The new year means the opening of a new transfer window across Europe, and clubs, players and agents alike are bracing for yet another month of intense rumors, movement and marketplace machinations.
The Red Bull conglomerate, once again, has been busy getting its work done early, with Dominik Szoboszlai departing Salzburg for RB Leipzig and Brenden Aaronson stepping into that void at Salzburg after leaving the Philadelphia Union. All of that will become official when the window opens on Jan. 2. It was just last winter that Salzburg arranged to sell Erling Haaland to Dortmund and Takumi Minamino to Liverpool before the transfer window opened, with the Austrian power wasting no time in handling its important business.