“Corona has changed business”
Player advisor Volker Struth only sees opportunities for vaccinated players to change in the football business in view of the corona pandemic. “When sports directors are interested in a player, for now or next summer, I’m often asked if he’s vaccinated. In the future it will be: no vaccination, no transfer. I’m sure of it,” Struth said in a “star“-Interview.
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14 Philip Max | PSV Eindhoven | Market value: €8 million
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As of January 25, 2022
12 Luca Waldschmidt | VfL Wolfsburg | Market value: €10 million
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12 Niklas Stark | Hertha BSC | Market value: €10 million
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10 Mario Götze | PSV Eindhoven | Market value: €12 million
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10 Suat Serdar | Hertha BSC | Market value: €12 million
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9 Nicolas Seiwald | Red Bull Salzburg | Market value: €15 million
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8 Wout Weghorst | VfL Wolfsburg | Market value: €20 million
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7 Julian Weigl | Benfica | Market value: €22 million
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6 Mohammed Camara | Red Bull Salzburg | Market value: €23 million
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5 Amadou Haidara | RB Leipzig | Market value: €24 million
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4 Toni Kroos | Madrid | Market value: €25 million
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3 Niklas Süle | Bayern Munich | Market value: €35 million
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2 Timo Werner | Chelsea FC | Market value: €50 million
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1 Dayot Upamecano | Bayern Munich | Market value: €55 million
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With the “Sport360” agency, Struth advises dozens of professionals, including Toni Kroos and the German internationals Timo Werner and Niklas Süle. Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann is also one of his clients. “The current transfer window is calmer than it has been in the 15 years I’ve been doing this. As of now, no more than five or six of our players will change clubs by the end of the transfer period,” said Struth, looking ahead to January 31. “It’s still a few days, but it won’t be much anymore. Corona has changed our business significantly.”
Struth criticized national player Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern Munich, who publicly defended his vaccination skepticism in the fall and had resisted the vaccination for a long time before he contracted Corona. “I was already wondering what would have happened if every second Bundesliga player had hired Joshua Kimmich. Then the league could have shut down,” Struth said.
Mainz sports director Heidel “an advocate of compulsory vaccination”
The statements by Christian Heidel, sports director of the Bundesliga club FSV Mainz 05, also show that Struth’s prognosis in terms of vaccination status is already reflected in reality. He announced in December that the club would no longer rely on players to achieve its goals do not want to be vaccinated against the corona virus.
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Transfer fee & market value, i.e. also free transfer transfers, are taken into account in this gallery. The higher number is decisive for the ranking.
As of January 27, 2022
Óscar Rodríguez – Sevilla FC > Getafe FC – market value: €10M
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loan
Anwar El Ghazi – Aston Villa -> Everton – market value: €10M
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loan
Yusuf Demir – Barça -> SK Rapid – market value: €10M
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Loan ended early, contract in Vienna extended until 2024
Marvin Friedrich – Union -> Gladbach – market value: €10m
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fee unknown
Krzysztof Piatek – Hertha BSC -> Fiorentina – market value: €10M
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loan
Borja Mayoral – Roma -> Getafe – market value: €10M
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Loan (also from Roma only on loan from Real Madrid)
Gonzalo Villar – Roma -> Getafe – market value: €10M
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loan
Kacper Kozlowski – Brighton* -> Union SG – market value: €10M
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loan
*Went from Pogon Stettin to Brighton for €11m, then moved to Belgium on loan to Union SG until the end of the season
Paul Bernardoni – Angers -> St Etienne – market value: €10M
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loan
Daryl Dike – Orlando -> West Brom – market value: €10M
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Transfer fee: €8.6 million
Jens Cajuste – Midtjylland -> Reims – fee: €10M
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Market value: €5 million
Diego Valdés – Santos Laguna -> America – fee: €10.6M
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Market value: €6 million
Kacper Kozlowski – Pogon Stettin -> Brighton* – fee: €11M
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Market value: €10 million
Went from Pogon Stettin to Brighton for €11m and then went on loan to Union SG in Belgium until the end of the season
Vanderson – Gremio -> AS Monaco – fee: €11M
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Market value: €8.5 million
Rafinha – PSG -> Real Sociedad – market value: €12M
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loan
Ainsley Maitland-Niles – Arsenal -> AS Roma – market value: €12M
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Rental fee: €500,000
Cedric Bakambu – BJ Guoan -> Ol. Marseille – market value: €12M
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Free transfer
Nathan Patterson – Rangers -> Everton – fee: €14M
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Market value: €3 million
Yusuf Yazici – LOSC Lille -> CSKA Moscow – market value: €15M
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loan
Sérgio Oliveira – Proto -> AS Roma – market value: €15M
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loan
Ricardo Pepi – Dallas -> FC Augsburg – fee: €16.4M
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Market value: €8 million
Amad Diallo – Man United -> Glasgow Rangers – market value: €18M
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loan
Philippe Coutinho – Barcelona -> Aston Villa – market value: €18m
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loan
Kieran Trippier – Atlético -> Newcastle – market value: €18M
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Transfer fee: €15 million
Jérémie Boga – US Sassuolo -> Atalanta – market value: €20M
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Loan + obligation to buy in the amount of €20m
David Neres – Ajax -> Shakhtar D – market value: €20M
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Transfer fee: €12 million
Tecatito Corona – FC Porto -> FC Sevilla – market value: €22M
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Transfer fee: €3 million
Jonathan Ikoné – LOSC -> Fiorentina – market value: €22M
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Transfer fee: €14 million
Vitaliy Mykolenko – Dynamo Kyiv -> Everton – fee: €23.5M
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Market value: €17 million
Chris Wood – Burnley FC -> Newcastle United – fee: €30M
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Market value: €6 million
Lucas Digne – Everton -> Aston Villa – fee: €30M
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Market value: €30 million
Anthony Martial – Manchester United -> Sevilla FC – market value €32M
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loan
Ferran Torres – Man City -> Barça – fee: €55M
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Market value: €45 million
“The club has decided not to sign unvaccinated players in the future. We’ll do that too. But there are hardly any unvaccinated players in Germany,” Heidel said in an interview with the “Mallorca newspaper“. “At Mainz we now have a vaccination rate of 100 percent.” Vaccination was not prescribed for the current players. “We can’t do that because there is currently no legal basis for compulsory vaccination.”
Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp also said in December that only vaccinated players are eligible as newcomers: “Everything else causes real chaos from an organizational point of view. If you really want to play by the rules, it’s incredibly difficult to do.” Klopp also spoke about possible problems with European Cup games: “If we fly to a country to play international football, then we return and he has to isolate himself.” Liverpool FC will not “build an extra building for unvaccinated players.”
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