Hamburg hires new GM: Dietmar Beiersdorfer (former player in Bremen and Hamburg). Holger Hieronymus will probably be fired next week.
Back at 1860: no 15 Holger Greilich returned from Cyprus. He already had agreed on a contract, but didn't sign. Hansa Rostock found a main sponsor. Vita Cola is paying 2M for each of the next two seasons.
New in Berlin, probably no: 15 NENE - D - Brazil - 1975 - Corinthians, Gremio Porto Alegre - 0/0 New in Rostock: ?? Michal KOVAR - M - Czech Rep - 1973 - Sigma Olomouc, SSV Reutlingen - 0/0 New in Bielefeld: 7 Du-Ri CHA - F - South Korea - 1980 - / - 0/0 - South Korea 15
Last minute sponsor for Bochum: DWS-Investment pays 2.5 M for one season. Now Bremen is the only team without main sponsor.
Kovar (two posts above) got no 3 in Rostock. No 10 of Bayern Munich, Ciriaco Sforza, now is no 13 in Kaiserslautern. I had some mistakes in KL's roster: Riedl is no 23 (not 13) and Adzic is 27 (not 23).
The seemingly perfect transfer of Stephen Famewo from Frankfurt to Stuttgart (no 23) failed as Stuttgart couldn't afford to pay the 150 K transfer sum. As now their main sponsor debitel is thinking about quiting the sponsorship, GM Rolf Rüssmann tries to do everything to avoid insolvency. New in Hannover (don't know the number yet, probably 12): Gerhard TREMMEL - G - Germany - 1979 - SpVgg Unterhaching - 39/0
New in Schalke: 4 Dario RODRIGUEZ - D/M - Uruguay - 1974 - Toluca, Bella Vista and Penarol Montevideo - 0/0 - Uruguay 24
New in Wolfsburg, probably no 10 (basically Wolfsburg wanted to leave the number unoccupied in honor of Krysztof Nowak who is sitting in a wheelchair due to a nerve disease - but he set the number free in the hope that Effenberg brings Wolfsburg ahead with this jersey): Stefan EFFENBERG - M - Germany - 1968 - AC Florence, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich - 351/68 - Germany 35
New players: Bielefeld (probably no 2) Torjus HANSEN - D - Norway - 1973 - Lillestrom SK - 0/0 Schalke 10 Gustavo VARELA - M - Uruguay - 1978 - Nacional Montevideo - 0/0 - Uruguay 10
New in Mönchengladbach (no 17 ??) Morten SKOUBO - F - Denmark - 1980 - FC Midjytland - 0/0 - Denmark 1
Now also the last team found a main sponsor. Werder signed a two years contract with shoe producer Reno (on the jersey you'll find 'Spirit' or 'Young Spirit'). The contract is depending on success and with an average season they are earning 2.5 to 3 M.
Kaiserslautern's chairman (= kind of GM as they didn't hire someone for this task) will be fired soon. Successor from the middle of September on is Rene C. Jäggi, currently President of FC Basel.
Cottbus: 32 Gregg BERHALTER - D - USA - 1973 - FC Zwolle, Sparta Rotterdam, Cambuur Leuwarden, Crystal Palace - 0/0 - USA 29 Bremen: ?? Johan MICOUD - D - FRA - 1973 - Girondins Bordeaux, AS Cannes, AC Parma - 0/0 - France 15 Berlin: ?? Nando RAFAEL - F - ANG - 1984 - Ajax Amsterdam - 0/0 M'gladbach: 16 Berthil ter Avest returned to the Netherlands GERMAN TRANSFER LIST CLOSES MONDAY, 12 PM. DFL ESTABLISHED AN EXCEPTION RULE THAT PRO'S WHO WERE UNEMPLOYED ON JULY 1ST (AND STILL ARE) CAN STILL BE SIGNED
BREMEN Johan Micoud gets no 10 and is of course midfielder (and not defender as I wrote). WOLFSBURG 2 Michael MADSEN leaves to Farum BK/Denmark HERTHA/HANNOVER Hertha's 5 Kostas KONSTANTINIDIS is new in Hannover. DORTMUND/HANNOVER Dortmund's 16, Fredi BOBIC is also new in Hannover HERTHA Nando Rafael gets no 24. Expect some more transfers later today.
WOLFSBURG 16 Plassnegger and 20 Ifejiagwa were both loaned to Mannheim MÖNCHENGLADBACH 13 Auer was sold to Mainz HANNOVER Three Spaniards were signed: Jose Manuel, Fernando Sanchez Cipitria and Jaime Fernando - more about it later.