Two top talents are leaving BVB

“Deadline Day” is over: the clubs have had until today to land new players. The most important transfer news at a glance.

This year there was again a lot of movement in the German football clubs during the winter transfer phase. FC Bayern signed Sacha Boey and Eric Dier. Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt strengthened their attack and Leipzig gave up national striker Timo Werner.

Then it came to “Deadline Day”: the last day this winter on which clubs can sign new players or thin out their own squad. The German clubs had until 6 p.m. to do this. In Italy the window closed at 8 p.m., in France at 11 p.m. and in Spain and England it even closed at midnight.

Borussia Dortmund has lost its defensive talent Hendry Blank. The 19-year-old central defender is moving to the Austrian first division club RB Salzburg, as the Bundesliga club announced. According to information from “Bild”, the transfer fee, including possible bonus payments, should be up to seven million euros. Julian Rijkhoff, another talent, is moving to the Dutch top club Ajax Amsterdam.

Blank celebrated his professional debut on matchday 18 in Borussia’s 4-0 win in Cologne. According to reports, BVB recently tried to extend the contract, which was dated until 2025. Blank moved from Bayer Leverkusen’s youth team to Dortmund in 2019 and went through the youth teams at BVB. This season he was one of the regular players in the U23 team, which plays in the 3rd league.

In Rijkhoff, another promising player left the fourth-place team in the Bundesliga. The talented Dutch striker is expected to bring BVB a transfer fee of around two million euros. In addition, BVB should be financially involved in the event of a resale for the 19-year-old.

Eintracht Frankfurt has loaned Paxten Aaronson to Dutch first division club Vitesse Arnheim until the end of the season. As the Hessians announced at the end of the transfer period, the young American should gain more match practice in Arnhem.

The US international moved from Philadelphia Union to Eintracht at the beginning of the second half of the 2022/23 season. In the current season he played seven Bundesliga games. In the end, the 20-year-old was only second choice. “It is important for his further development to regularly play competitive games, which is why we decided on this loan,” said Eintracht sports director Timmo Hardung.

Eintracht Frankfurt still gets dream striker Hugo Ekitiké. The club confirmed this on Thursday evening. Accordingly, the Frenchman will initially be loaned out by Paris Saint-Germain until the end of the season.

According to Sky, Eintracht will then have a purchase option. Together, the package (loan, salary and possible purchase option) should have a volume of 30 million euros, as the broadcaster further reports.

Ekitike only made one short appearance at PSG this season, and most of the time he didn’t even make it into the squad of the star ensemble. After the vacuum in the striker position in the first half of the season, the French junior international is now the second new addition to the center forward position in the winter transfer window after Saša Kalajdžić.

Long-time Bundesliga professional Daniel Caligiuri will play in the top league for FC 08 Villingen. The club announced this on Thursday. The 36-year-old has been keeping fit in Villingen for some time and training with the team.