Leaving after six months
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Rafael Borré’s immediate move to SC Internacional is now official after weeks of tug-of-war: Loan club Werder Bremen is letting the Colombian center forward, who scored four goals in 19 Bundesliga games during his six-month loan, leave early – the North Germans are receiving compensation accordingly the 28-year-old, whose €6.2 million summer move to Brazil from parent club Eintracht Frankfurt has been confirmed for weeks. At Internacional, where he was welcomed by 3,000 fans, Borré signed a contract until December 2028.
According to consistent reports, around 300,000 euros will flow from the Série A club to the Weser, and Werder will also save around a million euros in salary for the Colombian, who was brought in last September as a replacement for national striker Niclas Füllkrug, who had moved to Dortmund. Bremen coach Ole Werner had already decided not to call Borré into the squad for the Bundesliga game against Hoffenheim last weekend; they were “in the final phase of negotiations,” future managing director Sport Clemens Fritz said.
The right-footer and his future club posted a short time later a video on Instagram, which showed #FreeBorré stickers being stuck up in Porto Alegre. International wrote “Next stop? Salgado Son Airport”. Borré’s move has now been officially completed just in time before the transfer window in Brazil closes on March 7th.
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Borré was in Bremen’s starting eleven a total of eleven times and was on the offensive between matchdays nine and 17. At that time, the attacker made it known publicly that he could imagine staying for a longer period of time, but the Bundesliga club, where Borré was one of the top earners with a rumored salary of 3 million euros, remained tight-lipped about his plans for the time being. Internacional, however, had intensified its courting of the 30-time international player in the winter and lured him with a financially lucrative contract. In mid-January, Borré signed a working paper initially dated from the summer. Since then, Werner had only taken him into account sporadically.
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