Jadon Sancho has shown some impressive performances so far at Chelsea, accumulating five goal contributions in his 10 Premier League appearances for the club since leaving United to join the Blues in the summer.

Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy has summarised the young player’s shortcomings with United ultimately blaming the former-manager Erik Ten Hag for his lack of support.

"At a club like United, he should have been guided through that, as I was at Liverpool by Gerard Houllier, to whom I’ll always be grateful," Murphy wrote in his Mail Online column.

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Murphy was guided through his ‘dip’ at Liverpool by Houllier, which influences his view that Ten Hag fell short on supporting Sancho. After publicly struggling at Manchester United under Ten Hag, Ruben Amorim may now be thinking ‘what if’ he had been manager during Sancho’s time as a Red.

"Sancho’s numbers as a teenager at Dortmund were amazing," Murphy added. "He went backwards at United but showed willing by taking a pay cut to be at Chelsea. That’s not the action of a young flash Harry only thinking about money.

"Looking back on his United dip, it’s almost inevitable with a player of Sancho’s age that the ego could take over and they get too big for their boots at certain stages.

"At 24, his best years lie ahead and they should be with Chelsea.”

Sancho once described his move to play for Manchester United as “a dream come true” but after initially struggling under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ralf Rangnick, Ten Hag publicly fell out with the player which pretty much ended any prospect of him making the move a success.

"I’m afraid that Ten Hag failed Sancho in that respect but Maresca’s style suits the winger," Murphy concluded.

"He wants him to be brave and to try and beat people; flicking the ball over the feet of defenders and going past them like he did as a teenager in Germany.”