Ruhr Nachrichten news comes to wipe away all fake news!!! 1.Zorc said to RN that Aubameyang has trained well (and been punctual). As things stand he'll be in the BVB squad on Friday. and RN said still no official offer from Arsenal. 2.also from RN,Marc Bartra has not told Dortmund that he wants to leave so far and no offer has been made for him yet.
Keeping PEA until June is a must, the battle for fourth place is wide open. It will not be easy to keep him focused or stop his entourage from forcing a move to Arsenal but Batshuayi and Giroud are just big sized poachers who are much slower than PEA.
Reus is our best striker if PEA leaves. Batshuayi starts for Chelsea tonight. They are linked with Andy Carroll for 30m which means Conte sniffs glue and Batshuayi is more or less leaving.
Michael Zorc owns Arsene Wenger: „Wir empfinden das als respektlos sich zu Spielern anderer Mannschaften zu äußern. Es gibt keinen Kontakt! Wir gehen davon aus, dass Arsene Wenger genug zu tun hat mit der Leistung seiner eigenen Spieler!“ Basically what happened was....: Arsene Wenger: blah blah blah PEA would fit very well within the squad. blah blah blah Michael Zorc: Arse should STFU. He has enough on his plate with regards to the performance of his own players.
Insider Information: Apparently Milan are interested in PEA as well. Not just Arsenal. BVB want more than €60M. All parties want the deal done ASAP not at the end of the month. Olivier Giroud wants a 3 year contract not the 1.5 that BVB want him to sign. This is because BVB wants Isak to become their future striker and will therefore need more minutes. Peter Stöger wants Anthony Modeste. Other alternatives are Dolberg and Dembele. Smolov could be an emergency solution. Speaking of Peter Stöger. BVB are close to agreeing a deal with Julian Nagelsmann but will still give PS some time. Neven Subotic and Marc Bartra both want to leave. The latter is being dissuaded from a departure however. Bad news: CP is open to leaving in the summer. Sokratis wants to win titles and could possibly leave in the summer. Negotiations have stagnated. Marco Reus can likely extend. Rode, Schürrle and Durm have been told to leave. Nobody wants them.
Olly G sucks. I don't want him at BVB. Don't care about the drilled down stats that suggest he could be a success. No he will not. The fact that Arsenal.....Arsenal FFS want him gone should be sufficient enough to suggest he will be another Schurrle, Rode, Toprak type player. I hope he stays there or goes elsewhere. I'd much rather spend money on a bonafide striker or a young and promising player who can rotate with Isak.
Looks like Auba is gone and if reports correct , at €10m a season , not for the money . Two seasons ago we had 5 blue chip players - Reus ,Auba , Hummels , Gundo and Miki . Replacements brought in are very average with exception of Goetze . We are a club in decline .
Selling PEA when our other striker is an eighteen year old who has never scored for us , utterly feckless. Are we going to hoof it to Isak and hope he suddenly buffs up tomorrow and develops the skill to hold defenders off? Giroud and Batshuayi are duds. Just do whatever it takes to get Modeste.
The last game was a good example of how we look without Auba. I think he would have converted both opportunites that Götze set up. Selling him now without a replacement that was part of the preparation seems risky. We'd have to either rely on Isak making the step forward when he gets regular playing time or that a currently unknown player, who possibly hasn't played in the BL yet, can contribute right away. But maybe the prospect of Reus' comeback is making them feel they can afford to sell Auba. I also don't think we'd lose money if we'd sell him in the summer which means that right now, he is seen as a disruption.
Incredible for a club Dortmunds size to have only one striker . I don't count Isak , as said above , he is not nearly ready . After last summer this should have been addressed .
Giroud may not be world class, but he at least would fit in to your system. His hold up play, and link-up play is very strong.
Peter Stöger should let Götze play as a real no. 10. He's a goal threat and we need goals given that nobody other than PEA can score on a regular basis. Meanwhile, he can let Mo play as a real no. 8 so he sits back and plays alongside JW.
Unless we can loan him we have to hand Giroud a multi year deal. Not a smart choice he is 31. Batshuayi plays like Origi and Giroud plays like Gomez after he returned to Germany. I rather play Sancho Isak Pulisic.
Selling Auba when he is quite possibly the last world class player at the club is madness. I'm not counting Reus until he can contribute at least half a season worth of minutes. The other talents are all young and inconsistent/underdeveloped. There is a lot to be said for where the club was just a few years ago to where they might be next season.
To be fair to Auba, you can understand his frustrations. His numbers are incredible, he is one of very few elite players at the club and yet he has for the majority of the time been paid the wages of a scrub. He should have been made to feel valued a lot earlier. The fact that at the same time the management have made such a cluster******** of everything else, with the club on the decline, can you blame him for wanting out? It's sad, not long ago BVB had a real chance of pushing on, becoming a major power and challenging for major trophies. But piss poor management has messed this up, and I fear it will be a long time until the heights of the Klopp era are reached again.
A hard hit on our top 4 ambitions. Selling Auba at this moment would be stupid, even if the deal was lucrative. Prices are so jacked up in the winter that it will be next to impossible to find a striker of similar quality. While Giroud has good stats, he is also very wasteful. The kid from Chelsea hasn't really impressed. It might sound strange, but I would consider Modeste to be the best option currently - he is BL proven and was a goal machine under PS. Isak is simply not first team material yet, although in a few years he could be a star. Sadly, the news about CP and Sokratis don't surprise me - one is a future world star and the other is easily in the top 10 defenders currently. It pains me to see that the ambition and drive that rose BVB from the dead is slowly evaporating thanks to bad decisions from people like Watzke and our less than stellar attitude on the transfer market. The whole fiasco with Bosz is just the topping of the cake. The club should make it a definite #1 priority to keep the likes of Sokratis, CP, Weigl, Gotze, RG and Reus in the team, while finally making that huge squad overhaul that we have been in dire need of for the last year or so.
Sadly, Auba needs to leave. I think the relationship between him and the club has deteriorated beyond repair. A lot of this has been due to his antics. He is actively pushing for a move, and has been for some time now. Keeping him, would only destroy the dressing room. The club is a mess, granted. But ... I think the appointment of either Naggelsman or Favre come the summer should finally stabilise things at the club. a striker is a priority too. there are not many on the market who might replace the level of auba. Strange times.
I think you only have to look at his track record as a manager to answer that. Nice are the second most inform team in France as of now, and if it hadn't been for a horrible start they would be much higher than 6th. Let alone delving into the disadvantage they are at financially in comparison to their rivals. If you can think of a better manager who Dortmund might lure, I'de love to hear it ?
Just don't think he's the step up we need . Thought he was a mid table Buli coach .We had two excellent coaches in Klopp and Tuchel , Naglesman possibly but think he would leave at the stop of a hat for Bayern , but with not a lot of options , he'd probably be my choice
Not very difficult when you have players like Lewandowski and Goetze who were having transfer talks in the middle of the season with our very rival. Goetze signed with Bayern two days before playing a Champions League semi final. BVB's brand name never recovered from losing Goetze like that, and then to add insult to injury losing the final with Goetze cheerleading from the stands. Bayern humiliated us, and the board is only half-guilty for that.