All depends, if he's not good enough for the team we could've cashed in, possibly Jürgen thinks he needed experience and if all the money talk's true it could turn out to be a good decision.
We tried to sell him last summer for 20-25mill but nobody would pay it and we could only send him out on loan in the end in the hope he’d have a good season and a team would pay that fee the following year.
I’ve said before, he’s not a youngster anymore. He’s 23 now, an age where if he was going to make it with us or any other top team then he’d have been making much more of an impression than what he has done so far. The only reason there was a bit of hype about him was because he can hit a good free kick, but his overall play is very average. There’s a reason why the Bournemouth fans aren’t overly impressed by him, much like the Derby fans found him incredibly inconsistent.
Had hoped he’d have become a top player for us, he was looking much more likely than Woodburn, who is/was incredibly over hyped, but unfortunately he’s not shown anything to suggest he can make it to the level required with us.
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