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National player is about to move to the second division
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Marcel Halstenberg (31) has made nine appearances for the national team since 2017
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Marcel Halstenberg is about to move to the second division. The Leipzig defender is drawn back home for personal reasons. And: Luis Suarez could follow Lionel Messi to Inter Miami in the USA. All transfer news in the live ticker.
National player Marcel Halstenberg is about to switch from Champions League participant RB Leipzig to second-division club Hannover 96. Leipzig released the 31-year-old defender from training so that he could hold contract talks.
Halstenberg moves back to Hanover for personal reasons. He was born in the neighboring town of Laatzen and played in the youth department and in the second team of Lower Saxony until 2011. He moved to Leipzig in 2015 via Borussia Dortmund II and FC St. Pauli.
According to information from the “Neue Presse” in Hanover, the 96ers have to pay a transfer fee of around 700,000 euros for the nine-time national player. After signing French central defender El Chadaille Bitshiabu from Paris Saint-Germain and because of his many years of service to the club, Leipzig are ready to let Halstenberg go a year before the end of his contract and well below market value.
Suarez could follow Messi to Miami
At Inter Miami, Lionel Messi’s new club, the next former FC Barcelona player could serve. According to information from the Spanish newspaper “Marca”, Messi’s former colleague Luis Suarez is about to move to the USA. “If he’s allowed to leave Gremio, we want him,” said Miami club president Jorge Mas. 36-year-old Suarez is still under contract at Gremio Porto Alegre.
Luis Suarez
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After being acquitted, Mendy moves to France
After his acquittal in the trial of a rape allegation and the allegation of attempted rape, Benjamin Mendy has found a new club. The former Manchester City player has signed a two-year contract with French top flight club Lorient until 2025.
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The 28-year-old French international Mendy was only acquitted in London last Friday in a highly publicized case. He was accused of raping a 29-year-old woman at his Cheshire estate in October 2018. According to the indictment, the attempted rape of a 24-year-old also happened there two years later.
Benjamin Mendy
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He had previously been acquitted of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in a separate trial. At the time, however, the jury could not agree on a decision on the two most recently renegotiated allegations.
Stuttgart lends strikers
VfB Stuttgart will not be relying on striker Wahid Faghir in the coming season either. The Swabians lend the 19-year-old Dane to second division promoted SV Elversberg for a year. The offensive player, whose contract with VfB runs until 2026, had not traveled to the Stuttgart training camp in Austria.
VfB Faghir also lent out last season. The attacker played for the Danish first division club FC Nordsjaelland. He has made six appearances for VfB in the Bundesliga and once in the DFB Cup.
