Burnley and VfL Wolfsburg are in talks about a transfer from Wout Weghorst, the knows Daily Mail to report. The 29-year-old striker would himself be interested in a switch to the current bottom of the Premier League. Negotiations between Burnley and Wolfsburg came to nothing last week, but the two sides have now returned to the table.
Jörg Schmadtke, Wolfsburg’s technical director, said earlier this week in conversation with Sports1 even that there was no interest in Weghorst for the time being. “It’s surprising, especially for someone who regularly scores goals and who is known to want to make a transfer,” said Schmadtke. It was previously reported from Germany that the marriage between Weghorst and Wolfsburg could possibly come to an end this month after three and a half years.
Weghorst is fixed in Wolfsburg until mid-2023, but the German club does not intend to extend that commitment for the time being. One of the reasons for this, according to Sports Image the character of Weghorst. If the twelve-time the Dutch international does not sign, next summer will in principle be the last moment for Wolfsburg to leave him an acceptable transfer fee. The asking price of the Wölfe would currently amount to just over EUR 20 million.
Wolfsburg took over Weghorst from AZ in the summer of 2018 for 10.5 million euros. Since then, the former player of Willem II, FC Emmen and Heracles Almelo has scored 70 goals and 22 assists in 144 official games. So far this season, Weghorst has scored 7 goals in 24 appearances for the current number fifteen of the Bundesliga. His name has previously been associated with Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, AC Milan and Internazionale, among others, but now Burnley seems keenly interested.
Burnley previously lost this transfer window Chris Wood for an amount of thirty million euros to Newcastle United. In addition to Weghorst, Lyndon Dykes (Queens Park Rangers), Kieffer Moore (Cardiff City) and Andy Carroll (without a club) would also have been in the picture at Burnley, which must do everything in the second half of the season not to be relegated from the Premier League . The gap to Norwich City – which occupies the ‘safe’ seventeenth place – is four points and Burnley has played four games less.