"Louis van Gaal has already secured the signing of Memphis Depay, and Dortmund general manager Zorc has hinted Gundogan could be Old Trafford's second arrival ahead of the summer window.
“We will have players leaving our club this summer," Zorc said. "There will be some action in the turn of next week.""
Gotta hand it to the "express", thats some stellar sports journalism right there. Not only is the quote not accurate (Zorc said that there will be activity in the coming week
s aka this transfer window not definitively next week), this quote was the answer towards the question if the squad is currently simply too big, which is undoubtly true. There will be quite a few departures like the squad player Milos Jojic, who is heavily linked with a move to Cologne.
There is nothing in this interview that hints towards Gündogan´s departure, though. Outside of some PR talk to make Gündogan appear in a better light in terms of negotations, there is little about Gündogan in the interview at all.
Right now, the odds have turned clearly in the favour of a contract extension:
- Dortmund officials changing their tune somewhat and being less definite about Gündogan leaving
- Gündogan´s agent doing a 180 turn and bringing up an extension again while ruling out leaving on a free transfer in 2016
- Schalke securing Johannes Geis (former Tuchel player who was heavily linked with Dortmund as Gündogan´s replacement)
So while a potential move to United is not impossible or off the table until Gündogan puts his signature under the new contract, the likeliest scenario is Gündogan staying for at least one more year at Dortmund.