The New York Red Bulls are in the process of negotiating a deal for German striker Timo Werner from sister club RB Leipzig.
A source confirmed to DailyMail.com that RBNY is in ongoing discussions with the 29-year-old striker, who has spent the last two seasons on loan with Tottenham Hotspur.
However, nothing has yet been finalized to secure a move stateside for the Stuttgart native just yet.
Werner is the all-time leading scorer for Die Roten Bullen. However, with the club currently possessing strikers like Benjamin Sesko (linked with various Premier League moves) and Lois Openda, Leipzig can afford to move on from the former Chelsea man.
As for New York, the club currently sits 7th in MLS’s Eastern Conference and 11th overall under the tutelage of head coach Sandro Schwarz.
The club has done well on the attacking end – bagging 30 goals (good for 7th in the league overall) behind a forward group featuring former Bayern striker Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting.
Former Chelsea and Tottenham striker is in discussions to move to the New York Red Bulls
Werner’s parent club, RB Leipzig, already possesses attacking stars like Benjamin Sesko (L) and Lois Openda (R)
The move is a similar to when RBNY acquired Emil Forsberg from Leipzig before the ’24 season
This potential move for Werner, first reported by Tom Boger, mirrors a similar move made before the 2024 season, when RBNY transferred attacking midfielder Emil Forsberg from Germany.
After moving to the Saxony-based club from VfB Stuttgart in 2016, Werner became a deadly force in Leipzig’s first years of top-flight German football – bagging 95 goals across 159 appearances in his first stint at the club.
He then made a big-money move to Chelsea – scoring 23 goals in 89 appearances over a period of instability at Stamford Bridge.
Werner returned to Leipzig in the 2022-23 season and played there for part of the 2023-24 season (adding 18 goals in 54 appearances to his total) before embarking on an 18-month loan spell at Tottenham. He scored three goals in 41 appearances for the north London club.
