Leipzig signs Romulo from Goztepe in €25m deal

This summer, the Bundesliga broadside from Leipzig confirmed their seventh signing. The transportation of the 22-year-old Brazilian Romulo from Turkey's Göztepe is worthy 20 cardinal euros, with an further 5 cardinal done bonuses and 10% of the adjacent sale. With this move, the nine from the Bundesliga became the 19th squad that exceeded the spending of 100 cardinal euros during the summer, and it is expected that much teams volition soon articulation that list.

Profile of a promising striker

193 centimeters tall, beardown successful duels, technically dependable and highly mobile, Romulo had an awesome play successful Turkey past twelvemonth — 17 goals and 10 assists successful 33 appearances. Many spot him arsenic a earthy replacement for Benjamin Sešek, and his accomplishment successful the Bundesliga could further item his qualities, particularly successful the crippled strategy that Red Bull has been pushing for years.

Sporting manager Marcel Schäfer openly expressed his restitution with this transfer: "Romulo brings strength, cleanable method and a large goal-scoring instinct. He is flexible successful attack, helium tin play arsenic a classical nine, but besides successful respective positions. We were impressed with however easy helium acceptable into antithetic leagues and systems successful Brazil and Turkey. We are convinced that helium volition springiness our crippled caller momentum and amended creativity."

For Göztepe, this is the biggest merchantability successful the club's history. The Brazilian arrived successful January from Athletico Paranaense for 2.5 cardinal euros, and present helium is leaving for astir 10 times the magnitude with imaginable bonuses. This broke the erstwhile grounds of the Turkish club, which sold Obina Nwoboda to FC Cincinnati successful 2021 for 2.73 cardinal euros.

The database of clubs that crossed the threshold of 100 cardinal euros this summertime includes 9 Premier League players, portion Spain is represented lone by Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. Italy has Juventus, Milan and Como, France is represented by Paris Saint-Germain and Strasbourg, and from the Bundesliga, isolated from Leipzig, determination is besides Bayer Leverkusen. Interestingly, the lone typical of Saudi Arabia connected that database is Al Qadsiah.