its a bargain for that price for sure and its nice to see such a big player joining hertha
time for us to get into el soon

salomon kalou from lille? holy shit that is a nice pick up, i'm jelly even though we have okazaki...

Finally signed Patrick Bamford from Chelsea!

Karanka says that he is after 1-2 more, and possibly a major surprise! Jelle Vossen maybe? We seem to have acted smart in the window, so might be a big signing, not sure about a striker though... We really need more CB's over everything as most of ours are out injured a lot.

Kike seems to be hitting it off a treat here. Nsue isn't anything special but seems to actually have some decent potential about him, and Damia Abella... Not so sure about him yet, neither positive nor negative thoughts, (Probably why we got Ryan Fredericks from Spurs yesterday...)

FT 2-0!

Goals from Croizet and Samé secure the victory, very good game by my boys, so far 12/12 and the season is looking good

we can grab the lead of the 2nd bundesliga tomorrow by winning a "small" "derby" against those swabians

looks like mainz did some last minute signings:

definitely:
jairo from sevilla -> not sure about him dunno if any good.

almost definitely:
wollscheid from leverkusen on loan -> would be great
hoffmann from dortmund on loan -> would be awesome

quite likely:
allagui from hertha -> don't think we need him back

Those loans would be great. I tought Wollscheid played enough for Leverkussen, but I guess not.

allagui had 2 good seasons but we got 2 good strikers and 2-3 rms right now
is the allagui deal a loan?

nah it's supposed to be a buy according to what i read...
i'm really not too happy if it happens though. he was good for you that's true but for us he was never consistant or really good and we have okazaki now and just signed this jairo guy so i'm not sure we really need him. just don't wanna see us going down the road of signing a bunch of mediocre players each season and basically get stuck developing our team that way...



those loans would be MASSIVE for us and quite honestly players i'd never expected we could get.

levekusen has some great cb options (toprak is extremely good, spahic very solid and they just signed papadopoulos from schalke too, also reinartz can play that position)...
seems to be no place atm for wollscheid which is a shame, was a huge fan of him at nürnberg, i honestly thought he'd become the next great young centreback for germany but so far he wasn't able to make that last step it seems.

Jairo was considered a wonderkid when he played for Racing 2 years ago. Then he moved to Sevilla where he didn't play or do much... this loan might be good for him, maybe if he gets playtime he'll be able to develop the potential he seemed t have at Racing.