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This text was first published at 1:45 p.m. and was revised with new information.
Werder Bremen is under time pressure when looking for a striker and an unexpected door could have opened. According to the “Deichstube”, Victor Boniface from Bayer Leverkusen was offered to the green-whites. “Sky” also reports that the Hanseatic work with the Werkelf is negotiating about a loan of the 24 -year -old attacker.
Update, 6:43 pm: According to the transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano, Boniface has completed his medical check. The message does not show whether he passed it. A move to the Weser, however, seems to become more and more realistic.
Boniface is on the siding in Leverkusen. In winter a move to the Saudi club Al-Nassr burst, recently a transfer to AC Milan failed due to the medical check. Behind Patrik Schick and Christian Kofane, the Nigerian is only a striker number three at the Werkelf, but his role could still change according to that of Erik Ten Hag.
For the Bremeners, only one loan is possible without a purchase option, since Bonifaces market value is 40 million euros. A transfer would make him the most valuable professional in the Bremen club history. So far, this is Milot Rashica, which was rated 35 million euros in December 2019. At the current time, a switch to the Weser is not likely, since the salary question in particular arises. In Leverkusen, Boniface earns 6 million euros gross a year, so that he would go beyond Bremen’s salary structure. Bayer should therefore take over a large part.
In the Horst Steffen squad, after the departures of Marvin Ducksch and Oliver Burke with Keke Topp and Salim Musah, there are only two center forward. While Topp is looking for its shape, Musah comes from the U19 and is currently not an option. So Marco Grüll started in the first three competitive games in the storm center. In the last hours of the transfer window there is a search for reinforcement, in which the TM rumor mill are mentioned, among other things, the names Simon Banza from SC Braga and Taiwo Awoniyi by Nottingham Forest.