Michael Weber

Left Forward - Hamburger SV U18
11 Nov 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Michael Weber

4 Edition

The Hamburger SV Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Davis Rath

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hamburger SV lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

An offer of $7.6M for Stefan Drljača

Hamburger SV have gone to VfB Stuttgart with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Patrick Mainka

Hamburger SV asked and Heidenheim said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Hamburger SV sign off a bigger ground

A capacity of 78500 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.

Market

Heidenheim expected to open talks for Alexander Røssing-Lelesiit

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Hamburger SV will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

The Terem Moffi talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Hamburger SV know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Hamburger SV try Nicolai Remberg somewhere new

A new job in the side and an awkward month while he learns it. Most careers contain one of these and nobody reports it until it has worked.

Looking ahead

Looking ahead: the trip to St. Pauli

Position 9 for the hosts, a long journey for the away end, and a fixture that will look ordinary on paper right up until it is not.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Daniel Heuer Fernandes

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Daniel Heuer Fernandes’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Hamburger SV Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Davis Rath damages knee ligaments — 49 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 49 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Bilal Nadir turns Amstetten down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

Hamburger SV baulk at the price for Fabián

Paris Saint-Germain wanted more than $10.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Hamburger SV make their move for Josh Griffiths

$6.2M on the table at West Bromwich Albion. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Servette come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Hamburger SV did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Albert Sambi Lokonga signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Albert Sambi Lokonga and Hamburger SV agree another 5 years.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Diego Romero

Hamburger SV asked and Universitario said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Hamburger SV promote Michael Weber from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Weber has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Lars Krüger joins the Hamburger SV first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lars Krüger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief