{"id":658546,"date":"2025-08-22T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658546"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:22:36","slug":"fabio-silva-borussia-dortmund-transfer-update-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/22\/fabio-silva-borussia-dortmund-transfer-update-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Total Verbal Agreement in Place’ for Wolves Attacker to Depart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borussia Dortmund have reportedly secured a verbal agreement with F\u00e1bio Silva on a long-term contract, setting the stage for a potential summer switch. Now all eyes are on negotiations between Wolves and Dortmund to turn the verbal agreement into reality.<\/p>\n

F\u00e1bio Silva’s Future Hinges On Transfer Fee<\/h2>\n

Personal Terms In Place<\/h3>\n

Sky Sports’\u00a0Florian Plettenberg<\/a> has revealed that “wantaway<\/a>” Wolves striker Silva and Dortmund have agreed on personal terms: a contract running until 2030 is ready, all finalised on the player’s side. Plettenberg describes it as a \u201ctotal verbal agreement in place.\u201d The German giants have been trying to get this deal finalised for weeks, as reported by the Express & Star<\/a>, with Dortmund offering \u00a317 million but Wolves pushing for at least \u00a320 million. With Silva open to the move, he will hope that the German side can match Wolves’ valuation.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: Wolves Player Once Touted as Having Ronaldo-Like Potential Poised for Exit<\/a><\/p>\n

Club To Club Negotiations Ongoing<\/h3>\n

With personal terms ironed out, the real challenge now lies with the two clubs. Dortmund have reportedly already seen three bids rejected by the Molineux<\/a> club as they increased their asking price to \u00a326 million with add-ons. Wolves technical director Domenico Teti reportedly refused to sit down and negotiate with Dortmund. With the clubs currently at a stalemate, Wolves are trying to recoup as much of the \u00a335 million they paid for the player. Silva is poised for a medical if negotiations are completed.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: Wolves Agree Huge Deal for \u2018Commanding\u2019 Centre-Back With \u2018Incredible\u2019 Goal Record<\/a><\/p>\n

Silva’s agreement with Borussia Dortmund signals his intent to take the next step in his career, but the transfer ultimately hinges on Wolves and Dortmund finding common ground over the transfer fee. If an agreement is reached in the coming days, Dortmund could secure one of Europe’s promising young forwards on a long-term deal, finally bringing the saga to a conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Borussia Dortmund have reportedly secured a verbal agreement with F\u00e1bio Silva on a long-term contract, setting the stage for a potential summer switch. Now all eyes are on negotiations between Wolves and Dortmund to turn the verbal agreement into reality. F\u00e1bio Silva’s Future Hinges On Transfer Fee Personal Terms In Place Sky Sports’\u00a0Florian Plettenberg has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5441,"featured_media":652748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2510,8383,30,7188],"tags":[31860,9360],"class_list":["post-658546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wolves","category-borussia-dortmund","category-news","category-rumours","tag-borussia-dortmund-transfer-rumours","tag-wolves-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658546"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658568,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658546\/revisions\/658568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}