Jeremie Frimpong, Bayer 04’s next top performer, is reportedly about to have his contract extended. The deal would represent a win-win situation for the parties involved.
Good mood: Jeremie Frimpong will probably sign with Bayer until 2028. IMAGO/Uwe Kraft
After Argentine world champion Exequiel Palacios (24) extended his contract, which runs until 2025, to 2028 last week, Bayer 04 is now apparently on the verge of retaining the next top performer in the long term: Jeremie Frimpong is set to sign a new contract with the league leaders until 2028.
A deal in which everyone involved should feel like a winner. Bayer 04 because the club would now have averted the risk of the right offensive defender having to be sold below market value next summer due to a weak negotiating position.
Given this starting position, the club can cope with the fact that the Bundesliga leaders have to grant an exit clause to the outstandingly effective full-back, who scored ten goals and prepared 18 more in 75 Bundesliga games for Bayer. Especially since this contract option should be attractive for both sides.
Frimpong was already aiming for a move to an absolute top club in the summer. Such a person would perhaps pay a transfer fee of 25 million euros in the summer of 2024 with only one year left on the contract. Now the fixed transfer fee for the right-back, who came to Bayer 04 from Celtic Glasgow for eleven million euros at the beginning of 2021, is likely to be in the range between 35 and 40 million euros.
Good for the factory club, which would still earn an extremely impressive sum if Frimpong were to leave next summer. But also easy for Frimpong to accept. Because this fee would not deter any top European club if they decided to sign the 22-year-old.
Frimpong is likely to become one of the top earners
And vice versa, Frimpong also benefits from the new working paper. It is logical that the Dutchman, who is in the Elftal’s provisional squad for the international matches in October, will make a significant jump in salary due to the initial situation described and his strong sporting development. Frimpong is likely to become one of the top earners in the squad.
Despite the clause, Leverkusen’s chances are still good that Frimpong will play for Bayer beyond the current season. The number of top European clubs that play with a three-man chain and where Frimpong could best use his offensive strengths as a right-wing player is clear.
And a move to, for example, an ambitious Premier League club like Aston Villa, which is said to have been interested in the high-speed footballer in the summer, should not be an option for Frimpong anyway.
2023-10-02 21:21:21
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