Bayer Leverkusen prepare €30m offer for Justin Kluivert | OneFootball

Ben Jacobs reports that Bayer 04 Leverkusen are set to get serious about acquiring Bournemouth’s Justin Kluivert. Rumors linking the former RB Leipzig man with a return to the Bundesliga are certainly not new. The fact that Bournemouth had no interest in selling nevertheless led most to dismiss the talk.

Jacobs notes that a formal offer has not yet been submitted. The 2023/24 Bundesliga Champions still have a specific figure in mind. Leverkusen believe a sum of €30m should be sufficient to procure the €35m-valued attacker. The Cherries paid roughly one third of that amount to purchase Kluivert from AS Roma in July 2023.

Kluivert did make his affinity for German football known during his brief stint on loan at RB Leipzig during the 2020/21 campaign, even bidding a fond farewell to Saxony in an instagram post at his time of departure. Kluivert scored four goals across all competitions for Julian Nagelsmann’s German Red Bulls that year.

His current EPL contract runs through 2028.

GGFN | Peter Weis