According to reports, FC Schalke 04 will not exercise the purchase option for Ko Itakura (25) and will therefore not take the Japanese central defender to the Bundesliga for purely financial reasons. “Sport1” reporter Patrick Berger wrote on Monday evening that the decision to loan Manchester City had been made.
Reports from “Ruhrnachrichten” and “Bild” had already got the S04 supporters in the mood that the national player (four goals), who had been used 31 times in the promotion season, would not continue. The deadline for the Royal Blues’ option is said to end on Tuesday, May 31. The transfer fee agreed with Man City is £5 million, around EUR 6 million. SC Freiburg and Eintracht Frankfurt are also considered to be interested in a commitment.
If you don’t sign Itakura, you have to find a player for less than 5mio… with similar quality. I don’t think 5 million for a player who is capable of the BuLi level is necessarily an exorbitant price. What IV would otherwise be available for the price?
Yes, with Itakura you have to invest 5 million, but you know what you’re getting. This is often the problem when you sign loan players for the first 11… the budget problem is usually only postponed by one…
Schalke already have to shell out a sum of several million euros for the purchase obligations that have come into force for Thomas Ouwejan (25), Rodrigo Zalazar (22) and Marvin Pieringer (22) (for all fixed Schalke transfers for the new season). Income is still waving through possible sales, for example of the loan players Amine Harit (24), Can Bozdogan (21) or Rabbi Matondo (21, Schalke’s loaned players in the overview). Once new funds are generated through departures, Itakura’s services are unlikely to become cheaper in later negotiations with Man City.
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