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Brian, fans have always liked to hear about who their team may be signing. Papers like to sell papers and sites like people to click on them to make money. Pretty easy deduction to be made why many rumours are reported, some of which won’t happen or may even be completely made up.
I think you gave yourself the best advise with the last line.
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Sean, I think you are wrong mate, everything is now pointing at Sancho staying at BvB. If he does go then the Zorc and the club itself will be a laughing stock and have to answer to very angry fans.
With his contract now being known to be until 2023 BvB are under no pressure to sell him. As far as I am aware he hasn’t caused any problems with the club’s decision.
Yeah he is an outstanding young player, 59 goals or assist in 66 games for his first 2 full seasons says so.
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Ed you missed Leon Bailey from your list!
I think what the report is now saying is the BvB are in a strong position with Sancho as they are not under any pressure to sell due to his contract expiring soon. Why it wasn’t declared last year I do not know.
For any team with a player much in demand like Sancho and Havertz it makes sense if they can (and makes sense regarding contracts) to delay any sale till next year when hopefully things will be back to normal and more teams will have the funding. They want a bidding war.
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According to the German magazine Kicker, Sancho has already signed a new 3 year contract. Translated by Google the report states:
“A bang at the start of the BVB training camp in Switzerland. Borussia Dortmund secretly, quietly and quietly extended Jadon Sancho’s contract to 2023 a year ago. In recognition of his top performance, his salary was increased accordingly. Sports director Michael Zorc assured that the Englishman would “definitely” play for BVB next season.
At 12.47 p.m. on Monday, Jadon Sancho got off the team bus in front of the Grand Resort Hotel Quellenhof, the base cap turned back, the protective mask pulled over his mouth and chin, which was not in accordance with the regulations. The fact that the Englishman was one of the 31 traveling soccer players from the BVB delegation had already ended speculation about a transfer to Manchester United three hours earlier at Dortmund airport. The third of the past Premier League season was unable to pay the required 120 million euros. Or want to.
For Sancho this means: the personal change period has passed, another year in the Bundesliga, another season in BVB.
Borussia and the player’s agency rule out that Sancho could now exert pressure from his side in order to force a change at a later date. “Jadon will play for us next season,” assured Michael Zorc. “This decision is definitive.” There is an “absolute agreement” between him and managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke on this issue.
The BVB sports director also made it clear on Monday before the first training session in the Ri-Au stadium that Sancho would not be “mildly tempered” with a salary increase, as the boulevard had spread. Sancho’s contract (until 2022) was adjusted a year ago and extended ahead of time until 2023. This was intended to appropriately honor his excellent performance and expressly acknowledge his outstanding position within the team. That was not publicly communicated at the time.
The secret contract extension explains the unexcited appearance of the Dortmund bosses in the week-long summer theater: They can still generate a big transfer for Sancho next year. The assumption that in 2021 with a remaining term of his contract of allegedly only one year he could be much cheaper is wrong, as we now know.”
Probably what we were all expecting although take with a pinch of salt as I’ve not seen it reported anywhere else.
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Pirlo?!
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Haha its actually Kolsch where I live. Tastes virtually the same as Pils to be honest but comes in funny little 200ml glasses.
Back to the topic City must really fancy their chances. I don’t rate this Barca team so I would say only psg or Bayern have a chance of stopping them. I actually have a feeling Bayern might win it, they have looked imperious for the second half of the season which was some turn around.
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Getting me mixed up with another Liverpool fan I think Nine. 😉
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gjblues… seriously cannot have a bit of banter these days?! What’s your problem?
Yeah I made a mistake with the team, so fucking what? I watch both games on the Sky Konferenz channel which flicks between the two, easy to make a mistake.
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Steveo that doesn’t sound good for arsenal. I actually like Arteta and went against the common opinion when you appointed him and tipped him for success. But for that to happen a manager needs two things, time and support. Without either he will fail and you’ll be back to square one again.
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Bayern are almost through and even assuming Barcelona go through this really is the Champions League of the minnows! Out of the remaining teams only the aforementioned having any sort of pedigree. Very disappointing.
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Ridiculous penalty given to Madrid. Free kick to Madrid and the shot hit’s Depay’s hand but his arms are down. Nothing he could of done but it was given.
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Have to admit it took longer than I expected for this sort of thing to happen again.
