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Leverkusen obliges 25 million newcomers
Updated on August 21, 2025 – 4:58 p.m.Reading time: 15 min.
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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 was open from June 1st to June 10th. The regular transfer window has been open since July 1 and closes on September 1st.
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Thursday, August 21, 2025
Bayer Leverkusen has strengthened with central defender Loïc Badé. The factory club announced the commitment of the French national player on Thursday one hour after the transfer of the Argentine offensive player Claudio Echeverri. Badé comes from FC Sevilla and signed a contract with the German runner -up until June 30, 2030.
“With Loïc Badé we won a young, but already very experienced central defender for Bayer 04. He was used to competing in Laliga in Spain,” said sports manager Simon Rolfes: “Loïc is physically uncompromising and game-intelligent, an absolute reinforcement of our defense line. Level competitive. ” The transfer fee should be 25 million euros, this can come to bonuses of four million euros.
Badé came to his first assignment for France in the game for third place against the DFB team during the final tournament of the Nations League. For Seville, he played a total of 79 games in the highest Spanish division. After the English U21 European champion Jarrell Quansah, Badé is the second central defender, which Bayer signed after the departure of defense chief Jonathan Tah this summer.
Ilkay Gündoğan will probably leave Manchester City this summer. As Sky reports, the departure could be perfect in the coming days. Some clubs, internationally distributed, should be interested in the former international.
Gündoğan had already played at Manchester City between 2016 and 2023, after a short stopover at FC Barcelona (one season) he returned to Manchester in 2024. At the beginning of August there were rumors about Galatasaray Istanbul’s interest.