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Sokratis Papastathopoulos

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Floating

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trunks206 said:
Would much rather take Subotic.

Subotic would never come here to sit on the bench. Sokratis is at least third choice at Dortmund. Subotic is a nailed on starter.
 

trunks206

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^Yeah but will he be a starter once Hummels comes back? Many on here rate Sokratis highly as see him as a starter (with the other being Hummels as he's captain now), but I personally think Subotic is the best defender at the club so I would start him, but it will be interesting to see what Klopp does when all 3 are fit and with Gitner pushing for a spot aswell.
 

Warship

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Floating said:
trunks206 said:
Would much rather take Subotic.

Subotic would never come here to sit on the bench. Sokratis is at least third choice at Dortmund. Subotic is a nailed on starter.

Mate of mine who follows Dortmund closely actually thinks Subotic has his work cut out for him to take back the starting position from Sokratis as it is.

Also Ginter is as much cover for Bender/Kehl as he is for their CB's so this one seems a bit far fetched.
 

Bigbludfire

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onetowatch said:
Di Marzio says a lot of things. About time he got called out like Horse, Geoff, Dean and Tony Leen.

Completely different. DI Marzio usually says we're interested or "close" to a player, and never actually confirms it with us. We're a difficult club because everything is in secret, and even Ornstein gets things wrong. Di Marzio gets 75% of the things right outside of Arsenal though, without a shadow of a doubt.

Comparing him to Leen, Geoff etc etc is a joke.
 

blrgooner

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HE has just scored for the second goal for Dortmund against Augsborg.
This is not looking very likely to happen ATM.
 

Iceman10

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Warship said:
Floating said:
trunks206 said:
Would much rather take Subotic.

Subotic would never come here to sit on the bench. Sokratis is at least third choice at Dortmund. Subotic is a nailed on starter.

Mate of mine who follows Dortmund closely actually thinks Subotic has his work cut out for him to take back the starting position from Sokratis as it is.

Also Ginter is as much cover for Bender/Kehl as he is for their CB's so this one seems a bit far fetched.

Good versatility there (Ginter and "Papa"), meaning players can be kept happy with decent match time regardless of what the preferred CB pairing is for any given period. Quite envious of Dortmund in that respect, Klopp knows how to build a squad, despite Munich's best efforts to wreck it. Chambers is a good start, we ideally need one more like him but a bit more experienced. "Papa" would be perfect but it looks like Dortmund can keep everyone happy and don't really need to sell.
 

blaze_of_glory

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Deal for Papastathopoulos is very close, reports Greek Radio station. €20m likely to be enough to bring him to #AFC. pic.twitter.com/2caeNDm0PP

Messi Minutes ‏@MessiMinutes
According to @NovaSPORFM, Arsenal have returned to @BVB with a €20m (£15.8m) bid for Sokratis. Player keen to join. pic.twitter.com/cUTcatApey
 

Vinci

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Would be brilliant if we managed to get him, but it doesn't make sense.

He is willing to sit on our bench rather than start for Dortmund? Wouldn't it also make more sense to buy a CB who is cheaper like Manolos and then spend big on DM.
 

Yousif Arsenal

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20M euros! never knew Wenger would pay something like that for a defender. still can't see it happening.
 

Eduardo_da_Silva

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Borussia fans say that their best itk, a journalist fpr kicker claims his 100 percent staying. Also, Ornstein claims that we are looking at cheap backup options at cb. We are not stockpiling quality imo. He is a verygood player and should be a first team choice.
 
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