1. FC Köln are heading into the relegation battle with their hands tied because the club is not allowed to bring in new players for two transfer periods following a FIFA ruling. Apparently the Cologne leadership had completely misjudged the legal situation.
No, Werner Wolf did not refer to the Cologne Basic Law and quote paragraph 1: Et kütt, wie et kütt or paragraph 2: Et es, wie et es … but that the President of 1. FC Köln on his unlucky day shortly before Christmas When he formulated the same ignorant slogan in standard German – “it is what it is” – his Rhenish compatriots didn’t take it any less seriously. Nothing has changed four weeks later, because one thing is FC’s tricky situation with FIFA’s transfer ban and a decimated team that doesn’t score any goals and is in second-to-last place. The other thing is how this could have happened in the first place.