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Kwasniok starts at FC-rumors about his ex-captain
Updated on June 22nd, 2025 – 9:48 p.m.Reading time: 90 min.
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Lukas Kwasniok will take up his work at 1st FC Köln on Monday. Now “Sky” reports that the former coach of SC Paderborn should be interested in Raphael Obermair. The midfielder, who has already worked with Kwasniok at the SCP, can imagine a change.
However, it is unlikely that FC would be willing to pay a transfer fee in the seven-digit range for a 29-year-old without any Bundesliga experience. It is also not the first rumor about a Paderborn player who could move to Cologne with Kwasniok. In addition, the billy goats to Aaron tenth and Calvin Brackelmann are said to be interested.
After Florian Wirtz’s record transfer to FC Liverpool, 1st FC Köln is expecting a discharge. The billy goats earn on the transfer fee that Bayer Leverkusen receives. The FC collects at least two million euros as a training association. Those responsible at the Geißbockheim check whether the Cologne is more entitled to even more.
FIFA generally speaks five percent of a transfer fee of a player’s training club. Because Liverpool pays a base loss of around 130 million euros in Leverkusen, it is about 6.5 million euros. The FIFA must now decide how high the Cologne part is according to a defined distribution key. But it is already clear: around two million euros are safe from FC.
According to Sky, 1st FC Köln is facing Tom Krauss. The midfielder of FSV Mainz 05, most recently awarded to VfL Bochum, has been associated with the billy goats for weeks. As the TV station reports, only last details should be clarified.
The Mainz sports director Christian Heidel, in turn, told the “Bild” newspaper regarding Krauss: “There was a short phone call with Thomas Kessler, who informed us of the FC’s interest. I approved the desired contact with Tom. We will see everything else.” In the room there is a loan including the obligation to purchase in the event of Cologne class.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Does the 1. FC Köln work on a transfer from Robin Fellhauer? According to “Reviersport”, there is said to have been a conversation between the captain of SV Elversberg and FC sports director Thomas Kessler on Thursday. Fellhauer can be bought by the exit clause from his contract, which is still running until 2027, and SV Werder Bremen is also considered interested.
The “kicker” chose the 27-year-old a few days ago as the best defensive midfielder of the past second division season. Fellhauer was just ahead of Fortuna Düsseldorf’s Isak Johannesson, whose move to Cologne is already fixed, and FC professional Eric Martel.
Bakatukanda stays loan in Linz – Potocnik
Elias Bakatukanda will also play on loan for the Austrian Bundesliga club Blau-Weiß Linz in the coming season. “We are pleased that Elias can continue his development,” said FC sports director Thomas Kessler about the defense talent. In January, Bakatukanda initially extended his contract in Cologne and was then awarded to Linz for the second half of the season.
Jaka Cuber Potocnik is supposed to go a similar way, the development of which was slowed down by the transfer lock. “With him and his representatives of the interests, we are intensively in exchange and see that we can lend him to a club where he can play higher than in the regional league,” says Kessler about the Slovenian striker, who was recently hunting for the U21 of the FC.