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Paraguayan striker Roque Santa Cruz is thinking over a move to Hamburg, the German club’s sporting director Oliver Kreuzer said today.
Santa Cruz, 31, is a free agent after not being offered a new contract by Manchester City and is open to offers.
“We have made Roque a good offer financially and he has told us he is interested in Hamburg,” Kreuzer told the tabloid Bild.
“Roque has asked for time to think it over, eight or 10 days,” Kreuzer explained to the Hamburger Morgenpost. “We ought to know more by the end of next week, but we are still looking elsewhere.”
Santa Cruz has already played in the Bundesliga, with Bayern Munich, from 1999 to 2007 where he was a colleague of current Hamburg coach Thorsten Fink.
He moved to England and played for Blackburn and City before being farmed out on loan to Malaga.
Meanwhile, Hamburg are also close to signing promising Cameroon striker Jacques Zoua, 21, currently with Swiss club FC Basel, for a fee believed to be in the region of 1.5 million euros.
Hamburg are looking for a proven striker to replace South Korean star Son Heung-Min, who has joined Bundesliga rivals Bayer Leverkusen.
