It's one of the perils of joining a lower-table first division club. There are big opportunities for minutes at a club likely to be fighting relegation, but there's also great volatility with the managerial position. Overnight, a head coach can be fired and the new coach will have different ideas and different opinions on personnel. If you were starting before, you might be viewed as part of the problem. Such is the case for two Americans strikers in Germany.
Aron Jóhannsson began the season as a feel-good story. Returning from a long-term injury, he reclaimed the starting job at Werder Bremen by opening day.