{"id":157959,"date":"2025-09-24T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157959\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:06:09","slug":"sc-freiburg-make-statement-following-merlin-rohl-everton-transfer-after-agreeing-18m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157959\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Freiburg make statement following Merlin Rohl Everton transfer after agreeing \u00a318m deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merlin Rohl moved to Everton from SC Freiburg during the summer transfer window<\/p>\n

16:01, 24 Sep 2025Updated 16:01, 24 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

\"MerlinMerlin Rohl during the Premier League match between Everton and Aston Villa at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

SC Freiburg sporting director Jochen Saier has revealed why his club allowed Merlin Rohl to join Everton. The Blues secured the services of the 23-year-old on transfer deadline day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rohl moved to Hill Dickinson Stadium<\/a> on a season-long loan deal, which includes an obligation to buy for just over \u00a318m in 2026<\/a>. The midfielder, who can also play left-back, had been on the Blues\u2019 radar for a significant period, and the club decided to act towards the end of the window.<\/p>\n

Rohl played almost 50 Bundesliga games across the past three seasons for Freiburg and was a second-half substitute for Germany in the final of the U21s Euros in the summer, which they lost to England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: James Garner explains Everton dressing room view on Wolves exit and seven changes<\/a>\"\"\/<\/p>\n

OPINION<\/p>\n

\"AuthorChris Beesley<\/p>\n

He made his Everton<\/a> debut off the bench against Aston Villa earlier this month but has missed his side\u2019s last two games, against Liverpool<\/a> and Wolverhampton Wanderers, due to injury.<\/p>\n

And Saier, speaking to FussballTransfers<\/a>, has revealed fitness issues were one of the reasons his club decided to sanction the deal.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThere were external factors such as injuries and illness, for which Merlin cannot be blamed and which we have to accept.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter his return in the second half of the season, things went well for the team, and it wasn\u2019t easy for him to get into the starting line up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before he added: \u201cWhat role will Merlin play for us? In which position will he secure and consolidate a starting spot?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat difference will he make in terms of scoring points? Because if you don\u2019t make a transfer like that, you have to keep a real, consistent return on the pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cMerlin, too, was keen to take this exciting step, the conditions were right for us. Merlin was only very rarely used in the centre, at six or eight, but was mostly deployed in the attacking positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially behind the striker, we have personnel options in Johan Manzambi, Eren Dinkci, and Yuito Suzuki, whom we believe will develop well with regular playing time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merlin Rohl moved to Everton from SC Freiburg during the summer transfer window 16:01, 24 Sep 2025Updated 16:01,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2689,218,72071,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-157959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-everton-fc","tag-football","tag-merlin-rohl","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}