The defender – who was part of Germany’s 2014 World Cup-winning squad – has signed a one-year deal with the Terriers <\/p>\n
Huddersfield Town have announced the signing of Erik Durm from Borussia Dortmund on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n
The Premier League side also have an option to extend Durm’s contract by a further 12 months after he joined for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n
Durm has had terrible luck with injuries and was unable to appear in the Bundesliga for Dortmund last season.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n But Huddersfield\u00a0head coach David Wagner, who worked with Durm at Dortmund, is not worried about any fitness issues affecting the Germany international.<\/p>\n “It is not every day that you can bring a player of the quality of Erik to your club,” Wagner told Huddersfield’s website.<\/p>\n “He is a World Cup winner and has played at the very highest level, so this is a fantastic day for Huddersfield Town.<\/p>\n “Obviously I know Erik well from our time together at Dortmund and he has all the qualities to be a great success in our ‘Terriers Identity’.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is a smart, determined character too. He’s desperate to play and that is always a good thing for any head coach.<\/p>\n “He has been very unfortunate with injuries for a year now, but he was training with Dortmund at the end of the season and he’s passed our medical with flying colours this week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “That’s no surprise to me; he was always one of the fittest players at Dortmund and has great physical attributes; real stamina and speed.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the same, we will manage Erik’s workload carefully in pre-season to help him return to the top level that he is capable of.”<\/p>\n Durm joins fellow Germans including defenders Christopher Schindler, Chris Lowe and Collin Quaner in Wagner’s squad for the 2018-19 Premier League season.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The defender – who was part of Germany’s 2014 World Cup-winning squad – has signed a one-year deal with the Terriers Huddersfield Town have announced the signing of Erik Durm from Borussia Dortmund on a one-year deal. The Premier League side also have an option to extend Durm’s contract by a further 12 months after…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n