It's all about the price-tag, I think it's pretty much a given that the deal will be done, but it's the other areas of the pitch that are question marks still.
You mean Maguire surely??
Yes I do, I was thinking to replace Lindelof, and to pair with Maguire and my brain crossed the wires
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You mean we’ll bypass the “United are considering preparing a bid” stage?
they'll get a deal done.Yep me too. Plus the fact we virtually have a free run at the player.meh, I'm pretty relaxed about it. United and Dortmund have a pretty good relationship I think, there were several deals made over the past years (Kagawa x2, Januzaj, Mkhitaryan) and I think negotiations have always been fair. No flying chairs this time either
Dortmund might actually like easily achievable add-ons in the deal because City have a sell-on clause, I believe.
Not before we look into our war chest first! Only then do we start to consider preparing a bid!
City don’t have a sell-on clause. The only clause they have is that they get notified when a bid is accepted for Sancho and are allowed to match it if they want.
there's been several reports in Germany that they might have one, in addition to the matching rights (which won't be an issue, of course). Not sure what's the truth here.
The challenge for us is finding buyers for three of the above and a certain Mr Jones. Maybe we could raise £40m from our deadwood but it will still be a tough financial balancing act to get Sancho, Grealish and a CB good enough to displace Lindeloff. Maybe Villa would accept a player plus cash deal for Grealish and they could demand Axel Tuanzebe.
Villa could definitely get players on loan (young players) to develop which is a win-win for both clubs as part of the deal too so I'm assuming there are plenty of avenues to make it work, but finding suitors for certain players to ship out will definitely be difficult.
Seems like you got it exactly right.
Nothing new, Sancho would be happy to join, his contract wouldn't be an issue it's just up to the clubs to agree a fee.
before we get rinsed?
Might be unpopular with some but I personally think Maguire was a very good signing . And I think Sancho will be too
Yes. He will sign.
Sounds pretty new that he's allegedly agreed terms and details of the contract? Unless I've missed the previously.
How are they letting us have a free run? He has no interest in returning to the team who didn't show the faith in him that he clearly deserved.
They’re giving us a free run because clearly he fell out with Pep.
Romano reported it a few weeks ago.
Honestly I don't know the small details. I read somewhere that City has the right to match any offer that comes in for Sancho, so maybe they are interested, but Sancho turned them down, who knows? It seems like Pep is focusing on other players.
Absolutely. Nailed on they will include something snippy in their official statement
And then right after that we heard Bellingham to BVB was a done deal, and now it's coming out we've agreed terms with Sancho? Fits his story though, doesn't it?The same Castles that said last night we were using Bellingham to get Sancho
