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Or just that typical "modern football business" model. Buy cheap and sell high. But 7m looks rather high, even €.

Read about it back then and it was written, that Rangers made a loan-deal with a fixed buy sum after that. The buy-back thing is not that common, but I thought that this was Bayern's back-door to get him Back if he becomes famous. That there was another clause between loan and the buy option is indeed strange. But I see that Rangers have bought good players since.

If you have to take gambles on players, it would be better if these were contract-free. If they fail, there is little hope someone spends cash to buy them. So one has to hope the coach knows what he is doing. But Cantwell should give you hope, I think

Well, I just hope it will not be my team Union, only in the group stages please Still a long way to go.

That looks very much like Flower Power 2023 ...

Thanks. I was just wondering. The u21s don't play this weekend and another striker on the bench might be good. If they are not ready, you won't put them there, of course.

Line up looks very much like before, just different people. Always the same, really. I was checking the teams and wonder why there is no young striker from the junior/u21 team? Only Sakala and Morelos is a bit weak?

I was given the impression that there was only a limited budget available, given the problems with these old investors and companies? Looking back at the season in the stats, the only new players that were really given a chance were Colak and Tillman plus Raskin and Cantwell later on. Lawrence looked really good, but then injury struck. Many old players have simply not performed as they did before, lots of injuries too ... all things that you couldn't know at the start of the season. A recipe for disaster.

It is the same with Union over here in Berlin. Players can be good or bad elsewhere, but in a new club everything starts from scratch. Since Der Berliner invited me in here, I have seen about 10 to 15 games. Vera different to what we see here in the Bundesliga, but you do need real strikers or attackers that can score. Far too few shots are actually dangerous.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going