Originally Posted by
The Emirates Gallactico
According to goal.com it was roughly 10 million euros so about £8 million which is a steal for a player with his potential IMO. He's a boyhood Dortmund fan so that and the prospect of working with Klopp in his native country may have been too much for us to overcome but you'd never know until you try though. We certainly would be able to offer more money and potentially a better future though I'd imagine he'd get more game time at Dortmund (Hummels may be off).
We missed out on Zouma as well who's another one who I think will go on to become a beast though whether that'd be at Chelsea though I'm not so certain. They've got a wealth of talent coming through in that area though (Aké & Kalas) and Chelsea being Chelsea will always spend big bucks if they feel that their youth aren't 100% ready, so he may not get the game time he needs. Sigh, it does sicken me that all these fantastic youth prospects still get lured by the Russian mafia ..................... would have thought seeing what happens to the likes of De Bruyne and Lukaku would deter some of them but alas it seems that money talks.
I do hope we line up someone of that ilk soon though as it increasingly appears that Miguel won't cut it and the first trio of CB's are all approaching the wrong side of 20 now.