Well, here’s the transfers as they’ve been happening so far. There’s certain to be a lot of moves left before the season starts, but it’s good to see what the clubs have been up to.
Note that an asterisk (*) means that the player was on loan. If no monetary value is given, the player is on a free.
Borussia Dortmund: +1,200,000
The champions have done rather well. The Neons are actually making a profit. They had to sell want-away Shinji Kagawa, getting 15 million up front, with perhaps a couple more coming. They also got 12 million for Lucas Barrios, who is off to China. The big gain was of course Marco Reus from Gladbach. The open question is whether striker Robert Lewandowski, who had a breakout season, gets some big offers.
IN: Mustafa Amini * Central Coast Mariners 0 Leonardo Bittencourt FC Energie Cottbus 3.000.000 € Marco Reus Borussia Mönchengladbach 17.100.000 € Marc Hornschuh * FC Ingolstadt 04 0 Zlatan Alomerovic Borussia Dortmund II 0 Koray Günter Borussia Dortmund U19 0 Marvin Ducksch Borussia Dortmund U19 0 Oliver Kirch 1.FC Kaiserslautern 400.000 € Julian Schieber VfB Stuttgart 6.000.000 € OUT: Johannes Focher SK Sturm Graz 0 Daniel Ginczek * FC St. Pauli 0 Shinji Kagawa Manchester United 15.000.000 € Lasse Sobiech * SpVgg Greuther Fürth 100.000 € Marco Stiepermann FC Energie Cottbus 200.000 € Antônio da Silva (unknown) 0 Julian Koch * MSV Duisburg 0 Lucas Barrios Guangzhou Evergrande 12.000.000 € Florian Kringe (unknown) 0 Dimitar Rangelov FC Luzern 400.000 €
FC Bayern München: -28.800.000 €
Bayern has already spent big in trying to wrest the title back. Mandzukic didn’t come cheap, although Pizarro is on a free. They also splashed big on Shaqiri, a Swiss-Albanian. Tom Starke will fill in as Neuer’s backup. They did get rid of Olic and Breno, which should strengthen the squad and finances.
IN: Mario Mandzukic VfL Wolfsburg 13.000.000 € Claudio Pizarro SV Werder Bremen 0 Xherdan Shaqiri FC Basel 1893 11.600.000 € Emre Can FC Bayern München II 0 Lukas Raeder FC Schalke 04 U19 0 Dante Borussia Mönchengladbach 4.700.000 € Tom Starke TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 0 Patrick Weihrauch FC Bayern München U19 0 OUT: Rouven Sattelmaier (Unknown) 0 Hans Jörg Butt (retired) 0 Ivica Olic VfL Wolfsburg 0 Danijel Pranjic (Unknown) 0 Breno (jail) 0 Nils Petersen * SV Werder Bremen 500.000 €
FC Schalke 04: -1.700.000 €
Schalke has little money, and Obasi really joined last season. Barnetta might be an interesting pickup. The Swiss midifielder has shown flashes of brilliance at Leverkusen, but has been very inconsistent. The players dumped weren’t going to play a role anyway, but of course they desperately wanted to keep Raul. It’s not clear how they plan to replace him. Perhaps Barnetta’s playmaking ability will ease that loss.
IN: Sead Kolasinac FC Schalke 04 U19 0 Vasilios Pliatsikas * MSV Duisburg 0 Anthony Annan * Vitesse Arnheim 0 Edu * Besiktas Istanbul 0 Philipp Hofmann FC Schalke 04 II 0 Roman Neustädter Borussia Mönchengladbach 0 Chinedu Obasi TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 4.000.000 € Tranquillo Barnetta Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0 OUT: Carlos Zambrano FC St. Pauli 600.000 € Tim Hoogland * VfB Stuttgart 200.000 € Peer Kluge Hertha BSC 250.000 € Ciprian Deac CFR Cluj 700.000 € Mario Gavranovic FC Zürich 0 Jan Morávek FC Augsburg 550.000 € Levan Kenia Zenit St. Petersburg 0 Raúl Al-Sadd Sports Club 0 Mathias Schober (retired) Hans Sarpei (retired)
Borussia Mönchengladbach: +2.950.000 €
Gladbach has spent a lot of the Marco Reus money. But they also lose two starters in Dante and Neustädter, so the team gets weaker on paper.
