Red Bull Salzburg president Harald Lurzer has admitted that Karim Adeyemi will leave the club next year amid interest from Premier League trio Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United and Liverpool, speaking to Bayern Insider.
Since the start of 2020, Salzburg have sold Erling Haaland, Takumi Minamino, Hwang Hee Chan, Dominik Szoboszlai, Patson Daka and Enock Mwepu, bringing in over £100 million along the way.
So, yeah, the Austrian champions were never likely to stand in Adeyemi’s way with big-money offers expected to roll in sooner rather than later.
That’s just the way Salzburg do things; sign low, sell high, adapt, invest, replace.
Adeyemi has scored 15 goals in 22 games this season, wreaking havoc in the Champions League while becoming the youngest player to find the net for the German national team since a baby-faced Mario Gotze ten years ago.
According to BILD, Liverpool are interested. As have Tottenham and Newcastle, Sport1 claiming that both clubs have made contact with the free-scoring former Bayern Munich youngster.
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“We are aware that Karim will probably take the next step next summer,” Lurzer said, claiming that Salzburg ‘don’t want to put any obstacles in the way’ as one of Europe’s most exciting forwards prepares to climb the footballing ladder.
Lurzer confirms that Adeyemi has no release clause in his contract.
But according to Christian Falk, who conducted the interview, Salzburg are demanding more than the £18 million Borussia Dortmund paid for Haaland nearly two years ago.
Sport1 believe that Die Schwarzgelben are willing to pay £30 million for Adeyemi, hoping that a five-year contract worth £80,000-a-week is enough to lure another baby-faced frontman away from Salzburg.
That, by the way, is a far larger contract than Jude Bellingham received when he moved to Germany from Birmingham City.
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