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Sheffield Wednesday have been heavily linked to Julian Borner by German football website nw.de.
The site are reporting that the defender will cut his contract with Armenia Bielefeld short in order to move to Hillsborough on a free transfer.
Desperate for defenders
The Owls have made it no secret that they are pursuing a defender this summer. The links to Borner come after the club had also been reportedly interested in Michael Hector and Jordan Willis.
With Hector now a target for Fulham, his return to Yorkshire is looking less and less likely as the days go by.
Borner is a no-nonsense centre-half who will be physically dominant in the Championship. Standing at 6 ft 2 inches the German wins on average 4.9 aerial duels per game and has scored three goals in 25 appearances this season.
Buying from Germany
Buying players from Germany has been an emerging trend in the Championship in recent years but the Owls will want to be careful when picking out targets from the Bundesliga and German second tier.
For Norwich it worked wonders as the likes of Moritz Leitner, Onel Hernandez and Cristopher Zimmerman all played massive parts in the Canaries promotion this season.
In other instances, players who seemed like safe bets brought in from Germany have flopped massively. Leeds’ acquisitions of Felix Wiedwald and Pierre-Michel Lassoga looked to be great business at the time, but both players didn’t impress upon their arrivals in England.
Signing a defender from a team who have conceded 50 goals in the 2.Bundesliga this season may not be the best move for Wednesday.
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If the Owls are going to employ a transfer policy that includes shopping around Germany then they will have to make sure to follow in Norwich’s footsteps, rather than Leeds’.
