The Bundesliga club are determined to sign the full-back who has earned 22 caps for his country since making his international debut in 2022.

If Sunderland agree to sell, the Blues will collect over a million pounds. The Belfast club negotiated a bumper 15 per cent sell-on clause when Hume swapped Windsor Park for the Stadium of Light in January 2022.

However, Linfield may have to wait. The Black Cats are expected to reject the German club’s offer, which falls well short of the Premier League club’s valuation of the defender. Owner Kyril Louis-Dreyfus is likely to demand a fee far in excess of the £10m that’s on offer.

Wolfsburg finished 11th in the Bundesliga in the 2024/25 season and are managed by Dutch coach Paul Simonis, who guided Go Ahead Eagles to KNVB Cup glory last term. The c

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