RB Leipzig’s managing director Marcel Schäfer has revealed the membership’s plans for Yann Diomande to stay on the membership for the 2026-27 season.
Diomand has attracted plenty of curiosity from Europe’s high golf equipment, with Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool reportedly in competition to signal the 19-year-old.
The winger instantly contributed to twenty targets (12 targets, 8 assists) in 33 Bundesliga video games in 2025/26, a tally surpassed solely by Harry Kane (41 targets), Michael Oliseh (34 targets), Luis Diaz (29 targets), Deniz Unduff (25 targets) and Christoph Baumgartner (21 targets).
Nevertheless, Diomande accomplished probably the most dribbles (118 to 50 greater than another participant) and take-on-end carries (104 to 29 greater than another participant).
He additionally acquired off to a terrific begin on the 2026 World Cup, serving to Ivory Coast attain the finals for the primary time in its historical past.
Diomande grew to become the second African participant on file (since 1966) to attain 10 or extra profitable dribbles (10) and 10 or extra possibilities created (10) in a single World Cup group stage, after South Africa’s Quinton Fortune in 2002.
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In reality, he’s the primary participant from the group to signify a rustic alone since Brazil’s Neymar in 2018.
Regardless of their curiosity in Diomande, Leipzig insist they haven’t any intention of promoting {the teenager} this summer time.
“Our clear intention is for Yann Diomande to play for RB Leipzig subsequent season and we won’t deviate from that. We all know precisely what’s in him,” Schäfer instructed BILD.
“After all, if Jan continues to develop as he has, there’ll come a time after we will enable him to take the following step, however that’s not the case this yr.
“If we do not discover a answer, it means we do not discover a answer both. However he nonetheless has 4 years left on his contract. So I wish to stress once more: Yann Diomande will stay within the Leipzig squad.”
