Elversberg’s top scorer
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Younes Ebnoutalib played in the Regionalliga Südwest against SG Barockstadt on November 30, 2024 – he did not score a goal in his last appearance for FC Gießen. A good year later he was in first place on the top scorers list in the 2nd league and SV Elversberg rejected an offer of 6.5 million euros for him. The “Bild” newspaper reports that Eintracht Frankfurt was turned down for the whiz kid with this sum. “Of course I can’t comment on any sums. There is no agreement on a transfer, that’s correct,” said sports director Nils-Ole Book. Most recently it was said that the SGE should already have reached an agreement with the 22-year-old striker.
With twelve goals in 17 games, the German-Moroccan is the most accurate player in the second division and will most likely bring record income to the SVE. The center forward is under contract with the second in the table, who paid 50,000 euros for Ebnoutalib in January 2025, until 2028. Not only does the SGE want to get rid of him, VfL Wolfsburg has also made an offer, according to “Sky” information. Accordingly, the Wolves also received a rejection with 8 million plus 2 million euros in bonuses.
In the TM rumor mill, Ebnoutalib has been linked to twelve clubs in the past few weeks – the hottest trails lead to Wolfsburg and Frankfurt. The SGE, which will be tight up front as soon as Jonathan Burkardt is missing, was also said to be interested in Monaco’s 19-year-old center forward George Ilenikhena and Newcastle’s William Osula (all SGE rumors).
In Elversberg, sports director Book, who has been in office since July 2023, has the cards in hand. His nose for Ebnoutalib will probably bring the SVE the highest income in the club’s history in winter or summer. 1. FC Kaiserslautern received 1.5 million euros for Semih Sahin in 2025, as did Jannik Rochelt, who moved to Hannover in 2024.
“Yes, a few clubs have already contacted us, but I won’t go into individual clubs now. What is currently being reported in the media is not entirely wrong. I can say that much,” Book recently revealed to the “Saarbrücker Zeitung”. Ebnoutalib was recently one of the biggest winners in the market value update of the 2nd league and made a jump from 1.5 million to 6 million euros. This makes the Frankfurt native one of the ten most valuable German center forwards up to the age of 23 – he is ahead of Werder’s Keke Topp, on a level with Dzenan Pejcinovic and just behind Copenhagen’s Youssoufa Moukoko.