Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang| ESPN: Move to PSG very close
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Martial and Aubameyang? We'd be unstoppable on Fifa at least.
Lol this is definitely not going to happen.
Apparently he missed training because of a personal appointment already known to the club. Let's not get carried away here.
Agent Adnan.
You guys know it's not gonna happen but kudos to Sky for their consistency over the years:
You can count on them repeatedly linking United with at least one BVB player per transfer window for at least three years now - e.g. Lewandowski, Götze, Hummels, Reus, Gündogan, Aubameyang - but the only one ever materialized was Kagawa who has dreamed of the EPL since his childhood.
If he goes anywhere it's to Spain
Correct, and if so, in the summer but not now.
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Well he skipped training. Do you think he would do that to engineer and deal in summer?
Him missing training was known beforehand to the club, some personal reason.
Good player and the sort of player we could sign. The biggest problem is good players that play or are Germany generally end up at Bayern in the first instance.
It really doesn't happen all that often. The majority of our big name signings are from abroad and players like for example De Bruyne, Özil, Kagawa, Sahin, Khedira, Boateng left the Bundesliga after their breakout seasons to play for Real, United, City. We won't show any interest in Aubameyang unless we sell Lewandowski, which is very, very unlikely. And Dortmund won't sell to us anyway, because Auba has a longterm contract without a release clause.
Griezzman replacement or would they cost the same amount these days?
A personal appointment. I'm only being pedantic here but if a move was happening, the club would already know and a meeting with his agent or a rep from the bidding club would qualify as a personal appointment.
But yeah, probably just a dentist appointment.
Clearly I'm not being literal and dependant on who's in their squad at the time but it's hard to argue the best Germany players generally play for Bayern and the best foreign players in Germany football have ended up at Bayern. You could argue most recently, the best couple of Dortmund players have ended up at Bayern, like Lewandowski?
Obviously we signed 2 great players from Dortmund, Götze by triggering a release clause and Lewandowski because his contract was running out. None of that is true in Auba's case and there's zero chance Dortmund will sell us their best player if they're not forced to through the contract situation.
In general, many foreign Bundesliga player are happy to leave for European top clubs anyway, like Diego prefered Juve over us, Sahin, Kagawa showing no interest at all in going to Bayern, Vidal going to Juve or recently De Bruyne leaving for City. Lewandowski has been the only foreign Bundesliga star we signed in a decade. Then you have Mandzukic, Dante, Olic and van Buyten as quality foreign players since 2006. That's it if I'm not mistaken.
We certainly have an advantage when it comes to German players, but that's not as big as the myth suggests either, considering how many German players went abroad in recent years in comparison to the number we signed.
No, most likely a coiffeur rendez-vous in Paris. Not the first time he skipped training because of such an appointment with his preferred hair dresser. Right now he's on his way to Nigeria for the award ceremony 'African Player of the Year', and knowing Auba he'd never appear there without freshly done hair.
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I'd rather go for proven quality in the PL, such as Lakaku. He would cost roughly the same and he knows the league.
I wouldn't be opposed to Lukaku but I don't really see the 'PL proven' thing as relevant. I doubt there's much of a difference between success/failure between players who've been bought from the league and players who've come in from other leagues, especially when it comes to the best ones. If anything the likes of Alexis, Ighalo, and Aguero have shown that strikers actually get better here. Then you have 'proven' PL strikers like Bony and Benteke who can't cut it at the top clubs.
It's really not true, and I say this as a Dortmund fan. I'd even question that the best German players end up at Bayern (whatever criteria may be applied that somebody is 'best'). This impression is a bit biased because Bayern had many excellent German players coming from their academy into the 1st team.
I say this in terms of our recent success of 'proven' players outside of our league.
But the truth is, there is no certainty. There's plenty of players who were a success in our league, and when they came to us, not so much, ie, Berbatov.
In terms of Benteke, he has always been hit and miss for Villa, so there is no surprise he's the same at Liverpool.
In my view like Spain, there aren't 'many' of the 'best' Germany players playing in other leagues that are not for Bayern. Yep good foreign players have left the league but not many that Bayern didn't have same guality or better?
Wanted this fecker sooooo bad from the very first match I saw him play.
You honestly have to ask, what the hell were our scouts (and others in the league tbf) playing at? If an absolute helmet like me can see it, surely they can
You honestly have to ask, what the hell were our scouts (and others in the league tbf) playing at? If an absolute helmet like me can see it, surely they can
What is he playing at with those jeans?
You wake up in the morning, you know you'll be traveling through an airport and you still decide to where jeans with metal spikes all over them? He's pretty much asking to be cavity searched!
To be honest his first season for Dortmund wasn't that amazing. He improved tremendously over the past 1.5-2 years.
And regarding that Bayern stuff. Unless I'm missing someone there are three German top players currently at Bayern who didn't come (more or less) through their academy:
Neuer, Boateng and Götze and one of those (Boateng) was actually bought from a foreign club (City).
Dortmund for example have way more: Weigl, Bender (1860), Reus (Gladbach), Hummels (Bayern, Gündogan (Nürnberg), Castro (Leverkusen), Ginter (Freiburg)
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He was really ordinary player just year or so ago. He was known just for his pace until he recently started scoring goals, from what I know, so you couldn't have seen anything special in him tbf.
Bollocks, he got 25 goals last season in a very poor season for Dortmund, he was not ordinary at all.
He has gone up a level this season, but just go and watch his performance last season vs Arsenal in the UCL, he tore them a new one on his own
I've wanted him at United for a while tbh, but didn't think he was as good as hes playing this season.
I said year or so, so I obviously didn't count last season either as i wasn't sure, sorry for not explaining it.
MatteoDarmian recently followed him on Instagram...he's coming boys! 
MatteoDarmian recently followed him on Instagram...he's coming boys!
woot woot!
MatteoDarmian recently followed him on Instagram...he's coming boys!
He was cutting teams apart in the CL in 2014 and he had flashes of brilliance before that. You could see the talent in him. Clear as anything
Very good points here.
Although Bony does seem to score for City? Not a top player and won't ever be one, but then did anyone ever think he was (or would be)?
We could totally make a song for this guy using the Beach Boys' Barbara-Ann.
This is all nonsense isnt it? Didnt BvB address why he missed training?
Yep. He has also stated Spain is his next move. No chance of him joining us.
Flavour of the month. I'm sceptical.
Never heard of him, obviously I don't watch German football enough.
Not against getting in a striker but would be nice to get somebody a little more established if it's to help out Martial/Rooney.
Kagawa despite doing well in Germany didn't look up to much here. Firmino is another one who was scoring for fun in Germany. Huge difference in the level of talent needed to succeed in England obviously.
Not against getting in a striker but would be nice to get somebody a little more established if it's to help out Martial/Rooney.
Kagawa despite doing well in Germany didn't look up to much here. Firmino is another one who was scoring for fun in Germany. Huge difference in the level of talent needed to succeed in England obviously.