Official | Tottenham ship Timo Werner back to RB Leipzig | OneFootball

Tottenham Hotspur have officially returned Timo Werner back to his Bundesliga club. The 2024/25 Europa League champions maintained no interest in retaining the RB Leipzig professional’s services next season. Where the 57-times-caped German international will head next remains unclear.

Leipzig themselves have no plans to retain the Stuttgart native. Werner’s steady decline leaves him with an estimated market worth of just €7m. The one-time €53m Chelsea purchase wasn’t even included in Tottenham’s Europa League squad after the turn-of-the calendar year and managed only 178 Premier League minutes in 2025

At the end of the first half of the season, Spurs coach Ange Postecoglou specifically called out Werner for “not playing anywhere near the level he is capable of” after a 1-1 draw with Glasgow Rangers in the Europa League. Postecoglou labelled Werner’s performance “unacceptable”.

Werner last secured a double digit goal total during the 2019/20 season with Leipzig; the year before he transferred to Chelsea. Werner scored 28 goals for Julian Nagelsmann’s RB that season.

Werner last featured for the German national team in 2023.

GGFN | Peter Weis