Official | Werder Bremen sign former Hamburg vice-captain Ludovit Reis

Official | Werder Bremen sign former Hamburg vice-captain Ludovit Reis Werder Bremen have officially completed the signing of former Hamburg midfielder Ludovit Reis from Club Brugge, bringing the 26-year-old Dutchman back to German football after only one season in Belgium. The financial structure represents particularly attractive business for Bremen. DeichStube reports that Werder will pay no guaranteed transfer fee . Instead, Club Brugge will receive performance-related bonuses and a percentage of any future sale. That comes only one year after the Belgian club paid approximately €6m to sign Reis from Hamburg. The move also carries an obvious element of northern German intrigue. Reis spent four seasons with Hamburger SV, ultimately helping the club secure promotion to the Bundesliga in 2025. The former HSV vice-captain now returns to Germany with Hamburg’s traditional northern rivals. Reis returns after difficult year in Belgium Reis’s move to Brugge brought an end to an important chapter of his career in Hamburg. Get German Football News reported shortly before his departure that Club Brugge were closing in on the midfielder after HSV rejected an initial €4.5m offer . An eventual agreement in the region of €6m was reached. His Belgian adventure did not go according to plan. A shoulder injury interrupted Reis’s campaign, and he subsequently fell out of favour entirely. Transfermarkt credits him with just 12 competitive appearances, comprising six starts and six substitute outings. His market value consequently fell from €7m to approximately €3m. Reis had most recently been training away from the Brugge first team and has not played competitively since January 16th. Werder are therefore acquiring a player lacking match rhythm, but one whose qualities and experience in German football are already well established. Reis has still yet to make a German top flight appearance. The midfielder made 129 appearances for HSV during their 2. Bundesliga years and scored 20 goals. His strongest individual campaign came in 2022/23, when he registered nine goals and five assists across 33 league appearances. Although his influence diminished somewhat during his final two seasons in Hamburg, Reis remained an important member of the squad that finally ended the club’s long Bundesliga absence. HSV subsequently moved quickly to replace him. Nicolas Capaldo was specifically identified as Reis’s successor before the Argentine completed his own move to the Volksparkstadion. Statements on Ludovit Reis’ transfer For Bremen, Reis addresses an obvious vacancy in central midfield following Romano Schmid’s summer departure for Frosinone.     Head coach Daniel Thioune believes the former Netherlands youth international can operate both as a No. 6 and No. 8, giving Werder greater flexibility in the centre of the pitch. “We are happy that we were able to reach an agreement with Ludo,” Werder head of professional football Peter Niemeyer said in the club’s announcement. “We had very good talks with him. The way he plays football fits our desired role profile very well and he will expand our options in midfield.” “He is very strong physically in terms of running, wins a lot of balls and carries a certain goal threat,” head coach Thioune added. “He is a technically well-trained midfielder whose strengths lie in the No. 6 or No. 8 positions and who will help us with his quality.” “Werder is a family club and the people who know me know that I love that kind of atmosphere at a club,” Reis said. “I had a good feeling after the talks with those responsible and I’m really looking forward to the new challenge at Werder.” After four years with HSV and one difficult season in Belgium, Reis will now make his Bundesliga debut wearing the colors of Hamburg’s fiercest northern rivals. The Bundesliga’s famed Nordderby becomes still more interesting.  GGFN  |  Peter Weis