Rolfes rules out any January sales amid AFCON departures, Xabi comments on shortages

Rolfes rules out any January sales amid AFCON departures, Xabi comments on shortages

Rolfes rules out any January sales amid AFCON departures, Xabi comments on shortages

Bayer 04 Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes has, in light of the fact that his squad will lose a projected five actors to the Africa Cup of Nations next month, issued a ban on selling players during the coming January transfer window. 

Werkself trainer Xabi Alonso, meanwhile, has commented on the difficult month ahead without Victor Boniface (Nigeria), Nathan Tella (also Nigeria) Odilon Kossounou (Cote d’Ivoire), Edmond Tapsoba (Burkina Faso), and Amine Adli (Morocco). 


Germany’s red company team are known to be on the hunt for a new striker. The temporary departures of center backs Kossounou and Tapsoba will presumably also leave Simon Rolfes and the club’s front office seeking additional assistance in central defense. Rolfes – as quoted by German journalist Stephan van Nocks of Kicker Magazine – is on record as saying that sales have been ruled out in the coming month.

Despite this, Rolfes has been unequivocal about the fact that no players will be sold without direct replacements being procured. Werskelf trainer Xabi Alonso – who did stress that he held no animosity towards Amiri after the summer transfer fiasco – may have some use for the former German international yet. Alonso himself commented on the personnel shortages at his Friday presser.

“We’ll have a competitive team,” Alonso noted, “We’re losing some players, but have others who can play. We’re not closing any doors when it comes to improvement. [In any event] I’m not crying, I’m not a victim.”

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