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With more time on the ball likely at Gladbach, Hofmann should also get more chance to show his true worth with the Foals. - © © DFL DEUTSCHE FUSSBALL LIGA / Johannes Simon
With more time on the ball likely at Gladbach, Hofmann should also get more chance to show his true worth with the Foals. - © © DFL DEUTSCHE FUSSBALL LIGA / Johannes Simon

Opportunity knocks for Hofmann at Gladbach

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Borussia Mönchengladbach began the winter transfer window with the signing of Jonas Hofmann from rivals Borussia Dortmund, an arrival which underlines the Foals' intent ahead of the second half of the campaign.

Keep track of all of the winter transfers in the Bundesliga here

Hofmann is now looking to achieve with a new Borussia what he never quite managed at the other: to become a key player.

"Jonas has shown in Mainz and Dortmund that he is an outstandingly talented Bundesliga player," said Gladbach's sporting director Max Eberl.

The attacking midfielder has arrived to prove his new boss right, and finally make the full breakthrough which remained elusive during his Dortmund days, where the competition for places was fierce and intense. With an array of his new attacking team-mates out injured, the versatile Hofmann now has the chance to play regularly and establish himself as one of the Bundesliga's finest talents - starting against his former employers on Matchday 18.

'I want to become an established Bundesliga player'

Click here for more on Hofmann's move to Gladbach

Such determination has been evident ever since his youth when he left FC Rot for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim at the age of 12. In 2011, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he began to pick up minutes in the club's reserves before making his first-team debut in December 2012. While he was already part of the first-team squad the following season, match practice was not immediately forthcoming and a loan move to Mainz satisfied all parties instead.

Injuries restricted Hofmann to just 12 Bundesliga matches at the Coface Arena, yet three goals in that time were more than enough to make an impression. "I was suddenly able to do things that people really didn't expect from me," he told Spox.com of his development in Mainz.

That, he claims, was because of the game time he was getting. "I want to be needed, that's how every footballer feels," he said. With Andre Hahn, Patrick Herrmann and Ibrahima Traore all currently sidelined, Hofmann is bound to get what he craves at Gladbach - and the concomitant opportunity to show exactly where he wants to go.