Guardiola: Sancho reneged on deal
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says that young winger Jadon Sancho reneged on an agreed new contract at Manchester City before joining Borussia Dortmund.
Sancho joined Dortmund earlier this summer for a fee thought to be in the region of £8m.
The youngster was named player of the tournament during this summer's U17 European Championship and had ben expected to travel with City on their pre-season tour of the US.
However, the player effectively went on strike, failing to turn up to training and was thus dropped from City's pre-season squad.
Speaking ahead of City's 5-0 victory over Liverpool, Guardiola insisted that Sancho had agreed a new contract with the club before later changing his mind.
'We arrived at an agreement with Sancho, we shook our hands. We offered him a huge deal in terms of the salary,' the City boss said.
'Before we went to the States we believed the next step is to train every single day - like with (Phil) Foden and Brahim (Diaz). He decided, or the manager decided, "I am not going to sign the contract".
'We said "OK, you are not going to travel to the States". After that he didn't appear in the training sessions. He should come but he didn't. I said "where are you?" I don't know, he didn't train.
'Even after we shook hands and (they) regretted that and said no, we insisted and met the father and the managers, but if the player says "no no no", what can we do?
'The family - and especially the manager - have to know we had a lot of confidence in him.
'He wanted to play in the first team. I said: "OK you are going to train with us. If you win you are going to play." Duel with Walker, with Benjamin Mendy, with Vincent Kompany - we will see your level.
'I cannot assure them, even the best players we have like Sergio (Aguero) and other ones, that you are going to play. I would be a liar, it's not true.'