Jadon Sancho deletes social media post hitting out at Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag

Jadon Sancho has deleted a bombshell social media post in which he undermined Erik ten Hag.

An astonishing exchange between Sancho and Manchester United manager Ten Hag took centre stage during the season's first international break after the forward was dropped from the matchday squad against Arsenal. Ten Hag put that decision down to what he described as underwhelming training performances from Sancho.

The 23-year-old hit straight back in a now-deleted message uploaded to X (formerly Twitter) in the aftermath. Ten Hag was thought to have stood by his original comments, while the ex-Borussia Dortmund player was due back at Carrington on Monday afternoon for discussions with the manager over his future.

Ten Hag is expected to address that saga publicly during his next pre-match press conference. United resume their season against Brighton on Saturday afternoon (3pm) and the Dutchman is due to speak 24 hours before.

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Sancho returns to training ground for discussions

When first explaining Sancho's absence against Arsenal, Ten Hag said: "Jadon was [not picked] on his performance [levels] in the training. We didn't select him. You have to reach a level every day at Manchester United, and we can make choices on the frontline, so for this game he wasn't selected."

Sancho, though, disagreed with that assessment from Ten Hag. In a short reply on X, he said: "Please don't believe everything you read. I will not allow people saying things that [are] completely untrue... I have conducted myself in training very well this week.

"I believe there are other reasons for this matter which I