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Transfers Summer 2016 Transfer Window Thread

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ArcspacE said:
Or he can stay put, get paid and then get a massive sign-on fee as a free agent next year
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He'll lose way too much money from Nike that way. He basically is the face of Nike for the entire nation of Germany, their highest profile star and the center of their entire marketing effort - and he gets a fuckton of money for that. If he sits the bench at Bayern, isn't playing every match for Germany, etc ... that pool of money goes away.

Götze is going to leave Bayern this summer. It's just a question of where he's going to go to.
 
vadimivich said:
He'll lose way too much money from Nike that way. He basically is the face of Nike for the entire nation of Germany, their highest profile star and the center of their entire marketing effort - and he gets a fuckton of money for that. If he sits the bench at Bayern, isn't playing every match for Germany, etc ... that pool of money goes away.

Götze is going to leave Bayern this summer. It's just a question of where he's going to go to.
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By that logic then he will be staying in Germany then, so either back to Dortmund or ,,,,,?
 
Macch said:
No Gotze deal imminent
Following on from his quotes regarding new signings, Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenegge has also revealed there is currently no deal in place for Mario Gotze to leave the club.

The midfielder has been linked with a move away since the end of the season, including a switch to Premier League Spurs, but the Roten chief says there is nothing on the table.

He has, however, revealed that Pierre Hojbjerg is currently undergoing a medial at Southampton ahead of the new season.

Pierre-Emile has gone to Southampton for a medical, it was his wish to go to a club where he will be a first-team player. The discussions with his agent are going very well," continued the chairman.
As for other players that might leave the club, nothing is happening at the moment.
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Probably reading too much into this.

Interesting that Roten said nothing is on the table instead of Gotze isn't leaving?
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Rummenigge practically told Götze to fuck off earlier this summer in the aftermath of his "I want to stay and fight" quotes
 
If we base signings on smiley potential I'd say go all out:

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VirginiaSpur said:
Sure it's our wage cap, but that was also before the massive tv deal was restructured, and CL revenue was a certainty.

I applaud Levy for his hard-nosed discipline, and refusal to toss money around like everyone else is in the league right now, but there's room to maneuver here and Gotze shouldn't be out of our reach financially if everyone involved is eager to cut a deal and move on.

Who knows how serious the reports are? We're a good prospect so I won't rule them out, and most of the sudden media reports playing down the move have more of a "lol Spuds" quality to them than good reporting.

Dortmund fans weren't pleased when he left, and some people would prefer pastures anew rather than going home with their tailed tucked between their legs.
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While I get that argument, I am not sure it makes sense with the sense of squad Pochettino is trying to create. Having a new guy arrive, being paid more money than the others, while not actually being any better, is not a good thing, in my view.
 
Juicy Sushi said:
While I get that argument, I am not sure it makes sense with the sense of squad Pochettino is trying to create. Having a new guy arrive, being paid more money than the others, while not actually being any better, is not a good thing, in my view.
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Whether he's better in his present shape is always up for debate. With you that far.

However, five bundesliga titles, three national cup wins, a club world cup, a CL final, a WC win with the winner in the final and a youth Euro Championship all at 24 is something none of our current squad is even remotely close to having achieved. That, and the experience coming with it, is what we're paying for (along with the talent, obviously) and I'm absolutely convinced that our current squad will fully understand that this sort of pedigree is why he's on 120k in the first place and will be, or close to it, with us.
 
Kafkaesque said:
Whether he's better in his present shape is always up for debate. With you that far.

However, five bundesliga titles, three national cup wins, a club world cup, a CL final, a WC win with the winner in the final and a youth Euro Championship all at 24 is something none of our current squad is even remotely close to having achieved. That, and the experience coming with it, is what we're paying for (along with the talent, obviously) and I'm absolutely convinced that our current squad will fully understand that this sort of pedigree is why he's on 120k in the first place and will be, or close to it, with us.
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Team achievements are not player achievements. The notion that we're playing for experience is one I consider dubious, since we already have players who've won multiple titles. He is talented, no one is denying that. He's on big wages because he's at Bayern Munich, and that's how they recruit everyone from other clubs (seriously, they basically double the salary you can get at any other German club).

Pedigree means fuck all. And I fail to see how someone like Christian Eriksen, who isn't on 120k, but who does what we'd ask Mario to do, and does it better than Mario has in at least 2 or 3 seasons, would be thrilled at the idea of someone coming in and getting paid much more to essentially be his back-up.
 
It's laughable that people are saying Gotze would be an over-priced backup. I love our current attacking trio but he'd be in the first-team really soon, the guy is top quality.

That being said, I don't know how relevant the whole 'first-team' thing is anymore. We'll be playing so many games and need to be able to stay strong once we rotate. We can't settle for the Chadli types anymore.
 
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