What Leipzig are paying Chelsea for Werner

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Chelsea and RB Leipzig They have in the last hours finalized the final details of ttransfer of Timo Werner to the German clubwhich will pay for the return of the striker of 20 million euros and variables, according to Fabrizio Romano, a journalist who specializes in transfers.

Chelsea and Leipzig reached an agreement at the weekend, but in the final hours they signed the documents. This Tuesday Werner, 26 years old and 53 times international for Germany, will pass the examination medical to sign later and be announced as Leipzig’s new player, thus taking the opposite path to what he did in 2020, when he left the Red Bull Arena team to sign for the Stamford Bridge team.

Chelsea paid 53 million euros for Werner to Leipzig in 2020. The German international could not succeed in the London team. In 89 games played for Chelsea, the German striker scored 23 goals and provided 17 assists. Werner had other offers, but he decided to return to Leipzig, the club where he succeeded and with whom he signed a contract a month ago.

There is a lot of work in the Leipzig offices, which is about to close another signing but in this case for the summer of 2023: of Salzburg’s Slovenian striker Benjamin Sesko. Leipzig wanted to sign the 19-year-old striker this summer, but the Austrian club refused. Sesko also prefers to stay a year in Salzburg.

Source: La Verdad

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