Gabriel
Well-Known Member
Clearly it would be in our best interests to drive the Sancho fee up? Could the rags drive the koulibaly fee up? I very much doubt it if there balls deep for Sancho there will only be enough money left to sign mediocre players from clubs like say Swansea.
That wouldn’t make much sense, would it? The idea of stepping aside for each other is that the respective selling clubs then need to lower their asking price. With us out of the picture, Dortmund know they’re not going to get their top price, so it becomes a question of banking an enormous profit now, or waiting to see what happens next year. The fact that they have another prodigious talent in the making might make the decision easier.