John Mikel Obi joins Zlatan Ibrahimovic to condemn Erik Ten Hag’s handling of Jadon Sancho

John Mikel Obi joins Zlatan Ibrahimovic to condemn Erik Ten Hag’s handling of Jadon Sancho

Ex-Chelsea and former Nigerian player, John Mikel Obi, recently commented on the situation between coach Erik Ten Hag and a player, Jadon Sancho, at Manchester United.

Reports claim that the first-team players at Manchester United are siding with coach Erik Ten Hag after the coach’s blunder at a post-match press conference started a problem that saw Jadon Sancho being excluded from playing in the first team and using any of their facilities.

In the press conference that took place after a match Manchester United played against Arsenal, the coach alleged that the reason Jadon Sancho did not play with the team that day was because of his bad performances during training. Sancho went over to his social media handle and refuted this, thereby calling Coach Ten Hag a liar.

Since then, Sancho has been banned by the coach from playing with the first team until he apologises, but he has refused. Speaking on the situation, Mikel Obi argued that the coach messed up, saying that the matter should not have been mentioned during the press conference but rather should have been settled internally.

‘I think that [the coach’s press-conference statement] should be a no-no. Everybody is going about Sancho not apologising,’ said Mikel Obi. ‘I have a different view on that. My view is that the manager shouldn’t have said what he said in public.