When Hoffenheim football team was training at Namanga training camp in Spain, Hoffenheim Club was also stepping up its search for players to supplement the team's strength.

The most urgent position is the left back. The most unreliable part on the back line is the left back.

Now that the goalkeeper is Hildebrand, the left-back has not found a suitable candidate. Ibertsberger has gradually failed to keep up with the team's requirements. He has shown fatal mistakes in many games. Although Chu Zhongtian's main task is to organize the offense, he is still a good player in defense. Why did Hoffenheim lose a lot of goals after he came to Hoffenheim? That's because he can't take care of the entire second half alone, defense is never the job of a person, and requires coordination. He performs well, and if his teammates are not good, there will always be omissions. Moreover, sometimes personal mistakes cannot be made up with tactics, which is really impossible to imagine, and it is hard to defend.

Rangnik has been considering finding a suitable person to replace Ibertsberger, and the position suitable for this Austrian is still the bench.

But there are too few good left-backs in the world football world now, and you can look down on others, and you may not be able to look down on you when you go.

On the list of Rangnick's to Sendelmaize, there are several left-back names. Rangnick means that he will be satisfied if he can buy one of these people.

Left-back Moretti (emiliano_moretti) who plays for Valencia is the object of interest to Rangnik, but this is very difficult. Moretti has lived happily in Valencia and is the team's absolute main left-back. Valencia cannot let him go. Although Valencia is in a financial crisis now, they have two more valuable players, Villa and Silva. It is obviously much more cost-effective to sell them than to sell Moretti.

Moretti himself may not be willing to give up Valencia's life and come to Germany with him.

La Coruña's left-back, Brazilian filipe, has performed very well this season and is said to have aroused the interest of Barcelona and Juventus. But this is a left-back who is good at offense. What Rangnick wants is a defensive left-back. Left-back like Felipe is not what the team needs very much. So he ranks last on the shortlist.

Stephen Warnock, who played for Blackburn, was also an option. He was once an outstanding product of Liverpool's youth training camp, but because he had never had a better opportunity at Liverpool, he eventually transferred to Blackburn. In Blackburn, he was a well-deserved main player and was selected for the English team. However, few English players could perform well in other leagues, so whether he could adapt to the Bundesliga and Hoffenheim would have to play a big question mark.

In addition, don't think about those well-known left-backs. They will not give up their careers in a wealthy family and choose to come to a rural team. Unless Hoffenheim can win this season's league championship and qualify for the UEFA Champions League next season, they will have the capital to recruit those well-known stars.

With Hoffenheim's current situation, it is suitable for those mid-range players who are not very famous but not top but not good at it.

Finally, after negotiations and negotiations, and contact with the players themselves, Hoffenheim finalized their second transfer for this winter break on January 10th.

Emmanuel Pogatetz, the double captain of the Austrian national team and Middlesbrough, joined the Bundesliga upstart Hoffenheim for 5 million euros.

Middlesbrough's performance this season was amazing at the beginning. Their coach Gareth_southagte even won the Premier League's best coach of the month. But then the team's performance began to decline. They had already lost eight rounds before January. The team also slipped into the relegation zone. Although Middlesbrough's goal is to relegate every season, it seems they are coming this time... Middlesbrough clubs seemed a little indifferent to this situation. They did not spend money to buy players with strength to enhance the team's strength. Instead, they sold the team's captain after the winter transfer window opened. The price of 5 million euros was not difficult to refuse, but they still sold Pogattz, which made the team's head coach Southgate very angry.

After the transfer was confirmed, Pogattz said in an interview that he was reluctant to leave Mibor, but he was very happy to be able to return to the Bundesliga. In fact, Pogattz has realized that there is no future for staying in Middlesbrough, and Hoffenheim, as a new Bundesliga this season, has been in the limelight recently. Transferring to this club is obviously a smart choice. Some media said that Hoffenheim's goal is a league championship, but even if this team did not win the championship in the end, it will definitely be ranked higher than Middlesbrough, and maybe they can still qualify for European competitions.

Pogattz is a versatile player on the back line, who can play both a central defender and a left back. Rangnick bought him mainly to play a left back, and he can also reach the middle when necessary.

Speaking of which, Pogattz is really destined to be with German football. He was once a talented player in Austria and was bought by Leverkusen. However, he never played for Leverkusen's first team in one game. He was repeatedly loaned for four years. In the end, he was sold to Middlesbrough by Leverkusen for two million euros.

