Eight players are missing from the start of training

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Before Elversberg: Eight players are missing from training

1. FC Köln is the football club from the cathedral city. In the news ticker on t-online you will find all the important reports about the “billy goats”.

1. FC Köln started preparing for the home game against SV Elversberg on Tuesday. Coach Gerhard Struber had to do without eight of his professionals at the start of the week. In addition to the long-term injuries Luca Kilian, Jacob Christensen (both torn cruciate ligaments), Mark Uth (muscle injury) and Mathias Olesen (back injury), four other players also reported their absence.

Julian Pauli was missing again on Tuesday, and those responsible took him off again as a precautionary measure after his concussion at the beginning of December. The central defender continues to complain of discomfort when physically intense. In addition, Tim Lemperle is not yet fit again after his muscular problems. In addition, Luca Waldschmidt reported himself out due to illness, Denis Huseinbasic was sidelined due to a bruised calf he sustained against HSV.

1. FC Köln will start preparing for the home game against SV Elversberg on Tuesday. However, the Billy Goats have to postpone the first training session due to weather conditions. Originally planned for 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, Gerhard Struber will now only be invited to the lawn at Geißbockheim at 12.30 p.m. The reason: the expected temperatures around freezing point.

The further training sessions will take place – as currently planned – on Wednesday at 10.30 a.m. (public) and on Thursday and Friday behind closed doors. The home game on Saturday against Elversberg will take place at 1:00 p.m. in Müngersdorf, before public training takes place again on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

Jonas Urbig, who was courted by FC Bayern Munich, was, as usual, part of the 1. FC Köln squad on Saturday evening. A winter change that the record champions are aiming for is apparently not imminent. “We don’t actually plan to give up a goalkeeper in the winter,” said Cologne’s sports director Christian Keller on the sidelines of the 1-0 defeat at Hamburger SV and added: “A lot has to happen for this intention to change.”

According to Sky, Bayern should be prepared to pay a base fee of six to seven million euros for Urbig. According to information from the Geissblog, there was no new offer at FC, at least until Saturday evening Munich received. The “billy goats” recently rejected an initial offer from the Bundesliga leaders, reportedly around five million euros. It is possible that a second attempt is currently being prepared.

For 1. FC Cologne, the second phase of the promotion mission begins on Saturday evening. The FC entourage set off on Friday Hamburg made, where the top game against the promotion competitor takes place at the start of the second half of the season. However, Cologne will have to do without their best goalscorer.

After his muscle injury from the friendly against Viktoria Köln last Tuesday, there wasn’t enough time for Tim Lemperle. The striker will be out against HSV as he was recently against 1. FC Nürnberg and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The two newcomers Jusuf Gazibegovic and Joël Schmied are in the squad. In addition, youngster Neo Telle traveled to an away game with the professionals for the first time.

In addition to Lemperle, the long-term injured Jacob Christensen, Luca Kilian (both torn cruciate ligaments), Mark Uth (muscle injury), Mathias Olesen (back injury) and Julian Pauli (consequences of a concussion) will also be missing.

1. FC Köln has announced the fourth loan of the winter. After Sargis Adamyan (Jahn Regensburg), Florian Dietz (SCR Altach) and Elias Bakatukanda (Blau-Weiß Linz), Rasmus Carstensen is also leaving the “Billy Billy Goats”. The Dane is moving to Lech Poznan, the leader of the Polish Ekstraklasa, until the end of the season.

FC managing director Christian Keller explains: “Rasmus came to us with the desire to regain his sporting self-confidence and old performance through a temporary change in atmosphere.” The 24-year-old only played in four competitive games in the first half of the season. Due to the signing of Jusuf Gazibegovic – also a right-back – his prospects of match practice in Cologne have recently been further reduced.