Along with loanees Kevin Vogt, Leonardo Bittencourt, Ömer Toprak and Michael Lang, Claudio Pizarro, Fin Bartels and Sebastian Langkamp, have now also amended their contracts "We were prepared for this scenario and we held talks with all neceassry players beforehand. The contracts have been amended to alow them to pay the relegation play off matches," said Frank Baumann. Nuri Sahin's contract has not been amended as the player will miss the games through injury.

Martin Harnik is also back at Werder. "When he'll be back in training remains to be seen becase the timetable for a return still hasn't been sorted out. We'll be speaking to him about everything behind closed doors in the next few weeks," said Baumann.