Bayer Leverkusen are second within the , 5 factors forward of RB Leipzig, who’re fourth. Mainz are fifth, degree on factors with Borussia Dortmund, who full a aggressive, congested prime six.
However the hunt for the title or qualification isn’t the one factor that binds them. All 4 golf equipment are chasing ’s that Bundesliga sides can provide. Stuttgart, in tenth place, are additionally within the England Underneath-21 attacking midfielder.
McAtee favours a transfer away from Metropolis this month after rising annoyed at his lack of taking part in time for the Premier League champions this season and there’s a queue forming for the participant.
Golf equipment from throughout Europe are hoping to choose up a gifted 22-year-old with big potential and loads of resale worth for round £20 million to £25 million and, for the second, it’s the Germans who’re the front-runners, forward of Premier League sides resembling Fulham, Nottingham Forest, West Ham and Brentford and different suitors in Italy.
As Metropolis push for a £50 million deal for the versatile Eintracht Frankfurt ahead Omar Marmoush, McAtee might discover himself going the opposite solution to Germany and treading the identical Bundesliga path that served the likes of Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham so nicely.
German golf equipment have made a behavior lately of selecting off a few of England’s brightest rising abilities determined for normal minutes and giving them the platform to kick on that their Premier League counterparts can’t at all times provide or promise.
Sancho left Metropolis for Dortmund in an £8 million deal in 2017 and was offered 4 years, 137 appearances and 50 objectives later to Manchester United for £73 million.
Bellingham spurned the advances of United to hitch Sancho at Dortmund in 2020 for £25 million – an analogous payment to the one McAtee could now command – en path to establishing himself as one in every of Europe’s most coveted younger midfielders. An preliminary £88.5 million transfer to Actual Madrid would observe.
They’re footsteps through which McAtee could hope to observe, however will not be the one examples which will inform the midfielder’s considering as he considers his essential subsequent profession step. McAtee, for instance, want solely converse to his Metropolis team-mate Erling Haaland, who turned down United to hitch Dortmund, to grasp what these three seasons within the Bundesliga did for the Norway striker’s improvement.
Equally, Dani Olmo selected Germany and Leipzig in January 2020, aged simply 21, as the right stepping stone earlier than a return to Barcelona – the membership he represented as a youth – final summer time on the again of a star flip in Spain’s Euros triumph, coincidentally in Germany.
There are different examples, past Sancho and Bellingham, of younger English gamers going to Germany for the form of alternatives, expertise and publicity they won’t have gotten by staying at dwelling.
McAtee’s England Underneath-21 team-mate Jamie Bynoe-Gittens left Metropolis for Dortmund at 16 in 2020. The next 12 months, brothers Felix and Lukas Nmecha give up Metropolis for Wolfsburg.
Different English gamers could not have swapped their homeland for Germany completely however Callum Hudson-Odoi made 21 appearances on mortgage at Leverkusen from Chelsea earlier than becoming a member of Forest in 2023 and Reiss Nelson scored seven objectives in 29 appearances for Hoffenheim on mortgage from Arsenal through the 2018-19 marketing campaign, aged simply 18.
Nelson is now on mortgage at Fulham with former Arsenal team-mate Emile Smith-Rowe, who additionally moved to Germany on mortgage in January 2019, just for a spell with Leipzig to be severely disrupted by harm.
Final July, the official Bundesliga web site printed an article entitled: “Why the Bundesliga is the most effective league for younger gamers,” and alternative shall be foremost in McAtee’s thoughts now as he assesses his choices.
He needs to have been taking part in usually by the point the Underneath-21 European Championship in Slovakia comes round in June, when he’s anticipated to start out as England’s No 10, and past that he has ambitions to characterize his nation at senior degree.
Metropolis anticipated to enter talks over £50m Marmoush signing
Manchester Metropolis are making ready a gap provide for Omar Marmoush and can make a deal for the Egypt ahead their first precedence within the January switch window.
As reported by Telegraph Sport this week, Metropolis have recognized the Eintracht Frankfurt participant as a goal to bolster Pep Guardiola’s entrance line and a transfer has been given the inexperienced mild.
Metropolis have but to make formal contact with Marmoush’s Bundesliga membership however talks are more likely to begin within the subsequent week, with Metropolis hoping the 25-year-old would be the first deal to be completes earlier than they take a look at different areas of Guardiola’s squad.
Eintracht, who signed Marmoush on a free switch in 2023, are third within the desk and competing within the Europa League. They want to hold Marmoush for the remainder of the season and he’s valued at round £50 million given his kind this season.
Metropolis are additionally within the race for Lens centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov, 20, and French sources predict the Uzbekistan centre-back to maneuver this month after he didn’t play within the Ligue 1 defeat by Toulouse on the weekend.
However Marmoush is regarded as the first goal for the window earlier than strengthening Guardiola’s defence, whereas a No 6 to cowl for Rodri’s absence can also be an space they’re .
Eintracht would make an enormous revenue on the participant they landed after a spell at Wolfsburg, whereas the formalities of private phrases wouldn’t be anticipated to be an enormous impediment for a participant shifting from the Bundesliga to the Premier League.
He has two full seasons left on his present phrases and had attracted curiosity from the likes of Nottingham Forest in earlier home windows earlier than his gorgeous first half of the season, when he broke membership data, together with scoring 11 objectives within the first 10 sport weeks of the Bundesliga season.