Top five Red Bull Salzburg's biggest sales

The club has been the home to many talented footballers over the years

Red Bull Salzburg have been the highlight of European football. The Austrian team didn't advance to the Champions League knockout stages, but their outstanding performances against teams like Liverpool and Napoli won everyone over.

The star of the show was Erling Haaland, a Norwegian who scored goals like they were going out of style, including eight in six European games. The club had created and sold many more elite players to prestigious European teams, Below are the top five Red Bull Salzburg's biggest sales:

Sadio Mané to Southampton: €23M

In 2012, Sadio Mané left FC Metz to join Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga, making him the third-most valuable player in league history. His outstanding performance led Southampton to approach him about a transfer to the English Premier League. In 63 appearances, Sadio Mane made a total of 31 goals for Salzburg.

Naby Keïta to RB Leipzig: €24M

Naby Keita is a midfielder who currently plays for Liverpool FC in the Premier League right now. After a brilliant performance for RB Salzburg in Austria in all Competitions, In the same campaign, Keita assisted the team in winning both the league and the Austrian Cup. Keita attracted attention from throughout Europe, over 17 goals were scored by Keita in 59 games for the team.

Karim Adeyemi to Borussia Dortmund: €30M

After an outstanding 2021–2022 season with Red Bull Salzburg, in which he contributed to 25 goals in 39 appearances for the Austrian champions, Adeyemi signed a five-year contract with Signal Iduna Park.

That enabled Salzburg to advance to the knockout round of the contest, and Dortmund coach Marco Rose, who decided to sign Adeyemi in 2018 while serving as the coaching staff of Salzburg, will be expecting the centre-forward can adeptly continue that form in Germany in the wake of the departure Erling Haaland.

Patson Daka to Leicester City: €30M

Via the club's youth team Liefering, Daka joined RB Salzburg in 2017 and was transferred to the main team the following year. In the victory over Genk for Salzburg in the 2019–20 season, Daka was on the score sheet.

From that point on, Daka established himself as a squad staple and helped the team win the Austrian Cup and the Bundesliga. In his debut season, Daka rapidly established himself as a legitimate first-team player, helping the squad have a good season in the Australian Bundesliga, he later joined Leicester City earning the Austrian club great profit.

Brenden Aaronson to Leeds United: €32.8M

Aaronson helped Salzburg win the Austrian Bundesliga and Austrian Cup for the second year in a row by making 41 appearances in all competitions, contributing 10 assists, and scoring six goals.

For an unknown sum, the midfielder moved from Philadelphia Union to Red Bull Salzburg in January 2021, joining up alongside Marsch, who was head of the Austrian team at the time. He played in 24 games across all competitions, scoring seven goals in the process to assist Salzburg and Marsch win the league and cup double in Austria.