A club colleague of the exciting 18-year-old England international is expecting big things from a talent being tipped to shine for club and country <\/p>\n
Jadon Sancho is \u201ca great player\u201d, according to Borussia Dortmund team-mate Thomas Delaney, with the England starlet being tipped to be a \u201cbright star in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n
At just 18 years of age, an exciting talent has enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence.<\/p>\n
Few could have predicted that Sancho would tread such a career path when the decision was taken to leave Manchester City in 2017.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n He has, however, gone on to establish himself at a side now topping the Bundesliga table, while also earning senior international recognition with his country.<\/p>\n There is even greater potential to be unlocked as well, with Delaney of the opinion that Sancho can reach the very top of the game if he continues on his current development curve.<\/p>\n The Danish midfielder told reporters of a highly-rated club colleague: \u201cYou can see straight away that he is a great player.<\/p>\n \u201cHe plays with a lot of joy – he is a very positive player.<\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn’t see boundaries, he sees opportunities, and you see that in his style of play. He is always seeking a challenge, always a one versus one or one versus two.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI am sure he will be a bright star in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is very relaxed as a person. There is big pressure at a club like Dortmund, but maybe he has come at the right moment where maybe there is not that expectation to win a trophy, but to build the team.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom my own experience, a national team is a little bit different than playing league football, but he is performing at Dortmund, and that gives you every tool in the box to perform at international level.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is 18 years old, and it’s crazy to say that you expect so much of him to perform in the national team, but I am sure he will. If not now, then later, because he is such a big talent.\u201d<\/p>\n Sancho, who made his England debut during a Nations League clash with Croatia in October, is back in the Three Lions squad for their upcoming fixtures.<\/p>\n Gareth Southgate\u2019s side are set to take in friendly date with the United States on Thursday, before welcoming World Cup finalists Croatia to Wembley on Sunday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A club colleague of the exciting 18-year-old England international is expecting big things from a talent being tipped to shine for club and country Jadon Sancho is \u201ca great player\u201d, according to Borussia Dortmund team-mate Thomas Delaney, with the England starlet being tipped to be a \u201cbright star in the future\u201d. At just 18 years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n