Wolfsburg's Schurrle transfer hangs in balance
Berlin - Fresh from their shock win over Bayern Munich, Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg admit their planned signing of Chelsea winger Andre Schurrle has run into problems ahead of Monday's transfer deadline.
"There is currently no agreement," Wolfsburg's director of sport Klaus Allofs told newspaper Wolfsburger Nachrichten with Monday's transfer deadline of 1700 GMT looming.
"Time is running out. The chance of it happening are being reduced from hour to hour.
"It is all hanging on money, but we would like to make it happen."
It appears Jose Mourinho's Chelsea are not happy with the proposed transfer fee of 30 million euros ($33.85m) with Wolves eager to offer the Germany international a four-year contract.
Schurrle even sent Wolves coach Dieter Hecking a text on Friday to congratulate him for their shock 4-1 thrashing of league leaders Bayern as Dutch striker Bas Dost and Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne both scored twice.
"We wrote to each other on Friday evening, he congratulated us for our win," revealed Hecking.
"Andre has made it public that he wants to come to us, so you can see where the problem is.
"We have set an upper limit and if we don't reach it, it'll be ok, but we're not hell-bent on making this happen."
Schurrle was not in the Chelsea squad for Saturday's 1-1 Premier League draw with Manchester City and watched the clash from the stands.
Should Wolfsburg and Chelsea agree a fee, he could play make his return to the Bundesliga for Wolfsburg at Eintracht Frankfurt on Tuesday.
Bayern's Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger said Friday's result at Wolfsburg's Volkswagen Arena was a good for the whole German league after Bayern had utterly dominated the first half of the season.
"It's super for the Bundesliga," said Bayern's stand-in captain with their lead trimmed to eight points.
"You can tell Friday's result meant something. Of course, Wolfsburg are our rivals."
De Bruyne, who is making a name for himself with five league goals and 11 assists this season, said he would welcome seeing Schurrle in a Wolfsburg shirt.
"Any strengthening of the squad is welcome," said the 23-year-old, who also joined from Chelsea.