Retail with bonuses via market value
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This article was first published on July 3rd, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. and was updated with new information.
According to a report, Borussia Dortmund gave a club the contract for selling defenders Soumaïla Coulibaly. However, not Chelsea FC, as was initially assumed by a “Sky” message in England, but directly with a partner club of the Londoner, to which the Frenchman should have changed loan according to the previous information. According to the transfer reporter Fabrizio Romano, RC Strasbourg Alsace will pay a transfer of 7.5 million euros to BVB. Another million could be added with bonuses. Coulibaly receives a five -year contract. The working paper in Dortmund is only valid until 2026. The club’s confirmation is pending.
The Ligue-1 club has been a member of the Blueco investor alliance around Todd Boehly for two years and benefits from this collaboration. The Coulibaly, which was still under contract by 2026, had returned to Dortmund a month earlier than planned from his loan to Stade Brest 29 in order to be able to slide into the line-up for the club. So far he was only on the bench. Previously, Coulibaly had to struggle with adductor problems longer.
The Coulibaly, who was hired in 2021 from the offspring of Paris Saint-Germain, was awarded for the second time in a row last summer. The Frenchman spent the 2023/24 season at the Royal Antwerp FC in Belgium. For Brest, he was used 16 times over 1,162 minutes and contributed a template. In addition to the adductor problems, a pelvic injury had also put him out of action for longer. During the loan, Coulibaly’s market value climbed from 6 million to 9 million euros, according to the latest market value update in Ligue 1, this is 8 million euros.
Meanwhile, foreign strikers Jamie Gitten (20) should continue to switch from BVB to Chelsea for up to 65 million euros. In return, Borussia should be interested in binding the borrowed midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka (21) longer. The teams had already agreed an extended loan for the duration of the club World Cup. Chukwuemeka was brought into the field as a joker in all group games, but missed the successful round of 16 against Monterrey (2-1) due to illness. On Saturday, 10 p.m., BVB will meet Real Madrid in the quarter -finals.
