Da Hans-Joachim Watzke had leaned quite far out of the window. If nothing happens by Monday, August 10th, then there will be no change from Jadon Sancho – at least not this season – that was clearly stated by the managing director of Borussia Dortmund.
Ultimates involve risks. If they pass, but then things do happen that the supervisor of the ultimatum could force a rethink. And then he has to endure annoying questions: Why was that what was originally excluded?
Ultimatas can lead to a loss of credibility under certain circumstances. But management in top football is not a popularity contest. Especially not when there is so much money at stake as with Sancho.
For months there have been rumors about the future of the 20-year-old exceptional talent, who could possibly become one of the most expensive transfers of this summer if the prospective buyer finally came out of cover.
BVB demands 120 million
Manchester United absolutely wants the English international, who is predicted to have a future as a world star: But the English record champions are apparently not willing to pay the price that BVB is calling. Dortmund wants to have 120 million euros for the tempo dribbler, which is still under contract until 2022.
This is way too much for Ed Woodward, the managing director of Manchester. The former investment banker who was commissioned by the Glazer family, the United owners, to make spectacular commitments, of course, does not say so openly. So far, he has not even made an offer to Dortmund. But that’s not how business works. Deals of this size have an extremely long psychological initiation phase.
Manchester is said to have spoken to the player or at least to his advisor Emeka Obasi. And according to English newspaper reports, agreement has even been reached on a five-year contract and Sancho’s salary, £ 250,000 a week, of course.
United toured in Cologne
This may or may not be true, but it is also irrelevant. Pressure should be built up. In the hope that the Dortmunders could be more willing to negotiate. In order to counter this, Watzke formulated that ultimatum on Thursday.
When and if there will be a discussion between the clubs at all is open. There could be an opportunity this weekend: Manchester United moved into a hotel in Cologne yesterday because coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team is playing against FC Copenhagen in the Europa League there on Monday.
Meanwhile, in Marco Lichtsteiner, the brother of Augsburg professional Stephan Lichtsteiner, another agent has switched to poker. The Swiss has already worked as a spin doctor in the Dortmund obligations of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Ousmane Dembélé.
If the Dortmunders have their way, there won’t be any negotiations at all. BVB is betting on Sancho, who has scored 29 goals and prepared 34 goals in the past two seasons, to keep for another year.
Not a new case of Dembélé
The Dortmund team does not have any doubts that Sancho would no longer be willing to perform if he stayed. He doesn’t expect “any difficulties”, Watzke told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “Jadon has accepted that, he’s a very pleasant, fair guy.” A strike, like that at Dembélé, who forced his move to FC Barcelona, or one The Dortmund team do not fear weeks of guerrilla warfare over the media, with which Aubameyang forced his departure to Arsenal.
Jadon Sancho is currently preparing for the new season with BVB
Source: dpa / Bernd Thissen
To ensure that it stays that way, Borussia should be willing to adjust Sancho’s salary. The offensive player, who is said to have been around six million euros a year so far, is likely to be one of the top earners at BVB in Dortmund in the future.
BVB sports director Michael Zorc assumes that Sancho will go to the training camp in Bad Ragaz / Switzerland with the team on Monday. “I also assume that he will play for us next season,” he said. Of course, without making a final decision.
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