19 year old German lad Tim Blissenbach heads back to the land of his birth as Grilled let him go for S$3.816 million to Köln Division Four club Rakete Reissdorf. Grilled's initial valuation of S$3 million proved to be conservative even in the depressed playmaking market, as OBIBOKI (Poland Division Four) and Larchuma Football Club (Belgium Division Three) drove the price skywards.

In the end Rakete's offer turned out to be irresistable, and that combined with a desire to go home led Blissenbach to put his signature to the contract. "I've learnt much in a foreign land, and now I can ply my trade where I belong.", the Hamburg bord-and-bred boy said. The sum involved more than doubled Grilled's previous top sale, that of Chai Yew-Hoe for S$1.5 million.

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