Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United all ‘came knocking’ for RB Leipzig’s Lois Openda this summer, with a future transfer very much on the cards.
That’s according to SportBILD, who start the hype for the Belgian today after his impressive performance in the 3-2 win over Bayer Leverkusen.
The newspaper explains that Openda ‘almost singlehandedly’ took down Leverkusen with two goals in the game, which ended Leverkusen’s year-long run without a defeat in the Bundesliga.
It was a real statement of intent from Leipzig and a demonstration of Openda’s abilities, which have already been noticed in Europe.
SportBILD say he is already ‘on the wish lists’ of Europe’s richest clubs and Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United all came knocking this summer.
They were turned away by the striker as he made it clear he didn’t want to move this summer. That could change if his ‘performance curve’ continues on an upward trajectory though.
Any club that wishes to buy him will need in excess of €75m to do so as there’s no release clause in his current deal and he is therefore ‘freely negotiable’ as far as Leipzig are concerned. But the Germans would welcome a ‘mega sale’ of that nature to balance the books.
That means there’s a deal there to be done at some point and Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United have already shown an interest according to SportBILD.
That might just be a case of SportBILD throwing Premier League names into the mix to build up hype at this point, something they’re happy to do a lot of the time for their clubs, but Openda is certainly a name to keep an eye on moving forwards, particularly if he continues scoring.