Youssoufa Moukoko has delivered his “shocked” response to recommendations that his wage calls for have led to a contract stand-off at Borussia Dortmund.
- Teenager out of contract subsequent summer time
- Contemporary phrases supplied to him
- events monitoring scenario
WHAT HAPPENED? The 18-year-old ahead, who’s the youngest participant ever to seem within the Bundesliga and Champions League, is simply tied to phrases in Germany by to subsequent summer time. Dortmund are keen to place an extension in place, amid discuss of Premier League giants Chelsea expressing curiosity within the gifted teenager, but it surely has been reported that an settlement is proving exhausting to succeed in.
WHAT THEY SAID: Moukoko has refuted claims that he’s holding BVB to ransom, saying in a fiery publish on social media: “Please do not consider all the pieces that is been written within the papers. I will not let myself be pressured into a choice about my future. I’ll by no means settle for such a lie about me. My full focus is on the second half of the season with Borussia Dortmund. No participant is greater than the membership and I’ll by no means be greater than the membership, only a small a part of it. It is actually unhappy that one thing like that’s invented simply to color you followers a mistaken image about me. I’m actually shocked by this story.”
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Moukoko has made 59 appearances for Dortmund, with 11 objectives recorded throughout these outings, whereas additionally incomes two senior caps for Germany – changing into the youngerest participant to symbolize them at a World Cup finals when approaching as an alternative towards Japan at Qatar 2022.
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WHAT NEXT? Dortmund are hoping {that a} deal can nonetheless be finished for Moukoko, however admiring glances will proceed to be shot in his route from elsewhere for so long as the paperwork stays unsigned at Sign Iduna Park.