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Lennart Grill completes move to Union Berlin

Lennart Grill has agreed a permanent move from Bayer 04 Leverkusen to Union Berlin. With the keeper who originally went out on loan in 2022, the option to buy the 24-year-old takes effect due to the set number of appearances and he is now part of the Union squad.
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Grill joined Bayer 04 in 2020 from FC Kaiserslautern, then in the third division, and in 2021 he went out on a six-month loan to the Norwegian club Brann Bergen as their first choice number one. The keeper's contract at Leverkusen originally ran to 30 June 2024.

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