“Danso’s Champions League debut and interest from Premier League clubs”

Kevin Danso will play in the Champions League for the first time in his career next season. The only question is which club this will happen with. The Austrian team player managed to qualify with RC Lens by beating relegated Ajaccio 3-0 (3-0) at home. Also thanks to defense chief Danso, runners-up Lens conceded the fewest goals in the league. At 28, eight fewer than Paris St. Germain. A goal by Lionel Messi to make it 1-1 at Racing Strasbourg was enough to secure their eleventh championship title and become France’s record champions. Danso’s strong performances have also put him in the spotlight for top English Premier League clubs. About for Newcastle. For the team of ex-Rapid-Legionnaire Joelinton, third place means the leap into the premier class for the first time. Danso has a contract with Lens until 2026, according to “Transfermakt.at” his market value is 16 million euros. Newcastle will need to shell out a few million to buy him out of the contract.

Buying out of the contract is also an issue for Max Wöber. Because he got relegated from the Premier League with Leeds Sunday through the 1: 4 (0: 2) home defeat against Tottenham, in which he played 60 minutes. Wöber came to Leeds in January for a fee of twelve million euros from Red Bull Salzburg. But since the situation at the traditional club did not look good even then, his contract, which runs until 2027, contains clauses that make an exit possible. Either on loan or through sale. There are Premier League clubs interested in the 25-year-old from Vienna. Tottenham and their top star Harry Kane did not make it into the European Cup despite winning. In addition to Leeds, Sunday Leicester was also condemned to relegation, seven years after the sensational championship title with Austria’s ex-team captain Christian Fuchs, despite a 2-1 win against West Ham. Jamie Vardy is still there from the team at that time. The goalscorer is now 36 years old. Masters Manchester City could afford a 0-1 draw at Brentford. Because of the forthcoming finals in the FA Cup against Manchester United and in the Champions League against Inter Milan, only the B set played.

Unbelievable was Sunday in the second German league the fight for the second promotion place after Darmstadt between Heidenheim and Hamburger SV. Hamburger SV won 1-0 against relegated Sandhausen. When the match was over, Heidenheim was 2-1 behind the other relegated team, Jahn Regensburg. The Hamburgers would have been second in a promotion place. In Sandhausen, the spokesman congratulated HSV on their promotion, and their fans stormed the pitch. In Regensburg, however, there were eleven minutes of stoppage time. Heidenheim equalized in the 93rd minute, and in the 99th minute the winning goal came to make it 3-2, with Heidenheim even overtaking Darmstadt. Therefore, Hamburger SV has to play two duels for promotion against VfB Stuttgart, Heidenheim is playing in the Bundesliga for the first time. A club from a town with almost 50,000 inhabitants on the border between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. The 59-year-old Frank Schmidt has been a long-term coach there for 16 years. As a player he was a legionnaire in Vienna in 1997 and 1998. First at the Wiener Sportclub, then at the Vienna.

Photo: RC Lens.