Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has insisted Mats Hummels, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Ilkay Gundogan will not all be sold at once come the end of the season.
The trio all have contracts with BVB until June 2017, leaving the club potentially contemplating cashing in on them in the summer or risk losing the influential threesome at the enbd of next season.
"I can rule out that three players of their calibre will all leave at once," Watzke told Bild.
"It should be our goal to bring in a player of the same level if someone leaves us on a free transfer in 2017. We will make that happen."
"The absolute star players do not necessarily go to England," he added.
"They have not been able to celebrate a World Cup for 50 years and that will not change any time soon.
"And players know that the intensity of playing in England could cut your career short."
