BVB: Jamie Gitten switches to Chelsea FC for high transfer

After tough negotiations, Jamie Gitten will switch from Borussia Dortmund to the English Premier League club FC Chelsea. All parties involved agreed on this at the Club World Cup in Fort Lauderdale, as the Bundesliga club announced.

The contractual details should still be handled, it said. However, the BVB should receive the 65 million euros desired for the Gitten -based Gitten in its own young talent center. In addition, another seven million euros will be waved to the French defense talent Sumaaila Coulibaly. The 21-year-old is about to move to Racing Strasbourg.

Gitten had already completed the medical check with the blues last weekend. After that, the 20 -year -old Englishman returned to the Dortmund team quarters in Fort Lauderdale because the agreement was reached.

“The conversations with Chelsea were challenging, but in the end we are glad that we can in all likelihood be able to realize and then have planning security,” said BVB sports director Sebastian Kehl in a club announcement.

According to media, BVB should receive almost the desired 65 million euros. “His transfer back to the English homeland would be extremely valuable for us,” said Dortmund’s managing director Lars Ricken and added: “We discovered Jamie very early on, practically obliged him to develop at our junior performance center and also offered him at the very highest level at the professionals.” His career is exemplary for the development of top talents at BVB.

With the implementation of this transfer, the management of a significant positive effect on the figures for the 2025/2026 financial year expects this.

The sale of Coulibalies would also be an economic success, because the talent never made its breakthrough at BVB, but still a contract until 2026. Coulibaly had come from the A-youth of Paris St. Germain in January 2021 and finally awarded Stade Brest. At the club World Cup, he has not yet played a minute for the Dortmund.