England coach Southgate denies Sancho distracted by Man Utd move

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England coach Southgate denies Sancho distracted by Man Utd move

England coach Gareth Southgate insists Jadon Sancho hasn't been distracted by his Manchester United move.

It was announced on Thursday that Sancho would leave Borussia Dortmund for Manchester United after the Euros.

"No, in fact I think Jadon over the last seven days has trained the best level in the time with us," Southgate told ITV when asked if Sancho had been distracted by the United move. "You accept there are lots of ongoing transfer situations and nobody is coming in for talks, nobody is going out for talks.

"But we can't stop people's phones ringing and we can't stop business happening outside of that and you just have to trust the players and they're all very focused.

"I haven't really had a long discussion with him about it at this moment, because that story's been going on for 12 months. When everything's confirmed I'm sure I'll have a chat with him.

"But there's so much speculation about all of our players, I don't pick up every little individual piece but I'm checking in with the players every single day to see how they are and the biggest thing is he's been very focused in his training and that's been good."