Bochum promote defender Horn to Nürnberg

Former German youth worldwide Jannes-Kilian Horn’s everlasting switch to 1. FC Nürnberg was confirmed yesterday. 

After a six-month mortgage stint in Center Franconia, VfL Bochum defender Jannes Kilian Horn shall be permitted to swimsuit up for 1. FC Nürnberg once more subsequent season. The 26-year-old’s Bundesliga guardian membership confirmed the sale on Thursday. Germany’s Kicker Journal speaks of a switch price within the low-six-figure-range. Horn ended up making seven begins for Nürnberg through the end-spurt of the just-completed 2. Bundesliga marketing campaign.

Horn’s profession stops with VfL Wolfsburg, 1. FC Köln, and VfL Bochum nonetheless go away him with extra top-tier than second-division expertise. Bochum nonetheless – one assumes – weren’t ready to maintain him on their prime division roster given his historical past with harm. Horn needed to take care of a hip harm, a muscle-cluster tear, and a torn meniscus within the final 12 months alone.

“Jannes dedicated to us early on as a result of he has felt extremely comfy on the membership, within the staff and within the metropolis over the previous six months,” FCN sporting director Olaf Rebbe famous in a membership assertion, “He’s a flexible left-footer who can enrich our recreation with vital components. Particularly on the finish of the previous season, he was an vital stabilizer in our staff.”

“For the reason that first day in Nürnberg, my household and I’ve had the impression that we will change into at house right here,” Horn himself added, “I’m very blissful that the everlasting dedication has labored out. On this context, I want to thank not solely these accountable on the membership, but in addition VfL Bochum, that the switch might come about. I actually wished to return to FCN.”

“We have now complied along with his want,” appearing sporting director Marc Lettau stated, “We want him all the very best, he’s all the time welcome on the Castroper Straße.”

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