GREEN LIGHT?.

MASON GREENWOOD and Jadon Sancho MIGHT have Manchester United futures.

But new owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe will not allow either of them back to the club if he does not believe it is possible.

Greenwood, who went on loan to Getafe in September, has not featured for United since he was suspended after being arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault in January 2022.

All charges were subsequently dropped but the Red Devils suggested the former England man was unlikely to return to the club.

Sancho is now back at Borussia Dortmund on loan after a huge fall-out with manager Erik ten Hag meant he was banished to the youth team in September.

And while Ratcliffe insisted he was talking about a general “principle” rather than either player specifically, he did not close the door definitively on the pair.

Ratcliffe said: “We will make a decision.

“I don’t know if he (Greenwood) could still have a future.

“All I can do is talk about the principle of how we will approach decisions like that.

“Is he the right type of footballer? Are we happy with that? Is he a good person or not?

“He (Greenwood) is a Manchester United footballer and we are in charge of football.

“So the answer is it’s quite clear we have to make a decision. There is no decision that’s been made. He’s on loan obviously but he’s not the only one.

“We’ve got one or two footballers that we have to deal with and we have to make a decision on – so we will do that.

“The process will be – understand the facts not the hype and then try and come to a fair decision on the basis of values – which is basically whether he is a good guy or not.

“Could he play sincerely for Manchester United well and would we be comfortable with it and the fans be comfortable with it?

“I can talk about the principle. The principle is the important one because we will have other issues going forwards.

“You are dealing with young people who have not always been brought up in the best circumstances, who have a lot of money and don’t always have the guidance they should have.

“What we need to do when we have issues like that is to understand the real effects, not the hype.

“Then we need to make a fair decision in the light of the club’s values. That’s what we need to do and that’s how we will deal with it.”

Greenwood has made a huge impact since arriving at Getafe.

He has scored five goals and assisted five more in 21 LaLiga appearances for the club.

His impressive form has even seen him linked with an incredible move to Barcelona.

But his time in LaLiga has also been shrouded in controversy after allegations of a row with fellow Englishman Jude Bellingham.

The latter is under investigation over claims he called Greenwood a ‘rapist’ when Getafe played Real Madrid earlier this year.

LaLiga have called in a lip reader to investigate a complaint by Getafe about the alleged slur, with a decision still pending. — The Sun.