Name: Mehmet Ekici
Position: Midfield
Date of birth (age): 25/03/1990 (22)
Country: Turkey
Club: Bremen
The 21-year-old midfielder was born in the south German metropolis and learned the football trade with the mighty Bayern Munich. He went on to make his Bundesliga breakthrough with Nuremberg last season and has now been recruited by Werder Bremen to belatedly fill the gap left by Mesut Ozil’s departure for Real Madrid.
Like Ozil, Hamit Altintop and Nuri Sahin, Ekici combines the invention and flair which typically characterises Turkish football with traditional German virtues of discipline and work-rate. He also ranks as one of the Bundesliga’s star prospects. "I believe Ekici can develop along the lines of Mesut Ozil,” Bremen managing director Klaus Allofs told sports portal ran.
Price tag: £8.5 million