In which case, £55-60m.how ridiculous. They refused to sell Lewandowski to Bayern a year earlier and instead let his contract wind down til the bitter end. If this was a club who just sell their players for decent prices, then they'd have sold him for the £15m (or whatever it was) and took the money, instead they refused to sell him.
Admittedly I don't. I just feel because defenders ALWAYS go for a lot less than midfielders or attackers, despite being "just as World Class", around that sum would usually be accepted.
I'm of course assuming that Hummels tells Dortmund that he wants to leave and join United, hypothetically of course. I guess he's only 25 years of age, which is about 3 years younger than what I thought he was
I don't even think he was your best defender at the WC! But obviously that's just a month. I think Silva's clearly the best in the world but Hummels is incredibly talented and by the time he's Silva's age he probably will be.
Obviously I'm aware of this but it Still would make more sense to sign him to a new deal and ship him off for millions no? Imagine Liverpool let Suarez go to Barca on a free... They sold Götze to Bayern for 42m so it's not like they're completely against selling players to them. And 15m is better than nothing.
Oh, you've got it coming : popcorn.gif :
It doesn't sound like you were aware of it, at all, given what you said. You made it out like Dortmund were some mugs who managed to let him leave on a free, when the reality is they were the ones who forced him to stay and refused to sell him to Bayern regardless of the money offered. Dortmund are not a poor club, they're not a club who need to sell their players, especially for low sums of money in the current market.
Of course I'm aware of it. It was poor business to let Lewandowski go on a free no matter what way you look at it.
I don't know, I think even if Hummels left, he'd still have both Subotic and Sokratis ahead of him in the pecking order.
Lewandowski refused to sign a new deal. Dortmund couldn't do anything about it. He was dead set on going to Bayern so it's not like Dortmund could sell him abroad either. Honestly, do you really think Dortmund wanted him to leave on a free?
That's not the point. The point is that Dortmund were willing to go to such financial extremes to block the transfer. It shows how much money they have and it shows that they won't just sell players like Hummels for £30m which was what you originally claimed they would be willing to do.
And very unlikely at the price - 20m Euros is far too cheap.
Dortmund would be mental to sell for anything less than 50M.
Because they have 4 players who can play CB so a feck load of money may make them think they can get by with three
It's a new phone and it keeps on correcting the spellings as it does not have my old dictionary in it.
Thank god you're not in charge of our transfer dealings
