Shortly before the start of the season, the Bundesliga transfer market is mainly thrifty. Hardly any German club spends large sums of money, Leroy Sané is and will likely remain the king’s transfer this year. FC Bayern Munich paid around 50 million euros for the German national player, who is returning to the Bundesliga after four years.
However, the majority of the league newcomers for the 2020/21 season are players who return to the club after a loan. In addition, a particularly large number of players change for free. So far, all Bundesliga clubs together have spent a good 137 million euros on new players. That amounts to a massive slump in the market.
In the previous season, around the same time, Borussia Dortmund alone had already spent so much money. The total volume of the league was even around 700 million euros. Due to the effects of the corona pandemic, the transfer window will be open until October 5, 2020 this year. All previous changes (as of September 15, 2 p.m.) in the overview:
FC BAYERN MUNICH
- Accesses: Leroy Sané (Manchester City / 50 million euros), Alexander Nübel (Schalke 04), Tanguy Nianzou (Paris Saint-Germain), Adrian Fein (Hamburger SV / loanee)
- Departures: Philippe Coutinho (FC Barcelona / loanee), Alvaro Odriozola (Real Madrid / loaner), Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan / loaner), Lars Lukas Mai (SV Darmstadt / loaned out), Christian Früchtl (1.FC Nürnberg / loaned out)
BORUSSIA DORTMUND
- Accesses: Jude Bellingham (Birmingham City / 25), Thomas Meunier (Paris St. Germain), Marius Wolf (Hertha BSC / loaner), Felix Passlack (Fortuna Sittard / loaner), Sergio Gomez (SD Huesca / loaner), Jesus Reinier (Real Madrid / on loan until 2022)
- Departures: Mario Götze (destination unknown), Achraf Hakimi (Inter Milan / loanee), Ömer Toprak (Werder Bremen / 4.0 / was previously loaned to Bremen), Andre Schürrle (career end), Leonardo Balerdi (Olympique Marseille / loaned ), Dzenis Burnic (1. FC Heidenheim / was previously loaned to Dynamo Dresden), Sergio Gomez (SD Huesca / loan extended)
RB LEIPZIG
- Accesses: Hee-chan Hwang (RB Salzburg / 9.0), Benjamin Henrichs (AS Monaco / on loan), Josep Martinez (UD Las Palmas / 2.5), Lazar Samardzic (Hertha BSC / 600,000), Angelino (Manchester City / borrowed)
- Departures: Ethan Ampadu (Chelsea FC / was loaned out), Timo Werner (Chelsea FC / 53.0); Mads Bidstrup (Brentford FC / 550,000); Noah Jean Holm (Vitoria Guimaraes / free transfer), Frederik Jäkel (KV Oostende / loaned), Hannes Wolf (Borussia Mönchengladbach / loaned), Yvon Mvogo (PSV Eindhoven / loaned), Patrik Schick (AS Roma / was loaned)
BORUSSIA MONCHENGLADBACH
- Accesses: Valentino Lazaro (Inter Milan / on loan) Hannes Wolf (RB Leipzig / on loan), Jordan Beyer (Hamburger SV / on loan), Michael Lang (Werder Bremen / on loan), Julio Villalba (SCR Altach / on loan), Andreas Poulsen (Austria Vienna / Borrower)
- Departures: Tobias Strobl (FC Augsburg), Raffael, Fabian Johnson (destination unknown)
BAYER LEVERKUSEN
- Accesses: Patrik Schick (AS Roma / 26.5 / was last loaned to RB Leipzig), Lennart Grill (1. FC Kaiserslautern / 2.0), Tin Jedvaj (FC Augsburg / loaner), Panagiotis Retsos (Sheffield United / loaner), Joel Pohjanpalo (Hamburger SV / loanee)
- Departures: Kai Havertz (FC Chelsea / total volume 100.0), Kevin Volland (AS Monaco / 15.0) Ramazan Öczan (end of career / goalkeeping coach in Bayer’s youth team), Ayman Azhil (RKC Waalwijk / awarded)
TSG 1899 HOFFENHEIM
- Accesses: Mijat Gacinovic (Eintracht Frankfurt), Kevin Vogt (Werder Bremen / loaner), Kasim Adams (Fortuna Düssseldorf / loaner) Joshua Brenet (Vitesse Arnhem / loaner), Domen Gril (NK Bravo / loaner), Bruno Nazário (Botafogo / loaner)
- Departures: Sebastian Rudy (FC Schalke 04 / loanee), Lucas Ribeiro (International Porto Alegre / loaned), Gregor Kobel (VfB Stuttgart / 4), Michael Esser (Hannover 96), Steven Zuber (Eintracht Frankfurt), David Otto (1. FC Heidenheim / awarded), Felipe Pires (Moreirense FC / Portugal / 750 000)
