Borussia Dortmund are wanting set to win the race for the switch of Stuttgart striker Serhou Guirassy, based on Fabrizio Romano, who has additionally spoken about curiosity and hyperlinks with Premier League golf equipment.
Talking solely to CaughtOffside for his newest Day by day Briefing column, Romano defined that Guirassy has chosen Dortmund after they confirmed an curiosity in him for a very long time, with the Guinea worldwide additionally by no means as strongly focused by Arsenal and Chelsea as different sources had advised.
One imagines Guirassy may have been a helpful signing for quite a lot of prime golf equipment round Europe, as he seemed a wonderfully prolific finisher within the Bundesliga final season, however Romano says each Arsenal and Chelsea produce other priorities.
It’s a blow for Stuttgart, nonetheless, as they’re shedding a star participant on a budget to a significant rival, with Romano offering additional perception into the main points of the deal in as we speak’s column.
Guirassy switch scenario defined by Romano
“Serhou Guirassy is ready to develop into a brand new Borussia Dortmund participant – it’s a ‘right here we go’ as a result of the participant has given the inexperienced mild to Dortmund as he’s determined to depart Stuttgart after his unbelievable type there final season. Dortmund are additionally signing one other participant from Stuttgart, their centre-back Waldemar Anton. With each gamers, BVB are triggering their launch clauses, €17.5m for Guirassy, and €22.5m for Anton,” Romano mentioned.
“All the things is in place for Guirassy to affix Dortmund after he agreed on the contract and the wage, however we’ve additionally had many rumours about different golf equipment, together with Arsenal. My understanding is that Arsenal have been by no means actually desirous about Guirassy as they’re a distinct form of participant. Similar for Chelsea, who have been linked however who have been by no means actually pushing for Guirassy, whereas AC Milan was one other identify talked about however they’re additionally specializing in totally different gamers.
“Many golf equipment have been desirous about Guirassy, for instance West Ham, however now it’s ‘right here we go’ for him to affix Dortmund as we simply look ahead to the formal steps to be finalised. Dortmund have been all the time the clear favourites for this deal – the reality is that they have been planning with Guirassy to affix since March. Sure, he was open to the Premier League or Serie A however BVB determined to go very sturdy for him and this was appreciated on the participant facet.”
