Since the Bundesliga promotion, 1. FC Köln has spent around eleven million euros for new staff. In addition to the transfer fee of around one million euros, which the cathedral towns on the SC Paderborn paid for the obligation of Lukas Kwasniok as the new head coach, the two external new obligations ISAK Johannesson and Ragnar Ache really cost. Effzeh legend Pierre Littbarski has now evaluated the previous transfer activities of his heart club.
The 1990 world champion praised the new sporting director around sports director Thomas Kessler for the previous personal details to the “Express”.
Isak Johanneson von Rhein-Rivale Fortuna Düsseldorf (cost around 5.5 million euros), according to Pierre Littbarski, “was a very good purchase”. The Cologne club icon added: “It is not easy to pick up such a player from the Rhein rival from Düsseldorf. They did a good job. Johannesson is a very good player with a great perspective.”
Littbarski also appreciates the fact that the cathedral cities succeeded in transferring Ragnar Ache from the previous second division competitor 1. FC Kaiserslautern for around 4.5 million euros to Cologne-Müngersdorf: “I know him from Fürth. He is a very good striker, very physically and also human.”
At Kwasniok, Littbarski remains reserved
The first judgment about the commitment of the new head coach, who will soon take his new office at the 1st FC Köln, was somewhat more complicated: “He has a good history and has proven that he can work successfully, but I cannot assess how he is on my daily work,” said the long -time international about Lukas Kwasniok, who had recently worked for SC Paderborn for four years.
From then on, further summer transfers was like a “true gold search” for the Cologne, as Littbarski emphasized. According to eleven million euros, transfer expenses are now concerned with making possible bargains or lucrative rental shops on the player market. Other major transfer sums can no longer be invested by the Cologne this summer.