Transfer roundup: Pfeiffer, Jaeckel, and Cozza all receive loan outs

Amid all of the transfer tumult in recent days, VfL Wolfsburg, VfB Stuttgart, and 1. FC Union Berlin have shed players with little playing prospects off their roster. 

Three top flight Bundesliga players with little playing prospects at their Bundesliga clubs have been loaned out over the past two days. VfL Wolfsburg have completed the deal to send underutilized left-back Nicolas Cozza back to FC Nantes.  The loan was confirmed shortly before Salih Özcan’s introduction in Wolfsburg yesterday. It is not yet known whether the new loan contains a purchase option. 

Down south in Swabia, VfB Stuttgart were able to arrange another loan for 28-year-old German striker Luca Pfeiffer. Stuttgart’s roster contained far too many strikers and cutting down the section remained a priority for Fabian Wohlgemuth and the club administrative team. Young prospect Mohamed Sankoh was shipped out last week. After back-to-back loans to SV Darmstadt 98, Pfeiffer is headed to Baden’s “Fächerstadt”. 

A one-year-arrangement sends Pfeiffer to second division side Karlsruher SC. Wohlgemuth called the loan to Karlsruhe “a god solution for a player seeking playing time.” KSC personnel chief Sebastian Freis welcomed Pfeiffer back to the 2. Bundesliga, where he has managed to score 17 goals. The BaWü native has only notched one tally in the top division. Just like with Cozza, it is not known whether a purchase option is part of the package. 

A final loan deal that absolutely does not contain a purchase clause saw 1. FC Union Berlin defender Paul Jaeckel move to Eintracht Braunschweig. The 26-year-old made just six league appearances (all of them off the bench) for die Eisernen last season. Jaeckel did nevertheless feature three times in the Champions’ League and brings with him the experience of 49 Bundesliga appearances since joining Union from Fürth ahead of the 2021/22 campaign. 

“We’ve always emphasized in recent weeks that we need and will bring in another central defender,” Braunschweig sporting head Benjamin Kassel remarked on the club’s website, “Paul is the perfect fit. He has a lot of experience in top two tiers and did well in Union training camp. He is in top shape and ready to go for us immediately.”