Nil are you having a go at me because I made a post at 09:01 when according to you I should be working? I don’t need to explain this to you but I will. I get up at 04:45 and commute 1 hour to work (home office finished this week). Then at 15:45 I do the same drive home and have time for a work out before my girlfriend gets home. That constitutes a 40.5h working week. My job involves working on a computer so I usually have a few spare minutes to visit this forum during the day whilst my work is either loading, saving or most likely crashing. In the past I have been in the RAF, visiting places like Iraq, UAE and Kuwait, working 70h weeks and in conditions that most people would consider as pretty shitty. Think I’ve done my fair share of hard work.
Of course none of this is yours or anyone else’s on here concern. Neither is when I post or where. You had a go about this before with Mak and it was pretty disgraceful. Have a go at me in the future and I will make Steveo’s post above seem tame and friendly.
And Sean, yes mate that’s for Germany. Bit concerned about Crete going the same way as Magaluf did with the youngsters going wild and forgetting everything about safety but so far Greece seems to have a good hold on the situation.
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Am I the only one seeing the irony of nil creating a post of complete non-value to complain about the lack of value in other people’s comments? Nil no one is forcing you to read them, if you don’t like them do something else.
Sean I’ve been away to Portugal and soon for a few days to Crete but our quarantine list is mainly Africa and the Americas. And Luxembourg rather oddly!
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Nine there’s a rumour going around, probably fuelled by the a photo of the two that she tweeted, but I don’t think there’s ever been any real evidence. Mane is very secretive apparently.
Reports on this potential transfer all indicate towards one problem, will he be happy as back up? You’d think going to the Champions and working under Klopp nearly every player would jump at the chance but I hear more often that it’s playing time or a clear route to the first team for youngsters, that most players are interested in.
Robertson is only 26 himself and obviously be very difficult to displace so the player could see this as a poor career move if offered first team football elsewhere.
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I have to admit I totally forgot about Morata! And 15m for a player who I believe never kicked a ball for you aint bad either!
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Strong rumours of Jamal Lewis of Norwich to Liverpool for 10m, possibly with Lacouri going the other way. Interest being reported by Melissa Reddy who normally has a foot in the door for all things Liverpool related. Would make sense, only 22, potential to develop and home grown, and most importantly we need LB cover.
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Genuine question to Chelsea fans and not trying to provoke, but are you not a little concerned about the reported spending Chelsea apparently are on the verge of doing?
You sold Hazard recently but it is likely you have not received anything like the figure quoted in the press yet as payments are usually spread over the contracts length. So when every other big team that are not being funded by an entire country are struggling, Chelsea seem to have money to burn. Also we know Roman doesn’t dip his and in his pockets these days and that you are now a self-sufficient team.
You could say you are a very well run self-sufficient team but a report by Forbes only earlier this year actually indicates the opposite: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbymcmahon/2020/01/08/how-chelsea-went-from-record-60m-profit-to-96m-loss-in-one-year/#4953d9be3b4c
I have a feeling, and I could be completely wrong, that Chelsea are looking at the other big clubs and their financial problems and are thinking now is the time to take a huge gamble to try and get ahead. If this is correct are you not worried about such a gamble? Is it irresponsible?
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I would agree with Ed that Sancho is probably the best young attacker in Europe bar Mbappe (we all know TAA is THE best youngster!). In the league he got 17 goals and 16 assists from 32 appearances (25 starts). That is pretty impressive. I saw a bit of him last year in his breakout season and he kept the more experienced Pulisic on the bench. He was explosive, he just ran past everyone. A few question marks about his attitude when he was dropped for returning late from England duty and previously being late for training. The usual stuff with many talented players.
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“A concern I would have adlab is the amount of money city have spent on defenders yet they are still very short in some areas”
If the rumours are true that they are buying the 1.79m tall Ake then they will still be very short in some areas!
I think Pep’s criteria for a defender and goalie is they must be able to play his brand of football first and defend is just an afterthought. In Spain and Germany his teams were never really put under the pressure on a constant basis that even the lowly teams in the Premier League do. He has been in England long enough to know what he needs and it’s not as though City can’t/won’t stump up the cash.
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At Liverpool we have sold Lovren to Zenit and Lallana on a free to Brighton. Would expect Jones to take Lallana’s place in the squad and us get a 4th choice centre back to replace Lovren.
Plenty of rumors going around about others but I will leave that to the rumors page.
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