Eric Martel

Fabio Gruber, a young centre-back from Nuremberg, joins for £3.5 million.

Eric Martel and Ransford duo Koenigsdorfer joining on three.

Stefan Posch and Gerardo Becker, meanwhile, see their loans turn into permanent deals, which is good news.

I think...

Jamai Simpson-Pusey returns after his loan spell.

Elijah Carey back after a few years at Eintracht Frankfurt.

The losses of Jakub Kaminski and Eric Martel could be big.

Did I mention him for Mines? He signed for Mines.

But in Urs Fischer's first 21st League games, he only lost five and they looked like one of the most difficult teams to beat in Germany.

They've added Eric Martel from Cologne.

Clever signing.

Koenigsegg from Hamburg.

But remember, Saeed Al Mala was in and out of the team last season as well.

I mentioned the fact that Skiri Ke is coming back from Frankfurt.

But Eric Martel has left for Mainz.

And there are concerns in terms of how that team will look.

I wouldn't say it's an A, but I would say B plus for Hangenbaum.

I would say it's an A for Porto because... to get one of Asia's best midfielders in his prime for this little money, I think is a big deal.

So, I don't know how much longer he's going to be a bench player for them, but we'll see.

I think it's a good move overall.

So I'm happy that this move happened.

He's 27 years old.

He is probably one of the most underrated midfielders in Asia because nobody freaking knows who this guy is, but he's very good.

He was great at the last Asian Cup, great in qualifying, strong World Cup performance as well, excuse me.

But aside from that, there's not really been many losses really.

Obviously I think, uh, Eric Martel has gotta be classified as a loss.

He's gone the other way.

He's basically gone the other way to Krauss, and he's gone to join Mainz.

... he'll get his opportunity and, and, you know, should be interesting to see how he goes.

I'll, I'll definitely follow that one with interest, uh, as well.

You know, uh, you mentioned Martel already, so I'm not gonna go into the depths of it, but I think that's, you know, still an interesting pickup, you know, from...

He's worked his way into, you know, to being more of a defensive midfielder from being a center half, uh, where he played a lot of his football initially.