Ernest Poku will spend this season on loan at Besiktas, the Turkish club have announced through their official channels. If certain criteria are met, the 22-year-old forward will join permanently from Bayer Leverkusen after this season.<\/p>\n
The move had been on the cards for a while. On Tuesday evening, Poku was already absent from training with the German club. BILD then reported that he had also already said goodbye to his team-mates.<\/p>\n
It is now official. According to the aforementioned German newspaper, the obligatory purchase option involves a fee of around \u20ac25 million.<\/p>\n
Leverkusen could therefore make a substantial profit on Poku after barely a year. The German top club signed the winger from AZ last summer for \u20ac10 million. Poku signed a contract at the BayArena until mid-2030 at the time.<\/p>\n
Over the past few days, a move to Turkey suddenly gathered pace. Initially, Fiorentina appeared to be in a strong position to sign Poku. That transfer ultimately failed to get off the ground, after which Besiktas made their interest clear and have now landed him.<\/p>\n
Last season, the former AZ player made 45 official appearances for Bayer Leverkusen across the Bundesliga, Champions League and DFB-Pokal. In those matches, he registered five goals and eight assists.<\/p>\n
After just one year, Poku’s stay in Germany has already come to a temporary end. Besiktas are the Netherlands youth international’s second foreign club after Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ernest Poku will spend this season on loan at Besiktas, the Turkish club have announced through their official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21161],"tags":[21182,1147,32493,58447,3354],"class_list":["post-80013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bayer","tag-bayer","tag-bayer-leverkusen","tag-besiktas","tag-e-poku","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}