Toni Kroos switched from Bayern Munich to Real Madrid in the summer of 2014. Image: AP / Alvaro Barrientos
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Whether “Transfer-Update”, “Bayern-Insider” or Fabrizio Romano as an expert for transfers. There are many ways for fans to get information about upcoming club changes by professional footballers.
It’s been about a week since the experts, podcasts and programs mentioned celebrated Deadline Day – the end of the transfer phase. On the last day of the transition period, events often come crashing down. Just this January, several deals burst in a strange way.
The normal football fan can therefore easily get the impression that there is a lot of chaos in the football scene on this last day of change and changes are only then tackled. But that is obviously not the case, says Volker Struth. He is one of the best-known German consultants, representing Toni Kroos, Mario Götze and Niklas Süle, among others.
In the current podcast episode of “Einfach mal Luppen”, which Toni Kroos publishes with his brother Felix, Struth took his time and talked about the final transfer.
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The 56-year-old made it clear that the transfer final on Deadline Day would be different, as is often publicly portrayed. “I have never experienced what the media is rumored to have done on January 31 or August 31,” he clarified.
Struth continues: “On that day no club calls me and tells me that they still need a player in a position and if there is anything else that can be done.” Much more administrative issues such as termination agreements would be settled on Deadline Day. “Maybe there will be a medical check-up,” Struth adds.
The star consultant says that he was so relaxed on Deadline Day this year that he gave a lecture at the Sports University in Cologne on January 31st. “Of course, if something big had come in, I could or had to cancel“He clarifies. It didn’t get that far, however. Even the transfer of Philipp Max, who is also represented by Struth’s agency and was announced by Eintracht Frankfurt on January 31, will have been through before the deadline day.
Toni Kroos (left) with his advisor Volker Struth.Image: imago stock&people / imago images
According to Struth, Deadline Day is more of a media spectacle than a day on which something really happens in the clubs – at least in Germany. Because it’s different in England: “Something’s really happening again, but there’s peace in the other leagues.”
Struth explains that it has to do with the fact that English clubs have more money and therefore short-term transfers are financially possible for the clubs.
Since Thomas Tuchel was fired at Chelsea in early September, the coach of the year 2021 has been waiting for the next “right opportunity”. He probably had a few job offers, and in autumn there was speculation almost every day about top clubs and national teams where Tuchel could hire.
