Borussia Dortmund decided to shake things rapidly this season, in their everlasting quest for the Bundesliga title, first in 11 years. After parting company with one season coach Marco Rose, the Millionaires decided to go back to their interim manager Edin Terzić and started a series of transfers in order to strengthen the squad. Karim Adeyemi (Red Bull Salzburg), Jayden Braaf (Manchester City), Marcel Lotka (Hertha Berlin), Alexander Meyer (Jahn Regensburg), Salih Özcan (Cologne) Nico Schlotterbeck (Freiburg), and Niklas Süle (Bayern Munich) have been signed (so far), as Terzić, with the new sports director Sebastian Kehl wants to shake things up.A hardly refusable offer – Haller could become the most expensive signing in Dortmund’s historyAfter the departure of Erling Haaland to Manchester City, Dortmund felt the need to strengthen the attack, apart from a leaky defense and they did so by paying 30 million euros for German international Karim Adeyemi. But, Borussia surprised everybody (even Adeyemi) and made an even higher bid to Sebastien Haller from Ajax. The 33 million euros plus bonuses that would raise the total amount to 40 million was enough for Ajax to say yes. The former Frankfurt striker refused all other offers from the Premier League (probably due to his bad episode in West Ham) and will move back to the league where he excelled. The Ivory Coast international will probably be announced on Thursday.📽 Les supporters sénégalais de Sadio Mané déjà tous Bavarois 😍🇸🇳#SenegL #wiwsport pic.twitter.com/uIYbhCJb2c— wiwsport.com 🇸🇳 (@wiwsport) June 21, 2022 It’s totally different situation in Bayern. The 10 time consecutive Bundesliga champion still has the best squad in Germany, but things went wrong after unexpected quarter-final loss to Villarreal in the Champions League. Sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic was under criticism and must deliver in this window, but problems just keep coming. Sergi Gnabri is still refusing to renew his contract, he failed to keep NIklas Sule who went (as a free agent) to rivals Dortmund and above all, Robert Lewandowski openly asked to leave the club, just one year before the end of his contract.”Mane will throw away the best years of his career by moving to Bayern Munich”The Bavarians have not had a situation like this in a long time, or maybe never – the best player wants to leave the club because he is unhappy. Many weeks have passed in negotiations and threats that he will have to stay until his contract runs out before the Bayern brass realized that they will need to find another striker. By that time, Haaland was gone and Haller is on its way to Dortmund (they asked Ajax about him back in April, but never came to bid for him). If they remain stubborn, they will have Lewandowski this season, but will lose him as free agent the next spring (like Alaba, like Sule). The years of having a vain Lewandowski as the main star also meant that he didn’t allow any promising striker to be his reserve. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting is his current backup. Enough said.Thursday, 00.55: (2.14) Atletico Go (3.00) Goias (3.70)Bayern quickly turned his attention to Sadio Mane, who is also only one year away from free agency, but Liverpool didn’t want to let go, they sold him, but for around 40 million euros. In a red Audi, the new Bayern superstar Sadio Mane drove up to the “Barmherzige Brüder” hospital near Nymphenburg Palace in Munich’s Neuhausen district around noon today and came out with a Bayern jersey on. He will be officially announced probably on Wednesday. But, he is not a classic striker (even thou he will earn as much as Lewandowski) and the Bavarians still need to find a proper replacement for the Pole, if they do decide to let him go to Barcelona.
