Dortmund to Gladbach for Ginter
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GERMANY international Matthias Ginter has agreed to join Borussia Moenchengladbach from Borussia Dortmund, pending a medical later yesterday, the Bundesliga clubs said.
Ginter, a 2014 World Cup winner who also won the Confederations Cup with Germany on Sunday, joined Dortmund from SC Freiburg in 2014 but failed to hold down a regular starting spot.
With next year’s World Cup on the horizon, the 23-year-old is eager for more first-team football to remain in contention for a spot in the squad, opting to miss out on a chance to play in the UEFA Champions League with Dortmund.
“Matthias Ginter came to us and asked for a transfer due to the current competition for a spot in our defense,” Dortmund sports director Michael Zorc said. “We met that request. We thank him for his engagement and wish him all the best.”
There were no details regarding the length of his contract but German media reported the transfer fee at 17 million euros (US$19.30 million).
Meanwhile, Sevilla is set to lose captain Vicente Iborra to Leicester City after the Spanish side announced yesterday it had agreed to sell the midfielder to the former English Premier League champion for a reported 14 million euros.
Iborra, 29, has spent the last four years with Sevilla since joining from Levante in 2013, scoring 30 goals in 172 games and winning three successive Europa League titles and qualifying the team for the UCL in the last two campaigns.
The club said Iborra would travel to Leicester to undergo a medical before signing his contract and returning to publicly bid farewell to Sevilla, which was knocked out of the 2016-17 UCL by the Foxes at the last 16 stage.
The imminent departure of Iborra marks the onset of a major overhaul of personnel at Sevilla, an event which occurs annually each summer, although the changes have not led to the team’s decline on the pitch in recent seasons.
Sevilla finished 4th in La Liga last season, despite selling a raft of players, including top scorer Kevin Gameiro.
Argentine playmaker Ever Banega has returned to the club a year after leaving for Inter Milan, while forward Vitolo is reported to be on the verge of a move to Atletico Madrid, spending the first six months on loan at Las Palmas.
Banega joined new coach and countryman Eduardo Berizzo at Sevilla.
Elsewhere, Brazil defensive midfielder Luiz Gustavo has joined France’s Olympique Marseille with immediate effect after four years at VfL Wolfsburg, the clubs said yesterday.
Gustavo, who had started his Bundesliga career at Hoffenheim in 2007, was part of Bayern Munich’s treble-winning season that included the UCL in 2013.
He then joined the Wolves, which won the German Cup again in 2015 while also finishing runners-up in the Bundesliga. His current move cost a reported 10 million euros.
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