End of contract

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Tim Lemperle (22) will leave 1. FC Köln for free when his contract expires at the end of the season. FC sporting director Christian Keller confirmed this at a press conference on Friday. Cologne’s top scorer and market value winner of the latest 2nd League update has been traded by Bundesliga clubs for months, with TSG Hoffenheim and VfB Stuttgart notably linked to him.

“Tim has developed excellently over the past two years and will continue to play an important role in our team in the second half of the season. “Tim told Thomas Kessler (head of licensing; publisher) and me that he would like to take on a new challenge this summer, but would give 100 percent to FC until then,” Keller said. The deciding factor was “that we cannot yet say with certainty whether we will definitely play in the Bundesliga next season.”

More recently, coach Gerhard Struber publicly suggested that the striker continue his career in the cathedral city: “The Lemperle team will know how much playing time he will get here. I hope he doesn’t accept the first offer that comes his way. I’m sure he still has a very successful path ahead of him at 1. FC Köln. I hope he will be well advised to take the next good steps. Because he also only has one career. » Consultant Dusan Jevtic from the Rogon agency then criticized the FC officials: “The coach may not even know that there have been no concrete negotiations with Lemperle’s team.

TSG Hoffenheim has the best chance of signing Lemperle

The Frankfurt native has been training at FC since 2017. Last season, he scored six goals and five assists in 34 games while on loan at SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Lemperle continued his successful chapter at Cloverleaf this season without any problem: after 18 appearances, he has nine goals and four assists. Its market value has already doubled, from 2.5 million to 5 million euros.

TSG currently appears to have the best chance of signing him. According to media reports, Lemperle has already decided to move to Hoffenheim. The player’s entourage neither wanted to confirm nor deny this to (Site notre blog d’information). Lemperle is expected to receive a modest seven-figure fee from TSG for his signing. But the VfB would also be interested.

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	T.Lemperle
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