Arrivals
Last night on Instagram Isaiah Okafor, a 16-year-old defensive all-rounder and captain of Basel's U17s, announced his arrival at the club on Instagram. He is brother of Swiss international Noah Okafor. He joins Jardell Kanga as the Werkself's second 16-year-old signing of the window as Rolfes seeks to establish long-term success.
Eric Junior Dina Ebimbe should be in very advanced talks with Leverkusen over a potential loan move this January according to RMC Sport. First PSG of course want to extend his contract by 2 years. which is also close to being agreed. Bayer 04 should not be the only German club interested in the 21 year old midfielder - Eintracht Frankfurt are also in talks but we should still be the favourites to sign. If a loan is successful, Leverkusen would have to pay 100% of his salary and the option to buy amounts to €15m.
Florian Wirtz, as we have now known for a while, will not leave Leverkusen until summer 2023 at the earliest. That being said, a search for his successor is already on. Leverkusen scouts have identified Paul Wanner of FC Bayern as a potential candidate according to Sport 1. Thanks to Bayern's corona problems, he became Bayern Munich's youngest ever player to appear in the Bundesliga at just 16 years and 15 days and is now even featuring regularly off the bench. Rather than pursue Wirtz, whose family is said to be in contact with the club, they would rather keep hold of, and develop Wanner to play alongside Musiala in the future due to Wirtz's assumed astronomical price tag.
Departures
Nadiem Amiri is soon to go to Italy to comjplete medical checks with Genoa. According to several other news outlets, this should happen today, although he was pictured at training in Leverkusen. With a replacement in Dina Ebimbe seemingly on his way to Leverkusen, surely he will be gone by the end of the week.
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