http://www.worldfootball.net/news/_n2586686_/report-next-zlatan-close-to-deal-with-dortmund/
22.01.2017
Report: 'Next Zlatan' close to deal with Dortmund
Swedish football prodigy Alexander Isak -- dubbed the next Zlatan Ibrahimovic -- is on the verge of signing with Borussia Dortmund, snubbing an offer from Real Madrid, Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported on Saturday.
"Alexander Isak looks set to snub Real Madrid. Instead the 17-year-old has apparently decided on another option: the big German club Borussia Dortmund," the paper wrote, citing unnamed sources close to the club.
Isak, who earlier this month became Sweden's youngest ever international goalscorer at 17 years and 113 days, had been close to a deal with the Spanish club, according to Spanish media reports a week ago.
Aftonbladet said the transfer fee looked set to exceed 82 million kronor (8.6 million euros, $9.2 million).
If confirmed, Isak's move to Dortmund could be part of a bigger switch-up at the Bundesliga club.
Star striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang admitted Friday he could leave Borussia Dortmund in the summer.
The German league's top scorer so far this season with 16 goals in his 15 Bundesliga games, he has a Dortmund contract until 2020.
However, he has repeatedly expressed his desire to eventually join Real Madrid, to keep a promise he made to his grandfather just before he died.
"You know, some players have ambitions, so they leave to see something else," the 27-year-old said.
Swedish sensation Isak, who has been courted by many top European clubs, currently plays in Sweden with AIK.
Born in a Stockholm suburb to Eritrean parents, he scored 10 goals in his debut season at AIK in 2016.
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http://www.derwesten.de/schwedische-medien-borussia-dortmund-holt-neuen-zlatan-id209351829.html
Swedish media: Borussia Dortmund gets "new Zlatan"
On 22.01.2017
Borussia Dortmund is to agree with Alexander Isak and to have Europe's football needle punched out. It would be the perfect complement to Dembélé.
The biggest football talents are nowadays the biggest price tags are hung up and are thought of with the most wonderful preludes. Such a future star is Alexander Isak, and if Swedish media is to be credited, he will really start his career in the Bundesliga.
According to the newspaper "Aftonbladet", Borussia Dortmund is to reach agreement with the 17-year-old, who has received no lower nickname in his home country than "the new Zlatan" in line with Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The total cost of the transfer is 8.6 million euros. BVB says in such matters as always that he does not want to say anything about such matters.
Record as the latest scorer
Isak is a 17-year-old striker from AIK Solna, who could close Adrian Ramos's gap in the Dortmund attack on China. Should BVB have actually won the race around Isak, it could turn out to be a coup.
Just a few days ago, Aftonbladet had indicated that the striker had decided to change to the Champions League winner Real Madrid. The son of immigrants from Eritrea had made a start at the beginning of the year, when he first had a 1: 2 win against the Ivory Coast for the Swedish national team and then scored a 6-0 win over Slovakia and thus at the age of 17 years and 113 days the 104 year old record of the "Tre Kronor" as the youngest scorer broke. In the Swedish Allsvenskan league ten more than ten hits have been added since his debut.
Perfect addition to Dembélé
The hotly-tried Youngster in Dortmund would be a perfect addition to boys like Ousmane Dembélé (19) or Emre Mor (19). Isak is said not only a similar talent as the great Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, would come to a change to the BVB to the conditions, he would also remember Zlatan's career, which was similarly young and for similarly much money once from Malmö to Ajax Amsterdam was transferred .
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