Foye wrote:[
Either way, you guys have to buy at least one quality CB for CL or EL next season. Might as well spend money on Schär now then. Brouwers and Stranzl are not compatible to knockout games in Europe.
Stranzl's still one of the better cb's of the Bundesliga and will most likely be re-signed for another season.
Though, I'm not sure on Brouwers and that's why there could be another CB coming next summer.
cgf wrote:
I don't expect much to happen, but I do buy the rumors of you guys looking at a lot of Basel players and do think that you'll try to arrange for a Sommer deal to replace MAtS, and see what kinda price tags you can get on Schär, Salah and Stoker as well. If you can get some real money for LdJ could even see you pulling the trigger on one or two of them before the WC.
Well, one shouldn't read too much into those speculations, given that most of them are created in Switzerland since we bought Xhaka.
Also, having Lucien Favre as our coach, pretty much every Swiss soccer player is being linked to us, as long as he's able to run straight forward without breaking a leg during the process.
Though, Sommer might be an option, if ter Stegen does leave for Barca, but he would certainly an expensive one.
BTW: de Jong could be going this winter(Stoke and PSV are really interested), but only if we're able to sell him for a good price.
And, of course, if we're able to add another player to our frontline this winter as well, given that de Jong is the only striker(Hrgota's still young and learning and Mlapa's not good enough and linked to other clubs as well) we've got left on the bench.
cgf wrote:They should have some money to utilize in the summer with the fees for MAtS, LdJ and maybe even Herrmann on top of the European funds. I'm expecting a MAtS replacement, a CB replacement, and an arrango replacement at the very least.
I think we'll have some money next summer(especially if we do qualify for international football), but it's still up in the air about us selling players.
MATS could stay and de Jong might even stay as well, even though I believe he'll be gone this winter.
Oh, and Herrmann just re-signed a couple months ago and has an opt out believed to be around 15 - 20 mil euros.
Given that price tag and us being financially stable, I doubt he'll leave before 2015 at the earliest.
