Following the successful completion of his scheduled medical, Argentina international Emiliano Buendia was officially unveiled as a new Bayer Leverkusen signing on Wednesday afternoon. The

Buendia fits Farke’s own January transfer criteria, in that a potential arrival must be of good quality, of great character and affordable. The problem is that every other top team is searching for players with the same category filter, something that the club itself is aware of.

After becoming a first-team mainstay in his first two seasons at the club, Buendía spent the 2023/24 campaign on the sidelines following an ACL tear in August.