Contract till 2015 and with that signing they are hoping to make their defence better as most attacking threat came from the left back position with silvestre being exposed a lot of times.

And since schalke already has a replacement it was not that hard to let him go.

Werder still looking for another central defender apparently.

Vertrag bis 2015: Schalker Lukas Schmitz zu Werder - Werder Bremen - Bild.de