Jobe Bellingham is present process a medical with Borussia Dortmund forward of becoming a member of from Sunderland.
Sunderland have agreed an preliminary payment price round £27.8m (€33m) with Dortmund for the 19-year-old’s sale.
The settlement additionally features a 15 per cent sell-on clause, and would be the highest switch payment the newly-promoted Premier League membership have ever acquired.
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This represents a major improve on Dortmund’s £16.8m (€20m) opening bid and as soon as accomplished, it will likely be the best switch payment Sunderland have ever acquired
Excluding add-ons, Bellingham will grow to be the second most costly signing in Borussia Dortmund’s historical past and with lifelike add-ons in place, he may grow to be their document signing forward of Ousamne Dembele.
Sunderland negotiated round £4.2m (€5m) price of add-ons into the take care of Dortmund. Round £2.1m (€2.5m) of these add-ons are simply achievable, whereas the opposite half are more difficult.
Jobe Bellingham ranked fourth within the Championship final season for regaining possession within the center third of the pitch
Dortmund satisfied Bellingham to hitch them, regardless of curiosity from Eintracht Frankfurt and RB Leipzig.
Bellingham, whose older brother Jude performed for the Bundesliga membership for 3 seasons, helped Sunderland safe promotion again to the Premier League by means of the Championship play-off closing after eight years away from the highest flight.
Like his brother Jude, Jobe got here by means of Birmingham’s academy and spent two years within the first crew after making his debut in 2021 aged 16. He’ll once more comply with in his brother Jude’s footsteps by taking part in for Dortmund if the transfer goes by means of.
Sunderland signed him from the Blues in the summertime of 2023.
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