It was one of the big issues of the summer in Ligue 1, and it will be concluded in the coming hours. Since the end of last season, Guela Doué was coveted by several European clubs, and there was notably talk of Inter for the 23-year-old Ivorian international. But it is in the Bundesliga that its future will be written.
Indeed, as Fabrizio Romano indicates, an agreement was reached with Bayer Leverkusen for the transfer of the right side, who is coming out of a full season in Alsace. The German team will pay an amount of 37.5 million euros including bonus to afford Désiré’s brother, who has already given the green light to Bayer and who will therefore become a Leverkusen player in the coming hours.
A new XXL sale for Strasbourg
A particularly versatile and physically powerful player, he knows how to multiply runs to provide support in attack, in addition to having quite developed intelligence and creativity for a player in the corridor. It is also an element that performs rigorous defensive work. Everything indicates that he should clearly flourish in the Bundesliga.
This transfer will constitute the third most expensive sale in the history of Racing, behind his former teammates Diego Moreira and Valentin Barco, sold for 50 and 40 million euros respectively to AC Milan and Chelsea. A nice added value, moreover, since the people of Strasbourg had only paid 6 million euros to bring him from Rennes two summers ago. With this departure, the RCSA also exceeds the mark of 200 million euros recovered this summer via the sale of players. It now remains to be seen how it will be replaced.
