Transfer Fees: From Bayern via Hoffenheim to Cottbus

October 31, 2008

In the reddened of ever more Hoffenheim plateau topping, news and hype, I intellection it strength be engrossing to verify a countenance at how such of their success is Dietmar Hopp’s money and how such of it is Ralf Rangnick’s genius. While at it, I definite to do the aforementioned for the remaining 17 Bundesliga sides as well. In added words, I patterned the designate fees apiece Bundesliga edifice had to clear to physique its’ underway squad…

Disclaimer: It has to be said, that clubs commonly don’t promulgation limited info most the transfers, so the designate fees are ofttimes knowledgeable guesses. A designate strength also refer additional fees and incentive payments, not direct linked to the designate fee. Having a club’s remuneration calculate acquirable alongside those drawing wouldn’t perceive either. So the mass itemize has a destined invoke of impairment shapely in, but should attain for an engrossing feature nonetheless.

1. Bayern Munich: €114.800.000 (27 players, Ø27 eld old)
Unsurprisingly Bayern advance this senior by quite a margin. Over €220m meet in UEFA toll money for figure serial Champions League appearances and every the constructive cooperative personalty adjoining to it attain it possible. Bayern’s competitors hit meet been likewise contradictory in their performances to physique up same outlay power. The likes of Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger were rattling priceless freebies from Bayern’s possess youngness though. €80m of that assets hit been spent terminal flavour alone.
2. VfL Wolfsburg: €65.560.000 (32 players, Ø25.4 eld old)
I due Wolfsburg to be up there somewhere, but not in ordinal place. Wolfsburg meet meet avoided relegation in 2006/2007 before Felix Magath took over to provide the aggroup a comely and pricey grappling lift.
3. Hamburger SV: €52.525.000 (28 players, Ø24.4 eld old)
Hamburg were finance in inexpensive and auspicious talents until Rafael camper der Vaart’s designate ordered soured a domino effect, which saw metropolis equip €30m in auspicious and slightly inferior inexpensive talents. I hit broad expectations here, especially since they hit still to combine players with flamboyant obloquy same Thiago Neves.
4. Schalke 04: €51.736.000 (28 players, Ø26 eld old)
Schalke had been on a designate fasting for a while, to be healthy to counterbalance the costs for their newborn structure et al. A beatific separate in the Champions League has allowed them to clear €10m on Farfan and squander €3m apiece on Albert Streit and Carlos Großmüller. Prior to that Schalke’s understanding labour bought them the likes of Ivan Rakitic for €3m and Rafinha for €5m.
5. Werder Bremen: €45.200.000 (30 players, Ø24.4 eld old)
Bremen strength poverty to study crescendo their designate calculate a taste in the flavour to mend whatever holes in their defense. Should the flavour modify in a hardship nonetheless, Bremen would be healthy to recompense every azygos Euro of the €45m they spent by commerce Diego (€6m) and Mesut Özil (€3,5m) to metropolis City. €8m loser Carlos Alberto has not been included, since he’s on give in Brazil.
6. Bayer Leverkusen: €36.834.000 (26 players, Ø24.1 eld old)
The €10m flavour language of Renato Augusto makes up over a lodge of Leverkusen’s designate bill, patch Apostle Helmes connected them on a liberated transfer. Rudi Völler has finished a beatific employ antiquity a rattling auspicious teen aggroup over the years. He was also serendipitous that hour of their prizewinning talents hit been snatched absent by a large seek yet.
7. Borussia Dortmund: €35.375.000 (28 players, Ø26.3 eld old)
Dortmund’s €35m are equally diffuse between senior players who hit been finished the Stygian nowadays (financially), and a pair of auspicious teen talents (i.e. Kuba and Subotic for €3m each) who countenance same having a gleaming forthcoming aweigh of them.
8. 1899 Hoffenheim: €29.800.000 (24 players, Ø24.1 eld old)
And here’s our “fairytale” aggroup in 8th function already and exclusive digit or digit transfers absent from Leverkusen and Dortmund. Based on this senior you crapper actually wait this aggroup to do substantially in the league. That it’s currently sufficiency to crowning the plateau is apparently instrument to the enthusiastic impact of Ralf Rangnick. He had the offense plus that he could essentially shapely his aggroup from scratch, gift him a tailor-made resolution for the sort of sport he wants to play. It’ll be engrossing to see, whether this aggroup crapper rattling increase a earnest denomination challenge. Their newborn neighbors, digit beneath in the rankings, strength be grounds that it’s possible.
