Karim Adeyemi will move to Borussia Dortmund in the coming days, replacing Manchester City-bound Erling Haaland as he does so. The player’s agent has confirmed the presence, and the subsequent rejection, of a proposal from Manchester United.
Karim Adeyemi’s agent, Thomas Solomon, has confirmed that the player did reject a late offer from Manchester United in favor of Borussia Dortmund. German news outlet Sport1 last week claimed that the RB Salzburg forward had turned down a proposal from the Red Devils worth 150,000 pounds per week in terms of wages because he and his camp felt Dortmund would be a better step for his development.
Solomon confirmed the same while revealing certain details about his client’s new contract in an interview with Fabrizio Romano.
“We’re now close to complete the deal with Borussia Dortmund. There will be no release clause included into his five-year deal. Manchester United wanted to enter the race – but we want BVB.”
Solomon said.
Romano previously confirmed that the deal to take the German forward from Salzburg to North Rhine-Westphalia was in place and that it only required formalization through paperwork followed by an official announcement.
As per him, Dortmund would pay Salzburg a considerable fee of 38 million euros but, unlike the departing Erling Haaland, would not insert a release clause in his contract. Once the transfer goes through, Adeyemi will replace Haaland in the Dortmund squad with the Norwegian set to sign for Manchester City.
A former Bayern Munich academy star, Adeyemi returns to his native Germany after four years in Austria, during which time he played for RB Salzburg and their feeder club FC Liefering, both. In total, the 20-year-old appeared 127 times for both the clubs combined, and scored 48 goals. Adeyemi won three league titles while in Austria and was also called up to the Germany national team for the first time in 2021 when he made three appearances for Die Mannschaft and scored once.
He becomes – or is on the verge of becoming – Dortmund’s third signing of the summer after Niklas Sule and Nico Schlotterbeck.
