Winter transfers: Stuttgart signs Genki Haraguchi, Gil Dias to bolster attack

Stuttgart signed Japanese attacking midfielder Genki Haraguchi and Portuguese winger Gil Dias on Monday because it tries to keep away from relegation from the Bundesliga.

Haraguchi arrives from German membership Union Berlin on a one-and-half-year deal. The 31-year-old Japanese participant had been at Union since 2021, taking part in 19 instances this season. He has performed 75 video games for Japan however was dropped from the squad for final 12 months’s World Cup.

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The 26-year-old Dias joins from Benfica on a contract by means of 2025 after making solely two substitute appearances in cup video games this season. Germany would be the seventh totally different nation the place the previous Portugal under-21 worldwide has performed league soccer, together with spells at Fiorentina, Monaco and Nottingham Forest.

Stuttgart is fifteenth within the 18-team Bundesliga. The staff takes on second-division membership Paderborn within the German Cup on Tuesday and hosts Werder Bremen on Saturday in its subsequent league sport.