Transfer ticker
Goal scorer shortly before switch to Bundesliga club
Updated on July 18, 2025 – 12:38 p.m.Reading time: 12 min.
In the clubs, the planning for the coming season is in full swing. 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 then extends from July 1st to September 1st.
At the beginning of the week, Gladbach’s top striker in recent years, Alassane Pléa, has left the club and joins PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands). But that’s not all: striker Tomáš Čvančara, who never started in two Bundesliga years, wants to leave Borussia. According to reports, the Czech will switch to the Turkish first division club Antalyaspor.
But it is clear that Čvančara only gets the green light when everything is clear with a successor. There is the “eleven of the Lower Rhine” on the best way, as “transfer market” and “Sky” unanimously report, Haris Tabaković from TSG Hoffenheim is immediately faced with Borussia Mönchengladbach. According to this, Borussia Tabaković will borrow from the TSG, the medical check will take place on Friday.
Tabaković recently only scored three times in his first Bundesliga season. Before that, he played an outstanding second division season with 28 scorer points. Gladbach will be dependent on Tabaković in the near future, after all, regular and DFB striker Tim Kleindienst (meniscus surgery) will fail until at least November.
Bayer Leverkusen also accompanies the debate about a possible departure from veteran Granit Xhaka to the training camp in Brazil. Bayer sports director Simon Rolfes now confirmed that Brazilian journalists only want to let the 32-year-old go with a high offer.
“Granite is a very important player for us, for the club and for the team. Our main interest is to keep it,” said Rolfes. “Sure, there is interest in him, we have to speak to the player to know what his ambitions are. But it is clear: there would only be a transfer in a win-win situation.”
According to media reports, Bayer should request around 20 million euros for the midfielder, whose market value is around twelve million euros. Among other things, the English Premier League club AFC Sunderland is said to be interested in Xhaka. Xhaka’s contract in Leverkusen runs until summer 2028.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
FC Liverpool has probably made a first offer for the striker of Eintracht Frankfurt, Hugo Ekitiké. The always well -informed transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano reports. Accordingly, the Eintracht had already told the Premier League club that it offered more than Liverpool in the first offer.
As “Transfer market” writes, the attacker has already agreed on a six -year contract with the “Reds”. Accordingly, Ekitiké absolutely wants to switch to the Premier League to Liverpool.
With 19 goals and ten templates in 47 Bundesliga games, the striker has a very decent quota. Frankfurt was already responding to a possible Ekitiké exit with the commitment of Jonathan Burkhardt (FSV Mainz 05).