Red Company
Full Member
I don’t think your plan B is worth it. Considering all the losses due to covid, which by the way, will continue to pile up as football is still being played behind closed doors until further notice. Even if fans are allowed back in, they won’t be at full capacity.It depends. It could be that they have players in sight where they wanting to wait to see how they progress and buy them in one year. It could be that they got players in sight they would buy for a post-Sancho team but its only possible in one year cause of their contract or whatever, and so on.
There are a lot of factors you have to keep in mind. Next season Sancho has only one year left yeah, but it could be that the mentioned above option to only get 50 Mllion is also a favor of their plans cause they think more clubs are in for him looking for a bargain or are in another position or demand like now, Real, Barca, Liverpool, who knows. You also have to take into account that Götze and Schürrle and Toprak have left the club, leaving financial space cause at least Götze and Schürrle were players with high salarys. And that you got Reyna directly coming after Sancho, so that they could think "hey lets wait how Reyna steps up, so that we don't need to buy an exact replacement of Sancho cause we already got one, and therefor don't need sooo much money cause we only have to adapt this little screw here or there in the squad". I can't explain this through at this moment (cause of my aweful english and post restrictions) but i hope you get a glimpse of what i mean.
All i wanted to say is, that i wouldn't wonder if Zorc doesn't mind. They got plans for all scenarios, and just keep relaxed, having set a deadline (to stay in their plans, and yeah of course it can get a little bit later than that) and a sum, and if it doesn't happen then plan b comes in line. Now the ball is in Uniteds field, that is something a lot of people would agree on i guess.
You also mentioned more teams coming after him next year, it still won’t spark a bidding war huge enough to offset the loss in revenue that you will face by keeping Sancho another year.
You simply seem to overlook the fact that, due to covid, all clubs will want a reserve of funds going into next season. Had covid not happened, I would fully agree that Dortmund can easily afford to keep him another year but I don’t believe that 1% now. Sancho was blessed by not getting seriously injured this season but that’s not a guarantee next year. It’s too big of a risk during this pandemic.
Zorc can have as many plans as he want but money rules the world my friend.