Moukoko lifts lid on contract talks and reveals dream club

FT Desk

• 26 Nov 2022 10:18 GMT
• 3 min read

Borussia Dortmund youngster Youssoufa Moukoko is out of contract in the summer and has attracted the interest of Manchester United and Liverpool among others…

Moukoko is currently at the World Cup with Germany in Qatar, where he is the youngest player in Hansi Flick's squad having just turned 18.

He earned his spot in the Germany set-up after racing to six goals and four assists from 14 Bundesliga games this season, and Dortmund appear to have dropped the ball in allowing the young forward's contract to get so close to expiry.

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Man Utd and Liverpool are circling, excited at the prospect getting a nascent star now rated at €13.1 million by Football Transfers' in-house algorithm for free June.

Moukoko could yet extend with Dortmund, where he says he has "the trust of the coach" Edin Terzic who is "like a father" to him, but speaking ahead of Germany's meeting with Spain on Sunday, he also sent a veiled threat.

"I want to know exactly what the club intends to do with me," he said. "I want to develop further, and I can't develop further without games because I don't want my development to stop again. I think that's quite normal because the perspective is important to me."

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Dream club

Germany captain Manuel Neuer joked that Moukoko should join him at Bayern Munich at Germany's first press conference, but the Bundesliga champions, as well as Man Utd and Liverpool, might come off at least second-best in Moukoko's emotions.

"I told Manuel he didn't have to try," Moukoko said laughing. "I'd like to stay in Dortmund because I have everything there., but my dream club used to be Barcelona, because of Lionel Messi."

Moukoko is, like Messi, a left-footed attacker with sharp control and a low centre of gravity. Whichever club gets a hold of him in the future will have a serious player on their hands, whether or not it's on a free this summer.