Overview
- Media reports place the transfer package at about €12 million including bonuses, with staged payments and a reported progressive sell-on share for Cruzeiro.
- Prates traveled to Dortmund before the announcement, completed a medical, met club leaders and spoke with former BVB left-back Dedê.
- BVB executives Lars Ricken and Sebastian Kehl hailed Prates as a highly talented and versatile defender aligned with the club’s long-term development plans.
- The club is preparing integration support, including a personal interpreter, while the player has already begun English and German lessons.
- Prates has 17 senior appearances and one goal for Cruzeiro and five caps for Brazil’s U17s, having won the South American U17 championship.