{"id":96319,"date":"2025-06-07T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=96319"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:32:13","slug":"fortuna-dusseldorf-remain-hopeful-of-attracting-top-division-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/fortuna-dusseldorf-remain-hopeful-of-attracting-top-division-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf remain hopeful of attracting top division players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Florian Plettenberg<\/strong><\/a> reports that 2. Bundesliga outfit Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf have thrown their hat in the ring with respect to the pursuit of Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach midfielder Florian Neuhaus. The Flingeraner<\/em> hope to swing a loan deal for the 10-times-capped German international. Such a coup nevertheless looks to prove difficult given that top division clubs like FC Augsburg are also interested in Neuhaus’ services.<\/a><\/p>\n

As quixotic as D\u00fcsseldorf’s interest may appear, however, it is worth noting that F95 sporting director Christian Weber has already completed some high profile deals this summer. Weber procured former highly promising Germany U21 international Kenneth Schmidt from SC Freiburg for a modest fee of \u20ac400,000. Borussia Dortmund II attacking prospect Julian Hettwer arrived on a free, as did veteran German fullback Christopher Lenz.<\/a><\/p>\n

Schmidt (10 Bundesliga appearances before his unfortunate bout with injury) and Lenz (98 top flight appearances over the course of his career) constitute higher-profile additions. Hettwer scored 14 goals for BVB II in the 3. Liga this year and maintains a current \u20ac1.3m estimated market value.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a recent Kicker<\/strong> <\/a>interview, Weber committed to at least six more signings this summer. The 41-year-old administrator shook off the recent loss of \u00cdsak Bergmann J\u00f3hannesson<\/a> and promised that he and the front office team had plenty of “smart ideas<\/em>“. Weber insisted that Fortuna’s reputation, not to mention excellent facilities, rendered the club an attractive destination for many players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We like to invite the candidates to visit us because we can definitely score points with the [Euro 2024 worth] stadium and the city,” <\/em>Weber said. “This is particularly important for foreign players and agents when they realize how important Fortuna is in D\u00fcsseldorf. We also have a big draw in that the players are coming to a very stable club. The sporting management and coaching team have been working together here for three-and-a-half years<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

GGFN |\u00a0Peter Weis<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sky Germany reports that 2. Bundesliga club Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf are hoping to swing a loan deal for Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach midfielder Florian Neuhaus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the idea may seem farfetched, Fortuna have already acquired two players with Bundesliga experience this summer. <\/p>\n

F95 sporting director Christian Weber remained optimistic in a recent Kicker interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":96320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[337,15,134,11],"tags":[476,1030,449,2614,2495,660,2082,2616,1835,2615],"class_list":["post-96319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fortuna-dusseldorf","category-2-bundesliga","category-borussia-monchengladbach","category-bundesliga","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-borussia-monchengladbach-2","tag-bundesliga","tag-christian-weber","tag-christopher-lenz","tag-fc-augsburg","tag-florian-neuhaus","tag-isak-bergmann-joahannesson","tag-julian-hettwer","tag-kenneth-schmidt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96321,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96319\/revisions\/96321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}