Newsblog for 1. FC Cologne
FC obliges one of the “most exciting” DFB talents
Updated on 14.08.2025 – 11:44 a.m.Reading time: 41 min.
The 1. FC Köln is the football club from the cathedral city. In the New sticker on T-Online you will find all the important messages about the “billy goats”.
The 1. FC Köln continues to cause a stir on the transfer market. FC announced Maik Afri Akumu’s commitment on Thursday. The 17-year-old changes from Hertha BSC to the cathedral city. The offensive talent was already running as a U17 player for the U19 and the U21 of the capitals last season. Now the German under-national player signed a “long-term contract”, as FC announced.
“With Maik Akumu, the 1. FC Köln can sign a highly assessed offensive player who can certainly be seen around his year as one of the most exciting talents,” said Lukas Berg, technical director, at the Geißbockheim. “We have been dealing with Maik for a long time and are therefore proud that we have now been able to implement the transfer.” Youngster, born in 2008, is scheduled to play in the FC youngsters, but is planned for the professionals in the future. The transfer should be in the high six -digit range.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
As expected, the tenth new addition of 1. FC Köln is called Rav van den Berg. On Wednesday afternoon, the billy goats announced the commitment of the central defender. Up to ten million euros will flow to the English second division club FC Middlesbrough for the 21-year-old Dutchman.
“We have tried for a long time and intensively for RAV and are very happy that he chose 1. FC Köln,” says Cologne sports director Thomas Kessler and is convinced that “he will help us with his quality.” Van den Berg has “a strong physical presence, pronounced athletics as well as qualities in a duel and in the opening of the player”.
The defense talent has signed a long-term contract until 2030 and says: “I am very much looking forward to the next big step in my career-and this is 1. FC Köln. I believe that the FC family is an environment that suits me very well.” “Maybe a little cliché”, says van den Berg, “but I need it and can’t wait to play in front of the FC fans for the first time and to give everything for them”.
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
The 1. FC Köln is facing Rav van den Berg. According to matching media reports, the Dutch will travel to Cologne on Tuesday to complete the medical check and sign a long -term contract. The 21-year-old is said to move from FC Middlesbrough to Cologne.
Van den Berg would be the tenth new addition of the billy goats this summer – and the most expensive. According to reports, the fixed transfer fee should be around eight million euros. Two more million could be added to bonuses. This would make van Den Berg the most expensive defender in FC history and the third-party transfer in Cologne history. Only Jhon Cordoba (17 million) and Lukas Podolski (10 million) were more expensive.