IN: Anderson * Eintracht Frankfurt 0 Lukas Rupp * SC Paderborn 07 0 Granit Xhaka FC Basel 1893 8.500.000 € Peniel Mlapa TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 2.500.000 € Branimir Hrgota Jönköping Södra 200.000 € Álvaro Domínguez Atlético Madrid 8.000.000 € OUT: Marco Reus Borussia Dortmund 17.100.000 € Roman Neustädter FC Schalke 04 0 Dante FC Bayern München 4.700.000 € Mathew Leckie * FSV Frankfurt 50.000 € Elias Kachunga * Hertha BSC 100.000 € Logan Bailly Oud-Heverlee Leuven 0 Tobias Levels Fortuna Düsseldorf 200.000 €
Bayer 04 Leverkusen -550.000 €
The Aspirins haven’t made many big moves yet, except signing Wollschied from Nürnberg. You have to figure they will make a couple more moves.
IN: Jens Hegeler * 1.FC Nürnberg 0 Lucas * 1.FC Kaiserslautern 0 Hajime Hosogai * FC Augsburg 0 Philipp Wollscheid 1.FC Nürnberg 7.000.000 € Nicolai Jörgensen * 1.FC Kaiserslautern 0 Carlinhos * Sao Paulo 100.000 € Dominik Kohr Bayer 04 Leverkusen U19 0 Junior Fernandes Universidad de Chile 0 OUT: Michael Ortega * Atlas Guadalajara 0 Michael Ballack (Unknown) 0 Eren Derdiyok TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 5.500.000 € René Adler Hamburger SV 0 Thanos Petsos SpVgg Greuther Fürth 50.000 € Tranquillo Barnetta FC Schalke 04 0 Fabian Giefer Fortuna Düsseldorf 400.000 € Bastian Oczipka Eintracht Frankfurt 600.000 € Danny da Costa * FC Ingolstadt 04 0
VfB Stuttgart +6.800.000 €
Stuttgart has been quiet so far, although Didavi proved himself on loan, so should be considered a plus coming back. Selling Schieber off to Dortmund brings in some cash to play around with.
IN: Daniel Didavi * 1.FC Nürnberg 0 Raphael Holzhauser VfB Stuttgart II 0 Antonio Rüdiger VfB Stuttgart II 0 André Weis VfB Stuttgart II 0 Kevin Stöger VfB Stuttgart II 0 Tunay Torun Hertha BSC 0 Tim Hoogland * FC Schalke 04 200.000 € OUT: Matthieu Delpierre TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 0 Timo Gebhart 1.FC Nürnberg 1.000.000 € Khalid Boulahrouz (unknown) 0 Stefano Celozzi Eintracht Frankfurt 0 Julian Schieber Borussia Dortmund 6.000.000 €
Hannover 96 -1.430.000 €
Not much action from the 96ers yet, but they don’t have any money anyway. That being said, they’ve actually paid for 3 of 4 new players.
IN: Willi Evseev * SC Wiener Neustadt 0 Hiroki Sakai Kashiwa Reysol 1.000.000 € Felipe Standard Lüttich 2.500.000 € Adrian Nikci FC Zürich 580.000 € OUT: Altin Lala FC Bayern München II 0 Carlitos (unknown) 0 Erdal Akdari Kayserispor 0 Emanuel Pogatetz VfL Wolfsburg 2.300.000 € Moritz Stoppelkamp TSV 1860 München 200.000 € Daniel Royer * 1.FC Köln 150.000 €
VfL Wolfsburg +400.000 €
After his drunken sailor-in-a-whorehouse winterbreak, Felix Magath continues to wheel and deal, and I think he’s just getting started. He pulled in 13 million from selling off Mandzukic, and he likely figures to dump most of the returning loanees, Kyrgiakos, Lakic, Kahlenberg, Pekarik, Diego and Kjaer will end up costing the VWs money, but they’re available for bargain rates. Of course, everybody knows that Magath doesn’t want them, so why should they pay Wolfsburg to take them off the wage books?
