I was always a Lahm fan. As my posts when he was playing illustrate. For instance.
(Man I was wrong on Rakatic. )
That does not change the fact that he wasn’t a big marketable name, like the others ones I mentioned.
(A bit like Pep actually, in his playing days.)
The kind of players people want for publicity reasons is the big names and again he wasn’t one. And him deciding to skip it makes no difference to them.
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