Jadon Sancho tore up the rule book. 📚
Southerners don't go up north. Sancho left Watford to join Manchester City at 14. 🧭
English players don't move abroad. Sancho left City to join Borussia Dortmund at 17. ✈️
Teenagers are meant to keep their head down and toe the line. Sancho took Dortmund's no.7 shirt after Ousmane Dembele's £135.5m departure to Barcelona and set about putting experienced Bundesliga defenders on highlight reels. 🎥
It's only right, then, that Sancho's homecoming sees him go against the grain and swap the blue half of Manchester for the red half. Carlos Tevez eat your heart out. Having given Bundesliga opponents nightmares, the 21-year-old lands in the Theatre of Dreams. ☁️
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