The talented teenager took the brave decision to head for Germany in 2017 with it clear that he would not be seeing regular minutes in England <\/p>\n
Jadon Sancho has been hailed for making a \u201cgreat move\u201d to Borussia Dortmund, with former England captain Paul Ince \u201cfed up\u201d of seeing talent such as his go to waste.<\/p>\n
The exciting winger was given a solid schooling within the academy systems at Watford and Manchester City.<\/p>\n
It was, however, clear to the ambitious teenager that he was not going to get the opportunities he craved in the Premier League, with it likely that his development would be stunted as a result.<\/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 Sancho took the brave decision to go in search of regular game outside of England in the summer of 2017 and has seen a switch to Germany handsomely rewarded with competitive minutes and a senior international call-up.<\/p>\n Ince wishes more players would follow that lead and step out of stacked youth squads once it becomes apparent that their progress would be better served elsewhere.<\/p>\n The ex-Manchester United and Liverpool midfielder told Express Sport<\/em>: \u201cIt was a great move.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019d think with Gareth putting him in the squad he\u2019s in line for some minutes. If not tonight, then he should feature against Spain.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m fed up with all these players stuck in the under-23s not playing for their clubs.<\/p>\n \u201cThey can have a lot of talent, a lot of potential, but what good is that if they\u2019re not playing? They need to play. They have to play.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at my boy, Thomas. He was at Liverpool at 19 but then spent time at Notts County and Blackpool.<\/p>\n \u201cSancho is now playing at Dortmund and he\u2019s really benefitted from that move.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t necessarily say abroad, but I\u2019d like to see more young players leaving their clubs to get game time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ince made a similar move during his playing days, with two years spent in Italy with Inter.<\/p>\n He feel his game benefited from such a switch and has urged more British talent to spread its wings, with there a growing number of players now heading to continental Europe.<\/p>\n \u201cThose were the greatest years of my career,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything there was great. The food, the culture.<\/p>\n \u201cI was a bit apprehensive because there are things you need to consider. Will the wife settle? My boy was two at the time. Finding him a school as well. But they were great years. There was no better place to be.<\/p>\n \u201cItalian football had Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Carlos, Roberto Baggio. It was a great experience.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The talented teenager took the brave decision to head for Germany in 2017 with it clear that he would not be seeing regular minutes in England Jadon Sancho has been hailed for making a \u201cgreat move\u201d to Borussia Dortmund, with former England captain Paul Ince \u201cfed up\u201d of seeing talent such as his go to…<\/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-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n