{"id":326575,"date":"2025-08-08T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326575\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:54:12","slug":"time-was-right-werder-chief-on-ducksch-to-birmingham-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326575\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Was Right &#8211; Werder Chief On Ducksch To Birmingham City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Matt McNulty\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Werder Bremen chief Peter Niemeyer has claimed that despite the huge role <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City<\/a> new boy Marvin Ducksch played for the side over the last four years, a transfer now suited all parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham have made Ducksch their ninth summer signing after achieving promotion from <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/league-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League One<\/a> last season, paying a fee of \u20ac2m plus add-ons to secure his services.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ducksch departs Werder Bremen having helped them achieve promotion from the 2. Bundesliga in his first season and aiding in their attempt to consolidate themselves in the top-tier over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Niemeyer thanked Ducksch for his contributions in restoring Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga, stating that he had a massive part to play in that achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sporting director though, acknowledged that despite this, they were willing to negotiate if a deal that suited all parties could be hammered out, which they managed to achieve with Birmingham,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Birmingham_Chris_Davies4_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Niemeyer <a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.werder.de\/en\/latest\/news\/first-team\/2025-26\/ducksch-transfer-07082025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Werder Bremen\u2019s official website<\/a>: \u201cMarvin has played a huge role for us in the last four years, in re-establishing Werder Bremen as a Bundesliga club.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite this, we knew that we were ready to begin negotiations, providing it suited all parties, which currently it does.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr> Team Year Points <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Birmingham City (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2024\u201325<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Wolverhampton Wanderers (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2013\u201314<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Charlton Athletic (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2011\u201312<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Plymouth Argyle (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2022\u201323<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Sheffield United (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2016\u201317<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p> Top five most points total in League One;<br \/>(C) Champions <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank Marvin for his contributions over the last few years and wish him the best of luck for his new chapter in England.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ducksch came through Borussia Dortmund\u2019s academy, before being handed his debut by Jurgen Klopp in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Birmingham_Chris_Davies3_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His performances for Werder Bremen saw him earn a call-up to the Germany national team, with the forward making a couple of appearances in friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham have been busy in the transfer market, as they look to re-establish themselves in the Championship after achieving promotion from League One at the first time of asking.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the German makes up for missing out on Ipswich Town bound Chuba Akpom, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/05\/birmingham-city-have-belief-on-changing-chuba-akpoms-mind\/690294\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who they tried to sign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ducksch\u2019s debut could come as soon as Friday when an Ipswich shorn of Liam Delap visit St Andrew\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt McNulty\/Getty Images \u00a0 Werder Bremen chief Peter Niemeyer has claimed that despite the huge role Birmingham City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-326575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114990420149062559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}