In Middlesbrough, he quickly became the main player and gradually became the captain of the team. He was 1.88 meters tall, but had good speed. He had fierce defense and excellent body. He was like a fish in the Premier League, which focused on physical contact and fierce competition. Because his defense was very fierce and he especially liked flying tackles, he was once angrily criticized by Manchester United coach Ferguson as a "black foot" because he maliciously shoveled Manchester United young player Possebon to a serious injury in the League Cup in September 2007. At that time, he was revealed by the English media that Pogattz was an absolute "butcher" before transferring to Middlesbrough. At that time, he made similar moves to Possebon. Because he looked like Inter Milan, he was also called "Matrazi of Austria".

His fierce defense is exactly what Rangnick needs. Hoffenheim's defense lacks some sophistication and ruthlessness, and Pogattz's arrival can increase these things. Of course, his temper is a little hot, which is what Rangnick needs to control.

After the physical examination and signing the transfer contract, Pogattz went directly to Namanga, Spain, and met with the team. Chu Zhongtian, Per Nilsson, and Selim Tebert, as usual, introduced the new teammate to everyone, and also introduced the team to Pogattz.

Pogattz is the captain in Millsburg, but when he arrives at Hoffenheim, he is just an ordinary player.

※※※Porgattz's joining can improve the team's left-wing defense, and Ibertsberger can only play a substitute for his national team captain.

The main player of the right back is Baker, and the substitute is Christopher Yanker (christoph_janker), but Yanker is not satisfied with the lack of opportunities to play and hopes to leave the team and find another place. If he really leaves, Rangnick will find a way to find a substitute for Baker.

In terms of central defenders, Comper is a well-deserved main player. Nilsson was very stable at the beginning of the season, but later Jaisler performed better and better. In addition, Garner's young central defender Isaac_vorsah was also in his twenties. As a central defender, Rangnick also wanted to find an experienced central defender. Except for Nilsson, these people are only in their early twenties. As a central defender, they are really young.

This time, Rangnick fell in love with Croatian central defender Simunic who played for Hertha Berlin. Simunic, a central defender who was born in Australia but played for the Croatian national team, is Hertha Berlin's main central defender. He performed well in the first half of this season. Hertha Berlin's ranking third is inseparable from his outstanding performance.

Simonic, who is 31 years old, has a low speed, but has a great sense of position and awareness, and can always appear in key areas of defense. Rangnick values ​​his ability and rich experience, and hopes that his arrival can add stability to the team's defense.

However, the difficulty of this transfer transaction seems too great now... Simonic is Hertha Berlin's main central defender. The team needs him and he also likes Hertha Berlin. He has played for this team for nine seasons, won countless praises, and is also a hero in the minds of Berlin fans. On the one hand, Simonic has a deep relationship with the club, and on the other hand, the team also needs him. If you have to say that there are any loopholes to exploit and what to use, it is that Simonic and head coach Favre are not very harmonious. Favre once let Simonic play in the second round of the league this season.

By substitute, this is the first time that Croatian central defender has played as a substitute since October 22, 2005. Although Favre later explained that it was because Simunic had just played for Croatia and was in poor physical condition, Simunic firmly opposed this statement because his central defender partner Fredrich (ame_friedrich) expressed his poor physical fitness before the game, but he still started. What made Simunic and his teammates even more dissatisfied was Favre's direct central defender Kaka (kaka, this Kaka is not the Kaka from AC Milan).

Because of this, there was a rift between Simonic and Favre. If Simonic really wanted to leave Hertha Berlin, it could only be because of this reason. But from the current perspective, the relationship between the two has not been so stale that Simonic left Hertha Berlin. What's more, Favre soon realized that his team could not lack the "three yellow cards before leaving" (During the World Cup in Germany, in the matches between Croatia and Australia, Simonic received three yellow cards before being sent off, and the person who set this record with him was the famous English referee Boer). Simonic started every game and performed well, and the team's performance also rose step by step. Currently, he ranks third in the league, second only to Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim Club tried to contact Hertha Club in Berlin, and the reply was "Simunich will not be sold".

This matter was temporarily put on hold. Since the other party does not want to sell it, Hope does not want to be a villain, so if the other party does not sell it, he won't buy it. However, they will continue to pay attention to Simonic and win it once there is a chance.

※※※While busy looking for people to introduce them everywhere, Hoffenheim's players were also poached by other clubs.

Because the performance in the first half of the season was so outstanding, Hoffenheim's entire team attracted the attention of the whole of Europe.

The most dazzling one among them is naturally the scorer Ibisevic who scored twenty goals.

In fact, Ibissevic was not famous when he came to Hoffenheim. When he played for Metz before, he scored key goals in the French Cup, helping the team win the French Cup and also scored goals in the League Cup. Last season, he scored twenty-five goals in Metz's various competitions, which aroused the interest of many teams. In the end, Hoffenheim got him for 10 million euros.

But now Ibisevic is not just a matter of attracting attention. He is emitting a dazzling light all over his body. Even if you don’t want to pay attention to him - you can’t ignore him at all.

