Former Manchester United defender John O’Shea believes Jadon Sancho needs to bite the bullet and end his stand off with Erik ten Hag.
Sancho, 23, has been banished from first-team duties since he hit out at the manager who had criticised his training levels.
The winger took to social media after writing an ill-advised statement and suggested Ten Hag had lied to the media.
It is understood that Sancho will continue to train away from the first team if he refuses to apologise for his actions.
O’Shea has weighed in on the matter and suggested that an apology would be the right thing to do.
Speaking to talkSPORT, the former United and Republic of Ireland defender said: “Yeah, obviously look it does [seems like an extreme punishment] but very simply for me, it boils down to an argument between the manager and a player.
“Ultimately, the manager generally wins and that’s always been the case. If Jadon wants to get back playing football for United as quickly as possible, look maybe he might not mean it but just go and apologise.
“Then you’re back involved in the squad and back involved with a chance to play. I know it’s not ideal with how public it’s been but it can be resolved very quickly.”
Former Aston Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor then asked what would happen if a player was to take to social media and hit out at Sir Alex Ferguson. O’Shea replied: “You might have been banished from the UK, never mind the training ground!
“On a serious note Gabby, if you go back to your time with Martin O’Neill, if you had an argument with Martin and you felt you were in the right, ultimately you’d still be going to apologise.
“In a sense it has to be that way because the manager has the lead from the front in terms of the discipline side of things to get hopefully everything right on the pitch as well.
“It’s been a challenging start, a few injuries and a few decisions going against them haven’t helped but they had a decent enough performance and win against Burnley and they’ll be looking to carry that on against Palace.”
Other clubs will be watching Sancho closely to see how the situation unfolds in the coming months.
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