Transfer ticker
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Updated on July 28th, 2025 – 6:04 p.m.Reading time: 23 min.
The plans for the coming season are underway for the clubs. All important news in the transfer ticker.
This year’s transfer summer has it all. This is because the clubs are allowed to sign players for the first time in two different periods. Due to the club World Cup, the first transfer window for the participating clubs was open from June 1st to June 10th. The regular transfer window is open from July 1st to September 1st.
Between 2016 and 2022, Stefan Posch was under contract with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. Then the Austrian national player moved to Italy, first to Bologna, then on a rental base to Atalanta Bergamo. Now Posch could return to the Bundesliga.
As the Pay TV broadcaster Sky reports, Hamburger SV would like to pilot the defender in the Hanseatic city. The climber is said to have already made an offer for Posch. However, the 28-year-old has not yet promised a change. It would have to make clear financial compromises in his salary, it is said. Posch weighs his options.
SC Freiburg could lose a key player this summer, but wants to be financially paid for the impending departure. According to the Pay TV broadcaster Sky, the Breisgauer demand more than 20 million euros for Ritsu Dōan. The Japanese is intensively courted by Eintracht Frankfurt.
The Freiburg and Hesse are currently in negotiations on a permanent transfer of the 27-year-old. An agreement has already been concluded between the player and the harmony. In the event of a change, he would sign a contract by 2030.
At Bayer Leverkusen, a sale of key player Granit Xhaka is imminent. The Bundesliga top club would let the Swiss go to the English association AFC Sunderland for a transfer fee of 20 million euros. “There will be a decision this week. Granits page knows about the conditions to which a transfer is possible,” said sports director Simon Rolfes, according to agreed media reports.
Leverkusen and trainer Erik Ten Hag quickly want clarity, according to the end of July. “If that doesn’t happen, it stays,” announced Rolfes. But the English are apparently ready to pay the called transfer fee. And Xhaka absolutely wants to leave Bayer a year after the championship.
Previously Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong (both Liverpool FC) and Jonathan Tah (Bayern Munich) left the club. There are also rumors of change around the two defenders Piero Hincapie and Alejandro Grimaldo, midfielder Exequiel Palacios and striker Victor Boniface. Goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky is facing a transfer to AS Monaco. Bayer has already made a replacement in the goal in Mark Flekken.