St. Louis Metropolis SC held preliminary talks with Marco Reus forward of his departure from Borussia Dortmund on the finish of the season, The Athletic’s Tom Bogert reported.
Samir Nasri first talked about on Canal+ after Borussia Dortmund superior to the Champions League ultimate that the German midfielder was exploring a transfer to Main League Soccer after his contract expires.
In keeping with Bogert, St. Louis hasn’t even positioned Reus on their discovery listing as of writing. MLS groups need to put gamers on a discovery listing earlier than signing them. Reus does have a pal and former Borussia Dortmund participant in St. Louis with goalkeeper Roman Burki. In keeping with The Athletic, Reus has additionally been linked with golf equipment in Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Dortmund introduced Might 3 that the membership and participant got here to a mutual choice that his contract won’t be renewed on the finish of the season. 4 days later, Dortmund moved one step nearer to a fairytale ending by knocking Paris Saint-Germain out of the Champions League. Reus has a chance to ship Europe’s greatest prize to the membership he stayed loyal to for years earlier than leaving.
St. Louis has an enormous Bundesliga presence within the staff with Burki, Eduard Lowen and Joao Klaus.
Reus can be the third Bundesliga participant to maneuver to MLS within the final six months. Emil Forsberg and Hannes Wolf moved from RB Leipzig and Borussia Monchengladbach respectively to New York Purple Bulls and New York Metropolis FC.
St. Louis is at the moment ninth within the Western Convention with 13 factors. The staff’s second MLS season hasn’t gotten off to pretty much as good of a begin in comparison with final 12 months. St. Louis has drawn a league-high seven matches in 10 performed to date.
