Why? He's homesick and always said he wants to go back to England to play his football. He wouldn't go to Spain
That is the best news we've heard in a while. They are begging for us to get this done, and we will.
How sure are we that Dortmund are putting this out? It could be a fabrication by AS as well
yeah exactly. AS fabricate a tonne of pro Spanish club and anti-English club (mostly United) stories. Same with Mundo and Marca.How sure are we that Dortmund are putting this out? It could be a fabrication by AS as well. AS is a spanish paper aye?
Thanks for all this info mate! Much appreciated.Borussia Dortmund Annual Report 2019
Borussia Dortmund Q3 Report 2020
Key numbers
Cash reserves 31 Mars 2020 = €18,78m
Cash reserves 31 Mars 2019 = €55,86m
Revolving credit 31 Mars 2020 = €60m
EBIT Q3 = €2.01m (minus €28m from 2018)
EBIT Q1 - Q3 = €7,39m
Net transfer income Q1 - Q3 = €38,98m (Q1-Q3 2019 = €77,22m)
Trade Payables 31 Mars 2020 = €98m (31 Mars 2019 = €60,6m)
Total Trade Payables = €139m
My comments
After reading two annual reports and the latest Q3 2020 report I can easily say that Borussia Dortmund (BD) is a very well managed club with a profitable business plan that make them competitive on highest international level. Buying players cheap and selling with profit is part of their business plan.
But COVID had changed the landscape. In their own words "they are hit hard by COVID and that will affect their future plans".
Sooner or later BD needs fresh cash, probably from player sales or using their revolving credit. Selling Sancho is a easy way to solve their problems and prepare for future financial losses. Keeping Sancho could benefit them short term but long term it will decrease his value. The million dollar question is when is the optimal date to sell him?
At this moment nobody can pay €120m in one installament. Probably not even in two intallament. From what I can see the maximun that Manchester United can pay in 2020 is in the region of €60 - 80M. Above €80m will come with significant short term risk in todays financial climate. From my perspective a package of €60M/€30m/€20m in three years installament is a very good deal for both clubs. BD get close their valuation and MU can afford the deal. If BD wait another season the value of Sancho can easily drop significant because of COVID, only two years left of the contract and if the player dont perform next season to expectations.
My best guess is that BD will sell Sancho soon rather then later if the total offer is close to €120m. Manchester Unted can probably only buy if they can pay the fee in three sensible installments. But as usual future will tell.
Not necessarily. We look interested still and we can only ever be as flexible as Dortmund are willing to accept. They will have this information relayed via their intermediaries if needed.Anyone else think that Utd would be more flexible on aspects of this deal if Dortmund were willing to ditch the intermediaries.
Good post. However I don’t think we could’ve gotten a better FB than AWB for less than 50m. He’s a damn good defender and I’m so happy we signed him. There’s room for improvement on his offensive game but that’s okay. He’ll get better.im not talking about Judge. I’m talking about footballing/transfer/budget/contract decisions but since judge arrived we sanctioned Sanchez’s deal and then let him go for free with 2 years left and we gave away miki so about 100 million all in?...We gave Jose a huge new contract only to not back him and pay him 20 million to leave a few months later, we then went back for Maguire a year later for 20 million more than we would have had to pay while Jose was here.... Signed Jones Lingard and Mata up to new deals that make them impossible to move on. DDG highest paid keeper in the world and rumours Henderson is going to be paid as much as other top keepers out there to go out on loan again. Pogba yet to sign a new deal and god knows how all that will turn out over the next few seasons. There’s so much more. When are people going to realise that this “team” is poor when it comes to this stuff. What more evidence do people need?
Bruno? Could have got him in the summer for the same money and not left ourselves short. Looking at Josh king in the jan window after leaving our manager with one striker for a whole seasons worth of football. AWB- Keeping Zahas sell on clause was good business but we probably could have got as effective a RB for much less. It’s just still so all over the place. How fans have any confidence in these people is beyond me. I’m not saying the club isn’t or hasn’t spent enough money. They’ve spent plenty. It’s the idiots they’ve left in charge of the decisions that could have built an amazing team with all the money they’ve wasted. The rest of the world can see that and you expect other clubs to respect them because they have some money an economics degree and a bit of an attitude? Please. Dortmund are run far better than we have been that’s why we lost out on haaland and Bellingham to them and they gave us the runaround on sancho. They knew united would mess about on the price/deal for ages and try and make themselves look good so they sent agents with a firm price instead of meeting up face to face. If this was the Utd of old we’d have snapped those lads up no hassle but players want to wait and see if we can sort out the future of the club before coming here and it’s still a bit of a mess yet we are expecting players to hand in transfer requests to join us?
We are on the up after Bruno signed and Greenwood came through but If anything happens to either and results get patchy we are back to calling for Woodward’s head in a month.
Do you remember when Barca infamously came in for Bruno in January?
I can't remember mate but we can't be really certain that it was Sporting who put the story out
It’s quite sad being so desperate for a player that couldn’t care less about coming here.
It's not even that deep, they're using a report from the daily mirror as a source ffs.I wouldn't be surprised to find out this tweet was fabricated by a Dortmund representative to put the wind up Woodward and United. Pay the asking price or lose out on him kind of thing.
is it Dortmund brief about Real Madrid and Barcelona interest? I don't think they are that stupid to think anyone will believe it, especially this summer. Next summer might be different story.
It's not even that deep, they're using a report from the daily mirror as a source ffs.
Thanks Adnan.Watzke is saying there's no money for transfers due to the current crisis.
Thanks Adnan.
LEARN CASSIDY. Silly bilz
Its ok, theyre immune to Covid apprently. All be ok next summer under the magic vaccine treeWatzke is saying there's no money for transfers due to the current crisis.
It seems like both of them are struggling to make any sort of signings this summer. I doubt their financial positions will have improved that drastically to be able to afford Sancho next summer unless they can sell multiple players on big wages for big transfer fees.It says for next season, using the Mirror article. It's very clear Madrid or Barca can't afford him this summer. If we miss out on Sancho this window, I think that's our opportunity gone though. He's simply too good a player to consider no-one else being interested.
#Watzke : "There is now no more money for transfer fees. If you get 4 million in every game without a spectator. € loses, then you don't have to be a prophet to work out in which direction this is going. There are definitely no big jumps left. " #BVB
He might want to come in there are no other options. I think most of our ex players have been overtly saying we're the only ones in for him. The point is how much does he want to come. Right now to me it looks like a "if you want to sell me I'll go" and he's not really that bothered.
Manchester City sold him for less than £10m. When Sancho joined Dortmund, he wasn't a fraction of the player he is now. I don't think your argument is a major consideration for emerging players who want to make it big in the top leagues.
At 17 years, Sancho would have been happy getting game-time in the first team of Dortmund, let alone planning to engineer a move away from the club in a few years' time.
Aaaaand there's the escape route. Obviously he needs something to blame if they will sell up, COVID seems like a good option.
After seeing this tweet I’m off to the dembele thread. See you muppets in a few.
#Watzke : "There is now no more money for transfer fees. If you get 4 million in every game without a spectator. € loses, then you don't have to be a prophet to work out in which direction this is going. There are definitely no big jumps left. " #BVB
You're doing it right mate.."Sorry Fans, when we said that he's not leaving under any circumstances we kinda forgot about this Corona thingy, so now we're selling after all".
Am I doing it right?