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Jadon Sancho continues to set European football alight with his superb performances for Borussia Dortmund.

The youngsters displays have been so impressive that he has even earned an England call-up for the impressive cameos he has made at the Bundesliga club from off the bench.

And Manchester City supporters will be glad to know that their side do have an edge on their rivals if they ever try to re-sign new England star Jadon Sancho.

When the club sold the 18-year-old winger to Borussia Dortmund for around £8million in the summer of 2017, after the Londoner decided against signing a lucrative new deal.

The Blues had offered him the biggest deal in the history of their academy - said to be around £30,000 a week - but when he insisted on a move, they made it plain they would not sell to a Premier League rival.

Sancho felt his chances of first-team football would be higher if he moved on, and was bold enough to accept the offer from a Bundesliga club with a track record of blooding, and improving, young players.

The deal was a good one for a player who had not been involved in the first team – although he was set to be fast-tracked into the first-team squad alongside youth team pals Phil Foden and Brahim Diaz.

City paid around £66,000 for the player when he was a dazzling 14-year-old at Watford, who also picked up around £800,000 as their cut of the sale to Dortmund.

So the Blues have already made a profit, while Sancho has quickly made a name for himself at the Westfalenstadion, with a goal and six assists – putting him top of the Bundesliga assists table - as Dortmund have claimed top spot in the league.

Sancho capped that by making his international debut for England against Croatia on Friday night, replacing Raheem Sterling in the 0-0 draw in Rijeka.

He could yet make his second Three Lions appearance when Gareth Southgate's team faces Spain in Seville this evening in their latest UEFA Nations League fixture.

There is already talk of a £100million price tag on his head, with Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea all said to be interested parties.

Dortmund have moved to protect their asset by tying him up with a new contract until 2022 and, if he does move, City are believed to have a 15 per cent sell-on clause.

If they want to take him back to the Etihad Stadium, they had a buy-back clause inserted in the contract which saw him move to Dortmund.

That means if City match any fee offered for Sancho, they will get first refusal.

The player insists he has no ill feelings towards the Blues, who left him out of the US summer tour in 2017 as he was stalling over a new contract, and he reacted by failing to turn up for training.

He did say he “had a point to prove” when he helped Dortmund beat City in a pre-season friendly in Chicago this summer, but there appears to be no serious bad blood over the matter.

His former England youth team coach Dan Micciche has already suggested Sancho could develop into being the national team’s own version of a Brazilian great.

“Provided he doesn't become restricted he could be our Neymar-type player - in terms of being unpredictable, playing on that left-hand side,” he said.

“And he's flamboyant, entertaining to watch. But like Neymar, he's effective with it.

“In most games he'll create something - it's not a beauty contest. He's not on the pitch flicking it over someone's head for the sake of it.”