FCN starts winter training: Okunuki on the way back to Japan!

FCN starts winter training: Okunuki on the way back to Japan!

Herzogenaurach, Deutschland - The 1st FC Nürnberg recorded winter preparation in cool temperatures on Saturday. The team started his training camp, which was shortened spontaneously. Kanji Okunuki is no longer part of the team and was released by the club to look around for a new job in Japan. The 25-year-old, who played for the 1st FC Nürnberg a year ago, had only six missions in the first half of the season. He fell into a deep performance hole and was not used under coach Miroslav Klose for months.

However, the players showed themselves "lively" after the Christmas break, as Miroslav Klose reported after the first public training session, which was ended after an hour. Caspar Jander and Jannik Hofmann were missing, although Jander could already run slightly. Julian Justvan and Ondrej Karafiat completed partial integrative training after illness.

shortened training camp and upcoming transfers

The team will train in Herzogenaurach from Sunday, about 30 minutes away by car, on the site of Adidas. The training camp, which was originally planned until Sunday, will now end early on Friday. Whether the training can take place until this date depends on the weather conditions because the lawns do not have a lawn heating. The start of the second half of the season is scheduled for January 19 in the Max Morlock Stadium against the second in the table Karlsruhe, a friendly against third division club Ingolstadt is on January 12th, with details still unclear.

like Transfermarkt reported, Kanji Okunuki arouses the interest of several clubs in Japan, including Gamba Osaka, Sanfreecce Hiroshima and Vissel Kobe. Gamba Osaka is the favorite for his transfer, and the negotiations should already be well advanced. The 1. FC Nürnberg could receive a transfer of over 500,000 euros for Okunuki, who moved from RB Omiya to the Nuremberg for 300,000 euros from RB Omiya in July 2023. In 39 competitive games, he scored five goals and gave four templates. Its highest market value in December 2023 was 1.2 million euros, as is also the case in the research of Kicker

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien