Transfer madness, Zorc stays calm
While the transfer madness in Bundesliga yesterday reached its climax, Borussia Dortmund Sports Director Michael Zorc sat back in his armchair and relaxed. "We are within our budget line", said Zorc in a statement to local paper WAZ. Borussia could withstand the Hannover offer for Tamás Hajnal. Hannover wanted to take the Hungarian on loan but insisted on Dortmund to pay part of Hajnal's wage. The only transfer that did happen yesterday was one everyone had expected, as reported on schwatzgelb, Borussia and da Silva agreed on a one year contract. Due to an exception in transfer law one player might still leave Borussia. It is allowed to transfer players to Israel for another seven days. Maccabi Tel Aviv and Borussia have already agreed on terms for a loan deal for Dimitar Rangelov. The Bulgarian striker is striker number three behind Lucas Barrios and Robert Lewandowski. He still needs to confirm the deal from his side. "Mohammed Zidan will be back in our team in six weeks, we could allow Rangelov to leave the club without losing too much quality", says Zorc in Ruhrnachrichten, where he also states the chances are 50/50 that Rangelov will actually leave
No new clubs for injured Florian Kringe, who is still not back from his broken middle foot, and Yasin Ötzekin, who had a trial at Leeds United late in August. Both of them as well as Tamás Hajnal are believed to leave Borussia during the winter break.
A small round up on the Bundesliga transfer madness.
Felix Magath has added another 27 million euros to the blues debts yesterday. In his desperate attempt to win the league he bought Huntelaar (14 Million €) from AC Milan, Juardo, who is believed to earn some 2 Million € net and said this was an offer he could not resist, from Atletico Madrid for 13 Million € and also brought in Nicolas Plestan from OSC Lille as a back-up or even a replacement for Christoph Metzelder. For Lille Plestan had featured in five games last season. It does sound like a plan. But what kinda plan that is, we cannot tell you.
Markus Rosenberg, the scorer of the dead important 3-1 in Genua, has extended his contract at Werder Bremen and left for a one year spell at Spanish club Racing Santander. Malik Fathi, the one time German international, is back with FSV Mainz on another one year lona contract from Moskau. Unlucky Rozenahl was loaned out to OSC Lille. The Hamburg player seems to replace Nicolas Plestan there, which, if quality is an indicator, is a good sign for Plestan's quality. The 2006 World Cup Winner Mauro Camoranesi (33year old, from Juve) and Guinean international Mamadou Bah (from Racing Straßbourg) are late signings for VFB Stuttgart. And Icleans U21 starlet Gylfi Sigurdsson has moved to rich kids Hoffenheim on a 5.2 Million € transfer from Championship side FC Reading. Says Hoppenheim's Sports Director Ernst Tanner: "Five years ago, this transfer would have been unthinkable. To transfer this quality player from England to Germany, says everything about the standing of Bundesliga football". It mostly says a lot about Hoppenheim's bank account.
steph, 01.09.2010
