Within a day, the Leipzig RB signed two strikers in a row, one focused on the future and one plug-and-play. First of all, the 19-year-old "New Harland" Benjamin Sheshko decided to join from the brother club Red Bull Salzburg in a year, signing for 5 years, with a transaction price of up to 24 million euros, plus a floating part of up to 30 million, becoming the most expensive U20 player in the history of the team; Then there was the team's all-time top scorer Timo Werner (95 goals in 159 games) returning from Chelsea after a gap of just 20 million, with a floating part, a four-year contract to put back on the number 11 shirt. The two active German internationals Raume and Werner have joined in less than two weeks, greatly improving Leipzig's immediate strength and is likely to have a decisive impact on the bundesliga competition pattern in the new season.
Two years later, Werner regained the no. 11 jersey at Leipzig.
Threat to Dortmund's status
Before the start of the new season, Leipzig focused on clearing the redundancy, sending away a large number of young players (such as Germany's U21 international Martel, Tom Klaus and Frederick Jacques), substitutes (Mukale, Taylor Adams, Josep Martinez) and loan players (Broby, Huang Xican, Lukman, Mvogo), returning more than 74 million funds, and only signing no.2 goalkeeper Braswich. and Xavier Schlogg, who spent $12 million from Wolfsburg to antagonize Adams.
Before returning to Werner, Leipzig also officially announced the reservation of the "New Haland" Sheshko.
It wasn't until the German Super Cup against Bayern that Raum joined from Hoffenheim for 26 million plus 2 million floats. Now after spending 20 million to bring back Werner, Leipzig still net more than 16 million in this summer window. With Klostermann to undergo surgery and face weeks of injury suspension due to a torn left ankle ligament in the first round of the league away to Stuttgart, Leipzig will need to sign at least one more centre-back before closing the window – preferably as klostermann, a full-time centre-back, right-back or right-winger.
According to the "Transfer Market" website, raume with 35 million werner followed, sending Leipzig's total value soaring to 481.18 million, surpassing Bayer Leverkusen (455.35 million) and rising to third in the Bundesliga, behind Bayern (870.23 million) and Borussia Dortmund (512.45 million). In terms of average value per capita, Leipzig's 29 players are worth an average of 16.59 million, slightly better than Borussia Dortmund (16.53 million) and only behind Bayern (31.08 million).
The successive additions of Raum and Werner have suddenly added Leipzig to two more Active German internationals.
Together with the original Klostermann, Halstenberg and Henriks, Leipzig suddenly has five active German internationals. According to the 26-man roster for the international break in June, Leipzig is Germany's third-largest player with four men (Halstenberg lost), behind bayerns (Neuer, Müller, Kimmich, Goretzka, Gnabry, Sane, Musiara) and Five-man Dortmund (Reus, Jules, Brent, Niko Slottbeck, Adeymi), while Bayerkusen has only 1 Ronatan Tower in the case of Awitz's serious injury. In addition to the superficial value of players and the number of German internationals, Leipzig's threat to Dortmund's second-in-command status is probably much more than that.