"Gundogan? Who let him come, who made this decision!"
On January 1, 2016, the first day of the new year, Manchester City manager Pellegrini was throwing a fit in his office.
The reason was that the club's staff responsible for transfer registration informed him that the club had already negotiated the transfer of German midfielder Gundogan with Dortmund from the Bundesliga.
Without surprise, in a few days, he would transfer from Dortmund to Manchester City for a fee of about 30 million euros.
Pellegrini felt his mind spin!
His body, over sixty years old, kept trembling.
Of course, he had heard of the name Gundogan; this 25-year-old German midfielder was a main defensive midfielder for Dortmund.
With broad vision, exquisite skills, and a beautiful long shot, he was a top-notch midfielder.
But neither Pellegrini nor his scouting team had ever put Gundogan on their scouting list, not to mention agreed on a transfer offer for him.