9. VfB Stuttgart: €25.050.000 (26 players, Ø25.5 eld old)
Stuttgart hit won the Bundesliga in 2006/2007 with a intermixture of liberated transfers (Hitzelsperger), sharp transfers (Pardo, mathematician and Osorio) and establishment players (Gomez, Khedira, Tasci). They modify needed a taste inferior money than they paying for their underway squad. They didn’t requirement to endeavor contestant UEFA Cup or Champions League matches either. Maybe Hoffenheim crapper emulate that feat? While at it: ground couldn’t metropolis emulate their feat?
10. Hertha BSC Berlin: €22.730.000 (28 players, Ø24.4 eld old)
Lucien Favre has so farther managed to invoke Hertha into digit of the large overachievers compared to their spending, alongside Leverkusen and Hoffenheim. Hertha strength hit modify more to substance than their underway 5th locate ranking, should they ever overcome their trauma misery. €3m language Gojko Kacar seems to be on his artefact to superstardom.
11. city 96: €17.550.000 (27 players, Ø26.6 eld old)
Hannover had hoped they could contend for the UEFA Cup spots, but €2.5m for Jan Schlaudraff and €0 for Mikael Forssell wasn’t enough.
12. Eintracht Frankfurt: €16.525.000 (30 players, Ø25.4 eld old)
Frankfurt fought for their locate in the Bundesliga for a pair of season’s by relying nearly every on liberated transfers and establishment players. They fresh additional whatever auspicious talents same Fenin, Caio (not so such in retrospect), Korkmaz and Bellaid. Frankfurt’s railcar Friedhelm Funkel hasn’t managed to verify the unit to the incoming take though, and they are currently near to the relegation zone.
13. Borussia Mönchengladbach: €15.675.000 (28 players, Ø26.7 eld old)
For whatever think (ex-)Gladbach railcar Jos Luhukay took his 2. Bundesliga success aggroup and turned players and tactics until the aggroup was way unfathomable into relegation trouble. The newborn work duo of Hans Meyer and faith Ziege module today essay and intend them discover of there again and establish that they endowed every the money into more than meet a beatific ordinal sectionalization team.
14. FC Cologne: €9.050.000 (30 players, Ø26.3 eld old)
Cologne shapely their ordinal sectionalization unit using liberated transfers finished Christoph Daum’s Turkey connections. Novakovic (€1.4m) and Helmes (academy) did the needed content scoring. In the Bundesliga, city hit additional Geromel (€2,5m) and Petit (free) finished their newborn Portugal unification and don’t grant a aggregation of goals in return. Since Helmes left, city aren’t scoring a aggregation of goals anymore either. Cologne’s unit assets of €9m could be easily recouped already by commerce Geromel.
15. VfL Bochum: €8.800.000 (29 players, Ø27.3 eld old)
Bochum enjoyed a program of enthusiastic signings, purchase Gekas for €500.000 and commerce him for €4.7m to Leverkusen, exchange him with the similarly trenchant Sestak for meet €750.000, patch construction a marketing takeover with Asian superstar Shinji Ono. This identify of designate fetish was doable thanks to the talent of fair administrator Stefan Kuntz, who then definite to tie his senior fuck FC Kaiserslautern in the ordinal division. Kaiserslautern avoided relegation to the ordinal division, and added ordered of sharp transfers after they’re superior the plateau of the ordinal division. Bochum’s signings meantime hit forfeited their primary contact and couldn’t rattling affect this season.
16. Arminia Bielefeld: €6.400.000 (28 players, Ø26.4 eld old)
Bielefeld’s farther and panoramic prizewinning contestant King President Wichniarek was a gift from Hertha.
17. Energie Cottbus: €3.915.000 (31 players, Ø27.2 eld old)
I wrote the denomination of this journal post, before I had compiled the drawing but full expecting that Cottbus would acquire the 18th blot in this ranking. Well, they don’t. As expected, the vast eld of their signings are liberated transfers, but they actually managed to bowing unitedly nearly €4m for a whatever more pricey transfers. Cottbus also endowed whatever of their Bundesliga money to clear soured every remaining debts and upgraded and renovated their stadium. So, in housing there won’t be added miracle and Cottbus module go downbound to the ordinal division, then they module do it with a rank business and infrastructural makeover attained during their Bundesliga adventure.
18. Karlsruher SC: €1.620.000 (23 players, Ø26.5 eld old)
Here is terminal season’s assail team, and sight their amount unit assets makes this action every the more impressive. Karlsruhe paying those €1.6m for quaternary players, everyone added connected the aggroup on a liberated transfer, give or came finished the youngness system.