Many mid-season teams are interested in him. Now there are all giant teams that have been reported to him: Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Manchester United... The temptation from giant teams is difficult to resist, but Ibissevic announced in an interview with reporters in Spain that he would continue to stay in the team.

"My contract with the team is four years. I just transferred here. How could I leave? I can't say what's going to be too far, but I will definitely stay with the team next season. I like Hoffenheim, I'm very happy here, I can't think of why I'm going to take risks in those teams... Although the invitation from those big teams made me happy, because it means that my ability has been recognized, it's always a good thing."

Ibisevic just clarified the transfer rumors, and Demba Ba had an affair with Stuttgart again. But judging from media reports, this seems more like a pity.

In addition, there are all kinds of rumors about players such as Salihovic, Eduardo, Weiss, Baker...

As the captain of the team, Chu Zhongtian has no less transfer rumors around him than other players. Although he has just joined Hoffenheim for half a season like Ibissevic, Hoffenheim has performed so crazy that all the directors on the court are him. Fans like to watch the excitement and think that players with more goals are the most valuable. But experts can tell at a glance that only Chu Zhongtian is indispensable for this team. In the past, those who can score goals in football today

There are many forwards, and there are many midfielders who can pass the ball, but there are too few players who can score goals, assist and lead the team to fight without stopping. There are too few players who are good at controlling the rhythm of the game and defending well... Bayern Munich's general manager Heness praised Chu Zhongtian, believing that he is Hoffenheim's most threatening player and Hoffenheim's number one star. Then some media revealed that Hoffenheim received a price question from Bayern Munich, and they wanted to buy Chu Zhongtian!

Of course, Hoffenheim Club cannot sell its team's captain and absolute core. So the deal ends here without any follow-up stories.

As for the rest, whether it is Manchester United, Inter Milan, or Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​AC Milan... all of them were clarified by Hoffenheim: "We have not received the offer from these clubs. In fact, even if we receive it, we will not sell it. Chu is our treasure, and it is absolutely non-selling!"

This is what the club general manager Rothouse said.

Hope then expressed his opinion on Chu Zhongtian's transfer rumors: "We will not sell any players. Hoffenheim does not need to sell players for money."

Hope said this with confidence. Hoffenheim really doesn’t need to sell players to make money. This is an important difference between them and the team Metz whom Chu Zhongtian played for before. This is also one of the reasons why Chu Zhongtian favors them - it doesn’t need to sell players to make money, which means that the financial stability is. Modern football is a game of money. Don’t talk about anything without money. With money, you may not be able to become a champion, but with money, it lays a solid foundation for success.

※※※ Someone comes and some people leave.

Because Hoffenheim is a newly promoted team, there are inevitably many traces of low-level leagues in the team. For example, some players once followed the team to conquer the world, but after being promoted to the top league, they did not get a chance to play due to their own strength. Some of these people took the initiative to leave, while some were given up by the club.

Francisco Copado, a witness of the team's three-level jump for two years, is such a person. In the summer of 2006, he transferred from Frankfurt to Hoffenheim, who was still playing in the Southern German League at the time, at that time. He played for Hoffenheim for a total of 66 times and scored 25 goals. He is 34 years old this year, and cannot meet the team's requirements in all aspects, so he voluntarily proposed to terminate the contract to the team, so he would return to Ontehashen, who had played for five years, as a libero. The team is now in the regional league.

On January 24, the team's new stadium, Rhine Neka Stadium, was officially opened. Hoffenheim will play an opening game here. At that time, this game will also be a farewell match for Copado, allowing him to say goodbye to the fans on site.

Another 29-year-old left-back Lloyf (zsolt_low) hopes to leave the club and find another place because he only played one game in half a season. The club has agreed to his request.

The 32-year-old veteran Jochen_seitz also plans to leave in the winter. His contract will expire at the end of the season. The club has no intention of renewing his contract. Although Seitz has just passed the coaching qualification certificate, Hoffenheim has not planned to give him a job in a coaching position. In fact, as early as last summer, Rangnick agreed to Seitz's transfer application. He knew that it would be difficult for him to play in this newly promoted team, so it would be better to leave. It was just that there was no suitable place at that time, so he stayed temporarily.

In addition, Baker's substitute Yankel also wanted to transfer and leave because of his few appearances.

In addition, the team's young goalkeeper Thorsten_kirschbaum also plans to leave the team and go to a team that can give him a chance to play. He knows that with Hildebran joining, he has no future at Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim has become the winter champion of the Bundesliga season and is currently attracting much attention. Among the teams are the Bundesliga scorer leader Ibissevic, and the Bundesliga transfer bidder Chu Zhongtian this season. However, these glory has nothing to do with them, such as the marginal figures. Glory belongs to the club and those big-name players, and they have to work hard to survive.
Chapter completed!