Schalke
Wolves, Newcastle and Bees interested in signing 20-year-old international striker – report
Wolverhampton Wanderers, Newcastle United and Brentford are interested in signing Schalke striker Matthew Hoppe, Football Insider reports. The United States international is likely to leave the German outfit this summer after they were relegated to the second tier after three decades. His agents are reportedly travelling to the UK. Wolves, Newcastle and Brentford are among the clubs vying to land his signature before the deadline. The trio are keen on pursuing a new centre-forward this month. Hoppe could be available on a cut-price deal with Schalke’s financial concerns. Sportslens view: Hoppe only made his first-team debut for Schalke in November 2020. He showed plenty of promise with six goals from 22 Bundesliga games last term. He has since become an international with United States. He...
Tottenham reportedly have made contact to sign in-demand Barcelona target
Tottenham Hotspur have reportedly made an approach to sign Schalke striker Matthew Hoppe in the summer transfer window. According to reports from Spanish publication AS, La Liga giants Barcelona and Dutch outfit Ajax are also interested in signing the 20-year-old striker. However, Spurs appear to be leading the race for his signature. The north London club have already approached Schalke and have made contact about the availability of the striker. This has been a disastrous campaign for Schalke who find themselves at the bottom of the Bundesliga League table. After making his debut in November, he has been simply brilliant for the German club. He has scored five goals in 13 league starts and looks set to finish the season as the club’s top scorer. It also gives an indication of h...
Liverpool complete loan deal for Schalke defender
Liverpool have completed the deadline-day signing of Ozan Kabak from Schalke, subject to international clearance. The 20-year-old defender will move to Anfield on loan until the end of the season, with the Reds having the option to make the move permanent in the summer for a fee of £18 million ($25m). Kabak, a Turkey international who moved to Schalke from Stuttgart in 2019, will be the first of two signings on a busy day on Merseyside. He will be joined by Preston centre-back Ben Davies, who finalised his switch earlier on Monday. Goal understands that Liverpool will pay an initial loan fee of around £1m ($1.4m) for Kabak, while the deal for Davies could be worth in excess of £1.6m, should all performance-related add-ons be triggered. The Reds had been insistent that it would be a quiet w...
Shkodran Mustafi joins Schalke from Arsenal
Arsenal’s squad trimming has continued, with Shkodran Mustafi joining Schalke on a deal until the end of the season. Gunners boss Mikel Arteta said prior to the January transfer window that he was keen to trim some flab from his squad. Mesut Ozil has been the highest-profile departure, with the former Germany international joining Fenerbahce and in so doing the club cleared a sizeable chunk of wages from the monthly bill. Sokratis Papastathopoulos joined Olympiakos earlier this month after being released from his contract, William Saliba, Sead Kolasinac and Matt Smith have left on loan, while Matt Macey joined Hibernian on a permanent basis. World Cup winner Mustafi emerged as a possible departure towards the end of January, and he was linked with a shock move to Liverpool. Premier League ...
Scout Report: Ozan Kabak is not just a short-term stopgap – he could prove to be a stellar long-term signing for Liverpool
The second deadline day defender that Liverpool are set to sign is Ozan Kabak, with Preston’s Ben Davies being the first. The Reds are reportedly set to pay Schalke a £2.5 million loan fee with an option to buy for £20m in the summer, with the Royal Blues looking to recruit Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi as his replacement. Liverpool have reached an agreement over personal terms with Ozan Kabak. Agents fee agreed too. 🔴 #LFC Negotiations on with Schalke – #S04 want to include the obligation-to-buy and still working for the replacement [Mustafi talks on].#LFC also have a plan B. ⏳ #DeadlineDay https://t.co/Ng7nulrSiR — Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) February 1, 2021 The 20-year-old Schalke defender joined Galatasaray’s youth academy aged 11, signing his first profession...
Arsenal linked with Chelsea’s Champions League winning defender
Arsenal are considering a move for former Chelsea left-back and current Southampton defender Ryan Bertrand as they look to provide competition for Kieran Tierney. Mikel Arteta revealed this week the club are in the market for a left-back to compete with Tierney after Sead Kolasinac was allowed to join former club Schalke on loan. Arsenal are looking at a number of targets, but it is understood that Bertrand is one player being monitored. Bertrand is into the final six months of his contract with the Saints and has been in protracted talks over a new deal with the south coast club. The 31-year-old, who still lives near the Blues’ west London training ground and commutes to Southampton, was of interest to Leicester in the summer following the sale of Ben Chillwell and the Foxes have kept tab...
Director claims Everton have given response to transfer request
Schalke director Jochen Schneider has told Kicker that the club want to sign Jonjoe Kenny from Everton for the 2020-21 campaign. Loan spell The 23-year-old right-back spent the 2019-20 season on loan at German outfit Schalke from Premier League side Everton. According to WhoScored, the former England Under-21 international made 31 appearances in the Bundesliga this past season, scoring two goals and providing three assists in the process. The defender also played three times in the DFB Pokal for Schalke this past campaign, according to WhoScored. Schneider has said that Schalke want to keep Kenny on loan at the club for next season as well, but Everton have decided against such a move. Schneider told Kicker, as translated by Sport Witness: “Jonjoe fitted Schalke like a glove. We have depos...
Shambolic Schalke Still Slip Against Bremen
Schalke hosted relegation-threatened Bremen, with both sides desperately looking for a victory in the Bundesliga. Bremen dominated possession early on and they almost had 80% of the ball at a point. But then Schalke fought back, almost creating a chance. Their resistance was futile though, as Bittencourt planted a shot into the top corner from outside the box to put the visitors in front. Schalke were much improved in the second half, but failed to create a chance. So, the match ended 0-1 to Schalke. Tactics: Schalke started with a back 3, but it was more of a back 5 early as they were extremely defensive. Bremen looked to push their full-backs far forward in the first half. Things changed in the second half though, as it was all Schalke. After the substitutions, Bremen had totally parked ...
Bayern Munich reserve shirt number for Leroy Sane ahead transfer
Manchester City’s Leroy Sane has the No.10 shirt reserved for him at German giants Bayern Munich next season. Media outlets in Germany are convinced Sane will finally complete a move back to the Bundesliga this summer. And the current Bundesliga leaders are ready to offer the No.10 shirt worn for a decade by Dutch legend Arjen Robben and currently taken by the on-loan Philippe Coutinho. Sane’s transfer to Bayern was scuppered last August when he suffered a serious knee injury in the Community Shield. City and Bayern have to agree a deal but the 24-year-old now only has one year left on his contract. Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: “It is well known that I never comment on players who are under contract with other clubs.” Sane was one of Guardiola’s first signings ...
German Bundesliga restarts with ‘ghost’ derby
Borussia Dortmund host Schalke 04 in Germany’s fiercest derby on Saturday but no more than 300 people will be in and around the 80,000 capacity arena due to COVID-19 restrictions as the Bundesliga gets back to business after a two-month break. The Bundesliga is the first major sports league to resume since world sport was brought to a standstill by the pandemic, and players will have to abide by a strict set of health guidelines aimed at minimizing the risk of infection. Fans will not be able to attend the matches as part of the safety regulations, leaving it up to the players to provide the spark for what are being called “ghost” games. “It will most certainly be the most unusual derby in history,” Dortmund’s head of pro players Sebastian Kehl said this week. “This game lives off fans, th...
