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Sum almost doubled! This player is Cologne’s Markwert winner
Updated on March 26th, 2025 – 5:27 p.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 sporty, poor appearances for the players of 1. FC Köln also affected with a view to their personal market value. Only three professionals were given the recent adaptation of the portal transfermarkt.de with an upgrading. Damion Downs made the biggest jump. The striker was raised from three million euros to five million euros and is therefore one of the second most valuable players in the FC squad behind Eric Martel (six million).
In addition, Imad Rondic (from 850,000 to 1.8 million) and Youngster Neo Telle (from 75,000 to 450,000) were given. Meanwhile, Anthony Racioppi (minus 0.5 million), Luca Kilian (minus 300,000), Jan Thielmann, Jusuf Gazibegovic (both minus one million) and Denis Huseinbasic (minus 700,000) five FC professionals. In total, the 1. FC Köln is one of only four teams that could not increase their market value compared to the last adaptation.
The training of 1. FC Köln began on Tuesday morning with double applause. Julian Pauli and Jacob Christensen returned to team training after months of breaks and were greeted by their teammates with applause. Pauli had failed from December due to the consequences of a concussion, Christiansen as early as July 2024 with a cruciate ligament tear.
While the two long -term injuries initially only participated in parts of the training, Mark Uth and Steffen Tigges got full again. After his hand-surgery, Damion Downs continues to work in the rehabilitation area, the cold Joel Schmied trained individually.
The 1. FC Köln started on Monday afternoon with persistent staff worries in preparation for the difficult away game at SC Paderborn. In addition to Linton Maina, Dominique Heintz, Jusuf Gazibegovic, Luca Kilian, Julian Pauli and Jacob Christensen, who are definitely due to their injuries, Joel Schmied, Damion Downs, Mark Uth and Steffen Tigges were also unable to take part in team training.
Uth and Tigges trained at least individually with ball after their recent injuries, could start again in the coming days. Downs should actually play with a rail after his hand operation almost two weeks ago, but has also only been able to work individually. Schmied was missing due to illness. In addition, Eric Martel, Jan Thielmann, Learst Pacarada, Mathias Olesen and Jaka Cuber Potonik are still on international trip.
The 1. FC Köln actually wanted to travel to Japan in September 2025. The professional team should go on advertising tour for the goats and German football. It was originally planned to fly to Japan with Pierre Littbarski and Lukas Podolski. Both ex-professionals of the billy goats also played in Japan in their active time.
But now the FC has postponed the trip. “The FC with its size and its history still has a certain radiance abroad,” said sports managing director Christian Keller the Express. “We would like to travel to Japan. The international break in March 2026.”
While all other teams of 1st FC Köln are pausing this weekend, the U17 of the “billy goats” got the next victory. In the DFB youth league, the talents trained by Manuel Hartmann won 5-0 against Augsburg at the start of the main round round. The goals scored Benjamin Ley (28th minute), Milan Nikolic with a hat trick (43./52./55.) And Josias Simon (76.).