Chelsea spent most of the transfer window protecting one of their young academy talents from a German club which was looking to snap up Callum Hudson-Odoi, but in a SportsBild article cited by SportWitness here, it seems another Bundesliga side also wanted in on the action.
The claims in the piece are that Marina Granovskaia was not happy about Bayern’s disrespectful pursuit of Callum, and so shut down the possibility of a deal very early.
We’d already heard as much from other sources. But there was an interesting wrinkle in this version.
They say that Schalke made a big “via email”, a rather curious detail that’s included, for Andreas Christensen.
This was clearly a bid that Marina considered more palatable, because while she didn’t accept, she did “write back kindly” according to the German press.
Clearly there are ways of doing things, and some teams in Europe know how to do business with our formidable transfer chief.
