BVB Managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke is concerned about the traditional clubs. He also teased RB Leipzig. Also: Jeremy Toljan was missing during training and Andre Schürrle is supposed to be available at a bargain price.
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BVB boss Hans-Joachim Watzke worries about traditional clubs like Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV in the Sport1 special issue.
Ten years ago, he predicted that factory clubs or clubs such as Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig would depend on traditional clubs.
Watzke stresses that the forecast has been met. “Ten years ago, however, I would have missed the imagination to predict that Schalke would play against relegation and that Hamburg and Stuttgart would be second league clubs.” Therefore one has to be careful that there are not even more traditional clubs.
About competitor RB Leipzig Watzke said: “There are first-class people at work, Ralf Rangnick has done an excellent job. Money’s there, too. You have to be careful.”
Nevertheless, the BVB could mobilise considerably more people than the people of Leipzig: “You only have to see what was going on at the DFB Cup final in Berlin. The city was half as full as Borussia Dortmund’s participation.”
Jeremy Toljan did not participate in the training of Borussia Dortmund this Tuesday morning. Lukasz Piszczek, Mateu Morey and Patrick Osterhage were missing due to individual stress control, as BVB announced.
Toljan’s move to Italy is likely to take concrete shape. According to several media reports, the Italian first league team Sassoulo Calcio in particular is said to have a great interest in the defender.
As the picture reports, the 24-year-old is passing his medical check today at the Serie A club. Sassuolo wants to borrow Toljan. In addition, the club is said to have secured a purchase option of almost eight million euros for the outer defender.
The 24-year-old was on loan to Celtic Glasgow last season and still has a contract with the Black Yellow at 2022.
The former record transfer from Borussia Dortmund, Andre Schürrle, is allowed to leave the club at a bargain price, according to a report in the newspaper Bild-Zeitung. BVB is therefore calling for only eight million euros for the 2014 World Champion. Chinese and Russian clubs are said to have expressed interest.
Schürrle has already been exempted from black-yellow training to look for a new club. The away player was loaned to FC Fulham last season. The lending business, however, was dissolved by the relegation of the London club.
In 2016, the year-old transferred from VfL Wolfsburg to BVB for 30 million euros. He still has a contract in Dortmund until 2021.
