As Erling Haaland headed for Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund announced on Tuesday they had returned to the Norwegian\u2019s former club for a replacement and signed Karim Adeyemi from Salzburg.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old striker, who has three Germany caps, completed a medical on Tuesday and signed for Dortmund until 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n He has won the domestic league and cup double three times with Salzburg and is top scorer in the Austrian Bundesliga this season with 19 goals in 27 games this season.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cKarim Adeyemi is a highly talented young German international whose strength in finishing will suit our attacking game as will his tremendous pace,\u201d Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc said in a statement on the club website.<\/span><\/p>\n Adeyemi was born in Munich and played for Bayern as a child but was thrown out aged nine, reportedly for disciplinary reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n He told the Dortmund website that he has always been a fan of the club, known as the black and yellow.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs a young boy, I was fascinated by black and yellow fast-paced soccer,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why I quickly decided that I would like to join Borussia when I heard about Dortmund\u2019s interest. I also deliberately signed for the long term because I\u2019m convinced that we\u2019ll be an exciting team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Adeyemi is the third international signed by Dortmund for next season, along with centre backs Niklas Suele from Bayern and Nico Schlotterbeck from Freiburg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAlthough Karim is already very advanced in terms of soccer and athleticism at just 20 years old, we see enormous development potential,\u201d said Zorc.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Erling Haaland headed for Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund announced on Tuesday they had returned to the Norwegian\u2019s former club for a replacement and signed Karim Adeyemi from Salzburg. The 20-year-old striker, who has three Germany caps, completed a medical on Tuesday and signed for Dortmund until 2027. He has won the domestic league and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2302,3456,4753,4754],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dortmund","tag-erling-haaland","tag-karim-adeyemi","tag-salzburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7975,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions\/7975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}