Viking blood for the Submarine front. Villarreal CF and Germany’s RB Leipzig have reached a transfer agreement for Norwegian attacker Alexander Sorloth, who will wear yellow for the next five seasons. A reinforcement of height for the team led by Quique Setién that joins the already known signings of Ben Brereton Díaz, Denis Suárez, Santi Comesaña, Ilias Akhomach and Ramón Terrats.
The Norwegian is a portentous center forward of reference (measures 195 centimeters), powerful in the race and with an intimidating presence in the area. A ‘9’ top for the yellow attack that has the left-hander as the dominant leg.
Sorloth trained this Wednesday with his new teammates in the morning at the Ciudad Deportiva and could even travel with the team in the afternoon to play this week’s friendlies against Dutch Feyenoord and Portuguese Sporting CP. In the coming days, the specific date of his official presentation as a new Villarreal CF player will be announced.
Alexander Sorloth born in Trondheim, who has played the last two seasons on loan at Real Sociedad scoring 24 goals in 90 games, was formed in the youth categories of Rosenborg and since then has defended the shirt of teams such as Bodo Glimt, Groningen, Midtjylland, Crystal Palace, Ghent and Trabzonspor. With the Turkish team ‘exploded’ by scoring 33 goals in 49 clashes.
In addition, it should be noted that Sorloth is an international with the Norwegian National Team, with which he has played 49 official matches scoring 16 ‘goals’. He also played with the youth categories of his country.