Summer transfers in German Bundesliga
Bayer L.
Midfielder Michael Ballack on a free
transfer from Chelsea; Midfielder Hanno Balitsch from Hannover; Croatian
defender Domagoj Vida from Osijek; Midfielder Sidney Sam from
Hamburger; Croatian midfielder Zvonko Pamic from Karlovac; Brazilian
defender Lucas from Portuguesa.
Bayern
Midfielder Toni Kroos (loan return) from
Bayer Leverkusen.
Borussia M.
Brazilian forward Igor de Camargo
from Standard; Defender Jens Wissing from Preussen Munster; Brazilian
defender Bamba Anderson from Fortuna Duesseldorf.
Dortmund
Polish midfielder Lukasz Pisczek on a
free transfer from Hertha Berlin; Polish forward Robert Lewandowski from
Lech Poznan for a fee of €4m; Australian goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak
from Melbourne Victory; Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa from Cerezo
Osaka for a fee of €0.4m.
Frankfurt
Greek midfielder Georgios Tzavelas
from Panionios; Midfielder Sebastian Rode from Kickers Offenbach; Greek
forward Theofanis Gekas from Bayer Leverkusen for a fee of €1m.
Freiburg
Midfielder Maximilian Nicu on a free
transfer from Hertha Berlin.
Hamburger SV
Defender Lennard Sowah from
Portsmouth; Czech goalkeeper Jaroslav Drobny from Hertha Berlin.
Hannover 96
Goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler on a
free transfer from Manchester United; Austrian defender Emanuel Pogatetz
on a free transfer from Middlesbrough; Goalkeeper Markus Miller from
Karlsruhe.
Hoffenheim
Forward Peniel Mlapa from 1860
Munich; Goalkeeper Tom Starke from Duisburg.
Kaiserslautern
Czech defender Jan Simunek from
Wolfsburg; Danish midfielder Leon Jessen from Midtjylland for a fee of
€0.6m.
Koln
Croatian midfielder Mato Jajalo on loan
from Siena; Midfielder Martin Lanig from Stuttgart; Greek defender
Konstantinos Giannoulis from Iraklis; Romanian forward Alexandru Ionita
from Rapid Bucharest for a fee of €2.5m.
Mainz
Nigerian midfielder Haruna Babangida from
Kuban Krasnodar; Midfielder Lewis Holtby on loan from Schalke;
Midfielder Marco Caligiuri from Greuther Furth; Turkish midfielder Tufan
Tosunoglu from Kickers Offenbach.
Nurnberg
Midfielder Mehmet Ekici on loan from
Bayern Munich; Swedish defender Per Nilsson from Hoffenheim.
Schalke 04
Greek defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos
from Olympiacos; Japanese defender Atsuto Uchida from Kashima Antlers
for a fee of €1.3m; Defender Tim Hoogland from Mainz; Slovakian forward
Erik Jendrisek from Kaiserslautern; Defender Christoph Metzelder from
Real Madrid.
Stuttgart
Italian defender Cristian Molinaro
(permanent signing) from Juventus for a fee of €3.9m; Midfielder
Christian Gentner from Wolfsburg; Goalkeeper Marc Ziegler from Borussia
Dortmund; Austrian forward Martin Harnik from Werder Bremen.
Werder
Forward Felix Kroos from Hansa Rostock;
Austrian forward Marko Arnautovic from Twente.
Wolfsburg
Danish defender Simon Kjaer from
Palermo for a fee of €10m; Defender Arne Friedrich from Hertha Berlin;
Swiss midfielder Nassim Ben Khalifa from Grasshoppers Zurich.
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