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According to media reports, RB Leipzig is interested in another central defender from France. The broadcasterssky” and “RMC Sports” According to the 18-year-old El Chadaille Bitshiabu from the French champions Paris Saint-Germain was already in Leipzig to look at the club grounds of the “Red Bulls” and to have talks. According to reports, there has not yet been an agreement, but the player and the club are impressed by each other.
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The 1.96 meter tall central defender, who has also been associated with Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund, comes from the PSG youth team. He made his professional debut in December 2021 at the age of 16 years, seven months and three days, making him the second youngest novice in the club’s history. The France U19 international has played 14 Ligue 1 games so far and has one year left on his contract.
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It was also recently reported that the Saxons are interested in Olympique Lyon’s French centre-back Castello Lukeba. Dinamo Zagreb’s Josip Sutalo is also on the list of candidates at RB, who is threatened with the departure of Josko Gvardiol this summer. An official offer from Manchester City is reportedly expected sometime next week. The transfer fee is likely to be in the region of 100 million euros, according to reports those responsible for the Bundesliga club had fixed such an amount internally as a pain limit in the event of a sale.
In its young past, Leipzig has mostly had very good experiences with signings from French players – also in terms of defence. So far, Dayot Upamecano, Ibrahima Konaté, Jean-Kévin Augustin, Nordi Mukiele, Christopher Nkunku and Mohamed Simakan have been brought in. Of these, Upamecano, Konaté and most recently Nkunku were resold extremely profitably.
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