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Union Berlin: Isco deal burst! Did the change fail due to a gross-net buck? | Sports

Nobody expected that anymore…

Union Berlin’s deal with Champions League winner Isco (30) was as good as bagged. The Spanish midfield star even passed the medical check on Tuesday. But at the last moment the mega transfer burst.

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How could that happen? Officially, each side blames the other:

Isco’s consulting agency Gestifute told BILD: “During the course of the talks, we realized that our negotiating partner was no longer willing to move within the framework originally discussed.”

Union manager Oliver Ruhnert (51): “We would have liked to see Isco with us, but we have our limits. Contrary to the previous agreements, these were exceeded today, which is why the transfer did not take place.”

Isco (left) on Tuesday on the way to the medical check-up at the Charité

Photo: Matthew Koch

Because there was a misunderstanding during the preliminary talks?

At least that’s what Union club legend Torsten Mattuschka (42/2005-2014 with the Köpenickers) suspects. The “Sky” expert said on the pay TV station: “If there is a medical check, you are actually safe. So that wasn’t the point. I think it failed gross and net.”

How did Mattuschka come up with this? “Because in Spain I think there are only net contracts as footballers. In Germany I only signed gross contracts myself. And if you haven’t explicitly discussed it – I’ll just throw two million into the room – for Union it’s two million gross, for the Isco side two million net, then that’s a small difference here in Germany.

So did a gross-net buck cost the obligation?

Ruhnert put it like this before the cup duel against Wolfsburg on the Sky microphone: “In concrete terms, before you carry out the medical check, you have discussed everything. However, changes to the contract were then requested again.” From the Isco side.

However, Union did not agree to “doing any things that do not suit us.” Ruhnert clearly: “Negotiated things are negotiated things. At the end of the day, the player has to make a decision too – and he probably assumed that the conditions were different.”

The consequence: “Now the decision is different than we thought two or three days ago,” said the Union boss. “Nevertheless, it’s a pity, of course.”

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