The Hannover 96 Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $7.8M for Isac Lidberg
Hannover 96 have gone to Darmstadt 98 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luca Sirch gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luca Sirch has just signed for Hannover 96, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Hannover 96 say no — this time
The offer from Union Berlin for Maurice Neubauer was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
William Kokolo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” William Kokolo commits to Hannover 96 for another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Venezia tell Hannover 96: Alessandro Plizzari is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jonas Sterner attracts admirers
The name of Jonas Sterner has come up in conversations Hannover 96 were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
Hannover 96 promote Stefan Sauer from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stefan Sauer 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Maximilian Lang joins the Hannover 96 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maximilian Lang is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Luca Sirch in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Hannover 96 are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Squad Virgil Ghiţă in a row with a teammate
- The dugout William Kokolo knocks on the manager's door