BILD are good but I’d be surprised if it’s around €20 million. the thing is if we’ve already contacted Leverkusen and our journalists are still saying we’re interested we’re happy with whatever the quoted price is. So still positive to me
Not saying its definitely right but its Bild. I think there's every chance we've asked at 10, they've said 20 but would settle at 15.
Similar happened with BILD when we sold Jobe, potentially Leverkusen saying that to push us to meet in the middle.
We've all said their's "saudi tax" on the 15m quoted to NEOn justifying to ourselves why it would be 10m for us. But they may also put a "premier league tax" on it. Guess we'll see what happens. hopefully breaks soon there's an agreement.
That’s a good point. BILD were notorious during the Bellingham saga saying Dortmund wouldn’t pay over X fee. Which they did end up paying over. potentially just a middle man for negotiations as I said above we’ve already contacted Leverkusen and are still interested so the fee won’t be ridiculous
yeh 100% the final price won't be 20. But I wouldn't be surprised if thats the negotiating position theyre taking if we've gone in with 10. They'll be seeing how high we'll go. we have to stick to our guns
They aren’t as trustworthy as other big newspapers like L’Equipe etc they get real transfers and throw random fees on them etc as they did with jobe
I mean either way if the club want him, they'll pay whatever they think is right. The fact it's all broke today seems to me that we are making progress
Still a little disconcerting to me that as of less than 24 hours ago Sacha was saying Xhaka wants the move to NEOM.