The Heidenheim Chronicle
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Jan Ludwig is out at Heidenheim
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Match3 Jul 2028
Heidenheim sink to position 17
26 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Gabriel Bergmann steps up at Heidenheim for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Heidenheim
Budu Zivzivadze was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Words at Heidenheim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benedikt Gimber is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Jul 2028
Tim Siersleben wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Jul 2028
A fresh start for Equi Fernández under the new man
Nothing resets a career like somebody arriving who did not pick the side last season. Equi Fernández has taken the hint, and Heidenheim are getting a version of him the previous regime had stopped seeing.
Market3 Jul 2028
A long bet from Heidenheim on Nilo Neuendorff
He is 20, and nobody at Heidenheim signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market3 Jul 2028
Heidenheim sign Reigan Heskey, one for the future
Reigan Heskey is 20, and Heidenheim have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Boardroom Intake day at the Heidenheim academy
- Market Paul Tschernuth is free to find somewhere else
- Boardroom $26.4M taken back off the Heidenheim table