#timo-werner

#timo-werner

🔴 Sky Info: RB Leipzig is paying Timo Werner a severance payment of around €2m as part of the transfer to San José Earthquakes. Werner would have earned just over €5m in salary until the summer. This means Leipzig "saves" around €3m & is settling with Werner for about €2m. RB is still in talks with San José about whether a small transfer fee (low six-figure) will be paid or whether it will be a completely free transfer. Final discussions, then the transfer to MLS will go through. @SkySportDE

For Werner, a move to MLS is basically the "Last Chance U" for his career. RB Leipzig does not want him, he has barely played for months, and his marketability is at an all-time low. There were hopes that he would be able to catch on with a club in the Bundesliga, but nothing has emerged. Now, it appears as if it is MLS or bust.

Werner is in no man's land of situations. RB Leipzig has moved on from him, he is still young enough to contribute, and became such a meme that no big club appears to want to take the chance to help him revive his career. It's going to happen isn't it? Union sporting director Ernst Tanner has a background in working with the Red Bull organization after all.