Borussia Dortmund have held an ‘intensive internal discussion’ about Manchester City’s Oscar Bobb, but his price tag means a move is unlikely.
That’s according to SportBILD. They report that signing Bobba from Manchester City would end up costing around €70m. That’s put him well beyond Dortmund’s reach.
The newspaper covers the German club and who could be coming and going this month, and in future. After the departures of Pascal Groß and Cole Campbell, the focus is now on players who ‘want to come’.
Bobb is on that that list and there has been ‘intensive internal discussion’ about the Manchester City youngster. However, signing him would come at significant cost.
Dortmund believe Bobb would cost around €70m once transfer fee, salary and agent fees had all been tallied up. That’s too much from the club’s perspective. They’ve not got much room for manoeuvre in the January transfer window.
The focus is instead on the summer, where they plan to invest in younger players to develop once again. They’ve set a budget of around €30m for that, so still significantly less than the €70m required to get Bobb from Manchester City.
Of course, the actual transfer fee would be much lower than that and this may all be the start of BVB negotiating games.