Transfer news: Rodri before moving to FC Barcelona and BVB newcomers

Transfer news Rodri before moving to FC Barcelona

Ballon d'Or winner, best player of the World Cup and probably soon to be Hansi Flick's player: Midfield star Rodri's move to FC Barcelona is almost finalized. And: Is Niclas Füllkrug moving to Bremen?

Negotiations

Rodri will soon be Flick's midfield engine

Coach Hansi Flick can apparently look forward to Rodri at FC Barcelona. As the portal “The Athletic” reports, the Catalan club and Manchester City have agreed in principle on a transfer. The transfer fee for the midfielder is said to be 76.5 million euros. After an increase in the offer from Barcelona, ​​the English should receive 60 million euros for the 30-year-old as a basic sum, the rest would be bonus payments. Rodri's contract in Manchester only runs for one year. According to the report, he will sign in Barcelona for four years. There were initially no official announcements.

Flick could really use the world footballer of 2024 and the best player of the last World Cup, because he has to do without Frenkie de Jong, who tore an medial ligament in his right knee at the World Cup, for an indefinite period of time.

BVB expects two additions

Borussia Dortmund has probably found an alternative for the offensive after the missed transfer of Saïd El Mala. As Sky reports, among others, Dortmund are about to sign Greek midfielder Giannis Konstantelias. Accordingly, BVB will pay a transfer fee of around 32 million euros for the 23-year-old.

Konstantelias comes from Thessaloniki from Paok. He has already played 190 games for the Greeks, scoring 44 goals and providing 26 assists. After the signing of Konstantinos Karetsas, Dortmund would sign the second young Greek midfielder this transfer summer.

In addition, according to media reports, around 20 million euros will flow to PSV Eindhoven for the Dutch midfielder Joey Veerman. Veerman is expected to sign a five-year contract with BVB.

Rumors

El Mala to Leipzig?

After the deal with BVB fell through, RB Leipzig is now said to be interested in Cologne's El Mala. This is what the “Sport Bild” and the “Bild” newspaper report. Accordingly, there has not yet been an offer, but RB is said to be planning to offer a fixed transfer fee of 50 million euros - plus five million euros in easy-to-achieve bonuses and five million euros for exceptional successes.

According to reports, the Leipzig supervisory board will decide on such an offer for the 19-year-old this week. RB is currently looking for a replacement for winger Yan Diomande, who moved to Real Madrid for 125 million euros.

Dinkçi's return to Werder is just a formality, now Füllkrug is coming too?

The hoped-for reinforcements for the Werder attack have arrived in Bremen: Eren Dinkçi drove up to the Weserstadion for a medical check. The Bremen native's commitment is considered a formality. Dinkçi is set to return to Weser from SC Freiburg on a one-year loan deal, with no purchase option for SV Werder.

Niclas Füllkrug has also been associated with a comeback on the Weser for days. The "Bild" reported on the Green-Whites' interest in a deal with the striker, who is no longer planned for West Ham United despite a contract that runs until 2028.

The “kicker” now wrote about a “positive trend” in the filling jug question. The 33-year-old scored 19 times in the 2021/2022 second division season and thus made a significant contribution to the return to the Bundesliga. He became top scorer in the Bundesliga with 16 goals, then moved to Borussia Dortmund and a year later to England for 27 million euros. In the last second half of the season Füllkrug was loaned out to AC Milan, but only made it into the starting line-up three times. The attacker scored one goal for the Italians in a total of 20 appearances.