Jadon Sancho (confirmed loan signing)

[Toronto Villa]

Mushy peas are shit.

Having married a Yorkshire girl, I've spent my whole married life avoiding mushy peas like the plague. The work of the devil, they are.

Mushy peas are absolutely horrific and a blight on civilized society.

[Drummond]

You lot just don't let yourselves live. Mushy peas from.rhe chippy are spot on. Don't be buying any tinned shite though. (Heinz or otherwise).

Sancho is reaching an age where maturity could be setting in. Under a manager who knows how to get the best out of players, we could be rewarded handsomely.

[Brazilian Villain]

I wasn't a fan of mushy peas growing up, mainly because it meant Bachelors Marrowfat peas with dinner. Don't mind them now with fish and chips (plus some vinegar and gravy).

[Brazilian Villain]

My initial reaction to this signing was pretty much in line with PWS's opinion on mushy peas.

But on reflection, he's only 25 and Emery is good at getting the best out of players.  I've gone from being pretty pissed off that we are helping Man U with a problem player to thinking maybe we'll get a tune out of him.  I'm looking forward to seeing how it pans out.

Same here, I've gone from 'Oh FFS' to quite looking forward to seeing what he can do.

[Matt C]

Wouldn’t have been my first choice (and I doubt it was the manager’s either) but I could see this working in our system, playing him off the left. If  there is a coach around that can get him back on the right path it’s Emery.

I disregard his Man Ure chapter given their incredible record for ruining players and his Chelsea form is actually pretty decent.

[LostInMunich]

I've spent a bit of time* this evening trying to establish a connection between Jadon Sancho and tomato ketchup.

(Not that there NEEDS to be a connection - just to kill time while sitting on the train back to Oxford after watching the 40-year old Ravi Bopara demolish Surrey's bowlers this evening).

Here are the results of my research.

I started by Googling "Jadon Sancho tomato ketchup"**. The AI-generated summary of the results opened with this sentence:

"Jadon Sancho does not have a tomato ketchup."

Not a promising start. However, it continued:

"But he collaborated with Nando's and Nike in 2020 to release a limited-edition Sancho Sauce, which is a medium PERi-PERi sauce with BBQ and pineapple flavors, not ketchup."

Elsewhere, I learned that the BBQ-and-pineapple flavour profile was chosen to reflect his "fiery and spicy playing style".

I think we can conclude from this that Sancho is not a tomato ketchup fan. Its bland ubiquity, its sweetness, probably doesn't adequately embody his playing style.

But it's clearly true that Sancho is not opposed to all sauces, and there's probably a decent PhD to be written about precisely where - for Sancho - the boundary lies between an endorsable sauce and an unendorsable ketchup.

*Approx two minutes.

**Possible missing Stereolab album title.

[rooboy316]

"But he collaborated with Nando's and Nike in 2020 to release a limited-edition Sancho Sauce, which is a medium PERi-PERi sauce with BBQ and pineapple flavors, not ketchup."


Elsewhere, I learned that the BBQ-and-pineapple flavour profile was chosen to reflect his "fiery and spicy playing style".

I make a delicious pineapple and habanero ketchup so you can all fuck off.

So to sum up, SE is Jadon Sancho.

[Garyth]

I've spent a bit of time* this evening trying to establish a connection between Jadon Sancho and tomato ketchup.

(Not that there NEEDS to be a connection - just to kill time while sitting on the train back to Oxford after watching the 40-year old Ravi Bopara demolish Surrey's bowlers this evening).

Here are the results of my research.

I started by Googling "Jadon Sancho tomato ketchup"**. The AI-generated summary of the results opened with this sentence:

"Jadon Sancho does not have a tomato ketchup."

Not a promising start. However, it continued:

"But he collaborated with Nando's and Nike in 2020 to release a limited-edition Sancho Sauce, which is a medium PERi-PERi sauce with BBQ and pineapple flavors, not ketchup."

Elsewhere, I learned that the BBQ-and-pineapple flavour profile was chosen to reflect his "fiery and spicy playing style".

I think we can conclude from this that Sancho is not a tomato ketchup fan. Its bland ubiquity, its sweetness, probably doesn't adequately embody his playing style.

But it's clearly true that Sancho is not opposed to all sauces, and there's probably a decent PhD to be written about precisely where - for Sancho - the boundary lies between an endorsable sauce and an unendorsable ketchup.

*Approx two minutes.

**Possible missing Stereolab album title.

A+ post. Would read again.

[LeonW]

We’ll get a few good moments from him but nothing consistent, nothing that will make us want to sign him and by the summer, questions will be asked about why we spent so much on his wage to a club who seemed quite happy to help unsettle Martinez and keep everyone (including our transfer strategy) on hold all summer until the last minute. And we do them a favour. Right.

[PeterWithe]

Is Pineapple ‘fiery and spicy?’

Maybe I’ve been eating the wrong variety?

[Sexual Ealing]

Habanero is.

[ChicagoLion]

My hope is that the fear of being a flop and laughing stock will motivate him to aspire to the world beater he was supposedly destined to become.

[brontebilly]

My hope is that the fear of being a flop and laughing stock will motivate him to aspire to the world beater he was supposedly destined to become.

Tactical fit will be interesting as I don't think he replaces Ramsey or McGinn in one of the wide midfield roles that has served us well. They are very demanding roles out of possession and he doesn't have that athleticism or workrate. Maybe we need a change away from that anyway. Perhaps more of a 4231 with the likes of Rogers and himself quite high and narrow in behind Watkins. It would expose the full backs, especially down the left with Tielemans not the strongest defending counters either. But something has to change.

Maybe blind optimism but I do think Sancho can be an asset. Simply from watching our clueless attempts to break down defences sitting in of late. There's going to be plenty more of those this season with the EL etc. He's not the quickest but does have good feet and at his best can be clever. If we can get Maatsen going, they might just work with Tielemans and even Torres on that side.

[Woody17]

He will do the square root of f*** all for us and will be moved on at the end of the season. We will wonder why we bothered. A Leopard doesn’t change its spots. A gifted footballer he may be but his attitude towards the game will soon surface.

[Somniloquism]

There are some quotes doing the rounds about Sancho from Boehly but they have been debunked apparently so don't bother posting any on here.