Kicker with an article on Andre Hainault re-signing with FC Magdeburg of the 3. Liga. Term seems to be through the 2017/18 season. He's spent most of the 2nd half of the season injured but started 18 games this season prior to his injury. Magdeburg were promoted last season to the 3. Liga and have flirted with the promotion places at times but are currently around 6th or 7th and won't be going up.
Kicker with an article on Andre Hainault re-signing with FC Magdeburg of the 3. Liga. Term seems to be through the 2017/18 season. He's spent most of the 2nd half of the season injured but started 18 games this season prior to his injury. Magdeburg were promoted last season to the 3. Liga and have flirted with the promotion places at times but are currently around 6th or 7th and won't be going up.
From a footballing perspective he is almost certainly better off with Terek than Lubeck. Different players do well in different environments and sometimes players move up too fast too soon but for the most part any player wants to get to as high a level of club as soon as possible. The Russian Premier League is somewhere between the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga in playing level and Terek is a solid mid-table club so fairly similar level of play to a lower table 1st Bundesliga club or top 2nd Bundesliga club. No one would think he should stay with Lubeck if he was transferring to a similar level club within Germany. And as for him bailing from Lubeck, Terek asked permission to trial him, he was given permission to go and Lubeck will likely receive a good fee for him. He is doing nothing against the wishes of the club and this happens all the time the only difference here being that he had trouble getting FIFA permission to transfer and play for Lubeck. Had he played in Lubeck youth teams for 2 years and transferred without playing a single first team game no one would find it unusual at all.
As for Kadyrov it is difficult to know what to believe about him given that our media's reports on him are just as much an exercise in propaganda as the Russian ones. Even if he is guilty of the criminal or human rights abuses he is accused of, he is still the best thing that has happened to Chechnya since the end of the Soviet Union. The war in Chechnya is pretty much over and the islamist radicals have largely been defeated (unlike in neighbouring Dagestan). There are a small number still in the mountains and a lot of the rest are either fighting for ISIS or in exile in Turkey (where they are protected by another Islamic dictatorship though one that we like). Grozny is largely safe and rebuilt. It would not be my first choice of a city to move to that is sure but the life of most citizens (ie. the ones whose family members are not in the mountains or fighting with ISIS) is much better under Kadyrov than it has been at any time since the fall of the USSR. I have personally never visited Chechnya but I met several Chechens in Russia and most supported him and even those who did not thought he was better than the alternative. I suspect I have spoken to a lot more Chechens than you have. I am not saying Kadyrov is a nice guy either but he seems to be doing a lot better job dealing with islamic revolutions than the US and the West are doing in places like Iraq, Syria or Libya and with nowhere near the level of killing or brutality committed by "our side". Maybe one day he will deserve to be brought before a human rights/war crimes tribunal but if he is I certainly hope Merkel, Harper and especially Obama are there with him (and probably Trudeau as well once it becomes apparent what the Saudis are doing with the APCs we are selling them).
As for Germany being nice, as someone who has lived in both Germany (in fact was born there) and Russia let me say Germany is certainly safer to live in than Russia or Chechnya (although Russia is not nearly as dangerous as we are led to believe, living in the US was actually much more dangerous but Germany is really safe crime wise), nicer would definitely not be the word I would use.
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