Manchester United’s offer to Borussia Monchengladbach goalkeeper Yann Sommer is one he ‘could hardly pass up’.
That’s according to 11 Freunde, who cover the situation around the Switzerland goalkeeper and comments from Gladbach’s Roland Virkus.
The website explain that Sommer is facing ‘one last big decision’ in his career, a contract extension with his current side and ending his career there or a move ‘to a world club’.
The latter is reportedly being offered by Manchester United, who, according to numerous reports, have now ‘knocked on his door again’.
They are reportedly eyeing a successor to David de Gea and are looking at Sommer, who they were also interested in during the summer transfer window.
Sporting and financially, that would be an offer which Sommer ‘could hardly pass up’, even if it would cause great disappointment among the fans at Gladbach.
It’s a tough decision for the goalkeeper, something that Virkus can understand and admits he is weighing up.
“Yann knows very well that he is an important building block in our management structure,” he is quoted as saying to the MitGeredet podcast.
“But you also have personal goals. Maybe you want to play for another club. Maybe you want to win another championship somewhere. He has to weigh all that up.”
That is now on the cards, with Switzerland’s elimination from the World Cup, where Sommer was their number one, giving the goalkeeper the ‘necessary freedom of thought’ to decide what to do next with his career.
That now appears to be between staying at Gladbach or moving to Manchester United, who are keen on him as part of Erik ten Hag’s ongoing rebuild.
