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Borussia Dortmund is having a crazy transfer summer so far. Tuchel said at the end of the season that there would be big changes, but I don't think anybody envisioned that kind of turnover, especially that early in the summer.

They have obviously sold Mats Hummels to Bayern and Ilkay Gündogan to Manchester City for a combined €65m and it seems they might sell Henrikh Mkhitaryan as well. His contract ends in 2017 and negotations have gone nowhere ... pretty sure they don't want another Lewandowski situation, so it wouldn't be surprising if they sold him. According to Bild, they are also getting rid of Subotic, Ginter, Ramos, Leitner and Park.

On the other hand, they have signed Barcelona center back Marc Bartra for a mere €8m (his release clause fell from €40m to €8m because he didn't play enough games last year - pretty similar to Thiago a couple of years ago), talented winger Ousmane Dembele from Rennes for €8m as well (fee could rise to €15m) and young defensive midfielder Mikel Merino from Osasuna for about €4m. In addition, they are about to sign Bayern midfielder Sebastian Rode, Leverkusen center back Ömer Toprak and Lorient left back Raphael Guerreiro for a combined ~50m.

Obviously they weren't going to challenge Bayern anyway, but it seems like they choose not to even pretend and instead do a major rebuild. Exciting though, that could turn out to be a very talented young team.