Draxler suggests Schalke wouldn’t let him leave AUTHOR Lee Hurley DATE February 1, 2014COMMENTS: Leave a comment Julian Draxler has revealed that it was his club which stopped his transfer going through. After the transfer window closed on Friday evening, the blame game was being played with it being reported that the Arsenal board had been willing to pay for Julian Draxler but Arsene Wenger would not agree the fee. Now today the player himself is being reported as saying that it was Schalke who stopped the deal going through, which would lead you to believe that it was neither Arsenal not Arsene. Draxler allegedly said I want to go and had a good offer to leave. But the Schalke [general] manager Horst Heldt said no to the transfer and would not let me go. These quotes have been reported on Metro [linked above] but it seems as if they have come from an interview with Sky where he ‘suggested’ that Schalke blocked the deal and he wanted to leave. Whether he said the words exactly as reported above, I cannot say.
The concerning thing in that tweet above is the interest of Bayern Munich, although it would be madness to hope that no other club would try and sign him. Throughout the transfer window Arsenal maintained that it was mostly the press making a big deal of them trying to sign Draxler while Schalke maintained that they had not received any offer for the player. Someone, somewhere, isn’t being entirely truthful.
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