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The forward of the Croatian national team and the Russian champion Moscow's Ivica Olić is leaving the team and moving to Germany - the player has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the Bundesliga outsider club.
The 27-year-old Croatian's contract with the Moscow club was still valid for another four months, but the leaders of the Russian team decided to cash in and agreed to sell the player before his contract expired. The financial terms of the transfer are not disclosed, but it is believed that Hamburg paid 2 million euros for Olić.
"After four months, Olić would have become a free agent, so we decided to sell him now and get some kind of compensation," said Moscow club president Evgeny Giner.
The player himself did not hide his desire to leave CSKA Moscow and move to Germany. In Hamburg, he is expected to replace another forward, Benjamin Lauth, who was loaned out to another Bundesliga club, Stuttgart, last week.
"I want to play in Hamburg. That is currently my main goal," Olić told journalists before the transfer, he joined the Moscow club in 2003 from his home country's Dinamo Zagreb team.