VfL WOLFSBURG
- Accesses: Bartosz Bialek (Zaglebie Lubin / 5.0), Maxence Lacroix (FC Sochaux / 5.0), Yunus Malli (Union Berlin / loaner), Jeffrey Bruma (FSV Mainz 05 / loaner)
- Departures: Robin Knoche (Union Berlin), Phillip Menzel (Austria Klagenfurt), Ismail Azzaoui (destination unknown), Felix Uduokhai (FC Augsburg / 7.0 / was already on loan)
SC FREIBURG
- Accesses: Ermedin Demirovic (Deportivo Alavés / 3.7), Guus Til (Spartak Moscow / loaned), Benjamin Uphoff (Karlsruher SC), Mohamed Dräger (SC Paderborn / loaner), Constantin Frommann (SG Sonnenhof Großaspach / loaner), Keven Schlotterbeck ( 1. FC Union Berlin / loan end), Marco Terrazzino (Dynamo Dresden / loan end), Woo-yeong Jeong (FC Bayern Munich II / loan end)
- Departures: Luca Waldschmidt (Benfica Lisbon / 15), Robin Koch (Leeds United / 13), Alexander Schwolow (Hertha BSC / 8), Pascal Stenzel (VfB Stuttgart / 1,3, was already awarded), Jerôme Gondorf (Karlsruher SC / was already awarded), Mike Frantz (Hannover 96), Christoph Daferner (Dynamo Dresden / was last awarded to Erzgebirge Aue), Chima Okoroji (SC Paderborn / awarded), Nico Schlotterbeck (1. FC Union Berlin / awarded), Yoric Ravet (Grenoble Foot 38)
EINTRACHT FRANKFURT
- Accesses: Steven Zuber (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim), Ragnar Ache (Sparta Rotterdam / 2.0), Tuta (KV Kortrijk / loaner), Jetro Willems (Newcastle United / loaner), Simon Falette (Fenerbahce Istanbul / loaner), Aymen Barkok (Fortuna Düsseldorf / Lender)
- Departures: Mijat Gacinovic (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim), Dejan Joveljic (Wolfsberger AC / awarded), Rodrigo Zalazar (FC St. Pauli / awarded), Lucas Torro (CA Osasuna / 2.5), Jonathan de Guzman (without a club), Marco Russ ( End of career), Gelson Fernandes (end of career), Nils Stendera (1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig / loaned)
HERTHA BSC
- Accesses: Alexander Schwolow (SC Freiburg / 8), Lucas Tousart (Olympique Lyon / was eliminated), Deyovaisio Zeefuik (FC Groningen)
- Departures: Alexander Esswein (unknown), Marko Grujic (Liverpool FC / loanee), Salomon Kalou (Botafogo Rio de Janeiro / Brazil), Thomas Kraft (end of career), Dennis Smarsch (FC St. Pauli), Per Skjelbred (Rosenborg Trondheim), Marius Wolf (Borussia Dortmund / loanee), Lazar Samardzic (RB Leipzig)
1. FC UNION BERLIN
- Accesses: Max Kruse (Fenerbahce Istanbul), Keita Endo (Yokohama Marinos / on loan), Niko Gießelmann (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Sebastian Griesbeck (1. FC Heidenheim), Andreas Luthe (FC Augsburg), Nico Schlotterbeck (SC Freiburg / on loan), Cedric Teuchert (FC Schalke 04)
- Departures: Maurice Arcones (unknown), Rafal Gikiewicz (FC Augsburg), Yunus Malli (VfL Wolfsburg / loan end), Felix Kroos (Eintracht Braunschweing), Michael Parensen (end of career), Sebastian Polter (unknown), Ken Reichel (unknown), Keven Schlotterbeck (SC Freiburg / loanee), Manuel Schmiedebach (unknown), Julius Kade (Dynamo Dresden)
FC SCHALKE 04
- Accesses: Vedad Ibisevic (most recently Hertha BSC), Ralf Fährmann (SK Brann / end of loan), Mark Uth (1. FC Köln / end of loan), Sebastian Rudy (1899 Hoffenheim / end of loan), Steven Skrzybski (Fortuna Düsseldorf / end of loan), Hamza Mendyl ( FCO Dijon / loaner), Cedric Teuchert (Hannover 96 / loaner), Nabil Bentaleb (Newcastle United / loaner)
- Departures: Weston McKennie (Juventus Turin / on loan), Alexander Nübel (Bayern Munich), Daniel Caligiuri (FC Augsburg), Jonjoe Kenny (FC Everton / on loan), Juan Miranda (FC Barcelona / on loan), Jean-Clair Todibo (FC Barcelona / Loaner), Michael Gregoritsch (FC Augsburg / loaner), Pablo Insua (SD Huesca / loan extended), Jonas Carls (Vitória Guimarães SC / loaned / was previously loaned to Viktoria Köln), Cedric Teuchert (1. FC Union Berlin)
FSV MAINZ 05
- Accesses: Luca Kilian (SC Paderborn/2,0)
