Two Bundesliga clubs with strong cases prepare to recruit West Ham’s Niclas Füllkrug | OneFootball

Florian Plettenberg reports that two Bundesliga clubs (VfL Wolfsburg and FC Augsburg) are interested in signing West Ham striker Niclas Füllkrug on loan this winter. Plettenberg claims that Füllkrug’s Premier League outfit have given the 32-year-old permission to leave and are actively searching for a replacement. 

Füllkrug is known to favor a return to Germany in order to enhance his German national team prospects ahead of this summer’s forthcoming World Cup. the Hannover-native can expect excellent playing prospects at both Bundesliga outfits as the two top tier German footballing sides are in need of a reliable natural No. 9. 

Füllkrug could fit in almost perfectly with either team. As the recruitment efforts step up in earnest, one expects that Wolfsburg and Augsburg will prefer specific arguments to the Bundesliga veteran. 

Potential with Wolfsburg

A new head coaching regime’s top priority shall be sorting out the attack. Lead striker Jonas Wind remains without a league goal through 10 matchdays. Algerian international Mohamed Amoura (four goals) mostly works the left attacking lane these days while new summer acquisition Adam Daghim (two goals) feels more comfortable on the right. 

Young German attacking prospect Dzenan Pejcinovic (after scoring a hat trick in Wolfsburg’s opening round Pokal victory) hasn’t gotten his name on the scoresheet since. As much potential as the 20-year-old possesses, it doesn’t appear as if Pejcinovic is ready for the German top flight just yet. Wolfsburg would be overjoyed to procure a German mentor for him. 

Füllkrug could easily slide into the Wolfsburg attack, flanked by Amoura and Daghim. The perpetually discontented Wind appears destined to part company with Germany’s green company team during the January window. Füllkrug, a north German, would also feel most at home in Lower Saxony.

Potential with Augsburg

As head coach Sandro Wagner continues to struggle in Germany’s Fuggerstadt, a journeyman German striker – who, like Wagner, also only realized his full potential rather late in his career – could be precisely what the doctor ordered. Augsburg’s squad screams out for a natural No. 9 due to the fact that Philipp Tietz and Samuel Essende simply cannot produce goals for the team at the Bundesliga level. 

Wagner has been deploying Mert Kömur and Elias Saad at the lead striker position. Given that Kömür does well working the right and Saad is best positioned on the left, Füllkrug drops in perfectly into the FCA attack. Füllkrug spent some productive years working in a nearby section of Bavaria, playing for the two fierce Middle Franconian rivals FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth. 

GGFN | Peter Weis