Lucas Tousart, here during the 16th final of the Coupe de France won in Nantes this month. LOIC VENANCE - AFP

On paper, the stroke seems almost perfect. OL has just formalized this Monday at 6 p.m. the transfer of Lucas Tousart to Hertha Berlin (current 13th in the Bundesliga) for an amount of 25 million euros. A sum that seems really substantial for the 22-year-old defensive midfielder, who had his most prosperous period in Lyon in the spring of 2017.

Transfer from Lucas Tousart to Hertha Berlin ⤵ https://t.co/XbiPHPyohV

- Olympique Lyonnais (@OL) January 27, 2020

The international hopes, which was under contract until 2023 at OL, will therefore allow its leaders to invest about the same amount to recruit in the coming days the promising Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guimarães. As the latter could not make his debut in Lyon until February, OL also obtained the loan from Lucas Tousart until the end of the season.

Juninho confides how OL beat Atlético de Madrid for Guimarães https://t.co/2FZ8ZzUInh

- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) January 26, 2020

A funny nice shot when you know that the former Valenciennois had joined the Rhône at the end of the 2015 summer transfer window for 3 million euros. Like what, it is not only in the Premier League that we blaze up during the transfer window.

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