After Sancho and Bellingham, Dortmund are pulling in another English gem. Who is the 18-year-old Bynoe-Gittens?

Jadon Sancho, Jude Bellingham and Jamie Bynoe-Gittens. What do all three have in common? They are Englishmen who grew up in England but decided at a young age to develop their potential at Borussia Dortmund. The first two paid off, and the third is up next.

Borussia seem to have found a recipe to make money fast. Find a super talent in one of the English academies, buy him out, give him space to grow as a footballer and then sell him for several times the price.

It first worked with Jadon Sancho, who came to Westphalia in 2017 from Manchester City’s academy. A few years later, he had already moved to Manchester United for €80 million.

So in 2020, Dortmund brought in Jud Bellingham from Birmingham. Still only 19 years old, the midfielder is probably the most wanted player in the world at the moment and Borussia will ask for 150 million euros in the summer.

Along with Bellingham, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, a year younger, has also arrived at Signal Iduna Park. Already given a chance in a couple of games last season, he started to feature more often in the new season and even scored in the second round, only to be injured for the whole autumn afterwards.

However, over the winter he got himself back on track and has been coming off the bench regularly so far. At the end of January, he scored in a shootout (4:3) with Augsburg, and last weekend he secured a win against Bremen.

Tonight he will face his Chelsea side in the Champions League. Yes, his, because apart from Reading he was in the Blues youth until he was 14 when he decided to leave for Manchester City. Why there?

“I could have gone to Arsenal, but I chose City because at that time they were producing players like Sancho. When I saw Sancho playing for the U18s and scoring goals every game, I wanted to be like him,” Bynoe-Gittens said.

It is with Sancho that BVB’s new sensation has a lot in common. Bynoe-Gittens is also right-handed and prefers to play on the left wing. He is quick, likes to dribble 1v1, and unlike Sancho, he is a bigger scorer.

While United’s winger sets up a lot of chances, Bynoe-Gittens is more of an finisher. In the current season, he has scored three times for BVB in just 369 minutes.

In addition, the young winger has 5 ‘pre-assists’, i.e. passes that lead to a goal. Only Mario Götze (7) has more in the Bundesliga.

Source: Borussia Dortmund, UEFA