Well, letting the contract expire was never an option, even though Watzke still talks about it. And 25-30m is good money. But it's just February and I don't think it would hurt us too much if we got 5m less from United/City/whoever.
Why should we agree now? No, it doesn't make sense to agree a deal with Bayern. There is so much stuff that could happen until July, I would be very disappointed by our bosses to be honest. We're still in the CL, good matches could mean more offers. Injuries could happen, Falcao out for some longer time and Lewy would become the number one (striker) target this summer. Okay, Lewy could also get seriously injured and we won't get such a fee but he doesn't get injured lol.
Well, I guess it wasn't supposed to leak this early. I think the number of potential "customers" dwindled by the day (Utd out, Juve out), City & eastern European are probably too lowly for him and besides them most teams that have the dough are already set, I guess.
And then I guess Bayern renewed their interest after the Pep thing, as in "yo check it out, we got Pep now, also that good old 10m wage, remember?" and this probably swayed him ("ok, I picked Bayern, either lemme go or I'll sit out my contract"). That's how I think it went down.
Maybe Bayern also offered mad amount of money too, so Watze went "welp, fuck it".
Hmm, what interests me most if whether or not Klopp wants to change to a Barca type of setup in the future with Götze as false9, then we could make do without a new striker (in Schieber we trust?) and go for some very good 10er like Boateng...dunno.
fuck bayern