“Top Player” Lukébakio: How Hertha’s Former 20 Million Shopping In Seville Blooms

Personal market value record

Hertha BSC once made Dodi Lukébakio the most expensive purchase in the club’s history and had to hand it over to the 2nd Bundesliga after relegation. In Spain, more precisely at FC Sevilla, his career really picks up speed. Now he is at the personal high with a market value of 25 million euros and his coach Xavier García Pimienta could also imagine him at Real Madrid or Barcelona. Why does Lukébakio bloom?

García Pimienta does not come out of the raven when he talks about his protégé: “Lukébakio is a top player. I’ve been talking to him for a long time and telling him that he has to be one of the best in the league in his position.” The trainer recently also described him as a “natural talent” that he could create a chance out of nowhere. The 50-year-old even went so far that Lukébakio had the level for Real Madrid and Barça. Even if he would only be a supplementary player.

Lukébakio is at eleven goals and a template in 28 league games this season. He is the top scorer of his team, his share of all Seville goals is 34.4 percent and is only surpassed by CA Osasuna by ex-St. Pauli striker Ante Budimir (45.5 %). If it is after the broadcaster “101TV”, Lukébakio Seville’s “helmsman” is. Tobias Blaseio, Community Manager, hits a similar notch at the Spain Transfer market. “He is the linchpin in the offensive game,” says the Laliga expert about the Belgian.

“Today’s Lukébakio looks more mature than before, in Germany you have always been able to see your football qualities, but the attitude was not always suitable. Often it was criticized for his lack of defensive work or decision -making or selfish game. Blaseio.

“I am an attacker, not a defender,” said Lukébakio during a moderately leading loan at VfL Wolfsburg in the 2021/22 season. His career had reached a low point in the Autostadt. Its market value fell to EUR 7.5 million and was therefore far from the previous highlight of EUR 21 million (2019). That he would achieve it again, let alone surpassed, it didn’t look like that.

Lukébakio focuses on Napoli & Co.

After returning to Berlin, the attacker played a season for Hertha, which culminated into the second division during descent. In terms of numbers, it was his best in the jersey of the old lady, he reached 17 goal participations in cross -competition 33 missions. Nevertheless, he was not free of criticism. When coach Sandro Schwarz took him out of the starting eleven, the broadcaster “N-TV” ruled that the “good Lukébakio” would not play at Hertha, but in the national team. Finally, in the summer of 2023 it went to Seville for EUR 10 million. Hertha received half of the Lukébakio purchasing price, which contributed 28 goals and 17 templates in 100 missions.

However, the 27-year-old now needed a whole season and probably also a trainer like García Pimienta to give his career a new coat of paint. Lukébakio scored five goals and a template in 23 league games, in the meantime it was missing longer with a ligament stretch. After a short high, the market value curve pointed back down-it went from 15 million to EUR 12 million. Then the turnaround followed, Lukébakio suddenly played on the note of top European clubs. After Bavarian Leverkusen was initially associated with him, he seems to have aroused interest, especially in Serie A. Juventus Turin and above all the SSC Naples appeared in reports about his person – there are said to have been discussions with Napoli in winter.

“His familiarization process in Laliga seems to be completed and he has found the necessary effectiveness that he was missing again and again in previous years. This season he is better able to cope with responsibility and is regularly the game -decisive man,” says Blaseio. Because of its services, there seems to be a market for Lukébakio, this is also the reason for the plus for the market value. “The fixed transfer fee is 45 million euros, in secret you seem to hope for a buyer for this sum at Seville, because it could be filled in the clamps.

For Lukébakio, things are going well personally, less for the club. The Europa League record winner has not been qualified for international business for the first time since the 2012/13 season and Sevilla is in eleventh place both up and down both up and below (for the table). “In the long run, various structural and financial problems seem to block the way up to the club. Over the years, the squad quality has decreased significantly, there would be further personnel and institutional constancy so that the association can build up something. Lukébakio lies that Sevilla is not in the relegation strudel “.

Blaseio sees Sevilla as a “suitable place” for the 25-time international. The league fits him, there the technology comes first. His contract is valid until 2028, but there is a lot to say that Lukébakio could take a new way again in the summer. Maybe Real Madrid or Barça have an idea.