Isak has risen, Dortmund now regrets it: it's a profile from Milan
Andrea Distaso
(Software translation)
https://m.calciomercato.com/news/isak-e ... mila-18367
24/02/20
It is curious that the club - Borussia Dortmund - which recently focused on the best young striker in Europe (Haaland) has let go of a player with Alexander Isak's talent and numbers with great (excessive?) Ease. The second half of last season and the 13 goals in 18 games in Eredivisie with the shirt of Willem II needed a verification at higher levels and especially the first weeks of 2020 in the ranks of Real Sociedad are confirming the enormous potential of this young man, so much as to have troubled too hasty comparisons with compatriot Ibrahimovic. And that have triggered new and increasingly insistent market rumors about him.
THE CLAUSE - Isak and his entourage could not choose a better club and a more suitable championship than the Spanish one to find themselves and bring out all its qualities. Theo Hernandez, Illarramendi, Mikel Merino, Januzaj and Odegaard, to name just a few of the players who more or less recently have relaunched players raw or partially unexploded talent. The Swedish striker born in 1999 is only the last addition of the Basque company, which was bought for only 6.5 million euros from Borussia Dortmund, who had spent two more to blow it to the AIK Solna and to the competition in 2017 when he had not yet come of age. The same Borussia which boasts a 30 million buyback clause - exercisable from summer 2021 and valid until 2024 - should it decide to retrace its steps.
PROFILE FROM MILAN - But in situations like these, the will of the footballer matters most and Isak, who has put the arrow from mid-December to today, with 12 goals scored (3 of which in Barcelona and Real Madrid), has clearly expressed his intentions :
he told Aftonbladet.Dortmund belongs to the past, now I am only thinking of doing well with Real Sociedad,
Words collected favorably by the Spanish club, which went to work to lock down its jewel and try to put out any market rumors in the bud. A profile like that of Isak is in fact followed by many teams in Europe, first of all by those who want to focus on growing talents to make them explode definitively, also in a logic of player trading and capital gains to be generated for the balance sheet. Like Milan branded Elliott, who is seriously considering speeding up this operational line with the engagement of a coach-manager like the German Ralf Rangnick, who in his experience as technical coordinator of the teams of the Red Bull galaxy (Salzburg and Leipzig above all) has pursued this strategy.
