A very good deal for all sides, but once again the worst of all three sides for BVB. 5 million for a player like Knauff, who still has potential, is the minimum. Where others would have raised 8-10 million again or tackled their own construction sites on the offensive, you only get the minimum amount again. The transfer summer at BVB must be extraordinarily good if you can still afford to sell Guerreiro, Dahoud, Knauff and Bellingham for relatively small sums or even for free. Knauff isn’t an outstanding player yet, but if you make the same mistakes as Isak, Merino or Sergio Gomez, then you really haven’t learned anything.
Who says that there isn’t also a resale participation or RKO?
This eternal pessimism without knowing all the details. Bensebaini fix, Fresneda probably too, Alvarez very hot, if now a good ZM and a surprise (Sancho) you have improved the quality of the squad mmn. Even if you don’t agree, that’s legitimate but not a fact!
It is clear that the user evaluates the status quo first, if there is anything regarding the buyback option / significant participation, it is usually the case that sources a la BVB Newsblog or well-connected journalists throw something like that into the room.
Alvarez is unfortunately very hot, Bensebaini is okay, but as of now we have Guerreiro / Bellingham in a “weaker” position in terms of play, let’s see what we can do with it.
Playful aspects / playing field connecting skills are now essential, since the last Tuchel season we have been lacking again and again, with the exception of appearances such as Guerreiro / Hakimi in combination with Sancho before that.
I would have seen 5 million for a Bundesliga player trained with us with more than one season of CL air, EL victory etc. but also with a one-year contract as the lowest level or with RKO / matching right / resale participation, especially since the boy is just is 21 years old, meets local regulations and German local players are also very important for Frankfurt, where there are many players from other countries in the extended base.
What does “black painting” mean? The information we have to live with at the moment is relatively low transfer fees for Bellingham and Knauff and free transfers from Guerreiro and Dahoud. Alvarez and Fresneda are speculations where even less details are known. If Dortmund fetches two Bundesliga newcomers for 50 million, the squad is far from improved. If you grab those for 30, the world looks different. In addition, Bensebaini is currently not a significant upgrade to Ryerson and also costs BVB Guerreiro, who had to give way for it. The “good ZM” is still in the stars (could have been Guerreiro), as well as Sancho’s return action, which is by no means a reinforcement, since Malen and Adeyemi already have regular players for the wings. Nobody spoke of “legal facts” either. Simply making a counter-comment because of the counter-attack is pretty airy.
What I’m saying is that BVB rarely generate excessive transfer fees (and I’m talking about the ratio of transfer fees in the market) but are very generous on purchases. Sometimes that works well, but often it doesn’t. Knauff would not be without prospects at BVB. Both as a track player in a five-player chain and as a supplementary player for the wings, one could certainly have extended with him. Frankfurt has long expressed interest and I believe that other clubs could have teased out the 7-10 million. From Frankfurt or another club. If you can’t achieve this “extra” 20-25% transfer fee, but then skimp and Guerreiro can’t put 2-3 million more on the table and Dahoud (double-digit million MW) no longer wants to pay, then the outstanding purchases have to be all sit. That’s not black painting, that’s the state of affairs. I would also like to see pink but there is no reason for that yet.
Knauff is fighting for a starting place even at Frankfurt, and he seems to be a typical system player.
For 1 year remaining and the current status, the sum is ok. At BVB he would have sat on the bench or even played in the U23. So you get 4-5 + maybe 2-3 and that’s good.
In the case of Guerreiro, it wasn’t down to 1-2 million, let’s wait and see the numbers he gets from Bayern.
Dahoud’s market value doesn’t matter at all. It wasn’t needed and would have ended up costing a lot of money.
Guerreiro will soon be 30 and his muscles are prone to injury, while Bayern can easily pay 10 million a year if he were our top earner.
At the end of the day, the individually best team does not always win, without a functioning team it is useless.
Yes, Guerreiro was 2-3 (please don’t “quote” 1-2 while I’m citing a different total ). The Bavarians give him 3 instead of 2+1 years contract and not 5 million, but a little more. And why? Because Guerreiro is a strong player that you just can’t get for such money (0 fee/max. 25-30 million salary for three years). Why shouldn’t one of the best performing players in the roster be a top earner? While Reus and Meunier are scraping the 8 million, should a deserving player like Guerreiro not get a salary increase? With the Knauff transfer and 5% of the Bellingham proceeds, that would have been back in there long ago.
Dahoud’s market value doesn’t “don’t matter at all”. If expensive players like Meunier, Schulz or Dahoud only cost money in the end, it is not a managerial masterpiece to let them sit out their contracts. Here, too, BVB does the worst job of all parties involved.
And if in the end Guerreiro and Dahoud are the reason why the team “doesn’t work”, then it’s surprising that FC Bayern are bringing in players like Guerreiro after 11 championships.