IN: Tuncay Sanli * Bolton Wanderers Bas Dost SC Heerenveen 9.000.000 € Emanuel Pogatetz Hannover 96 2.300.000 € Patrick Drewes VfL Wolfsburg U19 0 Ivica Olic FC Bayern München 0 Sotirios Kyrgiakos * AFC Sunderland 0 Srdjan Lakic * TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 0 Vaclav Pilar FC Hradec Králové 1.000.000 € Thomas Kahlenberg * FC Évian Thonon Gaillard 0 Peter Pekarík * Kayserispor 0 Diego * Atlético Madrid 0 Simon Kjaer * AS Rom 0 Kevin Pannewitz FC Hansa Rostock 300.000 € OUT: Mario Mandzukic FC Bayern München 13.000.000 € Nassim Ben Khalifa * Grasshopper Club Zürich 0 Bjarne Thoelke * Dynamo Dresden 0 Caiuby FC Ingolstadt 04 0 Kevin Scheidhauer * VfL Bochum 0 Sebastian Polter * 1.FC Nürnberg 0 Chris (unknown) 0 Thomas Hitzlsperger (unknown) 0 Hasan Salihamidzic (unknown) 0 André Lenz (retired) 0 Ibrahim Sissoko * Panathinaikos Athen 0
SV Werder Bremen +2.800.000 €
Werder will have a completely new look. They’ve dumped a lot of veterans, and managed to get some cash from Chelski for Marin. (Normal folks might pay around 4 million, but those EPL wankers have more money than sense). Lukimya and Gebre Selassie are promising defenders, and Sokratis had a decent season. (The latter two had good Euro tournaments as well).
The move for Petersen is interesting. With Pizarro gone, he figures to get a lot of playing time. If he can prove himself, Bayern will probably want him back, but Werder might be tempted to try and buy him.
IN: Sokratis FC Genua 1893 4.500.000 € Sandro Wagner * 1.FC Kaiserslautern 0 Levent Aycicek SV Werder Bremen U19 0 Raphael Wolf SV Kapfenberg 200.000 € Richard Strebinger Hertha BSC II 0 Assani Lukimya Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 Cimo Röcker SV Werder Bremen U19 0 Theodor Gebre Selassie FC Slovan Liberec 1.800.000 € Nils Petersen * FC Bayern München 500.000 € OUT: Francois Affolter * BSC Young Boys 0 Marko Marin FC Chelsea Chelsea 9.800.000 € Sebastian Boenisch (unknown) 0 Onur Ayik (unknown) 0 Markus Rosenberg (unknown) 0 Tim Borowski (unknown) 0 Tim Wiese TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 0 Mikaël Silvestre (unknown) 0 Claudio Pizarro FC Bayern München 0 Lennart Thy FC St. Pauli 0
1.FC Nürnberg +5.000.000 €
Looking at der Club, who wonder “Where’s the beef?”. They made some nice money off Wollscheid, but let a bunch others go for nada. And it doesn’t seem like they’ve added strength to the squad.
IN: Sebastian Gärtner 1.FC Nürnberg II 0 Felicio Brown Forbes * Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 0 Noah Korczowski FC Schalke 04 U19 0 Timo Gebhart VfB Stuttgart 1.000.000 € Hiroshi Kiyotake Cerezo Osaka 1.000.000 € Sebastian Polter * VfL Wolfsburg 0 Roussel Ngankam Hertha BSC II 0 Marcos António Rapid Bukarest 0 OUT: Jens Hegeler * Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0 Rubin Okotie SK Sturm Graz 0 Dominic Maroh 1.FC Köln 0 Christoph Sauter Karlsruher SC 0 Manuel Zeitz * SC Paderborn 07 0 Albert Bunjaku 1.FC Kaiserslautern 0 Christian Eigler FC Ingolstadt 04 0 Philipp Wollscheid Bayer 04 Leverkusen 7.000.000 € Daniel Didavi * VfB Stuttgart 0 Juri Judt RB Leipzig 0
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim +10.100.000 €
Remember when Hoffenheim was a buying club, throwing money around? (Or so the German fans thought.) Dem days be over, ya hear? The Hopp-ers have quietly become a financially responsible club. They might have overspent on Derdiyok, but they are desperate for some punch up front. But getting Wiese and Delpierre on free certainly makes up for it. They also did a good bit of business in cashing in on Sigurdsson, who never fit in, but is highly thought of in England.
