Valiant attempt to get the thread back on topic ;-)
1. A Leroy Sane who wants to be here for the foreseeable would be fabulous ( akin to having a £100m+ player if he signed a new contract and would save us a lot of money in the market to find someone comparable, which is almost impossible). I think he wants the move for whatever reasons so we probably now need to make the best of a bad situation.
From info on here he’s currently on £75k, we offered £150k or thereabouts but he is seeking far more to be aligned with the highest earners.
Is he worth half a Sterling? My feeling is that if he signed a new contract when first offered it and he had a season or two playing at a consistently high level then the club would have rewarded that mid contract. Post injury he and the German rags have the advantage unless we take the hit (I don’t think we will do that).
We are well run, the club in the main bid or offer what we believe is fair value for a player or contract, the alternative is the Sanchez/De Gea/Pogba road to ruin.
2. Until Leroy divulges his thoughts we won’t know. Playing for “the biggest team in Germany” / a huge pay packet / bringing up his child in his homeland / “Pep wants me to track back too much” might all be factors.
We don’t lose many players but it will be a real shame to lose a great player to those cnuts.
My personal feeling is, it has been about playing time for him, up until the injury.
He didn't really want to go last summer (or he'd have bloody gone), that's why bayern had to do all that balltickling in public, to try get him on the hook, how many times have we heard them say 'if he wants to come', and other proclamations how good it would be for him, etc.
He clearly didn't want to commit either, (or he'd have signed already), may be the money was not right, or may be he wantrd to see how much he'd feature over the season. He didn't havd much to lose, he is young, no need to force himself into a move, or into a long term contract, take a season to assess it, and see, and by the end of it his podition with both us and bayern is stonger (we offer more money if he has shown he deserves it, they can offer less in transfer fees, he gets more). That's why i would imagine he said nothing either way.
Similarly, the club had no need to push a sale, or a contract. they'd get him for a whole season playing and contributing, after which he'd either sign a new deal, or his value would still be high enough, whether it is for bayern or anyone else offering the right amount. Besides, it isnt like bayern were even close to offering half his value, despite all the public bullshit.
The injury+covid, and a season without football changed all that, he is as good as gone now imho. In some ways both choices are weakened, but the choice of staying is probably totally gone now.
He is neither going to get the money he supposedly wanted, nor the assurance of football with us now, no chance, not in his last season after a lengthy injury. Whereas he will still get his move, and bayern can offer less, heck they dont even need the encouragement they were fishing for last summer, they can just take a punt on it.
For me thats unfortunate, could maybe have worked out different, he and the club were willing to take a chance over a season, that chance is now gone, and now so is leroy most likely, it is just about reaching that number, when bayern stop fannying about.
