F.C Barcelona are currently closing on on 24-year-old forward, Karim Adeyemi in a quickly developing transfer saga. Influencer and Barcelona shill, Fabrizio Romano, was the first to post the news earlier this week that Adeyemi would not be signing a new contract with Dortmund and instead looks set to join Barcelona.
Adeyemi joined Dortmund in 2022 and has been a divisive, but promising, player across his four seasons. He scored 36 goals across 146 games for Borussia Dortmund and was a key member in Dortmund’s
heartbreaking Bundesliga and Champions league pushes in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Pundits and club officials earmarked Adeyemi as the ‘Next Wunderkid’ throughout his time here but he failed to hit the heights as his predecessors. He had several games where it felt like he announced himself to the world only for it to be a hot-streak. The German forward missed out on the World Cup squad after only racking up 1,196 domestic minutes this season and doesn’t appear to be a good fit for how Niko Kovac wants to play.
That being said, he’s undoubtably a good player. Despite the limited minutes, Adeyemi averaged .83 goals + assists per game in the league this season. His ability to defend from the front, win aerial duels, and win fouls has been a key resource for Borussia Dortmund in hotly contested games. Most importantly, however, is that the Borussia Dortmund social media manager will lose 90% of their content after spamming everyone with Adeyemi memes for four years.
The final price is yet to be confirmed but Patrick Berger is currently reporting that Dortmund should only expect to get between €20m to €40m due to only having 1 year left on his contract. This price is far from the €80m that was touted seasons ago but unfortunately is better than seeing him leave on a free next season.
At least we’ll always have that goal against Chelsea!
