{"id":81096,"date":"2026-05-13T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81096\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:02:22","slug":"borussia-dortmund-leading-race-for-herthas-kennet-eichhorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81096\/","title":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund \u2018leading\u2019 race for Hertha&#8217;s Kennet Eichhorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borussia Dortmund are reported to be leading the chase for 16-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/hertha-bsc-168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hertha BSC<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/kennet-eichhorn-625266\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kennet Eichhorn<\/a>. Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, RB Leipzig, Manchester City and Real Madrid have also been linked.<\/p>\n<p>Bild claims Dortmund currently have the best chance of signing the teenager. Eichhorn could leave via a \u20ac10-12 million release clause, although the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/2-bundesliga-2\/fixtures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2. Bundesliga<\/a> club hope to keep him.<\/p>\n<p>Hertha sporting director Benjamin Weber said no decision had been made and the club are in contact with the player&#8217;s parents as they try to persuade him to stay for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Weber cited guaranteed playing time, security at a young age and development time as Hertha&#8217;s key arguments. One option mentioned in the report is a summer sale with a loan back for the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Eichhorn has enjoyed a breakthrough campaign and set a record on Sunday. At 16 years, nine months and 13 days, he became the youngest scorer in <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/2-bundesliga-2\/fixtures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2. Bundesliga<\/a> history in Hertha&#8217;s 2-1 win over Greuther F\u00fcrth.<\/p>\n<p>He was 52 days younger than G\u00fcnter Reeg, who held the mark since 1985. It was his second goal for Hertha after scoring in December&#8217;s 6-1 DFB-Pokal round of 16 win over Kaiserslautern.<\/p>\n<p>The central midfielder has made 18 appearances this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund are reported to be leading the chase for 16-year-old Hertha BSC midfielder Kennet Eichhorn. Bayern Munich,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190],"class_list":{"0":"post-81096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116564338040247157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}