IN Kevin Volland * TSV 1860 München 0 Ahmed Sassi TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II 0 Takashi Usami * Gamba Osaka 300.000 € Eren Derdiyok Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5.500.000 € Matthieu Delpierre VfB Stuttgart 0 Joseph-Claude Gyau TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II 0 Tim Wiese SV Werder Bremen 0 Stephan Schröck SpVgg Greuther Fürth 0 Jens Grahl * SC Paderborn 07 0 Michael Gregoritsch * SV Kapfenberg SV 0 Filip Malbasic FK Rad Belgrad 0 Wellington * Clube Atlético Linense (SP) OUT: Srdjan Lakic * VfL Wolfsburg VfL Wolfsburg 0 Jukka Raitala SC Heerenveen SC Heerenveen 800.000 € Franco Zuculini (unknown) 0 Manuel Gulde SC Paderborn 07 0 Peniel Mlapa Borussia Mönchengladbach 2.500.000 € Knowledge Musona * FC Augsburg 200.000 € Tom Starke FC Bayern München 0 Daniel Haas 1.FC Union Berlin 0 Andreas Ibertsberger (unknown) 0 Chinedu Obasi FC Schalke 04 4.000.000 € Gylfi Sigurdsson Tottenham Hotspur 8.400.000 €
SC Freiburg -550.000 €
No money. But they cashed in on Pappiss Cisse earlier (some 12 million from Newcastle) and still stayed up, so at least the treasurer can’t complain.
IN: Christian Bickel * Jahn Regensburg 0 Max Kruse FC St. Pauli 750.000 € Marco Terrazzino Karlsruher SC 0 Christian Günter SC Freiburg U19 0 Erich Sautner SC Freiburg II 0 Mounir Bouziane SC Freiburg II 0 OUT: Oliver Barth VfR Aalen 0 Andreas Hinkel (unknown) 0 Simon Brandstetter * Karlsruher SC 0 Stefan Reisinger Fortuna Düsseldorf 200.000 € Erich Sautner * Hallescher FC 0
1.FSV Mainz 05 +800.000 €
Very little movement by Mainz, you wonder what Thomas Tuchel is thinking? Perhaps he believes that there are enough crap teams that he doesn’t need to strengthen his squad.
IN: Petar Sliskovic * FC St. Pauli 0 Benedikt Saller 1.FSV Mainz 05 II 0 Shawn Parker 1.FSV Mainz 05 II 0 OUT: Eugen Gopko (unknown) 0 Mohamed Zidan (unknown) 0 Zoltán Stieber SpVgg Greuther Fürth 800.000 € Fabian Schönheim * 1.FC Union Berlin 0
FC Augsburg -2.150.000 €
As befits a club with little budget, FCA didn’t make much on players leaving. But they did bring in several bargains, perhaps some will pan out.
IN: Dominic Peitz * FC Hansa Rostock 0 Knowledge Musona * TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 200.000 € Jan Morávek FC Schalke 04 550.000 € Ronny Philp Jahn Regensburg 50.000 € Kevin Vogt VfL Bochum 600.000 € Aristide Bancé Al-Ahli Dubai 500.000 € Ragnar Klavan AZ Alkmaar 0 Milan Petrzela FC Viktoria Pilsen 400.000 € Pablo Pigl FC Augsburg II 0 OUT: Hajime Hosogai * Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0 Axel Bellinghausen Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 Andrew Sinkala (unknown) 0 Edmond Kapllani FSV Frankfurt 0 Daniel Brinkmann FC Energie Cottbus 150.000 € Nando Rafael Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 Patrick Mayer 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 0 Marcel Ndjeng Hertha BSC 0 Jonas de Roeck Oud-Heverlee Leuven 0
Hamburger SV -3.500.000 €
HSV has been burned big-time in their transfer policies, which no matter which way you looked, ended up screwing the club. So this year, they’ve been reluctant to spend, although the free transfer of Rene Adler could turn out to be a massive gain if he has fully recovered. You’ll notice that everyone leaving ain’t bringing in any cash…
IN: Maximilian Beister * Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 Macauley Chrisantus * FSV Frankfurt 0 Artjoms Rudnevs Lech Posen 3.500.000 € Lennard Sowah * FC Millwall 0 René Adler Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0 OUT: Romeo Castelen (unknown) 0 David Jarolím (unknown) 0 Mickaël Tavares (unknown) 0 Sören Bertram VfL Bochum 0 Miroslav Stepanek FK Senica 0 Dániel Nagy VfL Osnabrück 0 Mladen Petric FC Fulham 0
SpVgg Greuther Fürth +350.000 €
After the euphoria of promotion, reality check for Fürth: they have (by far) the smallest stadium and fan-base in the Bundesliga. Which means: really limited funds. Not only that, they lost their top scorer to a fellow promoted side.
