Dhe sentence, which has appeared in every transfer notification from FC Augsburg, also finds its place in the latest announcement from the Bundesliga club: “Both sides have agreed not to disclose the transfer modalities.” Numbers that would have caused a stir in the big football business were So far not to suspect behind the phrase, but this time there would be interest in the economic dimension of a player commitment: Because Ricardo Pepi, 18-year-old striker from FC Dallas and already an American national player, goes beyond the collar of the Bavarian Swabians, for whom their former manager Andreas Rettig once issued as a slogan that one could “only pay student tariffs”.
And at the last general meeting in October 2021, President Klaus Hofmann had calculated that the player budget would be roughly where you are in the Bundesliga table. This is currently 15th place. But Pepi, who was chosen as the best U-22 player in Major League Soccer, should cost between 13 and 20 million euros according to media speculation. He already practiced at FC Bayern Munich and enjoyed it, actually VfL Wolfsburg wanted him – so why does he end up at FC Augsburg?
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