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Erling Haaland is courted by Real Madrid
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Haaland should move to Spain
Borussia Dortmund's managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke had recently announced that he would like to see the future of storm superstar Erling Haaland not clarified until March or April.
The rumors of change from Spain about the Norwegian, who has scored 13 goals in eleven Bundesliga games this season, are now being re-fueled: As the Madrid sports newspaper AS reported, Haaland is said to have chatted to fans on Christmas vacation on the Costa del Sol, upcoming ones Wanting to play in La Liga this season.
The paper is close to record champions Real Madrid - an interest of the “royal”, as Watzke said last, is “guaranteed”.
Augsburg wants to make Pepi a record transfer
The 18-year-old American Ricardo Pepi was one of the climbers in Major League Soccer in 2021. The center forward, who scored 13 goals in 31 games for FC Dallas, is trusted to step into Europe - there is even said to have been interest from top clubs such as FC Bayern Munich, most recently VfL Wolfsburg was the favorite to sign Pepi.
Now, however, the Wolfsburg should be left behind against another Bundesliga club: According to matching media reports, the seven-time US international is about to move to FC Augsburg.
There Pepi is supposed to do the medical check on Sunday and then sign a five-year contract.
Transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, who first reported on the deal, shared a photo from Pepis on Twitter that is said to show the striker late Saturday before he left for Europe.
According to Romano, Pepi will cost $ 20 million - the equivalent of around 17.5 million euros.
This would make Pepi the new Augsburg record transfer: So far, nobody has been more expensive than Martin Hinteregger, who moved from RB Salzburg to FCA for the 2016/2017 season for 10.5 million euros.
FC Augsburg has good connections in the USA.
In spring 2021, the company "Bolt Football Holdings" acquired 45 percent of the shares in FC Augsburg 1907 GmbH & Co. KGaA from US investor David S. Blitzer.
Manager Stefan Reuter is also well known to US national coach Gregg Berhalter, whom Reuter brought to TSV 1860 Munich as an active professional in 2006.
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Teuchert returns to Hanover
Second division soccer team Hannover 96 has presented striker Cedric Teuchert as the first winter entry.
The 24-year-old is moving from Bundesliga club Union Berlin to Lower Saxony and signed a contract until 2024.
Teuchert already played as a loan player for the Hanoverians in the 2019/2020 season, then he joined Union.
After a year and a half, the return follows.
“I'm really happy it worked and I'm back.
When the option arose to play for 96 again, it was clear to me that I really wanted to do it, ”said Teuchert.
FC Ingolstadt is pushing ahead with renovation
The bottom of the table, FC Ingolstadt 04, is also pushing ahead with restructuring its squad at the beginning of the year for the necessary catch-up in the 2nd Bundesliga.
The Schanzer will give attacker Justin Butler to Waldhof Mannheim until the end of the season.
The 20-year-old should collect match practice with the third division, as the Ingolstadt team announced on Sunday at the start of training in 2022.
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