IN: Ilir Azemi SpVgg Greuther Fürth II 0 Thomas Pledl TSV 1860 München U19 0 Wolfgang Hesl Dynamo Dresden 0 Michael Hefele SpVgg Unterhaching 0 Thanos Petsos Bayer 04 Leverkusen 50.000 € Lasse Sobiech * Borussia Dortmund 100.000 € Baba Rahman Asante Kotoko Kumasi 0 Zoltán Stieber 1.FSV Mainz 05 800.000 € OUT: Dani Schahin Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 Stephan Schröck TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 0 Christian Dorda (unknown) 0 Christian Rahn (unknown) 0 Franco Flückiger (unknown) 0 Jasmin Fejzic VfR Aalen 0 Fabian Baumgärtel * Alemannia Aachen 0 Asen Karaslavov Botev Plovdiv 0 Olivier Occéan Eintracht Frankfurt 1.300.000 €
Eintracht Frankfurt -4.600.000 €
Frankfurt is a big club, so it’s not surprising that they can actually spend a little more than fellow promotees. They also pull off a rarity: a direct player swap with Köln
IN: Erik Wille Eintracht Frankfurt 0 Takashi Inui VfL Bochum 1.200.000 € Martin Lanig 1.FC Köln (trade) Bastian Oczipka Bayer 04 Leverkusen 600.000 € Stefano Celozzi VfB Stuttgart 0 Kevin Trapp 1.FC Kaiserslautern 1.500.000 € Stefan Aigner TSV 1860 München 0 Ricardo Clark * Stabaek IF 0 Georgios Tzavellas * AS Monaco 0 Alexander Hien Eintracht Frankfurt U19 0 Julian Dudda Eintracht Frankfurt U19 0 Olivier Occéan SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1.300.000 € OUT: Matthias Lehmann 1.FC Köln (trade) Thomas Kessler * 1.FC Köln 0 Erwin Hoffer * SSC Neapel 0 Anderson * Borussia Mönchengladbach 0 Caio Figueirense (Brazil) 0 Ümit Korkmaz FC Ingolstadt 04 0 Habib Bellaid CS Sedan-Ardennes 0 Dominik Schmidt (unknown) 0 Marcos Álvarez Stuttgarter Kickers 0
Fortuna Düsseldorf -1.050.000 €
Düsseldorf will have a whole new squad. Lots of newcomers, and many of the promotion stallwarts, such as Lukimya, Beister, Bröker and Rösler are leaving. Obviously they’re hoping to find some untapped talent. The best known incoming player is Doo-Ri Cha, son of former Korean Bundesliga legend Bum-kun Cha, and who has bounced around with several German clubs.
IN: Ronny Garbuschewski Chemnitzer 0 Aliosman Aydin Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 Gerrit Wegkamp VfL Osnabrück 250.000 € Tobias Levels Borussia Mönchengladbach 200.000 € Stefan Reisinger SC Freiburg 200.000 € Bastian Müller FC Bayern München II 0 André Fomitschow VfL Wolfsburg II 0 Du-Ri Cha Celtic Glasgow 0 Nando Rafael FC Augsburg 0 Fabian Giefer Bayer 04 Leverkusen 400.000 € Leon Balogun SV Werder Bremen II 0 Axel Bellinghausen FC Augsburg FC 0 Bruno Soares MSV Duisburg 0 Dani Schahin SpVgg Greuther Fürth 0 Ivan Paurevic Borussia Dortmund II 0 Adriano Grimaldi * SV Sandhausen 0 Mazin Ahmed Al-Huthayfi Al-Ittihad Dschidda 0 OUT: Maximilian Beister * Hamburger SV 0 Ranisav Jovanovic (unknown) 0 Kai Schwertfeger Alemannia Aachen 0 Michael Ratajczak (unknown) 0 Thomas Bröker 1.FC Köln 0 Assani Lukimya SV Werder Bremen 0 Markus Krauss Stuttgarter Kickers 0 Sascha Rösler Alemannia Aachen 0 Adam Matuschyk * 1.FC Köln 0 Villyan Bijev * FC Liverpool Reserves 0 Sascha Dum (unknown) 0