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Spanish club Getafe has formally offered free agent Jadon Sancho a contract worth about £10,000 a week, a dramatic fall from the reported £250,000 a week he earned at Manchester United, according to The Telegraph.
The La Liga side has proposed paying the 26-year-old winger €400,000 (about £335,000) in total wages from now until June, at the end of the 2026-27 season, the report says. Sancho has not accepted the offer and no club statement has been announced; he is said to want to meet Getafe head coach José Bordalás before making his final decision.
Sancho has been a free agent since his Manchester United contract expired at the end of June, ending a five-year spell at Old Trafford that began with a £73 million move from Borussia Dortmund in 2021. He has since been training at Greater Manchester non-league club Flixton FC to maintain his fitness, after loan spells at Dortmund, Chelsea and Aston Villa — Villa, where he made 39 appearances last season, opted not to make his stay permanent.
Sancho is reported to be open to the move and attracted by the idea of playing in La Liga as a way of restarting his career, though he wants clarity from Bordalás over his role and how often he would play. Getafe president Ángel Torres has said he has been working on the deal for four months. "We've made him a final offer," Torres told Spanish radio. "He's previously played for Manchester [United] and Aston Villa, so it's not as if he's coming from anywhere. I know he's got offers from Qatar and from a number of other [clubs]. We need to be patient, not put pressure on him, and let him decide for himself."
Getafe are cash-strapped, and La Liga has previously scrutinised modest-wage deals of this kind, including one involving former Real Madrid defender Dani Carvajal. The reported terms would amount to roughly a 96 per cent cut from Sancho's United wages.
Reporting on the move has conflicted at points: Spanish journalist Pipi Estrada previously claimed the move had collapsed because Getafe could not meet Sancho's wage demands, and the new report does not establish whether the formal offer predates those comments or reflects further discussions. What is established is the offer itself, reported by The Telegraph and carried by multiple outlets: a route back into one of Europe's major leagues, at a fraction of his former pay, with the decision now Sancho's.