I got it from twitter. Asked the guy who posted it and he said it's from Freddie Röckenhaus and it was in the printed version of the Real game from "Süddetusche Zeitung"
SZ is usually extremely reliable, however I haven't heard anything about that on the internet at all and if they wrote that a couple of days ago I probably would have by now, so I assume someone made a translation error.
No it's not. It's more likely a statement that he wants to stay but the club won't give him a long contract until his issues are sorted.
sure; thats why he didnt extend his contract during the last year, when Dortmund made it public, that they want to extend the contract. I hope Dortmund has any clause to extend his contract.
The back injury.
They will be, but that's the risk they had to take. They would also get more value with 1 year of solid playing time rather than coming into a new team after a whole year of being injured.
This contract is less of a risk than handing him a long term equivalent.
He didn't have one before, but it'll just probably take 30m next summer if he pushes for a transfer if he gets fit as well. It'll be the same situation as this year probably just with the bonus of him being fit.
Klopp responded to the rumours and said that no one should call until 2018, so I don't see him going anywhere in the foreseeable future.
If he can stay 2 years away from injury then he'll be worth it.
It was the smart play by both the player & club, tbh. This way the club can ensure a better transfer fee should he return from injury and be sold while the player gets some security & continued medical support to resolve his playing status.
Yeah it's clearly a common sense move for both sides. It's a shame that he's been hurt. From the little I've seen (the CL games against Madrid primarily,) he's an amazing talent, and exactly the kind of player that we need.
Yep and I very much respect that. Don't like players who run out their contracts, much prefer the likes of Ronaldo (who wanted to leave various times but still signed a long term contract with us) or even more David Villa who signed a 6 year contract (!!!) with Valencia when he was 26/27. That way Real had to pay us 80 mil and Barca had to pay € 40 mil for a 28 year old Villa. Of course in United's case I would rather prefer if they don't want to leave at all, but if they do, then rather that way than on the cheap by running out their contracts.
