SougarLord Posted February 15, 2021 Posted February 15, 2021 In the Bundesliga, the unwritten rules of the transfer market are different than in the rest of Europe: trades are made public when they close rather than calculating the best time to make the announcement. This Monday, for example, Gladbach announced that their coach, Marco Rose, will leave the team at the end of the season to take over Dortmund. On Sunday, Bayern announced that it has reached an agreement with Upamecano and that it will pay its clause to RB Leipzig. And on Friday, it was precisely today's rival of Liverpool who made public that he will stay in property with Angeliño when his loan ends. It is true that there was not much uncertainty about this last operation. After getting his loan from City in January 2020 and extending it in summer, Leipzig had guaranteed a purchase option of 20 million euros. And, given the performance of the Galician winger, that figure had become "a bargain", as his coach, Julian Nagelsmann, rightly pointed out. We are talking about the defender who has participated in the most goals in the five major leagues, scoring eight and distributing 11 assists. Numbers that more than one striker would sign in blood at this point in the course, but that correspond to a lane. Only striker Yussuf Poulsen surpasses him in goals at RB Leipzig. And that could change at any time, as the Dane only adds one more goal. Faced with such a state of form, two things are surprising. The first, that Manchester City signed an agreement that would allow RB Leipzig to stay with him for such an affordable amount. Angeliño came to England eight years ago, when he was still 16, and was traded to PSV in 2018. After his good performance in the Eredivisie, City bought him back a season later, but he only played 12 games under Guardiola. He simply did not convince the Catalan coach despite the recurring problems that his team has dragged into the left-back position in recent seasons. COMPETENCE IN THE SELECTION The other surprising circumstance is that he has not yet been a full international. Luis Enrique has included him in some of his last prelists, but he plays in the best covered position of the team. Gayà is a permanent fixture and Reguilón, Jordi Alba, Cucurella and Bernat have entered. As also happens to Yuri or Monreal, at the moment there is no space for José Ángel Esmorís, his real name. «I don't think about the selection. If he arrives, then he arrived », says he, so Galician. His performance will determine if he can carve out a place for the Euro. Matches like this Tuesday, against Liverpool in depression, are the ones that can give him the last push he needs. A clash, by the way, which is played at the Puskas Arena in Budapest and not in Leipzig due to the sanitary restrictions that prevent British citizens from entering Germany.
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