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Sokratis was BVB`s best defender last season. Hummels being better overall can be thoroughly argued, but this is no clear cut case. BVB is an elite club, right outside the group of the Bayerns, Reals and Barcelonas, etc. which have a squad of 11 + world class players. An elite club, on their end, has a few world class players surrounded by elites. Dortmund has three world class, one in each third of the field: Aubameyang, Reus and Sokratis. Then they have about 6 or 7 elite players complementing them.

Marinakis with his Alter Ego company that recently got a license to run a TV channels offered to be the sponsor of Superleague!!!!!!

It is well understood that Manolas and Sokratis are first tier, world class. Ask anyone in Italy and Manolas is in the same conversation as the 3 Juventus CBs. General consensus in Bundesliga is that Sokratis right behind Hummels and Boateng, very hard to argue otherwise. He is on their level there is no doubt and the reason Bayern got Hummels over Sokratis is because Hummels is a German with pedigree and the signing is perceived as more prestigious than signing the Greek.