With money tight, BVB must turn down potential signings | OneFootball

Of course, the 2026 World Cup is still in full swing and the start of the new Bundesliga season is still seven and a half weeks away, but impatience is nevertheless growing around Borussia Dortmund over the lack of new signings. It is quite possible, however, that beyond the arrivals of Joane Gadou (Red Bull Salzburg), Kauã Prates (Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte) and Justin Lerma (Independiente del Valle), not much more will happen.

While a basic transfer fee of around five million euros has just been brought in for Julien Duranville, who could also generate bonus payments after his move to Olympique Lyon, according to information from Sport BILD, BVB can hardly invest unless another really big-money sale goes through.

There are certainly several candidates for a transfer that would bring a lot of money into BVB’s coffers. First and foremost is Karim Adeyemi, whom Borussia would also be happy to let go a year before his contract expires, but Felix Nmecha, Serhou Guirassy and Julian Ryerson could also command sizeable fees. However, no deal in any of these cases appears to be imminent, meaning that in terms of new signings, not much is likely to happen in Dortmund in the short term either.

Will there only be a Brandt replacement?

That is because BVB, who continue to be linked with possible reinforcements such as Guéla Doué (Racing Strasbourg), Benjamin Tahirovic (Bröndby IF) and Eduard Spertsyan (FC Krasnodar), is currently only able to act to a limited extent. As Sport BILD further reports, BVB has already had to turn down potential new signings this summer because the financial resources for a transfer were lacking.

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If there is no lucrative sale, BVB would likely focus its search for reinforcements on a creative midfielder in order to fill the gap left by Julian Brandt’s departure. Beyond that, there would hardly be any scope left to do business on the transfer market on a larger scale.

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