- Departures: Gerrit Holtmann (VfL Bochum), Alexandru Maxim (Gazisehir Gaziantep), Jonathan Meier (Dynamo Dresden / loaned), Aaron Seydel (SV Darmstadt 98), Ronael Pierre-Gabriel (Stade Brest / loaned), Jeffrey Bruma (VfL Wolfsburg / loanee )
1. FC COLOGNE
- Accesses: Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover 96 / on loan), Salih Özcan (Holstein Kiel / on loan), Frederik Sörensen (Young Boys Bern / on loan), Jannes Horn (Hannover 96 / on loan), Lasse Sobiech (Royal Mouscron / on loan), Louis Schaub (Hamburger SV / loaner), Tomas Ostrak (TSV Hartberg / loaner), Joao Queiros (Willem II / loaner)
- Departures: Lasse Sobiech (FC Zurich / awarded / was previously awarded to Royal Mouscron), Simon Terodde (Hamburger SV), Niklas Hauptmann (Holstein Kiel / awarded), Birger Verstraete (Royal Antwerp / awarded), Thomas Kessler (end of career), Brady Scott (Destination unknown), Jan-Christoph Bartels (Waldhof Mannheim), Mark Uth (FC Schalke 04 / loanee), Toni Leistner (Queens Park Rangers / loanee), Vincent Koziello (CD Nacional / awarded / was previously loaned to Paris FC)
FC AUGSBURG
- Accesses: Felix Uduokhai (VfL Wolfsburg / 7.0 / was already on loan), Robert Gumny (Lech Posen / 2.0), Rafal Gikiewicz (1. FC Union Berlin), Tobias Strobl (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Daniel Caligiuri (FC Schalke 04 ), Michael Gregoritsch (FC Schalke 04 / loanee), Mads Pedersen (FC Zurich / loanee)
- Departures: Philipp Max (PSV Eindhoven / 8.0), Daniel Baier (end of career), Stephan Lichtsteiner (end of career), Tin Jedvaj (Bayer Leverkusen / end of loan), Kevin Danso (Fortuna Düsseldorf / awarded / was previously loaned to FC Southampton), Andreas Luthe (1. FC Union Berlin), Fabian Giefer (Würzburger Kickers), Sergio Cordova (Arminia Bielefeld / awarded), Georg Teigl (Austria Vienna), Maurice Malone (SV Wehen Wiesbaden / awarded), Tim Rieder (1. FC Kaiserslautern / was previously awarded to 1860 Munich), Jozo Stanic (FSV Zwickau / awarded)
WERDER BREMEN
- Accesses: Felix Agu (VfL Osnabrück), Patrick Erras (1. FC Nürnberg), Tahith Chong (Manchester United / on loan), Manuel Mbom (KFC Uerdingen / on loan), Romano Schmid (Wolfsberger AC / on loan), Leonardo Bittencourt (1899 Hoffenheim / 7.0 / was already on loan), Ömer Toprak (Borussia Dortmund / 4.0 / was already on loan), Oscar Schönfelder (FSV Mainz 05 U19)
- Departures: Nuri Sahin (Antalyaspor), Fin Bartels (Holstein Kiel), Benjamin Goller (Karlsruher SC / awarded), Felix Beijmo (Malmö FF / was awarded to SpVgg Greuther Fürth), Luca Plogmann (SV Meppen), Claudio Pizarro (end of career), Sebastian Langkamp, Philipp Bargfrede (both destination unknown).
ARMINIA BIELEFELD
- Accesses: Mike van der Hoorn (Swansea City), Sergio Cordova (FC Augsburg / loaned), Noel Niemann (TSV 1860 Munich), Jacob Barrett Laursen (Odense BK), Christian Gebauer (SCR Altach), Nathan de Medina (Royal Mouscron), Prince Osei Owusu (TSV München 1860 / loaner), Can Özkan (Alemannia Aachen / loaner), Nikolai Rehnen (Alemannia Aachen / loaner), Ritsu Doan (PSV Eindhoven / loaner)
- Departures: Jonathan Clauss (RC Lens), Agoston Kiss (Szombathelyi Haladas / Leihende), Florian Hartherz (Fortuna Düsseldorf)
VfB Stuttgart
- Accesses: Gregor Kobel (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim / 4, was already on loan), Pascal Stenzel (SC Freiburg / 1,3, was already on loan), Wataru Endo (VV St. Truiden / 1,7, was already on loan), Waldemar Anton ( Hannover 96/4), Konstantinos Mavropanos (Arsenal FC / loaned), Momo Cissé (AC Le Havre), Erik Thommy (Fortuna Düsseldorf / loaner), Ailton (Qarabag Agdam / loaner)
- Departures: Mario Gomez (end of career), Nathaniel Phillips (Liverpool FC / end of loan), Anastasios Donis (Stade Reims / 4, was already loaned out), Chadrac Akolo (SC Amiens / 3.5, was already loaned out), Pablo Maffeo (SD Huesca / awarded, was last awarded to FC Girona), Nikolas Nartey (SV Sandhausen / awarded, was last awarded to Hansa Rostock), David Kopacz (Würzburger Kickers / was last awarded to Gornik Zabrze)
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