After the signing of striker Anthony Modeste wants to become a Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund tend to hold back on the market until the end of the transfer window. “Obviously, many names continue to be associated with us, we’re looking at it up to the last day. We don’t know exactly what’s going to happen on the delivery side either,” said sports director Sebastian Kehl before the away game at SC Freiburg on Friday evening on DAZN, “but we won’t be filming really big things anymore”.
Even with the change of Modeste, who came from league rivals 1. FC Köln for around five million euros and is to replace Sébastian Haller, who suffers from testicular cancer, BVB had to stretch financially. “We didn’t plan for that in the budget,” said Kehl. It was therefore “not easy” to “find a good nine”. Kehl is convinced that this was found in Modeste. They signed a player “who knows the Bundesliga, who speaks German, who integrates quickly, is incredibly dangerous and has a good header,” enthused the former national player: “With him we have gained a weapon that our squad is very good at does.” (dpa)