Transfer ticker
Future of Kevin de Bruyne apparently clarified
Updated on June 11th, 2025 – 1:12 p.m.Reading time: 14 min.
The Bundesliga season is just over. But the clubs are already planning for the coming season. All important news in the transfer ticker.
This year’s transfer summer has it all. This is because the clubs are allowed to sign players for the first time in two different periods. Due to the club World Cup, the first transfer window for the participating clubs opens on June 1st and closes again on June 10th. The regular transfer window then extends from July 1st to September 1st.
After his farewell to Manchester City, the future of Kevin de Bruyne has apparently been clarified: As the transfer insider Fabrizio Romano reports, the Belgian gave the Italian champion SSC Naples green light for a change. Accordingly, the 33-year-old signs a two-year contract in Italy.
De Bruyne had announced his farewell after ten years in Manchester. With the club of coach Pep Guardiola, he won the English championship and the Champions League six times. He changes free of charge.
After the burst transfer to Mainz 05, at least three other clubs from the Bundesliga want to hire the French striker Rayan Philippe von Eintracht Braunschweig. The “Bild” newspaper reports of a “three-way fight” between Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen and 1. FC Köln. “Sky” is also the 1. FC Heidenheim one of the interested parties on the 24 -year -old attacker.
In the past season, Philippe scored 13 Seisontore for Eintracht plus the decisive goal to 2-2 in the extension of the relegation secondary against 1. FC Saarbrücken. Due to the relegation in the 2nd Bundesliga, the contract of the former French U20 national player has automatically extended. According to media reports, the Braunschweig require a transfer fee between two and three million euros for him.
Manchester City hired French international Rayan Cherki from Olympique Lyon. The 21-year-old, who has long been one of Borussia Dortmund’s transfer goals, signed a contract in Manchester by summer 2030.
“This is a dream for me,” said Cherki, who can be used in the offensive midfield in the center and on the wing. He can play for City at the upcoming club World Cup.
For Lyon, Cherki came to twelve goals and 20 templates in 44 competitive game operations in the past season. Last winter, BVB had made an obligation. Ultimately, however, a transfer had failed due to the French transfer claims.
Pep Guardiola gets support from the camp of his long -time rival Jürgen Klopp after a title season. On Monday, the top English club Manchester City confirmed the commitment of two former coaches from the Liverpool FC, one of them, Pepijn Lijnders, was also available as an assistant.
Together with his German boss, the Dutch Liverpool left after the 2023/24 season and had switched to Red Bull Salzburg as head coach. The 42-year-old was released there last December. In addition to Lijnders, James French also joins the Standert team of the Spaniard Guardiola as a specialist for the standards. French had been employed in Liverpool for 13 years.