Sancho Should Ignore A Huge Transfer To Keep Developing At BvB – Barnes

Popular pundit, John Barnes has nothing against Jadon Sancho joining Liverpool in the summer if he is ready to play a bit-part role in Jurgen Klopp’s team at this stage of his career.

Barnes believes Sancho is yet to justify a high price tag so he cannot walk into a Liverpool’s line-up that has Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino.

According to him, he is still of the school of thought that young players should always try to play high-level football for four-five years before joining a bigger club since it is great for their progression.

He added that it is best for Sancho to keep developing at Dortmund while playing with less pressure and expectations in the Bundesliga.

His words, “If Jadon Sancho is willing to come to Liverpool and not play every week and sit on the bench, then absolutely he should come to Liverpool. But I always tell young players to be careful and play at a high level for four-five years before moving to a bigger club.

“Salah and Mane have been around for four or five seasons now and have shown their quality and experience, whereas Sancho has been around for 18 months and needs to show that consistency over a three-year period before he costs £100 million to a huge club. That doesn’t happen in modern football anymore, nowadays, if you are young and have just one good season, someone is going to spend £80 million-plus on you.

“I would advise Jadon Sancho to develop more and show that level of consistency before he is going to be put under a lot of pressure by being a £100 million player playing at one of the biggest clubs in the world.”

On Werner, “Timo Werner would be good competition for Mane or Salah,”

“It is more of a question about keeping the current group of players rather than going to sign new players.

“In football, it is likely that a team could lose some of the players in the summer, you never know what is going to happen.

“Right now, I would be thinking about forgetting the plans for the summer and focus on winning the league this year and finish the season strong, and then worry about what is going to happen in the summer.”