Contract talks ahead: Süle, Brandt and Can out to impress | OneFootball

The summer transfer period of 2025 is history. The officials of Borussia Dortmund can now take a little breather during the current international break before the season really gets going from the week after next with the Bundesliga and then also the Champions League - and at the same time, further personnel planning will increasingly come into focus.

In an interview with "Sport Bild", Sporting Director Sebastian Kehl currently looks relaxed at the expiring contracts of long-standing BVB professionals such as Emre Can, Julian Brandt and Niklas Süle, seeing more positives in it: "We have some players with expiring contracts, that's not bad at all, it can even help us. Every player now gets the chance to show themselves in the next few months - of course."

Süle would have to make concessions

As for when talks should be held with the aforementioned trio or the also only until 2026 bound Alexander Meyer and Pascal Groß, Kehl did not want to commit: "We have a really good relationship with all players and will surely sit down at a table at some point to talk about the future."

Upon request, Kehl did not rule out an extension with top earner Süle, but hinted that the central defender would probably have to make concessions in this case: "Basically: Just because you extend contracts, it doesn't mean that you have to extend them at the same level. Every one of our players has the chance to recommend themselves for a new contract. This of course also applies to Niklas Süle."

Also only bound until June 30, 2026 is Salih Özcan, another player for whom an extension is currently considered very unlikely. Rather, the Turkish national player is a candidate who could leave the club this summer towards a country with a still open transfer window.

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