Top 5 sales in the 2nd league in winter
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The move from Younes Ebnoutalib (22) to Eintracht Frankfurt is in the clear. The SGE confirmed the transfer of the center forward, who wrote a little football fairy tale at SV Elversberg. For the Saarlanders, it is by far the most expensive sale in the club’s history. Only a few players left the 2nd Bundesliga in the winter for a higher fee than the Frankfurt native. And the Hessians are getting off significantly cheaper than the last major striker transfer in a January transfer window.
Voices on the transfer will follow shortly.
Eintracht is reportedly transferring 8 million euros to Elversberg. With bonuses, the amount should be able to increase to up to 10 million euros. For the Frankfurt team, who have regularly invested large sums in the winter transfer market in recent years, it is the fourth-highest transfer fee paid at the halfway point of the season. Two years ago, the SGE also paid 8 million euros for attacker Jean-Mattéo Bahoya. Last January they set a new winter club record with striker Elye Wahi (26 million euros). Ebnoutalib initially costs less than a third of what the Wahi transfer required (among the Frankfurters’ most expensive winter transfers).
In Elversberg they lose the best goalscorer (12 goals), but are happy about a negotiation success. The SVE can receive the sum with which they were supposed to have entered into the negotiations from the outset. A proposal from Eintracht, which was reportedly received over the Christmas period, was rejected for just 6.5 million euros. Frankfurt stepped up and won the contract before the end of the year.
Elversberg himself had only paid 50,000 euros to regional league team FC Gießen for Ebnoutalib just six months earlier. Now the Frankfurt native is going to the upper house for an amount that is almost 16,000 percent higher. For the 2nd Bundesliga, it is the fourth most expensive winter export in league history. The most expensive sale that Elversberg previously recorded was the move of Semih Sahin (25) to 1. FC Kaiserslautern last summer (among SV Elversberg’s most expensive sales).