New opportunities through departures?
According to reports, FC Schalke 04 will not exercise the purchase option for Ko Itakura (25) and will therefore not take the Japanese central defender to the Bundesliga for purely financial reasons. “Sport1” reporter Patrick Berger wrote on Monday evening that the decision to loan Manchester City had been made.
Reports from “Ruhrnachrichten” and “Bild” had already got the S04 supporters in the mood that the national player (four goals), who had been used 31 times in the promotion season, would not continue. The deadline for the Royal Blues’ option is said to end on Tuesday, May 31. The transfer fee agreed with Man City is £5 million, around EUR 6 million. SC Freiburg and Eintracht Frankfurt are also considered to be interested in a commitment.
If you don’t sign Itakura, you have to find a player for less than 5mio… with similar quality. I don’t think 5 million for a player who is capable of the BuLi level is necessarily an exorbitant price. What IV would otherwise be available for the price?
Yes, with Itakura you have to invest 5 million, but you know what you’re getting. This is often the problem when you sign loan players for the first 11… the budget problem is usually only postponed by one…
Schalke already have to shell out a sum of several million euros for the purchase obligations that have come into force for Thomas Ouwejan (25), Rodrigo Zalazar (22) and Marvin Pieringer (22) (for all fixed Schalke transfers for the new season). Income is still waving through possible sales, for example of the loan players Amine Harit (24), Can Bozdogan (21) or Rabbi Matondo (21, Schalke’s loaned players in the overview). Once new funds are generated through departures, Itakura’s services are unlikely to become cheaper in later negotiations with Man City.
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These top transfers are already fixed for the 2022/23 Bundesliga season
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Transfer fee and market value, including free transfers, are taken into account in this gallery. The higher number is decisive for the ranking.
(as of May 28, 2022)
Maxim Leitsch – VfL Bochum -> Mainz 05 – market value: €5m
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Transfer fee: €3 million
Arne Maier – Hertha BSC -> FC Augsburg – fee: €5m
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Market value: €5m – after loan
Jamie Leweling – Greuther Fürth -> Union Berlin – market value: €5.5m
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Transfer fee: €4 million
Grischa Prömel – Union Berlin -> TSG Hoffenheim – market value: €5.5M
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Free transfer
Dominik Kohr – Eintracht Frankfurt -> Mainz 05 – market value: €6m
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Transfer fee: €3m – after loan
Anthony Caci – Racing Strasbourg -> Mainz 05 – market value: €6m
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Free transfer
Salih Özcan – 1. FC Köln -> BVB – market value: €7M
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Transfer fee: €5 million
Amos Pieper – Poor. Bielefeld -> Werder Bremen – market value: €7m
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Free transfer
Niklas Stark – Hertha BSC -> Werder Bremen – market value: €7.5M
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Free transfer
Patrick Wimmer – Arminia -> VfL Wolfsburg – market value: €8M
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Transfer fee: €4.1 million
Jakub Kaminski – Lech Poznan -> VfL Wolfsburg – market value: €10M
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Transfer fee: €10 million
Jens Petter Hauge – AC Milan -> Eintracht Frankfurt – fee: €12M
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Market value: €8 million – was already on loan
John Anthony Brooks – leaves VfL Wolfsburg – market value: €12m
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Free transfer
Randal Kolo Muani – Nantes -> Eintracht Frankfurt – market value: €15M
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Free transfer
Jeremiah St. Juste – Mainz -> Sporting – market value: €16M
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Transfer fee: €10 million
Florian Grillitsch – leaves Hoffenheim – market value: €16m
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Free transfer
Hee-chan Hwang – RB Leipzig -> Wolves – fee: €16.7M
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Market value: €13m – after loan
Noussair Mazraoui – Ajax -> FC Bayern – market value: €20M
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Free transfer
Matthias Ginter – Gladbach -> SC Freiburg – market value: €24M
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Free transfer
Nico Schlotterbeck – Freiburg -> BVB – market value: €28m
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Transfer fee: €20 million
Niklas Süle – FC Bayern -> BVB – market value: €35m
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Free transfer
Karim Adeyemi – RB Salzburg -> BVB – market value: €35m
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Transfer fee: €30 million
Erling Haaland – BVB -> Man City – market value: €150m
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Transfer fee: €75 million
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