. So that’s what I do. I prepare my team the best I can, I put all my effort into the players who are available. I go and prepare the team to give the best performance.

“As a club, as a team, we have to deal with that [the outside noise]. But, once again, it has no importance on the coming games. For players who didn’t have so many opportunities, now they get their opportunity, so this is their chance to come into the team. We have a really good spirit and everyone is focusing on this game and the upcoming games.”