One of them will stay anyway, most likely Gündogan. I'd be very surprised if City or any other club is willing to take the risk of his transfer. There's hope from my end that Bayern will accept Hummels' transfer fee so that we can offload him to you lot.
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So back towards the end of the year, wow and they still want to buy him? Good luck to them.
They wont buy him till he can pass medical (because they wont be able to get him insured) can he sign a pre contract in Jan?
I would stay away from him tbh, two serious injuries already in his career.
on a free though?
They're looking at pay £17M for him now according to reports from Italy!
As I say I just done see how he would pass a medical at the moment and clubs just dont sign players without medicals these days do they?
I really don't know, I'd assume you can sign players even if injured, there must be clauses with the Insurance companies.
A few players have joined clubs while injured. Risky signing both Laporte and Gundogan while injured though.
Big, big gamble by City IMO. He's a very good player but he's also out till October and has been very injury prone in the past few years. No doubts about his quality as a player though.
He is not allowed to train till october, add to that 4 weeks of getting fit and city will have signed a player they could sign next january as he will play around december.
Absolutely fantastic deal, that's dirt cheap for a player of his quality. We'll look at this deal like another Silva/Toure one in the years to come.
Not at all dirt cheap for a player who's missed the majority of his last three-four season from injury, is out till October and has only one year left on his contract.
It's not a varied set of injuries which keep happening to him. It's his back which had problems to the extent that it looked he might not play again. Its been sorted out though which is why he was a regular this season and played to a very high level. The recent knee injury happened during a game, can happen to anyone. I did forget about the contract situation, you're right about that one. We should still be in for him at that price, it doesn't matter if he'l be back in Oct and take some time to get going. He's young and quality, long term benefits.
You're right that it's not a varied set of injuries which keep happening to him, but for some reason his body is extremely injury prone. Even before that injury happened, he still missed around 12 games before May in 2016 alone due to various injuries. As I said, that he's a very good player but this deal isn't dirt cheap and is actually a quite big gamble.
Transfermarkt says it was influenza and then a bruised foot which kept him out. Not typical issues which would be classified as a player with an injury prone body. It is a gamble signing a player who's injured at the time but with the money clubs have atm and given the quality of the player in question, it's a very good buy. If it were us, I'd be over the moon. He's absolutely class unfortunately
I wouldn't have minded us taking that gamble tbh. But oh well until our new manager is here I doubt much will happen in terms of transfers. I just hope that not all the good deals are done and we are again left with the leftovers.Transfermarkt says it was influenza and then a bruised foot which kept him out. Not typical issues which would be classified as a player with an injury prone body. It is a gamble signing a player who's injured at the time but with the money clubs have atm and given the quality of the player in question, it's a very good buy. If it were us, I'd be over the moon. He's absolutely class unfortunately
