Borussia Dortmund counted some 21.5 million euros in January for Manuel Akanji, which happened from FC Basel. He became the most expensive defender of BVB ever, but Akanji doesn’t want to care too much about that,”That doesn’t say anything about me”, emphasizes the 22-year-old Swiss, who has already played four league duels in the Bundesliga.
Akanji doesn’t want to be judged on his transfer price, he emphasises in conversation with BILD:”There are defenders who have cost less and are still very good. I have to be judged on my game. The transfer sum does not matter, it’s about what you show on the field. I want to show what I can do, not the price that some people put around my neck.
Although Akanji is Dortmund’s most expensive manager ever, he knows that his transfer price is not the 84.5 million euros for Virgil van Dijk,”Compared to Van Dijk I’m a bargain. That applies to many defenders who have gone to top competitions in Europe. But perhaps in a few years’ time I will also be worth so much money,”he says full of self-confidence.
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