Scouting 3 Potential Summer Transfer Targets for Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund have a lot of work to do this summer. Not only do they have to quickly implement a new manager and his methods upon a club that hasn't shifted in style in seven years, but they also have an entire squad that needs revamped. 

Player contracts are expiring, senior stars are retiring and some of the best talent at the club is being linked with moves elsewhere. Thomas Tuchel needs to grab the reigns of this wild horse quickly and steer it back on course. 

Here are three potential summer transfers that could help the new manager do just that.

Johannes Geis

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Dortmund will most likely start the 2015/16 season with an entirely new midfield. Sebastian Kehl has retired, Ilkay Gundogan looks set to move on and Sven Bender hasn't looked like himself in almost a year. Add to that Nuri Sahin's constant injuries and you have two or three positions that desperately need more manpower. 

Tuchel may chose to deal with this problem by bringing in former Mainz colleague Johannes Geis. The 21-year-old apple of the Carnival Club's eye is an exceptional box-to-box midfielder who could both break up opposing plays and set up attacks all on his own. 

He's young, talented and Tuchel knows him back to front. This move really seems like a no-brainer for Dortmund this summer.

Kevin Volland

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Dortmund have long since given into the temptation to flash their cash on attacking players each and every summer yet very few of these goal-seeking talents have actually produced the goods over the course of the past two seasons. 

It may be too soon to judge Kevin Kampl, but at the moment he looks closer to Ciro Immobile, Adrian Ramos, Milos Jojic and Shinji Kagawa than Marco Reus. Dortmund need a new forward this summer who can hit the ground running in the Bundesliga. 

Fortunately, that player is available—at a certain price—from Hoffenheim. Kevin Volland is his name, and with 28 goals and 29 Bundesliga assists at just the age of 22 (via transfermarkt), we know he can perform in the league at the very least.

Timo Horn

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Dortmund desperately need a new goalkeeper. Roman Weidenfeller has long been the No.1 shot-stopper at the club, but over the course of the past 12 months, his form has completely deteriorated. As such, Tuchel will undoubtedly be on the hunt for a new talent between the posts for this coming campaign. 

The Bundesliga is flush with young, talented 'keepers, but one who may offer the right amount of promise and immediate talent is Cologne's 22-year-old starlet Timo Horn. 

The young player is an exceptional shot-stopper—something that has unfortunately eluded Weidenfeller this season—but is also perfectly comfortable playing with the ball at his feet; a sure sign of any competent, modern goalkeeper these days.

Add to that a natural agility to bounce around his six-yard box and you have a viable option to the tired, failing prospect Dortmund currently have in goals.