Quite the development
EXCL: USMNT star Ricardo Pepi is set to join FC Augsburg on a permanent move from FC Dallas, here we go! 🚨🇺🇸 #MLS #Pepi
German sources tell me of MLS and club record fee: $20m plus add ons. Pepi & his agent are now flying to Munich.
Pepi will undergo medical tests on Sunday. https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1477412707594739713/photo/1
A Gnabry transfer. Definitely smells.
Also the partial American owner of Augsburg. But yeah, Gnabry deal likely.
Sounds like this may have been a case where the American investor in Augsburg just funded the deal.
Still crazy, though, for them to make this their biggest buy in their history.
They did it to keep Arsenal from thinking that Bayern wanted him, kept the price down and it benefitted Bremen.
Guessing this may be similar in that for a little 'help', Bayern gets first crack in a year or two and Augsburg gets to pull a possible profit.
Because this is their largest transfer ever.
Poor Sargent just can't get a worthy team.
League" and then I looked to see they finished dead last in Pool G.
Guessing he'll sub and play as a second/wide at times.