Overview
- Clemens Fritz acknowledged the mistake, took responsibility, and said the club has critically reviewed the process.
- Transfermarkt.de queried the DFL, alerted Werder to the correct interpretation, and later detailed the exchange in a podcast, while Peter Niemeyer called it an internal miscommunication and an earlier December correction did not credit the external tip.
- Werder had publicly stated in November that no further loans were possible after six summer deals, a claim later shown to be incorrect.
- The DFL statutes cap loans with domestic clubs at six while permitting additional loans from foreign teams, the nuance Werder had misunderstood.
- Following the clarification, Werder announced the loan of 20-year-old Jovan Milošević from VfB Stuttgart, registering a seventh loanee for the season.