Battle of attrition with Sorloth

Robert Olabe announced a long summer and early indications suggest it will be, at least in terms of Real squad planning. At the end of June and just nine days after the first shipment of players the preseason began, Real had only formalized one contract, that of Hamari Traoré, which was rushed because it was an opportunity in the market that could no longer be still delayed. many lovers behind. So, everything points to the extension of one of the expected operations of the summer, a classic like the friendly against Osasuna: the signing of Alexander Sorloth. The forecast that now prevails in Anoeta is that it boils down again because at the moment they are nowhere near an agreement with Leipzig. However, considering that the initial interest of the three parties is the same, the prospects are optimistic.

La Real is looking for a third contract for the Norwegian striker, but in this case with the aim of achieving a definitive transfer. In the previous two, after extensive negotiations in Leipzig, the Scandinavian sealed his assignment of the San Sebastian squad on August 25, 2021 and August 29, 2022. La Real is confident that this time it can be done earlier – the market It closes at 11:59 pm on August 31-, among other things because if you rush too much you can lose between two and three League games, the first ones.

More expensive because of the announcement

Leipzig and their coach, Frame Rosethey don’t want to have Alex Sorloth next season, but the German club is far from willing to give it up. Furthermore, he once tightened the conditions of his transfer in negotiations with Real Robert Olabe He publicly announced that the royalist club was interested in continuing to rely on Norwegian services.

Sorloth He has a contract until 2025 at Leipzig and, if nothing changes in the next three weeks, he will have to start preseason with the German club on July 15, the day his players are called up for performance tests.

Some information in Germany states that the Teutonic club is asking for 15 million euros for the footballer who has played for Real for the last two seasons. The purchase option for him that the San Sebastian club did not exercise last year reached 16. ‘Transfermarkt’ rates him at 12 and CIES Football Observatory, at 30. Real, for their part, have -they project an investment of no more than 10 million. And that is, in the case of agreeing to the demands of the German club and if they offer the striker a four-year contract, Sorloth This is worth around nine million per year for Real, counting transfer and total records.

So, Real, logically, manages a whole range of alternatives to strengthen the forward in case the operation cannot be carried out in acceptable conditions. However, they hope they will be able to comply with the expressed wishes of Imanol Bailiff, who continues to rely on his center forward for the last two seasons and was top scorer last season with 16 ‘txitxarros’. The man from Orio believes that he can squeeze the Nordic even more.

Market gifts

While this operation is taking place at a slow pace – at the moment Jokin Aperribay has not intervened to try to speed up the resolution – Leipzig is still active and present in the market. Signing the medium makes it official Christoph Baumgartner and tied with another midfielder as Fabio Carvalho, from Liverpool. In addition, he can raise about 100 million from the City for Josko Guardiol and they received 60 from Chelsea for Christopher NkunkuThey plan to invest another 30 euros to sign the Lens striker Lois Openda and they have also put on the market andre silva. They renovated in Elm and in their ranks the tips remain szoboszlai, Timo Werner and poulsen.