The Fortuna Düsseldorf Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Marcus Mathisen would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Marcus Mathisen is living that version at Fortuna Düsseldorf, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Düsseldorf make their move for Jonas Adjetey
$5.2M on the table at VfL Wolfsburg. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Düsseldorf rebuffed over Isidro Pitta
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bragantino have kept their man, and Fortuna Düsseldorf go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Hartberg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fortuna Düsseldorf did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Düsseldorf go back to the board over Patrice Čović
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $322.0K — a club that wants Patrice Čović enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Düsseldorf make their move for Patrice Čović
$300.0K on the table at Werder Bremen. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Düsseldorf sign Tim Hottiger for $200.0K
The paperwork is done: Tim Hottiger joins from Lausanne-Sport in a deal worth $200.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Satoshi Tanaka signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Satoshi Tanaka commits to Fortuna Düsseldorf for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Fortuna Düsseldorf training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Mathisen 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.
In brief
- Squad Satoshi Tanaka in a row with a teammate
- Market VfL Bochum watching Luca Raimund
- Market Ralf Schuster steps up from the Fortuna Düsseldorf academy