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Gündogan: towards Manchester City
There are strong indications that Ilkay Gündogan is leaving in summer Borussia Dortmund.
His new club is to be Manchester City. A fee of 38 million euros is in the room.
It may well be that the endless transfer Theater to Ilkay Gündogan has arrived in the last act. However, his employer Borussia Dortmund know - allegedly - still nothing. The "deal" announced by the British tabloid The Sun exists perhaps between the player and the future Guardiola club Manchester City - BVB but wants date no request and no offer.
The Sun had proclaimed a change of the Dortmund international's a wealthy sheik club a few weeks ago. Back then denied Ilkays uncle and advisor Ilhan Gündogan but via Twitter. This time, the newspaper also reports details about a lease running until 2021 and also a supposed fee amounting to 30 million pounds, or about 38 million euros. Dortmund may officially know from the decision of his playmaker anything yet, a release in such a height, but one would like to take you in Borussia.
That Gündogan from the four players whose contracts expire in 2017 (also still Hummels, Schmelzer and Mkhitaryan), would be to keep the most difficult, is the BVB managers have long understood. Until now it had been assumed that the 25-year old would have a hard time with a decision against the "project Dortmund", but now it admits that it could go in Gündogan towards Manchester City.
Recently he had renewed his contract twice for only one year. First, because a lengthy back injury put him more than a year out of action, and no one knew if he would ever be fit again; the second time because he - was not yet back in a form that can be negotiated with the attractive contracts - from injury. 2015 was even Gonzalo Castro already fetched as Gündogan successor when Gündogan then decided late, but to want to stay in Dortmund.
Guardiola will probably be an argument for Gündogan
Manchester City had not been counted Gündogans desire clubs, the players had seen himself rather with a caliber of Real Madrid or FC Barcelona. Pep Guardiola as the new coach would probably enhance the club in the eyes of new players but. And that salaries at the Citizens often between ten and 15 million euros are, like to play a role in the forthcoming decision; in Dortmund, the pain threshold is about half.
Whether the rumored release of 38 million euros is true, but one may well doubt. Borussia Dortmund is in Gündogan in a situation similar to the FC Bayern München with Mario Götze. Götze is said of the explicit desire to return to Dortmund; and if Bayern and Götze not extend their current contract only until 2017, a particularly high transfer fee will be hardly prevail. The Dortmundern it could go similarly with City and Gündogan.