At 25, Loïc Badé will experience a fourth country in his career. After promising beginnings in Le Havre and Lens, then a more complicated passage in Rennes, the native of Sèvres had taken the bet to join Nottingham Forest in 2022, but the transplant had never taken during this loan. He could have sink like a lot before him, but Badé finally showed character to bounce back to Seville.
Rewarded with a coronation in the Europa League from his first season with the Andalusian club, he had been able to surf this dynamic by asserting himself as one of the best elements of the Sevillian workforce. Last season was that of confirmation, because despite a collective level of a collective level (17th in Liga), Badé broke out its French international stripes. He had also made very good figure during the Final Four of the League of Nations against Germany (2-0).
Leverkusen spends almost 30 million euros for French
As revealed by us, Sunderland, Bournemouth but especially Bayer Leverkusen were in competition to attract the tricolor international this summer. And after long weeks of negotiations, it was the German club that won the bet for 29 million euros, bonus included. “Bayer 04 Leverkusen recruited the French central defender Loïc Badé. The international player leaves Seville FC, a Spanish first division club, to join the German club. Badé has signed a contract valid until June 30, 2030. The 25 -year -old will carry the number 5 in the team of the coach Erik Ten Hag ”said the press release from the 2024 German champion, which had already spent 35 million euros on Malik Tillman this summer, but also on Jarell Quansah.
This amount, as important as it is, will benefit the former Loïc Badé clubs very modestly. Stade Rennais will recover around a million euros, while Lens and Le Havre will receive a little less. For Loïc Badé, it is a big challenge that awaits him, a year from the World Cup with the Blues. He will face the competition from Piero Hincapié, Jarell Quansah or Edmond Tapsoba.
