Jadon Sancho to stay at Borussia Dortmund
-‘decision is final’-Sporting directorENGLAND forward Jadon Sancho will remain a Borussia Dortmund player next season, says the club’s sporting director Michael Zorc.The 20-year-old has been named in the Bundesliga club’s squad for this week’s training camp in Switzerland.It comes on the day of the deadline set by Dortmund for any deal to be agreed for Sancho, who is Manchester United’s top summer target.“We plan on having Jadon Sancho in our team this season,” said Zorc.“The decision is final. I think that answers all our questions.“Last summer we adjusted Jadon’s salary to match the development of his performances. So in context, we had already extended his contract until 2023 back then.”Dortmund want about £100m for Sancho, who they signed from Manchester City for £10m in 2017.Sancho and England Under-17 midfielder Jude Bellingham are among 31 players to travel to Bad Ragaz.Bellingham, 17, joined Dortmund from Championship side Birmingham City in July.Dortmund have two matches during their training camp, against Austrian sides SCR Altach on Wednesday and Austria Vienna on Sunday.They set the deadline for Sancho, who is under contract with them until 2022, because they want undisturbed preparation for the 2020-21 Bundesliga season.The new campaign starts on 18 September, with the transfer deadline for international deals on 5 October.AnalysisDortmund and Manchester United have reached an impasse over the fee.The German club want about £100m for the player, including a large up-front payment. But United think that does not take into account the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.The Old Trafford club, who meet FC Copenhagen in the Europa League quarter-finals in Cologne on Monday, have threatened to look at alternatives.(BBC Sport)
0Shares0000Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino is highly sought-after in Europe © AFP/File / Daniel LEAL-OLIVASBERLIN, Germany, Mar 22 – Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has been linked to Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich as a possible replacement for Jupp Heynckes next season.According to reports, Bayern’s director of sport Hasan Salihamidzic has recommended Pochettino to club bosses Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Uli Hoeness. Current head coach Heynckes, 72, has implied he will leave at the end of the season and magazine Sport Bild claims Salihamidzic has approached the Spurs boss.“I know that Bayern have contacted Mauricio Pochettino,” Sky pundit Didier Hamann told the German magazine.“He was an option and possibly still is.”Highly-rated Argentinian Pochettino, 46, has a contract at Spurs until 2021 and Tottenham president Daniel Levy is unlikely to let him go after nearly four years.Bayern had been thought to want to hire a German-speaking coach.“That doesn’t have to be the case, if we said that we would automatically close a door — and it’s not closed,” Salihamidzic has said on the matter.Other possible candidates to succeed Heynckes include ex-Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel, currently without a club, and RB Leipzig handler Ralph Hasenhuettl.The Austrian has been offered a contract extension past 2019, but negotiations with Leipzig are currently on ice.Bayern chairman Rummenigge is also said to admire Nice coach Lucien Favre, who has a buy-out clause in his contract with the French Ligue 1 club.Swiss coach Favre, who has coached Bundesliga sides Hertha Berlin and Borussia Moenchengladbach, has proven he can work with big name stars, such as Mario Balotelli, who has scored 14 French league goals this season for Nice.0Shares0000(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today)