"He was on the bench, no injury is recorded"
Hertha Berlin's summer signing Mikail Keskin has dropped out of the side, with Carsten Wimmer now occupying the left wing-back slot.
What does a £27.4m signing buy you in the Bundesliga? At Hertha Berlin, at the moment, a place among the substitutes. Two months after arriving from Tottenham Hotspur, Mikail Keskin has started neither of Hertha's past two games; he sat on the bench in both, and no injury is recorded against him. In his slot, Carsten Wimmer plays.
The team sheet tells its own story. Keskin began each of the five matches before this spell; now the shirt is Wimmer's, and Hertha have taken four points from the two games, scoring three and conceding one. Keskin is 22 and a Turkish international, and a club does not spend that money to watch from the bench. Supporters will ask what the plan is; the answer, for now, is Wimmer.