In
Filip Kostic(mid) (Stuttgart), Alen Halilovic(mid) (Barcelona), Bobby Wood(att) (Union Berlin), Luca Waldschmidt(att) (Eintracht Frankfurt), Arianit Ferati(mid) (Stuttgart), Christian Mathenia(gk) (Darmstadt), Bakery Jatta(mid) (Free)
Out
Kerem Demirbay(mid) (Hoffenheim), Zoltan Stieber(mid) (Kaiserslautern), Batuhan Altintas(att) (Kasimpasa - Loan), Ivo Ilicevic(r)(mid) (Released), Jaroslav Drobny(sp)(gk) (Released), Philipp Muller(mid) (Released), Gojko Kacar(sp)(mid) (Released), Artjoms Rudnevs(sp) (att) (Released), Matti Steinmann(sp)(mid) (Released), Ivica Olic(sp)(att) (Released), Arianit Ferati(mid) (Fortuna Dusseldorf - Loan), Mohamed Gouaida(mid) (FC St. Gallen - Loan), Sven Schipplock(sp)(att) (Darmstadt - Loan), Josip Drmic(sp)(att) (Borussia Monchengladbach - End of Loan)
Target
Labbadia has received a strong backing in the transfer market and anything less than a top half finish will be considered as a failure both by the fans and the board.