Timo Werner agrees huge pay cut with RB Leipzig to push through Chelsea exit

Chelsea attacker Timo Werner has agreed to have a 50 per cent pay cutting in order to return to RB Leipzig, co-ordinate to reports.

The 26-year-old has struggled to make an impact at Stamford Span since moving to the club in a £47.5m bargain from RB Leipzig in 2020.

Werner, who has scored 23 goals in 89 games for Chelsea, started merely 15 games in the Premier League concluding campaign and is corking to become more playing time ahead of Frg's World Cup entrada in Qatar this year.

Co-ordinate to Bild, RB Leipzig are at present working on an agreement with the Blues and are exploring the possibility of signing Werner on an initial loan deal with an option to purchase.

The report claims that Werner is finally ready to render to Leipzig and would take a l per cent pay cut in lodge to help push the move through.

Werner's current contract is worth around £275,000 per week, while the forrad has likewise attracted interest from Juventus.

'I promise he is coming back, he is a good thespian,' Werner'due south quondam RB Leipzig teammate Yussuf Poulsen said this week.

'We are a team that is trying to take the next step and develop into ane of the biggest clubs in Europe, you need quality players for that. Nosotros formed a good partnership in the past.'

When asked about the possibility of Werner leaving Chelsea before the stop of the window, Thomas Tuchel said last week that the 26-yr-one-time 'has a point to prove' at Stamford Bridge.

'I don't know most it, Timo has non talked to me about it,' said Tuchel.

'In the moment I think he wants to brand his way at Chelsea. He has even so to prove a point.'

Earlier this month, Werner suggested that his aim is to secure more than playing time ahead of the World Cup.

'I could be happy everywhere,' Werner said. 'It is articulate I desire to play more and I should play more to first be in expert shape for the World Cup and besides to have a hazard to play at the World Loving cup.

'Information technology doesn't change anything whether it is a winter Earth Cup or in the summer. I think if I play half of the season or the whole season, I should play. It doesn't change anything in my mind.'

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