Smolarek shipped to Santander

By: Steven | August 20th, 2007

If you believe Kicker, that is. According to them, Dortmund have agreed to sell Ebi Smolarek to La Liga side Racing Santander for €5million. However, BVB will only be able to pocket half of that, as Smolarek’s former side — Feyenoord Rotterdam — are guaranteed the other half per Smolarek’s contract.

According to the local Spanish media, Racing are planning to present Smolarek as a player as early as Thursday.

This could turn out to be interesting. We’re pretty full on strikers, so maybe selling off Ebi for €2.5million wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Perhaps we’ll take that money and invest in a new defender to replace the awful Philipp Degen in the winter transfer window. One can only hope.

Category: Transfers & Rumors

Tags: Ebi Smolarek, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Philipp Degen, Racing Santander, Transfers -amp; Rumors

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• Der_Meister1986 |  August 20th, 2007 at 10:13 am

  
  
  

  they should contract a player with spirit.. that will drive everyone to the edge like edgar davids or mark v” bommel..

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• Steven |  August 20th, 2007 at 11:15 am

  
  
  

  Do you think Bayern would sell him for 2.5mil? haha

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• Jan |  August 20th, 2007 at 11:49 am

  
  
  

  Gerald Asamoah’s contract ends next summer.

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• Jan |  August 20th, 2007 at 3:39 pm

  
  
  

  BTW: I read that Santander even offered €7m, so that would be €3,5m each. A nice profit given the fact that Dortmund only paid around €750.000.

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• Steven |  August 20th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

  
  
  

  Really? Where’d you see that? The Kicker article I read said that they were offering €5m. That’s interesting and I hope it’s true!

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• Jan |  August 20th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

  
  
  

  Here is an English source:
  http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95810.html

  But I read it in German, don’t exactly remember where. Probably was a dpa (German Press Agency) article.

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• Der_Meister1986 |  August 20th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

  
  
  

  here on transfermarkt.de .. is the german version

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• Steven |  August 21st, 2007 at 7:19 am

  
  
  

  Thanks for the link, Jan. 3.5m would certainly be a nice profit for selling Smolarek.

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• Jan |  August 21st, 2007 at 1:22 pm

  
  
  

  transfermarkt.de is a fantastic site for the statistic nerd btw!

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