Interesting point you make in bold. Never thought of it that way. Hope that could help us
From a position of strength, you get to assess players with a lot more objectivity as you are probably more of the prize than they are, and are in a position to walk away, and mean it, as opposed to a club desperately trying to claw its way back to a modicum of respectability.
Someone like Sancho, for as good as he clearly is, isn't better than a Sterling, Salah, Messi etc. who play on the right at those clubs, and it'd be him trying to make a case to justify why he can come into a starting xi there, not the other way round.
Opposed to us, who will need to sell him our 'project' and all the other guff because we badly need his quality injected into the side.
When people talk about us having 'no chance' and all the rest of it, they are failing to see the full picture of pros and cons - we have a lot of pros to him coming here he simply won't get at any other so-called elite club. We obviously have cons, like possibly no CL football; a disjointed club and an usettled manager, but it is far from all doom and gloom. There are valid reasons for him to come here.
It's impossible to answer that without knowing him personally, isn't it?! It first I thought he was just a bit tardy, but showing up significantly late to a team briefing in fecking Barcelona has be malicious intent and Kicker writing about arrogance and a disregard for rules doesn't looks so innocent either. I think acting this way when Dortmund are at risk of missing their season targets early shows a lack of respect for his team mates and a lack of loyalty towards his club/employer.
If I was one of his team mates, sitting in that Barcelona briefing, waiting for him I wouldn't think too kindly about him.
There's usually a lot of smoke to go with the fire when youngsters go off the rails, so I was wondering if the German press have worked that angle, or just left it at tardiness and stropping.
Does beg the question of whether it's a tactical ploy to prompt sale; pretty sad if it is, and definitely two fingers up to a club who really gave him the platform to shine.